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All I Want For Christmas



At first, Afanasieff admitted that he was puzzled and "blanched" as to where Carey wanted to take the melody and vocal scales, though she was "adamant" in her direction for the song.[11] In an interview with Billboard, Afanasieff described the type of relationship he and Carey shared in the studio and as songwriters:




All I Want for Christmas



It was always the same sort of system with us. We would write the nucleus of the song, the melody primary music, and then some of the words were there as we finished writing it. I started playing some rock 'n' roll piano and started boogie woogie-ing my left hand, and that inspired Mariah to come up with the melodic [Sings.] 'I don't want a lot for Christmas.' And then we started singing and playing around with this rock 'n' roll boogie song, which immediately came out to be the nucleus of what would end up being 'All I Want For Christmas Is You.' That one went very quickly: It was an easier song to write than some of the other ones. It was very formulaic, not a lot of chord changes. I tried to make it a little more unique, putting in some special chords that you really don't hear a lot of, which made it unique and special.


In touching on several aspects of what excited her to record and release her Christmas album, Carey went into detail on what writing and recording the song and album meant for her, pointing out, "I'm a very festive person and I love the holidays. I've sung Christmas songs since I was a little girl. I used to go Christmas caroling. When it came to the album, we had to have a nice balance between standard Christian hymns and fun songs. It was definitely a priority for me to write at least a few new songs, but for the most part people really want to hear the standards at Christmas time, no matter how good a new song is."[13]


Families can talk about making books into movies. Have you read All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey? If you have, did the movie bring the book to life for you? If you haven't read it, did watching this movie motivate you to read the book? Where would you go to find it? Does your family use your local library to find books you want to read and/or to find new books that look good to you?


After shopping with the one-and-only Mariah Carey and filling the backseat with presents, The Late Late Show host asked Mimi, who was clad in a festive red jacket, what she wants for Christmas. Thankfully for us, her Christmas wish was to have Corden sing her holiday classic. 041b061a72


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