Why Christmas songs suck so much

Today while listening to that reprehensible piece of tripe "Jingle Bell Rock" for probably the 300th time in my life, it finally occurred to me why modern Christmas songs suck so much. Yes, it is because they are overplayed. But to put the matter more accurately, I believe it is because they are for the most part musically mediocre and pedestrian, yet they are played as much as the truly great songs that have been written in the past decades.

Think about it. Of the great songwriters, how many have written Christmas songs that are considered among their best compositions?  Hm... Irving Berlin's "White Christmas".  John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)".  Hm...  That's it, I'm tapped. There may be others but I can't think of any. The rest of these songs are the work of hacks, or good songwriters doing throwaway work (e.g. what do you think Springsteen really thinks of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"?)

And yet these songs are played everywhere we go for a month, and we hear them more than our personal favorites.  Have you ever thought about how many times you've listened to one of your favorite songs?  For example, I have probably listened to "Strawberry Fields Forever" about 500 times total, and "Paranoid Android" about 300.

Meanwhile, I stand by my "Jingle Bell Rock" estimate of 300, so I have been forced to listen to that piece of crap as many times as "Paranoid Android". It's not right.

Why do stores, radio stations, etc. play these songs so much? I guess it is to acknowledge the season. I suggest to them that they play a steady drone of a lovely woman's voice sprechstimme' ing: "Holiday Season! Holiday Season! Holiday Season! Holiday Season! " etc. At least that would be much easier to phase into the background than, say, "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" (which, by the way, is the same melody as "Jingle Bell Rock"; think about it).