It might not feel like the holiday season has officially begun until you turn on the radio and hears a Christmas song. These tunes are generally jovial and can make people either squeal with joy or groan with annoyance. No matter how you feel about them, it is practically a universal truth that these songs are inescapable.

 Wherever you go during the holidays, there is bound to be a Christmas song playing. They range in style from the religious songs that celebrate the spiritual side of Christmas like “Silent Night” by Franz Xaver Gruber, to the novelty tunes that the whole family can enjoy such as Robert L. May’s “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” or the sensual Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby.”.

There is just something about Christmas and holiday music that makes it the most wonderful time of the year.

Christmas is a holiday that appeals to emotion, and more importantly, sentimentality. It’s about sharing memories of yore and also creating new ones with your family. When something is appealing to these feelings, we tend to act more and more on them.

More often than not,  when you hear your favorite Christmas song in a store, you start to feel more nostalgic.

While you’re listening to that song, whatever qualms you have about your future and whatever obligation was stressing you out that day is completely obliviated from your mind.

You start to feel like a kid again, unwrapping that one Christmas present or watching that one Christmas movie.             Christmas music is an integral part of the holiday mood. No matter how overplayed it may be, the music gives the holidays a true sense of festivity. It embodies the merriment around this time of year for you and your loved ones.