Christmas songs: catchy or endearing?5 reading minutes

Le Regard Libre N° 70 - Anaïs Sierro

The Christmas season has been over for a while now. But there's hardly a Christmas song that isn't still playing in our heads. The ones we hate in the stores or the ones we cherish under the tree. So why is our relationship with them so contradictory? And why does the music market continue to ride the «Christmas» wave? Perhaps and simply because, like every musical style, there are sub-categories. And in this case, there are two main ones: «melancholy» and «entertaining».

Parlons tout d’abord de leurs origines. Les chansons de Noël viennent du Moyen Age; elles sont donc nées dans un contexte religieux, chrétien. Ceux que l’on appelait «les noëls» à cette époque étaient entièrement liés à la célébration de la naissance