{"id":94310,"date":"2016-12-02T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=94310"},"modified":"2017-10-09T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:10:58","slug":"guilty-pleasure-christmas-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/guilty-pleasure-christmas-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Pleasure Christmas Songs We Hate to Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only the beginning of December, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped us from putting\u00a0our Christmas playlists on repeat (we know we&#8217;re not the only ones).<\/p>\n<p>While some jingles are straight classics, we&#8217;ve gathered 12 Christmas songs we\u00a0<em>know<\/em> you love, but probably wouldn&#8217;t want to take credit for blasting it at your office holiday party.\u00a0Regardless, it wouldn&#8217;t be the holidays without them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Wham!<\/strong><br \/>\nWe had to start out with a classic. If someone tells you they don&#8217;t enjoy this song, it&#8217;s safe to say they&#8217;re lying. As overplayed as it may be, we totally love it and all of the wonderful (sometimes more embarrassing), covers that have spawned from it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MA74W4w0aP8\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Merry Christmas Baby&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Hanson\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAh, Hanson, how could we forget about you? This iconic boy band release an entire Christmas album, but this has to be our favorite from the collection. It doesn&#8217;t quite live up to MMMBop, but it&#8217;s a pretty catchy cover.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUjn3RpkcKY\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Mistletoe&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Justin Bieber\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t even deny it &#8212; you love this song! Belieber or not, we&#8217;re humming this song all season long. And who would\u00a0pass up a chance to chill with the Beibs under the mistletoe?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You&#8221; &#8211; Mariah Carey<br \/>\n<\/strong>From the moment those signature opening jingles come over the speakers,\u00a0you know it&#8217;s about to go down. Mariah&#8217;s famous Christmas jingle is everywhere during the holidays, so get ready to hear her belt it out over and over (and over).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oOzszFIBcE\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Gayla Peevey<\/strong><br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t this song just make\u00a0you want a hippopotamus? No, just us? The song might seem a bit odd at first, but we promise it&#8217;s dangerously catchy and will be stuck in your head for days on end after one listen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBAshnF0HwY\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don&#8217;t Be Late) &#8211; Alvin &amp;\u00a0The Chipmunks<\/strong><br \/>\nGet your groove on, chipmunk-style, with this classic, albeit kind of obnoxious, Christmas tune.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9BZDpni56Y\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Wonderful Christmas Time&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Paul McCartney<\/strong><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s be real &#8212; this is not Paul&#8217;s best song. However, he&#8217;s written other amazing lyrics throughout the years, so one, rather awful Christmas song doesn&#8217;t do much to tarnish his rep. But honestly, it still gets stuck in our heads every year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Fmf3D9oNn4\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Christmas is All Around&#8221; &#8211; Billy Mack<\/strong><br \/>\nIs there honestly anyone who doesn&#8217;t re-watch\u00a0<em>Love, Actually<\/em>\u00a0every year? This song from the movie is even hated by the fictional musician, but we can&#8217;t help but love it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlR0MkrRklg\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Santa Tell Me&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Ariana Grande<\/strong><br \/>\nIt would be surprising if you\u00a0<em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> like this song, but\u00a0this isn&#8217;t exactly a jingle you&#8217;d like to\u00a0be caught singing. Regardless, we&#8217;ve been jammin&#8217; out to it since it was\u00a0released.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wKj92352UAE\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays&#8221; &#8211; *NSYNC<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother boyband, another Christmas song. The music video to this song just about sums up the holidays. It&#8217;s uplifting and so incredibly &#8217;90s at the same time. Embrace JT&#8217;s\u00a0frosted tips and raise the roof this holiday season.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikOWQ9YIb-A\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;8 Days of Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Destiny&#8217;s Child<\/strong><br \/>\nA little Beyonc\u00e9 never hurt anyone. And before there was Queen Bey, there was Destiny&#8217;s Child&#8230;and this rather out of place Christmas jam.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9XNyeeJZ2k\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;This Christmas&#8221; &#8211; Chris Brown<\/strong><br \/>\nDoes this song even need any explanation? We bet you&#8217;ll be singing along this Christmas whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"It's only the beginning of December, but that hasn't stopped us from putting\u00a0our Christmas playlists ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":95016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[260],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01174518\/IMG_1949-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/01174518\/IMG_1949.jpg","formated_date":"December 2, 2016","category_name":"Life","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113832\/entertainment.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#f7d540","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}