the christmas theme All I Want for Christmas Is You, performed by Mariah Carey, continues to reap success, having broken the all-time record on Spotify by becoming the song with the most views in a single day, with 21.27 million streams.
In different interviews, the New York singer has revealed that she composed part of the song from her childhood with the help of a Casio keyboard. However, Walter Afanasieff, the co-author and producer of the song, came out to deny it.
It seems that as time went by, Mariah Carey wanted to give the origin of the song a more moving story. For this reason, she began to tell how, as a girl, she composed the song by touching the keys of a Casio with a single finger to create the melody.
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— Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) December 25, 2022
Merry Christmas to all! I didn’t expect to wake up to this amazing surprise! ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ breaks the all-time record for the largest single-day streams in Spotify chart history, with 21.27 million streams.
We suppose that the singer wanted to forget for a moment that Walter Afanasieff is co-author of the song and perhaps she hoped that he would let her tell her most seasoned version of the story, but Walter did not remain silent and in an interview for the Hot Takes and Deep Dives podcast spoke about what was said by the winner of five Grammy awards.
I thought we both agreed on how we wrote ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’. And there was never any alternate history on it, until probably about ten years ago. That’s when she started saying, ‘Oh, I wrote something to that tune when I was a kid!’
But the question is: Why hadn’t he told it before, during the previous 12, 13 or 15 years? I think it has occurred to him on the fly.
In addition, not content with denying Mariah’s moving version, the record producer assured that his story lacks support, since it would be impossible, due to the musical characteristics of the song, to have composed it on a keyboard and without having musical knowledge.
Claiming that she wrote a very complicated song with chord structure, playing with one finger on a Casio keyboard, when she was little, is a tall tale.