Mariah Carey’s All I want for Christmas is you. Officially the greatest song of the holiday!
According to Billboardco-writer of the hit holiday anthem, Walter Afanasyeff, made the surprising revelation that he wasn’t satisfied with the opening song.
When creating the track, which has now surpassed two billion streams on Spotify, the first holiday song to do so on the platform, he recalled, “At the time, I thought it was too easy, and I really wanted it. Didn’t like it.”
Criticizing the “too easy melody”, he also revealed how he disliked it. Emotions Either the hitmaker’s voice on the track.
“My first reaction was, ‘It sounds like someone’s making a sound scale,'” Afanasyev said. Billboard In 2013, he stated in 2014 that he thought the song would probably be “no big deal”.
“Christmas music and artists’ Christmas albums weren’t the big thing that they are today. Back then, you didn’t have a lot of artists with Christmas albums. It wasn’t a known science then, and there was nobody who used to sing new Christmas songs,” said the songwriter.
He continued, “We were just going to release it like everyday, ‘Hey, you know, we’re putting out a Christmas album. No big deal.'”
Mariah Carey’s co-writer of the song, All I want for Christmas is you, Still unsure of the real reason behind the track becoming a wild success every year, saying it seems to have stuck with listeners “for whatever reason”.