Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth

”Strange how potent cheap music is,” muses Amanda in Noël Coward’s Private Lives. How perfectly this encapsulates the way I feel the first time I hear Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” – usually around the start of Advent and probably in a department store when I’ve ventured into “the city” (as Norwich is known around these The post Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth first appeared on Catholic Herald. The post Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth appeared first on Catholic Herald.

Dec 29, 2024 - 16:00
Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth
”Strange how potent cheap music is,” muses Amanda in Noël Coward’s Private Lives. How perfectly this encapsulates the way I feel the first time I hear Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” – usually around the start of Advent and probably in a department store when I’ve ventured into “the city” (as Norwich is known around these The post Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth first appeared on Catholic Herald. The post Trite Christmas: back to the future with the corny playlists of our youth appeared first on Catholic Herald.

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