Listening to those incessant, earworm, bell-soaked jingles day after day during the Christmas season can be dangerous apparently, and one Christmas song comes right at the top of the chart.
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According to a few studies, some Christmas songs can cause dangerous driving. Surprisingly, it isn't their endless repetition that makes people want to drive into trees either.
According to the South China University Of Technology, songs with beats per minute, or BPM over 120, can encourage reckless driving. So, taking this into consideration, the higher a Christmas song BPM, the more dangerous it becomes.
Combine the heartbeat-rising tempo of a song with the icy conditions and eternal darkness of winter, and you have a recipe for disaster. With this in mind, one song tops the danger charts. Old "Frosty The Snowman" sits at number one for the most dangerous Christmas song according to Insuranceopedia.
Christmas Songs Are More Dangerous That You Thought
If we're taking the BMP as the main reason people drive badly over the Christmas period, then there are quite a few songs to be wary of. According to the research done by the university, anything over 120 BPM in a Christmas song encourages driving.
Many of the biggest Christmas bangers come in well over that level, blurring the limits between high-speed rave tunes and quirky jingles. "Frosty The Snowman" tops the charts with a heart attack inducing 172 BPM.
One of the worlds all time favorite Christmas songs needs to be turned down while driving the dangerous icy roads this Christmas. As soon as you hear those first bars of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," change the channel. She makes around $3 million from plays every Christmas, she can do with one less listener.
Sitting in number 3 position is the international banger, loved by Latinos and everyone else too, quite frankly. The song responsible for inducing snowy parking lot doughnuts is José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad." The high 149 BPM makes this a dangerous Christmas song, even if it has helped millions of Americans learn Spanish.
For me, Christmas songs are dangerous because their endless obsessive playing, everywhere I go, makes me want to drive into a frozen lake. Who would have guessed that something as subtle as the high BMP is also trying to drive me to despair?
