>>I think it's kinda funny that this was playing in the mall, where everyone is going to spend spend spend.<< Wet Seal, even. Hardly the shop I associate with holiday sentiment. It came on right after a "I want to have sex with you right now" hoochy-ho song, too. Talk about music whiplash.
>>Can't be good advertising- help out this poor kid whose mom is dying instead of buying our cheap Christmas junk...<<
Well, the way I interpret the song it's "help the kid AND buy our Xmas junk." And "helping the kid" is defined as helping *him* buy stuff, so it's all a big consumer love-in.
While helping the kid buy his highly-symbolic shoes is great n' all, I'd feel a lot better if the narrator's Christian charity went beyond donating some extra cents and involved - I dunno - talking to the kid? Buying the kid some decent clothes and a meal and taking him back home instead of letting him wander the streets alone? Seeing if there was anything that could be done to make the situation of this kid and his family better?
Then again, if they'd done all that, the song would have been even *longer.* Gah.
I guess I'm doomed to frozen cynicism - or at least until I hear some good Xmas music. :)
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Date: 2006-11-21 03:12 am (UTC)>>Can't be good advertising- help out this poor kid whose mom is dying instead of buying our cheap Christmas junk...<<
Well, the way I interpret the song it's "help the kid AND buy our Xmas junk." And "helping the kid" is defined as helping *him* buy stuff, so it's all a big consumer love-in.
While helping the kid buy his highly-symbolic shoes is great n' all, I'd feel a lot better if the narrator's Christian charity went beyond donating some extra cents and involved - I dunno - talking to the kid? Buying the kid some decent clothes and a meal and taking him back home instead of letting him wander the streets alone? Seeing if there was anything that could be done to make the situation of this kid and his family better?
Then again, if they'd done all that, the song would have been even *longer.* Gah.
I guess I'm doomed to frozen cynicism - or at least until I hear some good Xmas music.
:)