History Main / AntiChristmasSong

* "The Season's Upon Us" by Music/DropkickMurphys (2012). Starts off as a celebration of the holidays before barreling into the various fucked-up relatives the lead singer has to deal with over the holidays.

* "Nuttin' for Christmas" (1955) is sung by a another bratty kid, who not only revels in his wicked deeds but also cheerfully lets a burglar into the house in exchange for a cut of the profits. They sing the last reprise of the chorus together. (The original version didn't have that ending, instead ending with the standard {{A|nAesop}}esop warning the listener to be good. The version with the burglar is performed by Creator/StanFreberg, and it is much, much funnier.)

* Music/TheHives and Music/CyndiLauper recorded "A Christmas Duel" in 2008-- a song of a very dysfunctional couple and the awful things they did to each other leading up to Christmas, including his cheating on her with her sister, and she cheating on him with his brother... and his ''mother''.

It’ll be the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best Christmas day we ever had!\\

''(But I don’t wanna die this year, that was last year..)''

* The Pentatonic's "Just For Now" doesn't seem like this if you're only listening to the chorus, but the lyrics paint a picture of a seriously DysfunctionalFamily trying to have Christmas dinner. It includes in no particular order:
** A StepfordSmiler who has no clue what her Christmas Presents even are.
** A BrattyTeenageDaughter who's complaining about someone kicking her under the table (prompting a BigShutUp from the family's HairTriggerTemper).
** An OnlySaneMan trying to keep the peace with no success.
** A hopeless drunk who has a family member who does NOT approve of his drinking habits ('Don't wag your finger at me!').
** Finally all the food gets burned and the family members start screaming to get out of there.
* Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's "It's Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries" is a subversion. The singer describes being home with her DysfunctionalFamily for Christmas, enduring political arguments at the dinner table, her parents giving her vegan boyfriend fish, and her younger relatives pestering her with questions about Santa Claus she can't answer, among other things... but admits that she's just too happy to be home to really mind.
* Music/HundredGecs's "sympathy for the grinch" is [[PlayedForLaughs a mostly tongue-in-cheek version of this]] (one can't feel ''that'' resentful to rowdy SkaPunk) about the duo finally having enough of being "nice" and still not getting the Christmas presents they want, hatching and executing a plot to steal Santa's magic bag for themselves.

* Music/TaylorSwift's ''[[Music/{{Evermore2020}} evermore]]'' (2020) has "'tis the damn season", a song about the narrator coming home for the holiday and proposing to hook up with her old flame... which brings up feelings of bitterness toward her current life of chasing fame and leaves her wondering if she should have chosen her hometown, but she knows that this rekindling couldn't last and that she would be heartbroken to leave again.

* ''Music/KuntAndTheGang'' had an entire album called "Kiss You Under the Cameltoe (The Christmas Singles)"

* Music/TaylorSwift's ''[[Music/{{Evermore2020}} evermore]]'' has "tis the damn season", a song about the narrator coming home for the holiday and hooking up with her old flame... and that brings up feelings of bitterness toward her current life of chasing fame and leaves her wondering if she should have chosen her hometown, but she knows that this rekindling cannot last and that she would be heartbroken to leave again.

* Music/EazyE's "Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas" (1992) contains a story (Christmas In Compton) about a [[BlackComedy Christmas-day drive-by shooting]] (with Eazy E, [[RuleOfFunny dressed up as Santa Claus]], screaming "MERRY CHRISTMAS, MOTHERFUCKERS!")...and it devolves into a [[RefugeInAudacity menagerie of profanity, drug use, violence, and explicit sexual acts]], some to the tune of [[LyricalDissonance Christmas classics such as "Jingle Bells", "Deck The Halls", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"]]. Here's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwvqwtV1bpg song]], and here are the [[http://genius.com/1314757 lyrics]]

-->I'll be shooting folks this Christmas\\

** "[[Music/PolkaParty Christmas at Ground Zero]]" (1986) is a Christmas carol about [[AtomicHate nuclear apocalypse]]. According to Creator/DrDemento, Weird Al wrote it when his record label [[ContractualObligationProject pushed him to do a Christmas song]]. He [[ExiledFromContinuity no longer sings it]] [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents out of respect for 9/11]].[[note]]When Al released the song, "ground zero" meant the epicenter of a nuclear explosion, but the term was widely co-opted to mean the ruins of the World Trade Center after 9/11.[[/note]]

* Music/OysteinSunde's "Julekalenderen" ("The Christmas Calendar") is a comedy song where something goes wrong every day until Christmas, such as Grandpa having a bad case of ChristmasLightChaos, with Christmas Eve being particularly messy.

* The Norwegian song "Juletragedien" ("The Christmas Tragedy") by Erik Follestad & Linni Meister is a cynical joke song whose tone is set when Linni asks Erik to come watch ''Theatre/DinnerForOne''[[note]]a sketch associated with Christmas in Norway[[/note]] with her, and he angrily tells her he doesn't want to. It features people getting stressed out, attacked by a cat, eating too much, drinking too much, going to church even though no one actually believes in Jesus, and so on. In particular, Linni has an entire verse chewing out Erik for giving a [[CrappyHomemadeGift crappy homemade Christmas card instead of a proper gift]], blaming his fatness on Christmas even though he was fat back in August, and being a DrunkDriver who almost killed Linni's aunt someone.

* While most of the ''Punk Goes Christmas'' (2013) compilation album could count as this by itself, the 11th track "This Christmas (I'll Burn It To The Ground)" by Pop Punk band Music/SetItOff is a perfect example of this trope from start to finish. The title is not just there for kicks, that is what the song is actually about.

* Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (1984) is frighteningly depressing. Note that the song was written for a fundraiser to buy food for the people in that 'world of dread and fear' (A section of Africa suffering severe drought) that Christmas. The real tragedy lies in the fact that they forgot to organize a distribution network in Africa to deliver the food, so most of it ended up spoiling on the docks.

** And "Happy Holidays, You Bastard" (2001).

* "Why Don't You Go Home for Christmas?" (1958) finds Jim Backus (doing his WesternAnimation/MrMagoo voice) imploring his wife to go home to her parents for the holidays, "so I can have a happy New Year".

* While most of the ''Punk Goes Christmas'' (2013) compilation album could count as this by itself, the 11th track "This Christmas (I'll Burn It To The Ground)" by Pop Punk band Set It Off is a perfect example of this trope from start to finish. The title is not just there for kicks, that is what the song is actually about.

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-->But give my daddy a job cause he needs one\\

--> [[MoodWhiplash But if you've got one I'll have a machine gun]]
So I can scare all the kids on the street

He's got lots of mouths to feed

* Music/WallOfVoodoo's "Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Christmas" (1987). The narrator's father receives the present mentioned in the title, gets into a drunken argument with "Uncle Jack", and quickly goes AxeCrazy:

** There's also {{Feist}}'s song in the same special, based on "Angels We Have Heard on High," which she sings in the style of a busy customer service call center responding to Stephen's prayer.

* German Band SaltatioMortis has the song "Willkommen in der Weihnachtszeit"[[note]]Welcome to Christmastime[[/note]] (2015), which is about supermarkets [[ChristmasCreep having Christmas-themed articles as of August every year]].

* Music/TaylorSwift ''[[Music/{{Evermore2020}} evermore]]'' has "tis the damn season", a song about the narrator coming home for the holiday and hooking up with their old flame... and that brought up feeling of bitterness toward their currently life of chasing fame and keep wandering if she should have chosen her hometown, but know that this rekindling cannot last and that she would be heartbroken to leave again.

* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', "[[https://youtu.be/5G8tohQg-Pk Stalk 'n Roll]]", the ambient music of the River Park Rumble stage, interpolates twisted(pun intended) versions of "Deck The Halls" and "Jingle Bells". Likewise, the music for the North Pole stage in the third game mixes "Jingle Bells" with Music/WhiteZombie's "More Human Than Human".

* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', "Stalk 'n Roll", the ambient music of the River Park Rumble stage, interpolates a twisted(pun intended) version of "Jingle Bells". Likewise, the music for the North Pole stage in the third game mixes "Jingle Bells" with Music/WhiteZombie's "More Human Than Human".