From 'Fairytale of New York' to 'Santa Baby', these songs actually contain lyrics that will make you raise your eyebrows.
- December 24, 2018
AceShowbiz - Despite how innocent the title of the song may sound, "Jingle Bells" sparked debate over the internet after one professor deemed the popular Christmas carol racist. Kyna Hamil, a theater historian at Boston University, published a research paper outlining the racist origins of the beloved holiday ditty.
In her paper, she explained that James Pierpoint made the song after he continuously failed at other professional ventures. She suggested that he "capitalized on minstrel music" and used making fun of black people as a "safe ground" for his show. Thus, when he first performed the song in September 1857, he did it in blackface.
