It’s all about anticipation and pay off.
Once Five Golden Rings is introduced in the song, you look forward to it each time. Everyone in the fam sticks out their chest, puts on their best vibrato, maybe even some type of strange accent, and belts it out.
And that final time, when you’ve finally reached the 12th day of Christmas and now you’re counting it back for the last time, everyone really gives it the gusto.
Five Golden Rings is the pay off. But if every day of Christmas was sung like the fifth day it wouldn’t be a pay off, it would be the normal.
And we don’t look forward to the normal. We look forward to the payoff.
The normal serves the purpose of building anticipation. The normal is the foundation for which the payoff is built on.
Faaaahhhhiiiiiiiive Golden Riiiiiiiiings
So Good.
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