By whosee on Skatehive
Lead image created using CANVA https://youtu.be/aBpYk9vuneE?si=pC5lE0oX8lNd9pWs While everybody’s homes tonight are filled with festive Christmas songs, we cannot deny the fact that some of us are sick of listening to them. Instead of listening to Jose Mari Chan’s iconic songs (which I love so much) or Ariana Grande’s iconic hit of Santa Tell Me, some prefer to feel the ending of the year by becoming nostalgic and pained through melancholic Christmas songs. Such is the Christmas ballad of Bleachers released on November 13, 2024, titled Merry Christmas Please Don’t Call. As the title suggests, the speaker of the song is not celebrating Christmas festively or trying to bring vibrance to the holidays. Instead, the speaker captures raw human emotions such as nostalgia and melancholy that are present in this season, recalling the people who hurt them, the experiences that traumatized them, and the life they never wanted to have—while refusing to give it another chance amidst nostalgia. I fi