bisme37 wrote:I don't know why it took me this long but I just realized that 12 days of Christmas song is really weird. Mofos straight up invented 11 additional days of Christmas and then robbed an aviary of all their birds or something.
It's actually just an aviary union commissioned jingle. People were only buying one or none birds - and only of one type and on only one day, if at all. Sales were falling like pigeon poop. The union was inspired by all the people buying BK Broilers whilst humming the incessant have it your way jingle, and a new song was commissioned post haste.
The hired lyricists were lazy and figured everyone else was too, so they just started the song with some "old people birds" suggested by Chat GPT, and then threw in other stuff when they knew people would have stopped listening. Even so, like Icarus (and the bloody birds they were trying to hawk), they flew too high and oversold how many dang birds people should gift to one another. The jingle was a marketing flop that actually caused a decrease in bird sales, and only benefitted purveyors of pear trees and leaping lords.