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Do you really like the song?

(216 Posts)
polomint Fri 08-Dec-23 22:45:42

I can't abide the song " fairytale of New York". I know its very popular but I just don't like it. In fact I will leave a shop if it is being played ! Do you really like it or just ordered to like it?

polomint Fri 08-Dec-23 22:46:25

Pretend...predictive text!

Blossoming Fri 08-Dec-23 22:51:19

I like it.

HowVeryDareYou2 Fri 08-Dec-23 22:54:16

I like it, it's preferable to all those cheesy Cliff Richard ones

LadyGracie Fri 08-Dec-23 22:59:35

I've always liked it.

choughdancer Fri 08-Dec-23 23:02:58

Love it.

LauraNorderr Fri 08-Dec-23 23:07:55

Not my favourite Christmas song but I agree it’s better than the cheesy stuff. I don’t dislike it.

henetha Fri 08-Dec-23 23:16:45

I love it. There's something about it that makes it one of my all time favourites. I watched the funeral today and it was sung and played so joyously that it was really uplifting.

Grannynannywanny Fri 08-Dec-23 23:18:46

I’ve always liked it. It’s a favourite in our family and all 3 generations have it on their Christmas playlist.

Maggiemaybe Fri 08-Dec-23 23:22:11

It’s one of my Christmas favourites.

Summerlove Fri 08-Dec-23 23:25:12

I enjoy it

Siope Fri 08-Dec-23 23:25:20

I like it. There are other Christmas songs I like more, and plenty I like far less.

denbylover Fri 08-Dec-23 23:25:47

It’s sad and intense but a great song.

Grandma70s Fri 08-Dec-23 23:27:49

I haven’t heard it apart from a snippet on the news or somewhere, but I doubt it’s my cup of tea.

Litterpicker Fri 08-Dec-23 23:33:35

Love it

NotSpaghetti Fri 08-Dec-23 23:34:44

I have always loved it for its gritty poetic honesty.

tanith Fri 08-Dec-23 23:36:18

I like it.

dustyangel Fri 08-Dec-23 23:58:04

I’m with you polomint. I don’t like it at all.

Louella12 Sat 09-Dec-23 00:05:19

I can't stand it. I loathed it when I first heard it. Then came those who wanted to be different and said they loved it.

Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really.

There's a bit of herd mentality going on

Grannynannywanny Sat 09-Dec-23 00:31:00

I can't stand it. I loathed it when I first heard it. Then came those who wanted to be different and said they loved it.

Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really.

There's a bit of herd mentality going on

What an odd thing to say. It’s like someone who likes the song saying “Louella just pretends to hate it to be different but she secretly loves it”

Surely we all have different tastes and that’s normal.

biglouis Sat 09-Dec-23 00:56:32

Ive always hated it. I hate christmas songs as a genre but this scrapes the bottom.

welbeck Sat 09-Dec-23 01:01:42

i've always disliked it, because it sounds so rough and rude.
the irish people whom i knew when i was young would have hated it too, because they would have said it gives the irish a bad name.
they were gentle, friendly people with a kind of old time courtesy in their manners and address; it was painful for them to be characterised as always fighting, drunken, riotous, uncouth.
so that's why i don't like the song. it sounds like that to me.

Dickens Sat 09-Dec-23 01:12:17

... There's a bit of herd mentality going on

What a strange comment.

I thought people either liked it or they didn't.

OldFrill Sat 09-Dec-23 01:23:40

"Horses for courses but I bet there's a lot who claim to love it don't really."

I think that just happens in marriages

nanna8 Sat 09-Dec-23 02:25:09

That guy in the Poges just died, didn’t he ? I don’t mind that song, a bit sentimental late night drunk sort of thing but I don’t think of it as a Christmas Carol, just a folk song.