{"id":167683,"date":"2022-12-25T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T04:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/co-writer-says-mariah-careys-story-about-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-snow-job\/"},"modified":"2022-12-25T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T04:47:03","slug":"co-writer-says-mariah-careys-story-about-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-snow-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/co-writer-says-mariah-careys-story-about-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-snow-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-writer Says Mariah Carey’s Story About ‘All I Want For Christmas’ Is A Snow Job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The man who co-wrote \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d with Mariah Carey says the pop diva’s story about the song’s origin is as false as flying reindeer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Longtime Carey collaborator Walter Afanasieff tried to make mincemeat of Carey’s claim that she came up with the Christmas classic when she was a child. \u201cI am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard,\u201d she told Billboard in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the podcast \u201cHot Takes & Deep Dives\u201d posted Thursday, Afanasieff expressed gratitude to Carey for the 1994 song’s enduring success but took issue with her \u201ctall tale.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said there was \u201cnever any alternate story … until probably 10 years ago, when she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, yeah, I wrote that song when I was a little girl.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBut why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that? So it just sort of developed in her mind,\u201d the producer argued. \u201cBut she she does n’t play anything. She she does n’t play keyboard or piano. She she does n’t understand music, she does n’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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cSo 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,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Afanasieff, a two-time Grammy winner, described their songwriting process as a 50-50 \u201cpingpong\u201d of ideas with him at the piano during the long-ago summer session focused on adding three Christmas songs to an upcoming album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAt the time I felt it was very collaborative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said he hasn’t talked to Carey in four years, and that followed an approximately 20-year span of no contact.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An automatic email from Carey’s rep said he was on holiday when asked for comment by HuffPost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n