This is a re-post of a diary I put up around this time last year.
I am a snob. A really specific kind of snob.
I have rather highbrow taste in Christmas music -- I like it old and I like it a capella. I listen to Palestrina, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis, Josquin Desprez, Gregorian chant. Facebook friends post YouTube videos of Madonna singing "Santa Baby" and Elvis singing "Blue Christmas" - or even Bing Crosby or Perry Como, thinking, in their adorable little misinformed way that Bing and Perry Christmas recordings are "classics" -- and I cringe and crank up my iTunes, which features easy-to-dance-to tunes like the ones over the fold.