I Love Bad Music: A Not-So-Wonderful Song

Wonderful Christmas Time’s celebratory lunar bounces and instrumental warbling confuse and delight me year after year, and the video is nothing less than a nightmare that can only be produced by the 1980s (if you couldn’t already tell by Linda McCartney’s Wayne Gretzky ‘do). As a Jew who encounters every Christmas season as yet another opportunity to be overlooked, it’s nice to find some secular sympathy in Wings’ promotion of, simply enough, having fun.

It’s quite obvious that Paul and the gang were having a grand ol’ time when they penned this tune. At the bridge, the lyric “The choir of children sing their songs” takes an awkwardly long time before being followed by the mirroring notes of the melody, one…weird…tone at a time. And the visual accompaniment begs to be witnessed in the video, in which the keyboard is played…in…space?

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So this Christmas, pour a little ‘nog, curl up by the fireplace, drop some E, and do like Wings: Go batshit crazy. ‘Tis, apparently, the season to be fugged up.