Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it’s Paul McCartney.
I have a theory that he’s not singing “simply having a wonderful Christmastime,” he actually saying “simply HALVING a wonderful Christmastime.” Every time he says it in that stupid irritating way he does, he’s halving it again and again, like the half-life of a radioactive element. He’s subjecting Christmas wonder to radioactive decay, until all that’s left is an inert lump of lead.
The Yamaha CS-80 was absolutely revolutionary for its time. Vangelis called it the greatest synthesizer ever made and used it extensively on both the Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire sound tracks - the latter winning him an Oscar.
The irony of McCartney making the abominable Wonderful Christmastime with it is not lost to synth lovers.
Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney is just the most stupefyingly lazy and annoying song and people just play it 😤 n every single Christmas playlist because it’s Paul McCartney.
I have a theory that he’s not singing “simply having a wonderful Christmastime,” he actually saying “simply HALVING a wonderful Christmastime.” Every time he says it in that stupid irritating way he does, he’s halving it again and again, like the half-life of a radioactive element. He’s subjecting Christmas wonder to radioactive decay, until all that’s left is an inert lump of lead.
I feel like he sat down at an electric keyboard and decided to use every single novelty noise it could make
The Yamaha CS-80 was absolutely revolutionary for its time. Vangelis called it the greatest synthesizer ever made and used it extensively on both the Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire sound tracks - the latter winning him an Oscar.
The irony of McCartney making the abominable Wonderful Christmastime with it is not lost to synth lovers.
That’s fascinating - I had no idea it was the same piece of equipment that Vangelis used!
The Paul McCartney song is a perfect example of the old adage “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
Yep. Pretty sure there’s a reason he hasn’t done much with synthesizers since.
It makes my blood boil when this comes over the PA in a store and there’s no way to turn it off.
Reminds me of an important question: Can you trust the moon?
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I like this one :(
this was on the very first CD I ever owned. the rest of the songs were so ridiculously bad that I played Wonderful Christmastime on loop.
I apologize for having put this energy into the universe.