Comments on: Holiday time in the city http://montreal.metblogs.com/2007/12/12/holiday-time-in-the-city/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:52:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marla Comm http://montreal.metblogs.com/2007/12/12/holiday-time-in-the-city/comment-page-1/#comment-2792 Marla Comm Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:44:35 +0000 http://montreal.metblogs.com/2007/12/12/holiday-time-in-the-city/#comment-2792 If anything, the Christmas ambiance in the city is depressing, especially these past few years. What happened to the upbeat traditional carols I used to hear? In keeping with this millennium's shift of musical tastes to sad songs, radio stations, stores, malls and other public places are playing the most whiny and sentimental pieces they can find in their Christmas repertoires. I can't go anywhere without a tear-provoking version of "Silent Night," "Silver Bell" or "I'll Be Home For Christmas" making my already blue fall and winter moods even darker. In the happier days of the seventies and eighties, lively disco versions of Christmas tunes and more upbeat carols like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" took the edge of an otherwise depressing and stressful time of year. -Marla Comm If anything, the Christmas ambiance in the city is depressing, especially these past few years. What happened to the upbeat traditional carols I used to hear? In keeping with this millennium’s shift of musical tastes to sad songs, radio stations, stores, malls and other public places are playing the most whiny and sentimental pieces they can find in their Christmas repertoires. I can’t go anywhere without a tear-provoking version of “Silent Night,” “Silver Bell” or “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” making my already blue fall and winter moods even darker. In the happier days of the seventies and eighties, lively disco versions of Christmas tunes and more upbeat carols like “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” took the edge of an otherwise depressing and stressful time of year.

-Marla Comm

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