Why is winter music considered "Christmas" music?

[Critters2]

I've been listening to my Pandora play list, and began to wonder...Why do we consider songs like "Winter Wonderland", "Sleigh Ride", "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and "Jingle Bells" Christmas music? These songs have nothing to do with Christmas. They're about Winter, snow, etc. There's a whole lot of winter to come when Christmas is over.

So, I'm playin' 'em. So there!

[LeftyMom]

1. Why do you have Jesus, Reverend critters?

:rofl:

[Critters2]

2. What? nt

[LeftyMom]

3. I meant "hate". Sorry, I'm a bit buzzed.

Please don't ask me how long it took me to type this. :eyes:

[Critters2]

4. LOL!!!

You should be cited for posting under the influence!!

[Radical Activist]

5. Not all the writers were Christian.

Some wanted non-Jesus Christmas songs that everyone could sing.

[Critters2]

6. I think you misunderstood my question.I'm not objecting to this music.

Indeed, I love lots of these songs. I just don't understand why we stop listening to it after Christmas. Why don't we hear this music all winter long?

[Radical Activist]

7. Oh!

Yes, I misunderstood.
Well, some of the songs are good but some really annoy the hell out of me so I'm glad we don't hear them all year round. :)

[Sequoia]

8. I like winter songs that don't mention Christmas.

Sleigh Ride, Let It Snow.

[laconicsax]

9. Anything can be made into Christmas music.

All it needs is enough people to think that it must be about Christmas. The Thad Jones tune 'A Child is Born' is a great example. He wrote it about the birth of his first child, and it wasn't long before it started appearing on Jazz Christmas albums.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Because you don't but gifts, cards, and candy for winter...

It's time for Valentine's Day after Christmas.

[Critters2]

12. But "Sleigh Ride", or "Let It Snow" seem more apropo to February

than to December.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Definitely...Winter Wonderland and Jingle Bells too...

But it's all about marketing.

[Critters2]

16. Well, I'm listenin' to 'em.

If I can't have snow--and apparently I can't--I can have music about snow!!

[billyskank]

11. I am sure it is that I am really dumb

but I'd assumed it was because Christmas was in the winter.

I wonder whether Australian Christmas carols are about surfing and barbecues on the beach?

[Critters2]

13. But Winter doesn't end with Christmas.

Around these parts, it's just beginning. And the lyrics to "Winter Wonderland" or "Let It Snow" don't mention Christmas. They mention Winter, which began on December 21, and ends on March 21.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. I've wondered that too

Those songs don't even MENTION Christmas.

I think that they were originally winter songs that got taken over for the secular version of Christmas. The school choir can sing them without offending anybody. Now they are thought of as "Christmas carols," whether that was their intention or not.