Every holiday season, millions of people dread turning on the radio or walking into a retail space because of one good reason: Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You". This petition asks the FCC and Columbia Records to enforce the banning of it from retail spaces and radio play.

Mariah Carey's runaway 1994 holiday hit has become the bane of shoppers, retail workers and pedestrians due to it's intense overplay and drone that backs most of the holiday season. Despite it's status as the "best modern day holiday song" since the masterpiece of Wham's Last Christmas and almost beaten by Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song" that had it's popularity dwarfed by Carey's then recently released hit, "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has become a symbol of holiday dread and cabin fever due to it's extensive airplay on both holiday radio and store overhead music.

Regarding statistics, staggering percentage of people during the holiday season deal with extreme annoyance and aggression thanks to the Mere Exposure Effect from which constant exposure to sound can trigger mental breaks; this is the same kind of pathological torture prisoners in Guantanamo Bay have experienced from musical torture. Psychologist Linda Blair has gone on record saying that holiday music can indeed be bad for your mental health. Retail workers have increased anxiety, irritability and even thoughts of violence and self harm when exposed to holiday music for hours on end.

Carey's holiday hit is without a doubt one of the big offenders of this, if not the greatest. With the song charting every holiday season since it's release and even setting the Spotify single day record of most streams at 10.82 billion, it's obvious that it's popularity has lead to sincere over saturation. Constant exposure to holiday music is one thing, but with a single song the Roundabout Effect exists where the mind is consciously dreading it's arrival. The song has permeated through pop culture as an influential holiday song, but has also become a dreaded term for individuals entering the holiday season.

This petition asks the Federal Communication Commission and Columbia Records, who released the song, one simple request: please ban the song from all retail spaces and radio play. The song itself is popular enough that people who wish to listen to it can buy it or stream it, but to endorse it's overplaying in spaces and scenarios where individuals may be constantly exposed to it and develop negative psychological effects is contributing to the existing national mental health crisis.

We living in a society ask that the song, even with it's popularity and lasting impact, be banned or at the least limited from it's constant play for the greater health of the people. By removing the song from it's overexposure, you are contributing to the better health of all people of all nations.