I’m more likely to hear Last Christmas vs. Little Drummer Boy (although I do love the Bowie/Crosby half-version of the latter!). So Whamageddon would work for me! But I’m already out this year, as I heard it earlier this week.
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I find the spread and misuse of the term “literally” far worse than the song… cuz you have to listen to it all year round 
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But in this case the word is used correctly.
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Well, ‘literal’ isn’t based on someone’s opinion or value judgment. If it said that’s literally the first song they heard, maybe? Unless the 3 kings showed up earlier and did some caroling - I mean I wasn’t there 
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Since I (or baby Jesus) get to decide what the worst song I ever heard is, yes, literally is correct.
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You’ve never heard “Dominic the Donkey?”
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You are right.
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Until thirty seconds ago I had not. Now I have! And…it’s not terrible?
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Wait until some child in your family plays it 15+ times 
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Not likely to happen, since the children in my family sing about dreidels.
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You never know. I’ve heard my fair share of the dreidel song.
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OT: I once said the end of the Mark Wahlberg PLANET OF THE APES was literally a “deus ex machina” and someone complained, until I pointed out that is really was a “deus ex machina” (“a god out of a machine”). I too hate the misuse.
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SO MUCH THIS! 
Painful.
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“Literally”, at some point, became used as an intensifier for the adverb-challenged. We hear it all day long among all age groups.
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I think that point was a good half century ago.
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It’s been accepted to mean figuratively fairly recently. But it had been used with that meaning well over a century ago.
I hate it being used that way anyway.
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As I sit here in the diner freezing, let me add restaurants that air-condition too much in the summer and/or refuse to heat in the winter. (The worst are Chinese restaurants that are primarily takeout and have an open kitchen–the kitchen staff are too hot and the diners are too cold.)
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Freezing cold bathrooms! Ai!
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