Is defined as
to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : to detest.
and
"reviled"
Is defined as
to criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.
The Little Drummer Boy.
In 1968 a Stop-Motion-Puppet-Animation of The Little Drummer Boy was released and the popular animation has been shown on TV during the holiday season ever since.
It might because, back in the late 70's when I was in the 6th grade, I had my solo debut with the leading role singing The Little Drummer Boy during the Elementary Christmas Program.
(Back then it wasn't offensive to use the word Christmas in a public school setting.
I began singing, strong and with confidence, "Come they told me," the spotlight was only on me.
"A newborn king to see." Everyone was looking at me.
"Our finest gifts to bring." Wait! What? Everyone was looking at ME!
My inner nerves quickly took over and I started to cry on stage.
I cried in front of the 400 or so parents that came to the Christmas program to watch THEIR child look the best, be dressed the best, sing the best.
They pretentiously knew THEIR child WAS the best...and there I stood, center stage, bawling my eye out when I should have been "rum-pum-pum-pum-ing."
To make the situation even worse, a kid standing next to me on stage started laughing at my embarrassing moment.
I'd tearfully sing, "Boohoo-hoo boo-hoo-hoo" and the bewildered choir would sing, "pa rum-pum-pum-pum,
I couldn't stop crying, and the choir continued singing, "pa rum-pum-pum-pum, rum-pum-pum-pummmm. On my drum."
The audience clapped.
I believe the audience clapped because they knew the train wreck was finally over.
(Sorry...no photos available...and that, we CAN thank God for!)
Yep. My solo debut was a complete nightmare come alive!
That night I vowed to never sing again.
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However, that vow was short lived. I eventually stood back up, brushed myself off and went on to sing throughout my high school days in the school choir and in special school singing groups.
I was a regular soloist at church and once in college, I sang in performing choirs and traveling singing groups.
My "singing career" came full circle when I got the leading soloist role during my last College Christmas Program. This time, I sang in front of thousands, fifty feet in the air and was a "Christmas Ornament".
When viewed from the audience, I was in the second row from the top right as shown in the example below.
The entire 100+ member choir was a "Live Christmas tree."
I ended my "singing career" in 2002 for no specific reason, it just ended, and I haven't sang in public since.
I basically found that the “loathe” and “reviled” words usage comes from a few very liberal based thinkers who blog and write strong opinionated articles.
Most likely these writers resemble a couch potato sitting on a couch littered with chip crumbs. These types pretty much hate anything Christmas, anything with conservative values and anything Christian based. Therefore, it's just an opinion, not a fact, and their opinion doesn't hold any authority...at least it doesn't with me, nor with the ongoing popularity of the song, The Little Drummer Boy.
She writes;
The popular Christian duo's version of "Little Drummer Boy" cracks the code of the song Christmas music fans love to hate. "When something's boring," says Joel Smallbone, "it's actually an open opportunity to do something exciting."
They were asked by PEOPLE, How'd you do it? How'd you crack the code?
"It's very basic," Joel Smallbone of, for King and Country, tells PEOPLE, explaining how he and his brother cracked the "Little Drummer Boy" code.
"This is a song about a boy who's playing a drum for Jesus. And here we are, seven guys [in the band] playing a load of drums. Why didn't Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra ever think of this? We just feel like these slightly dumb, very obvious Australian fellows who did something that, for whatever reason, no one ever thought of."
Luke Smallbone, brother and vocalist said, "nobody had put drums on the 'Little Drummer Boy.'
Joel Smallbone went on to say, "Obviously this song has to be somewhat loved or it wouldn't have lasted 80 years amongst some of the greatest music of all time."
So much like an Oreo Cookie, or a potato chip, "you just can't eat just one." ...so,
The following is the Official Music Video of "Little Drummer Boy" by, for King and Country.
Who knew that by adding actual drums to the song, The Little Drummer Boy, the drums would literally rejuvenate the 80 year old Christmas song, that some find to be "greatly disgusting" and "intolerant."
Drums! Who knew?
PEOPLE's writer went on to say,
"The Christian pop duo's version, is a bracing blizzard of sound that's certain to stir even the scroogiest "Drummer Boy" haters."