"The vagueness that makes pop songs broadly applicable, also make them vulnerable to exploitation. The use of a folked-up version of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want for John Lewis’s most recent (rather excellent) Christmas ad caused much angry quiff-wagging amongst disgruntled Smiths fans. “Please, please is our hymn about long and unrequited love, no way on earth should it be used to sell household goods,” wrote one. But here we see the illusion at work; for all we really know Morrissey could have been singing about a Dualit toaster."
Dette er en liten historie om en gutt som teller ned dagene til julaften, slik de fleste andre gutter på hans alder gjør. Låtvalget forsterker til de grader budskapet. Selve slutten er noe uventet, og kanskje er det nettopp derfor den er så vakker.
Og her er originallåta:
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