‘Do They Know It's Christmas?’ By Band Aid, ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ by Bobby Helms and ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ by Slade are all ideal tunes to add to a playlist. Accordingly, songs in a moderate-to-fast tempo range (of between 100 bpm and 130 bpm) are optimal. On longer highway drives, there are fewer external factors that elevate the mental load of driving, which can lead to mild mental fatigue and boredom. Therefore, Christmas classics such as ‘Stop The Cavalry’ by Jona Lewie, ‘Santa Baby’ by Eartha Kitt or ‘White Christmas’ by Bing Crosby – all of which have a slower tempo, would be ideal for city driving. This is because the mental load imposed by the driving environment is quite high and so fast, stimulative music can lead to overload. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmasīrunel’s research reveals that in stressful driving environments, such as urban roads that demand a higher amount of perceptual and processing work from the brain, it is best to listen to slower music. Share of people who voted this as one of their favourites This will not be music to the ears of millions of motorists, as it has been voted the third most popular Christmas song with 28 per cent of Britons citing it as one of their favourites – just behind The Pogues’ drunken ballad ‘Fairytale of New York’ (34 per cent) and Maria Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ (28 per cent). However, the research shows that Chris Rea’s ‘Driving Home for Christmas’, at 90 bpm, may be too slow to suitably stimulate motorists on monotonous motorway trips.
With nearly half (45 per cent) of Brits planning to drive home for Christmas this year, around 23.9 million people say they’ll be behind the wheel when travelling to visit friends or family over the festive period. In partnership with an academic study from Brunel University London, Coventry University and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, Direct Line can reveal the festive songs that can have the best and worst effects on a motorist’s mental state when driving home for Christmas – and the ones that are better suited to rockin’ around the Christmas tree. New research shows ‘Driving Home for Christmas’ may not be the perfect song to listen to while actually driving home for Christmas.
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