No matter where you live in the world, you are well familiar with popular Christmas songs. Like, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey, “Last Christmas” by Wham! or “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Johnny Marks. And the most fascinating thing about all of these kinds of songs is that we don’t get sick of them. Despite them being played so many times.
I think the big part of this phenomenon is nostalgia. Music brings good old memories back, that makes us feel joyful and excited for the upcoming festivities. Also, we don’t usually hear them all year round, or we don’t have a need to put them on during the rest of the year, so in a way they carry special place in our hearts. And I would say that over the years, they became in some way a Christmas tradition that you can’t ignore.
But why are they to be heard everywhere since mid-November?
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