McCartney Times

When the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back premiered last month, the Internet came through with a host of great memes about toast, Ringo Starr‘s flatulence, and George Harrison’s decision to leave the band. But the funniest of the bunch, created by writer Ben Rosen, pokes fun at Paul McCartney and his 1979 holiday staple “Wonderful Christmastime.”

In the first of the meme’s four panels, McCartney asks the other Beatles if they can try his song about “simply having a wonderful Christmastime.” When they tell him no, Paul says to himself, “I need to break up The Beatles.”

The meme works because “Wonderful Christmastime,” which McCartney wrote and recorded about a decade after the events depicted in Get Back, is a song that people love to hate. It’s also a song that people love to love. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers voted it the ninth best Christmas song of all time. (No. 1 was John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”) More recently, publications like Esquire and Slant have declared Macca’s synthed-out yuletide ditty one of the worst Christmas songs of all time.

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Source: Why Do People Hate Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”? | Mental Floss