Sufjan Stevens said it well: "What is it about Christmas music that continues to agitate our aging heartstrings? ... Maybe this: Christmas music does justice to a criminal world, marrying sacred and profane, bellowing obtuse prophecies of a Messiah in the very same blustery breath as a candy-coated TV-jingle advertising a string of lights and a slice of fruitcake. Gloria!"

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