Mariah Carey “never imagined” her classic Christmas track would be a huge success.
Her iconic All I Want for Christmas Is You has proved increasingly popular over the past decades.
The superstar singer first recorded the song for her first festive album, Merry Christmas, in 1994.
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Speaking about the track during an interview for W magazine, Mariah talked about how she first came up with the initial sounds for the song.
Mariah said: “I had a keyboard, and, no, I am by no means a piano player, but I can pluck out chords when I need to.
“I didn’t want it to feel specific to any era, so we didn’t use sounds that were happening at that time.
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“That way, it would feel classic and timeless. But I could never have imagined that it would become such a major part of my life.”
However, she also revealed how she wondered whether it was too early in her career to release a Christmas album.
Mariah, 52, continued: “Okay, so the idea of me doing a Christmas album at all came from the record company. It was very early in my career, and I thought it was a little early for me to be doing that, but I was like, ‘Well, I love Christmas.’ I had some very sad Christmases as a child, but I always try to find the bright light there.”
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This comes after she has been slammed by her All I Want For Christmas Is You co-writer.
According to co-writer Walter Afanasieff, Mariah has taken all the credit for the writing of the track.
Speaking on the Hot Takes & Deep Dives podcast, record producer Walter, 64, said: “When she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!’
“But why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that?
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“So, it just sort of developed in her mind.”
“We were both on the same page about how we wrote All I Want For Christmas Is You. There was never any alternate story until probably 10 years ago.”
He continued: “She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.
“So, to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale.”
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