Country singer, Chris Janson played "Holiday Road" on the Disney Holiday Special the other night saying it's his favorite Christmas song. I'd never heard of this Christmas Song so when he played it I instantly realized he was playing the theme song to the movie: National Lampoon's Vacation. Wait how is this a Christmas song? Was it used in the Christmas Vacation movie? I had so many questions.
Thinking I was on crazy pills, I looked it up and saw that it was written by Lindsay Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) specifically for the original 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation movie at the request of the director, Harold Ramis. As far as I could tell it is not and has never been a Christmas song. It's a song about a family on vacation or "holiday" as they say in Europe. How are they letting him get away with this? His version added the typical jingle bell sounds at the beginning but it's clearly the Vacation song.
He says something like "it doesn't feel like Christmas in my family until we hear Holiday Road" What the crap are you talking about you moron?
So then I asked my friend, Google and found this shit.
It's like the entire internet is being gaslighted to think this is a legit holiday Christmas song. I get it, the word Holiday is in the title and it can be a little confusing for the small brained hicks that listen to this type of music but it gets worse. I opened one of these links and found this absolute turd nugget.
This is straight up wrong. They're creating a new Christmas classic based on their ignorance of reality. Holiday Road was not in Christmas Vacation and in fact...
Not only was it NOT used in Christmas Vacation, it was the ONLY movie from the National Lampoon's Vacation series including European Vacation, Vegas Vacation and the 2015 remake, Vacation that DID'T use it. So, so fucking wrong and stupid. Crack journalism from News Talk WGAC FM to not call them out on how wrong he is and how moronic it is to just invent a new reality so you can make this song a Christmas song. When it is clearly not and never was. I see multiple news and music media outlets that keep repeating his quote about loving the song from the movie Christmas Vacation with no mention that this song has nothing to do with Christmas and was never in that movie.
Is this a Mandela Effect or just a bunch of idiots to lazy to look shit up while gaslighting a bunch of unsuspecting country music fans? This all makes me want to fucking scream because it's not so much that he's confused about this song being in the Christmas Vacation movie. It's that everyone is just like "yeah I remember that too" and just allowing this shit to happen. There needs to be more accountability in the media. Fact check shit for once.
To this I say to everyone...
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