Is Mimi trying to be the George Santos of the music industry
now? While Mariah Carey has called herself the Queen of Christmas forever,
this year after seeking to trademark the title, and being told to Piss Off, she
graciously gave the title to Darlene Love and all seemed right with the world.
Until Mariah decided to tell the tale that she wrote her Christmas “classic” all by her lonesome and not with her writing partner Walter
Afanasieff, who then came for Mimi:
“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. 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, 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.”
For her part, Mimi says she never said that BUT in
2017, during an interview with Billboard, she said:
“I am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on
my little Casio keyboard.”
And then as liars do, she changed the story again, saying now:
“I was up at the farm, upstate where we did the video, and
it was nighttime, and I was just walking around, and I got the idea for the
song. I don’t know where it came from, sometimes things just come to me like
that. 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.”
My Thought: All I want for Christmas is for Mariah to stop
talking and stop caterwauling that song.
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