Global heroes Tomas and Hannah Mazetti, a British-Swedish couple currently residing in Sweden, have launched an online fundraiser to buy the rights to the insufferably awful 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” and remove it from the airwaves permanently, the Independent reports.
The fundraiser to purchase the insipid tune’s rights, currently owned by Warner Chappell Music UK and valued at between $15 million and $25 million, has a long way to go to its goal of the low end of that range, having only collected $62,100 as of Friday. Hannah was inspired by a past trauma in which she counted the song being played no less than 111 times during a single shift she worked at a cafe in Oxford, England. “Some people love to hear the song 500 times a day – and those people are our enemies,” Hannah said of the public reaction to the fundraiser which, if successful, will see the master recording for “Last Christmas” buried in a nuclear waste dump in Finland. Of course that symbolic end will not have nearly as much “wham” as the song’s concurrent permanent removal from all radio stations and streaming services, a true gift of joy and goodwill to all.