Fuck rule
Fuck rule
ALT: Number of "Fucks" in the top Christmas song in the UK by year, all are 0, except for 2009, which is 17.
Which song was it in 2009?
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/dec/20/rage-against-machine-christmas-number-1
TIL. This is awesome.
Here is them playing it live on BBC which is so great to revisit every Christmas: https://youtu.be/n6njrf_zHfw
This is one of the things that I can watch on a sad day to immediately be cheered up — specifically the moment when the radio presenter gets flustered and shuts them off when they start swearing.
Strongly recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen/heard it. Here's a link to timestamp in above video where this happens:
"Get rid of it! Sorry, we needed to get rid of that, because that suddenly, uh, turned into something we were not expec— well we were expecting it, and we asked them not to do it, and they did it anyway"
Killing in the Name
The fact you had to ask this in the comments and there are multiple replies without the answer are the reason the human race in doomed.
Since the topic is "fuck" in Christmas songs.. for as long as i can remember, I thought Brenda Lee was singing "later we'll have some fuckin pie" as she rocked around the Christmas tree.
We need "All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass" by the Midnight Riders to become a popular holiday song. It would make the lives of thousands of retail workers better.