While the higher-suicide-rate-during-Christmas rumor has been debunked, I'm sure thoughts of suicide increase—if only to get away from repetitive Christmas music.
I'm legitimately curious : where are you hearing unwanted Christmas music ?
Because I agree that most Christmas music is annoying, but I have no problem avoiding it entirely without making much of an effort.
My work's cafeteria is piping in the music. It's going to be a long two-and-a-half weeks. I might take my extra vacation days during that time rather than clump them all at the end of the year (eight-day weekend, biatches!).
And I find the music to be tedious at shopping centers too, but I rarely have reason to visit them.
In general, I find Christmas music to be obnoxious. If it was any good, then it'd be worth hearing any time. For example, I do love Carol of the Bells, and I could listen to that song any time of year. There are some songs I don't downright hate, but most of the stuff just grates on me. It's probably a temporal thing. If I heard the songs like only twice a month all year, then they wouldn't annoy me. But this super concentrated period of time where they have to make up for 10 months of non-Christmas music just grates on my nerves.
And really, why not just play it when you're actually celebrating? Say on Christmas and Christmas Eve? Why all the time a month in advance? Well, okay, shopping centers have good reason for that. Reminding people to do their Christmas shopping in that particular store makes good business sense.
