10 Least Festive Christmas Songs Ever
3. East 17 - Stay Another Day
It’s almost become a festive tradition in its own right: the perennial argument as to whether Stay Another Day is even a Christmas song?
Those who think it is will say it was a hit at Christmas and cite the snow and fluffy jackets in the video. They’ll also bring up the song’s smattering of church bells.
Those who insist it isn’t will say that videos don’t count for anything, you can’t see them when the song isn’t on TV (see also: 2 become 1 by The Spice Girls. Some warm coats and CGI snow have had us singing a song about condoms, every December for years now).
Plus the lyrics have nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever. It’s just a break up song, with a guy begging his partner to stay. Maybe if they’d tweaked the words a bit? It could’ve been “Stay For Boxing Day”, a sorry tale of a Christmas Day bust up.
Plus those church bells sound tacked on, a cynical attempt to flog something to us at Christmas. There again, isn’t that the most Christmassy thing of all?