{"id":973920,"date":"2019-12-06T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923300"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:58:11","slug":"blink-182-get-bummed-out-for-the-holidays-on-not-another-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/blink-182-get-bummed-out-for-the-holidays-on-not-another-christmas-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Blink-182 Get Bummed Out for the Holidays on \u2018Not Another Christmas Song\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Blink182.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/blink-182\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blink-182\" data-tag=\"blink-182\">Blink-182<\/a> cut through the merriment, joy and cheer with a delightful downer of a holiday anthem, \u201cNot Another Christmas Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The track is mostly vintage Blink, with chugging pop-punk riffs during the verse opening up into a full-throated chorus \u2014 although there are some expertly placed sleigh bells in the mix as well. Lyrically, Hoppus turns the Christmas season into a symbol of the ceaseless churn of time as the narrator ruminates on more adventurous younger years and a crumbling relationship in the present. \u201cAnd now you\u2019re always angry,\u201d he sings, \u201cAnd I\u2019m always saying, \u2018I\u2019m sorry\u2019\/Depression\u2019s such a lonely business\/Why can\u2019t we get divorced for Christmas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNot Another Christmas Song\u201d marks the second Christmas track Blink-182 have gifted fans over the course of their career, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qklRPgl0uxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cI Won\u2019t Be Home for Christmas,\u201d<\/a> which first arrived as a promo single in 1997 but got a more official release in 2001. Their 2001 album <i>Take Off Your Pants and Jacket<\/i> also featured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W1fECcM0cS4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cHappy Holidays, You Bastard,\u201d<\/a> although that song was about feeling angry, angsty and horny at Christmas <i>and<\/i> Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blink-182 released their most recent album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/blink-182-sound-self-aware-and-mature-on-nine-887622\/\"><i>Nine<\/i><\/a>, in September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blink-182-new-song-not-another-christmas-song-923300\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blink-182 cut through the merriment, joy and cheer with a delightful downer of a holiday anthem, \u201cNot Another Christmas Song.\u201d The track is mostly vintage Blink, with chugging pop-punk riffs during the verse opening up into a full-throated chorus \u2014 although there are some expertly placed sleigh bells in the mix as well. Lyrically, Hoppus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:07:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}