Christmas Carol for Our Times
Beyond childhood, the holiday season is no ordinary time in the year. There are holidays, of course, but also the lights everywhere, the sweet atmosphere (once the gifts were bought and packed), the treats, the gargantuan meals, this feeling that the world is not the same for a few days. Christmas music, played (and replayed and replayed again) only at this time of year, would help to get into the proverbial mood.
There is also tradition. It seems that for some, putting up the Christmas tree without Ginette's Christmas album, it's not done, period. It is an inescapable ritual, a tradition that marks time, allowing us to take stock, to remember the very foundations of our identity: who am I, what do I want, what can I do? Well, I may be exaggerating a bit with these questions worthy of the course 101 of philo by placing the garlands of the fir with tremolos of "Midnight Christians", but what do you want, I do not even have a tree in my house. That said, if songs from a happy but bygone era awaken so many sensitive strings, nursery rhyme albums should sell like hot buns. Why are
Christmas songs selling? In a few words: Christmas is rare. As a general rule, Christmas songs, just like eggnog and clementines, only last a few weeks a year, so I might as well enjoy it (I'll come back to those damned stores that drive us their "Christmas" from October). Our childhood nursery rhymes can be listened to at any time; while"In the Kingdom of the Winter Man" in July, well he would found, the poor. Moreover, Christmas songs don't quite compare to simple nursery rhymes. They are often musically complex, with surprising chord sequences, with jazz roots present. (It's bad, I also hate jazz.) In addition, the instrumentation of Christmas songs includes instruments that are rarely heard, such as bells, bells, choral songs, the flute and many others. The lyrical, grandiloquent and epic flights are safe havens in our sterile, flat and catharsis-lacking world.
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And finally, there would be a pleasure to accumulate versions of Christmas songs, in order to wallow in musical comparisons, in order to know who sings the best "My beautiful fir". At the right time, there must be about 1300 Christmas albums coming out every fall. Enjoy.
