Christmas songs: catchy or endearing?

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».

Let's start by talking about their origins. Christmas carols date back to the Middle Ages; they therefore originated in a religious, Christian context. The songs known as «Noëls» at that time were entirely connected to the celebration of the birth