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A true story about a fake video for the real song ‘The Christmas Shoes’

How a student film about a widely hated holiday song racked up 7 million views
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A true story about a fake video for the real song ‘The Christmas Shoes’

How a student film about a widely hated holiday song racked up 7 million views

“The Christmas Shoes,” a 2001 chart-topping hit by the Christian rock band NewSong, is considered one of the worst holiday songs ever made. Yet like most hated things on the internet, no one has been able to look away: The song’s offical video has 1.9 million views.

Not bad, but that’s nothing compared to the 7 million YouTube views on another video, also dedicated to “The Christmas Shoes.” Six years after the song’s initial success, a college student named Ben Metz made a film reenactment, sending a filth-covered boy to a store, where he counts out a bunch of loose change and realizes he cannot afford to buy these long-desired Christmas shoes, which are actually intended for his mother, who is supposedly dying of cancer. Jesus. No, really. WWJD?

Watch the video to learn the horrible, beautiful truth.