Couple Raising Money to Buy Rights to “Last Christmas” So They Never Have to Hear It Again
“It started last Christmas—pun not intended—when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again. Quite a lot it turned out, and when the song started playing this November we were reminded,” she said.
She continued, “Then someone told us it was theoretically possible to buy the rights to the song and then take it off all streaming platforms! We asked around among our friends and word spread. It’s fun because people either love or hate the idea. Maybe next Christmas will be the last Christmas!”
So far, the Mazetti’s have received donations from around 330 contributors. Unfortunately the rights—owned by Warner Chappell Music UK—are estimated to be worth $15-20 million, so they have a long way to go.
https://americansongwriter.com/couple-ra...-it-again/
“It started last Christmas—pun not intended—when we asked friends how much they would be willing to pay never to hear the song again. Quite a lot it turned out, and when the song started playing this November we were reminded,” she said.
She continued, “Then someone told us it was theoretically possible to buy the rights to the song and then take it off all streaming platforms! We asked around among our friends and word spread. It’s fun because people either love or hate the idea. Maybe next Christmas will be the last Christmas!”
So far, the Mazetti’s have received donations from around 330 contributors. Unfortunately the rights—owned by Warner Chappell Music UK—are estimated to be worth $15-20 million, so they have a long way to go.
https://americansongwriter.com/couple-ra...-it-again/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
