"Ah, it's Christmastime. You know, it's my job to beat down overplayed songs, and no songs are more overplayed than the entire genre of Christmas music. No genre is more stagnant, more overdone, more stranglingly oppressive. When you're a kid, "Jingle Bells" might be fun and wonderful, but by the time you become an adult, you'll have heard every Christmas song so many times that even the name Mannheim Steamroller should get your skin crawling. And what's worse is that there's nothing new to replace it. Except for Mariah's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", there hasn't been a new song to worm its way into the Christmas classics canon in the past 25 years. We desperately need some new songs."
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"After all, recording something that actually sounded like anything else would've taken time and effort, and if they had any of that to expend, they wouldn't be making a Christmas album. I mean, Christmas albums, with rare exceptions, are quickie cash-ins designed to restock bank accounts and fulfill contractual obligations."
— Todd in the Shadows, reviewing one example of a particularly lazy attempt at a "new " Christmas song by Justin Bieber
