My bigger problem with the Christmas season is that it inspires artists to crank out cash grabs. It also inspires novelty songs that otherwise wouldn’t see the light of day. “Christmas Wrapping”? Please, kill. me. now.

I’d love to see other cultures’ music during this time of year. Why not some klezmer Chanukah hits? Or something for Eid? Why can’t we hear the Arabic version of “Grandma got run over by a Reindeer”?

No, wait: he came out of it with McCartney II, an unlistenable mishmash of over-overdubbed synthesizer squiggles anchoring half-baked songs that he neither played nor sang with an ounce of enthusiasm. There was a reason that it was the live version of “Coming Up” that was the actual hit. Not that it improves “Wonderful Christmastime” one scratch, but it was perfectly representative of a year that Macca devoted himself to sounding as awful as he could while still convinced that his instrumental and production choices were not just state of the art but the future of pop music.

Yep, that’ll do it.