I’ve been seeing Christmas themed ads on TV since October and CHYM FM flipped to all Christmas music this week. If we can’t wait until December like we’re supposed to, can we at least wait until after Remembrance Day to start forcing the spirit of the season on everyone?
Kelvin Lewis takes center stage as the three brothers make their plea for patience. “Marvin wouldn’t sing lead this one,” Kelvin said of his brother in an interview outside a Hallmark store in Detroit. “He wanted Christmas all year round while Wendel and I were Thanksgiving guys. That f**kin’ store we worked in went straight from Halloween to Christmas…made us stay overnight re-bagging all the candy to make it look fresh. Then we’d go home and Marvin would want to put the tree up with those stale-a$$ candy canes that’d been in the family since the turn of the damn century. And we couldn’t even afford lights. We had to move the lamp next to the couch behind the tree. Couldn’t see f*ck all inside the living room the last two months of the year until we got that record deal.”