Hate to harsh your mellow even further, but 1988 was 30 years ago.
That’s a helluva biased assumption.
Any one person’s lived experiences are often going to vary greatly from any other person’s; no one is the “center of the universe,” (although many folks seem to be under that erroneous misperception.)
This song doesn’t ‘get played every Xmas where I live,’ amongst my particular demographic.
So yeah… I’d never heard it.
