'Carol Of The Bells' or 'The-Most-Scary-As-Shit-Christmas-Song-Of-All-Time'? You decide.
*flashback fades in*
January 1986. West Jordan, Utah. Terra Linda Elementary School. I am 6-years-old. I have on a rad purple striped shirt with coordinating beads. Pretty much the epitome of cool. And, today, we are going to watch the Space Ship take off! That sure as hell sounds better than lame ass math, yep. Woot!
So we all pile into the gathering area, AKA us plopping on the floor in front of a TV on a cart. It's on a news channel so obviously as a pile of kids, we're completely engaged in watching the TV. My floor-neighbor, whose last name was Davenport, was poking me in the back about every 3 to 4 seconds. He was a fella with blue eyes that I was certain I would marry (and my mother wrote something in his Valentine from me that year that I still to this day have no idea what it said, and of course now she cannot remember). Of course, I just looked him up on Facebook and if it is the dude who first came up, well I think I dodged a bit of a bullet not marrying him after all. Alas, everything happens for a reason I suppose.
Anyway, so we are sitting there watching a bunch of boring stuff waiting for THE SPACESHIP!!!! to take off. There is a teacher on board, a lady teacher. So this is cool to us, sort of, as we wait. Finally, there is a countdown and this shit happens...
Obviously, none of us really get it. "Is there a fire on the spaceship, teacher?" which was answered with "I don't know sweetie, let's watch Old Yeller instead, OK?" And she put on the movie and went off to talk with the other teachers. It was weird. I mean, why in the world are we watching this ancient ass Dog movie? Maybe it was a ploy to knock us all out from the boredom.
Well, by the time we got out of school we knew that the shuttle had exploded. And we had seen that happen real time. It was all anyone could talk about. It was sad. It was crazy! And so later that night I was watching TV with my daddy and they replayed the footage, except they set it to 'The Carol of the MotherFucking Bells' probably because it was still near the Christmas Season, I don't know why, it sounds stupid, but they did. I think it was to create drama and freak everyone out. And it worked...on me.
So now I associate that song with some scary ass shit I once saw at school. And heck, this song is just screaming horror movie anyway, at least in my opinion. To this day it stirs up emotion.
4 comments:
What an utterly odd pairing. I can see how that association would bring the those feelings of horror back to you. That was such a sad time. So many young kids were watching because of the teacher on board. How horrifying it must have been for her own students.. and of course the families.
It was extremely odd to pair those two things together in the media. It was a sad time and I don't think that I realized the magnatude of it at the time, but now looking back I see how very sad it was. I can only imagine her students and the families too. Very sad :(
WEIRD! Why would they pair it with that?! Way too soon. That shuttle explosion is so sad. It's amazing how calm the announcer seems to be. I actually LOVE this song but I can see why it freaks you out :)
I remember seeing something a few years after 9/11 where they paired footage of people jumping with the song "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" by Drowning Pool. I remember being so shocked and disgusted.
Um yeah way to totally ruin Christmas songs! wtf, news station? Dorks.
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