A couple wants to erase a song they hate from history in this way
A British couple who hate "Last Christmas", the famous song by the band Wham!
And its famous singer, George Michael, launched a fundraising campaign with the aim of buying the rights to the full song so they could stop it from being broadcast forever, and erase its existence from history.
Thomas Mazzetti, 55, and his wife Hannah, 33, have already raised more than £50,000 to erase the song from history, but with rights estimated at £20m, they still have a long way to go.
Hannah said, according to the Daily Mail, that her dislike of the song began 13 years ago when she was working in a coffee shop in Oxford, where her boss repeatedly repeated the song.
This past holiday season, it was she talking to friends about how much she hated it - and how much she'd pay not to hear from her again, which inspired them and her husband to run this year's online fundraiser.
So far, 327 people have pledged $62,100 (£51,547), an amount nowhere near the target.
The rights are currently held by Warner Chappell Music UK and valued at between $15 million and $25 million.
And Hana, who works as a painter and lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, said she was studying English and working extra to pay the bills when her relationship with this song went bad.
She explained, “The owner of the café had planned a very relaxing holiday season and had his own CD of a number of songs where he repeated ‘Last Christmas’ for the 111th time of the working day.
Later, Hana learned that it is theoretically possible to buy the rights to the song and then withdraw it from all streaming platforms!
And so I set to work on it, hanging on, “Maybe next Christmas will be the last Christmas!”
Hana, along with her husband and their friends, set a goal of $15 million that will move them to the next stage of negotiation with the producing company, and
said that “if the dream comes true, they intend to get rid of the main registry at the Finnish nuclear waste site, where it will settle for at least two million years.” She did not comment. The company producing the matter for the news that achieved a global spread was widely circulated.
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