By far, the worst Christmas song that I’ve ever heard is “The Christmas Shoes” by NewSong. The song is about a little kid who is buying his Mom a new pair of shoes before she dies later on that night.
What the fuck? Are you serious?!?
Someone actually made a song about a little kid buying his Mom shoes before she dies?! Alright, if you’ve heard the song you know it pulls at your heart strings. You know that it’s well-performed and that it has a nice, loving message (I guess).
But let me ask you: Who the hell is going to play this song? It’s bad enough that it’s on the Sirius XM Holiday station, but what is the intended audience for this song? People in a hospital? Hell no! Nobody wants to hear about some woman dying and her son not understanding the whole thing in a hospital.
Are you going to play this at your company Christmas Party? Absolutely not. What about the informal Christmas gathering at your college buddy’s house? Yeah, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and the song about a woman dying and her son being happy that she’s meeting Jesus tonight.
That’s right, folks. One of the song’s lyrics is:
And I want her to look beautiful, If Momma meets Jesus tonight.
How uplifting!!!
So are you going to play this song in your car while you’re driving around doing Christmas shopping? Good Lord no!
When can you play such a depressing song? When you’re sitting in front of the fire at Christmas and you’re alone (again) and you feel like you’ve got nothing left to live for any more. Congratulations, NewSong. You’ve made a Christmas song for manically depressed people who want to shoot themselves!
Diana says
This song is ment for people that know where they are going after they die.To people that don’t understand death and are fearful; of it because they don’t know exactly where they are going… I would think that it would make them scared. But to those of us that know exactly where we will be, it is a wonderful song, because not only is she going to stop suffering… She is going to be forever in the prescence of our Lord and Savior and our creator? What is sad about that? She is going to a beautiful place where there won’t be any more pain, but only rejoicing and love and laughter..who wouldn’t want to look pretty when you meet your creator, the one who shed his blood for you!
The fact that a little kid would understand this and be happy for his mommy instead of being miserable is so uplifting because even at his young age he understands the love of God for his children. He understands that it is not a bad thing, that his mom is going to be happy and that eventually he will also someday be rejoicing with her. As a mother, I would love for my 2 year old me soo mature in Christ as that little kid, knowing where he stands and knowing Jesus more that most adults..
Joe says
Nah – that song absolutely blows. There’s nothing great about it and the message that you are suggesting is not accessible via the pathetic, morbid lyrics in the song. That message, while a good one, is completely lost in the misery of that song.