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Heroic Couple Launch $15M Crowdfund To Buy The Rights To “Last Christmas” & Permanently Remove It From Airwaves
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 per- manently, the Independent reports.
The fundraiser to purchase the insipid tune's rights, currently owned by Warner
Chappell Music UK and valued at between $15 mil- lion and $25 mil- lion, has a long way to go to its goal of the low end of that range, hav- ing 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 dur- ing 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 success- ful, 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 concur- rent permanent removal from all radio stations and streaming servic- es, a true gift of joy and goodwill to all.
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