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Why Are Christmas Songs so Hopelessly Depressing?

Summary by Dagens Nyheter.
Dolly Parton mostly wants to disappear, Shane MacGowan has been thrown into a drunken cell, and on the battlefield soldiers dream of a white Christmas. Although Christmas is a holiday of joy, its songs mostly testify to broken hearts, loneliness and severe melancholy. How did it come to be like that? wonders DN's Kristofer Ahlström.

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Why Are Christmas Songs so Hopelessly Depressing?

Dolly Parton mostly wants to disappear, Shane MacGowan has been thrown into a drunken cell, and on the battlefield soldiers dream of a white Christmas. Although Christmas is a holiday of joy, its songs mostly testify to broken hearts, loneliness and severe melancholy. How did it come to be like that? wonders DN's Kristofer Ahlström.

·Stockholm, Sweden
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Dagens Nyheter. broke the news in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
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