Aurora's Sundry Notes

Hee, I've no idea how much information you can find on that subject in English, though I'm getting tempted to translate their lyrics to show everyone how weird they are. :-P There's just so many that are weirdly depressing. Mother/father/both/grandmother/brother/beloved/someone else is dead and mourned, or someone's alone on Christmas, or the song consists of three verses of berating everyone for how their Christmas celebrations aren't religious enough (that one also contains the memorably traumatizing line about "the child [baby Jesus] drowns in the snow and is forgotten"), or a poor little bird is in a cage and miserable (well, at least the song is pretty and the next two verses are less depressing), or there's a general idea of "enjoy it while you can because soon life will be over or at least you'll be completely miserable". There are some nice ones that actually have that whole "hope and joy" idea, and of course many about Santa Claus for kids, but the number of those downer carols is a bit inexplicable for me. Most of my favourite carols are foreign. :-P