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Shannon Spears

Shannon Spears is a staff writer for the Courier News.

Some slightly stronger than normal opinions...

Friday, December 18, 2015

As is traditional around here (and by "in here" I mean in my brain) I like to do a little roundup of Christmas music - the good, the bad, the really really terrible, the stuff that makes you cry. I find that if I'm having a little trouble getting into the Christmas Spirit it helps quite a lot to kind of force things by playing Christmas music all the time - and thanks to the magic of Pandora I can make that happen pretty much anywhere I go. It does wonders - because I don't care how grumpy you're feeling or how irritated with work or family or whatever - when Mariah Carey sings "All I Want for Christmas is You," you bob your head. You just do, unless you're not human or have a heart two sizes too small, like The Grinch.

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