IT’S A WHAMAGEDDON THING

There’s a DJ who’s had to apologise for playing Last Christmas to 7,000 people.

It’s a Whamageddon thing. Every year people try to go as long as they can through December without hearing the song ‘Last Christmas’ by Wham, and when they do they have technically ‘lost’ Whamageddon. In one unintended stroke, the poor DJ at a football game wrecked it for a stadium of Whamageddon hopefuls, and for some reason has had to apologise.

I think this is mad. It’s a bit like me saying I’m going to avoid the colour blue, going to a party and then getting furious with everyone I see wearing blue as though it’s their fault for disrupting my life.

Alright, Whamageddon is more of a recognised game than Don’t-Show-Matt-Blue-Or-He-Goes-Ballistic but it is still a game, and it is still based in the basic rules of life - such as: if you’re avoiding something because it’s everywhere, don’t complain at the fact that it’s everywhere.

Why in the world should the DJ apologise? It’s Christmas! Play whatever you like; it’s your choice, and yes, people like that song, and no, not every human being is forced into playing silly Whamageddon! They took the risk going into the stadium, just like they took a risk going to the office party, or WHSmith, or Asda! Let ‘em have it, I say.

It’s a good job we don’t play Whamageddon in our house by the way. I’d have lost sometime in early October.