From Wham’s Last
Christmas to Leona Lewis’s One More Sleep, it’s not so much the quality of the songs that grates as the awful repetition. But some are definitely more irritating than othersA York shop’s decision to ban the usual Christmas pop hits this year in favour of a more traditional selection of carols is understandable, but will it work? Even the most sublime
music would become irritating if you played it over and over again for weeks: the issue with the big Christmas hits isn’t always the songs themselves, more the way we gorge on them, like a drunk with a selection box at 9pm on Christmas Day. Still, some are definitely more annoying than others: in ascending order of irritation …