Christmas spirit is in the air as PHS students and teachers alike are counting down the days to Christmas break.
Christmas traditions such as baking cookies, shopping, parades, stockings, snowballs and watching Christmas movies with the family begin filling everyone’s schedules as the 25th comes closer. Among these traditions is the immensely popular and slightly controversial topic of Christmas music.
“I think you should start listening to Christmas music after Thanksgiving,” SPED para Mrs. Hidee Urbach said. “I’s nice to celebrate Thanksgiving and be separate holidays, because I think sometimes Christmas overshadows Thanksgiving, and I prefer to have Thanksgiving and then get ready for Christmas, and I think it’s too late to listen to it after New Years.”
Sophomore Calvin Opps is definitely of the opinion that Christmas is a one-month-only thing.
“I don’t like to listen to it (Christmas music) by myself, but like, my mom will put it on sometimes,” Opps said. “I don’t really remember what I listened to, but I like Feliz Navidad.”
Opps feels there’s an appropriate time to start listening to Christmas music.
“I think you should start listening to it two weeks before Christmas, I think anything before is too far away,” Opps said. “You’re probably getting too hyped up because it isn’t like that close.”
While Christmas music is an important part of most people’s holidays, junior Collin Walker has different views.
“I don’t like it [Christmas music] – it’s over-played,” Walker said. “I do not like the Beatles and I do not like Michael Jackson and I do not like it when they mix. Oh, did I mention it’s overplayed?”
When asked about when to start and stop listening to Christmas music, Walker continued to express his distaste.
“After Christmas, you don’t listen to Christmas Music. Christmas is over. Do not listen to Christmas music. Just because it is Christmas time doesn’t mean you need to listen to Christmas music,” Walker said. “Just listen to your normal music, at least that has some variety, instead of listening to 55 different versions of the same song.”
While Christmas Music is a special part of some people’s holiday traditions, it is certainly not for others.
