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Christian Graham doesn’t want a lot for Christmas. In fact, there is just one thing he needs.
“Enough is enough,” says Graham about Mariah Carey’s mega hit, “All I Want for Christmas is You,” which plays incessantly at the Chicago deli where he works. When the 19-year-old hears Carey crooning, he turns on an industrial fan and stands under it. “It just overtakes whatever is playing over the radio.”
Kiyah Coleman, who works at an appliance store in London, seeks refuge in a stock room to avoid Carey’s hit. “As soon as I hear the intro, I say ‘Oh god,’” she adds.
At least three petitions on Change.org seek to sleigh the song. One begs the Federal Communications Commission to ban it from radio and calls it “the bane of shoppers, retail workers and pedestrians.” A representative for the singer declined to comment.
There is something about Christmas classics that make them the gifts that keep on grating. A Reddit thread calls for “a moment of silence” for all ye faithful retail workers who have had it with merry gentlemen and turtle doves. In a similar thread, in recent days, employees discuss “truly painful” versions of “Santa Baby.”
“One year the store I worked at had a playlist with 5 different versions of ‘Jingle Bells,’” another poster recalls. “I still wish harm upon whomever put that list together.”
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