All she desires for Christmas is for sure individuals to cease being ‘ridiculous.’
Mariah Carey is pouring leftover eggnog throughout her former collaborator’s claims that she tells an “alternate story” of how “All I Want for Christmas” got here to be.
Carey’s former co-producer and co-writer Walter Afanasieff controversially instructed the “Hot Takes & Deep Dives with Jess Rothschild” podcast not too long ago that tales of the singer writing the hit Christmas track on her Casio keyboard as a baby have been nothing greater than tall tales.
Now, Carey, 52, hopes to set the document straight.
“Mariah has never claimed to write ‘All I Want for Christmas’ by herself or as a child. She has always credited Walter, as he is cited as a writer on the song, so that would be ridiculous,” Carey’s rep instructed The Post.
“Not sure where that rumour came from, but Mariah is very respectful of writers and the craft, as she is a songwriter herself.”
The songstress threw shade at her one-time track accomplice by posting a classic clip from VH1 to her Instagram story that exhibits a clip of her from 1994 explaining the behind-the-scenes of the writing of “All I Want for Christmas.”
“I was up at the farm, upstate where we did the video, and it was night-time, and I was just walking around, and I got the idea for the song,” she mentioned on the time.
“I don’t know where it came from, sometimes things just come to me like that,” she continued. “That melody just came into my head, the verse melody. And then, I was walking around, and I just went in and I had a little keyboard set up there and I just kind of finished the lyrics and the melody just came pretty quickly.”
Afanasieff, 64, mentioned the 2 of them have been initially on the identical web page in regards to the track — however about 10 years in the past, there was immediately an “alternate story” being instructed.
“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? So it just sort of developed in her mind,” he mentioned.
Carey did actually inform Billboard in 2017 that she got here up with the track when she was only a child.
“I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard,” she mentioned on the time.
Afanasieff attacked the chart-topping diva, claiming that the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter is definitely musically challenged.
“She doesn’t play anything, she doesn’t play keyboard or piano. She doesn’t understand music, 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,” Afanasieff mentioned.
“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,” he added on the podcast.
Afanasieff mentioned he and Carey got here up with the track collectively whereas engaged on three songs for her Christmas album, “Merry Christmas.”
“We were holed up in this beautiful home that [Mariah was] renting, and it was the summertime and there was a piano. So the writing of ‘All I Want for Christmas’ is, I started playing a boogie-woogie, kind of a rock,” he mentioned whereas making the sound of the bassline.
The producer charged that he was enjoying the piano when Carey beginning singing, “I don’t want a lot for Christmas.”
“So on and on, and it was like a game of ping-pong. I’d hit the ball to her, she hits it back to me,” he mentioned.
Afanasieff mentioned the singer was liable for the melodies and lyrics whereas he took cost of the music and chords.
Both Afanasieff and Carey are equally credited for the hit Christmas track, with no different writers or producers.
They labored collectively on various her studio albums, together with “Emotions” and “Music Box”.
Afanasieff’s feedback weren’t the one controversial second for the trendy Christmas basic in 2022. A lawsuit was filed in New Orleans federal courtroom in June on behalf of the creators of the identically titled 1989 track “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” recorded by Vince Vance and the Valiants. That tune was coated in 2020 by Kelly Clarkson, who instructed Billboard she’d been singing the track “since she was a kid.”
The lawsuit was dropped November 1.
Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” was launched in 1994 and continues to make its approach to the highest of the charts each vacation season.
This article was initially revealed by the New York Post and reproduced with permission
Originally revealed as Mariah Carey claps again at ‘ridiculous’ claims from All I Want for Christmas co-writer
