Honest question: did you get that when you were a kid and this song was everywhere?
I remember so much hype about things due to MTV and people at school talking about it. I never really listened to the lyrics when I was a kid.
Great observation, I noticed that only even someone explained to me, as a 52 years old. Weâre immersed in culture, good and bad, and it moves. The only thing that is worth doing in front of some crimes of the past is to fix, in the present, what can be fixed.
I really did. I was 9 at the time. I remember it so well as my mum left that Xmas. I thought it was very odd and thought they mixed up the words. I wondered why they'd say something so nasty. To me, I didn't want to thank God for anything nasty that happened to other people instead of me.
Did that make sense?
Dumbest line of the song, sung by Bono of course: âWell tonight thank God itâs them, instead of youâ. Christians in Ethiopia celebrate Christmas on 7 January, so they probably didnât know it was Christmas on the 25th. Iâve always hated this song so my bias is deep.
Also, it is a majority Christian (43.5) nation according to the US Department of state, followed by Islam (33.9).
My kids are teens and weâre showing them the âclassicsâ from when we were kids. Jaws, Indiana Jones, Star Wars etc. I hadnt watched Close Encounters in years and seeing it with Adult eyes kinda bummed me out. Richard Dreyfus just up and leaves his wife and kids? No woman scientists. Women really get the short end of the stick.
They were just playing this while I was shopping the other day. It was either Target, Kohl's, or the Stop and Shop supermarket. I don't recall which, but I hadn't heard this song in years.Â
I wasnât thinking about it very deeply. All these stars coming out to sing the song stuff are always cornball but if youâre just listening to it without trying to be critical itâs pretty good actually
âAnd there wonât be snow in Africa this Christmas timeâ
Well no shit, itâs mostly in the southern hemisphere, itâs middle of the God damn summer. Even Bing fuckin Crosby knows that.Â
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Never thought a charity song could spark so many debates about intent versus impact welcome to the 40-year discourse club.
In rewatching it I was shocked at how it was all male singer spotlights and then a few females in the end.
Definitely a product of the times and makes me glad how much we have grown as a species in my lifetime.
Anyone else feel as they look at their favorite Christmas songs while they were growing up that they feel OLD? Like 40 years ago this song came out. Where did those 40 years go???
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