The popularity of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” is just so weird to me. I mean, it’s not bad as deliberately grotesque novelty songs go – catchier than most, even – but the fact that it’s considered part of the standard canon of Christmas carols in many places is just bizarre. It’s like Weird Al’s “Christmas At Ground Zero” somehow ended up ranking alongside “Jingle Bells” – how does that even happen?
well because it’s absurd but just not-edgy enough for mainstream radio
“Not edgy”? It’s about a woman being murdered by Santa Claus!
Have you never watched the movie??? She doesn’t die she gets amnesia and she’s brought to the North pole to recuperate.
They toned it down for the movie. In the song, there’s no suggestion that she survives (and being as the song predates the film adaptation by over twenty years, it can hardly be argued that the former was always intended to be taken in the context of the latter).
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