Do You Hear What I Hear? I Sure Hope Not!

I really like Christmas music, but I very rarely purchase it. The main reason why is because it just doesn't seem practical to buy music you'll listen to for a month and a half and then pack it up until next year. I want my music to be all year round my friends! So I've pretty much depended on everyone else for my Christmas tunes...until now.

Every year, compilation CDs are put out called X-Whatever the year is (plus an X Worship CD). This year, they put out X-Christmas, so after I debated over whether or not I should purchase it, I went ahead and hit that Buy Now button on iTunes. I mean, it had Thousand Foot Krutch doing "Jingle Bell Rock" so it had to be a winner, right? I mean, if I'm going to kick off my Christmas season, I might as well do it with some sweet music.

It's not that bad. It has some winners and some "not-so" winners, but all in all, I enjoy it. I mean, it has SDS doing "Do You Hear What I Hear?" and a sweet metal performance of "Carol of the Bells" by August Burns Red, but there's this one song that just about ruined my first yule-tide purchase of the year. Hawk Nelson did "Gloria." Do I really need to go further? They made the song "Gloria" (basically taking the Gloria, In excelsis deo part from "Angels We Heard On High") about "The girl of my dreams." How lame is that?! You can't just take an age-old Christmas carol about the birth of Jesus and make it some cheesy "Hi, I'm 15 and I really want a girlfriend for Christmas" song! I'm listening to this and all I can do is just sit in horror over this horrible rendition of this song. I mean, if you like Hawk Nelson, that's fine, I'm not trashing them as a band, but come on! "Angels We Heard on High?!" You're going to make that song into that! What's next?! Turning "O Holy Night" into a techno dance song about global warming?! Turning "Silent Night" into a power-ballad about having your heart broken at prom?!

Where are you when we need you, claymation Christmas specials? You knew how to kick off the Christmas season right!

Well, even though that may have put a small blemish on my Christmas season, I can't let it ruin it. There's so much to look forward to when it comes to celebrating the birth of our savior! Carols, Christmas food, candy canes, decorations, trees, church signs that say "Jesus is the reason for the season," and oh the list goes on! Here's to a Merry Christmas and an awesome Trailhead Christmas service!