The co-writer and co-producer of one of the biggest Christmas songs of all time — Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” — can only say “ho, ho, ho” when he hears her talk about how the song came to be. be made.
Carey’s collaborator Walter Afanasieff claims on the Hot Takes & Deep Dives podcast that Carey invented an “alternative story” about the origin of the song.
Afanasieff claims Carey created the song as a young child, and it bothers him.
As she begins to point out, “Oh, I wrote this song when I was a little girl!” But why didn’t you say that 12 or 13 or 15 years ago? So it just kind of developed in her head,” Afanasieff said. ‘She doesn’t play anything. She doesn’t play keyboards or piano. She doesn’t understand music, she doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. It knows no diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.
“So to say that as a little girl she wrote a very complicated song with a chord structure with her finger on a Casio keyboard is quite a lie.”
The truth, Afanasieff said, is that the pair came up with the song while working on material for their Christmas album. They have had a long collaboration dating back to their albums emotions and Jukebox.
“We were locked in this beautiful house they rented and it was summer and there was a piano,” he said. “When I wrote All I Want For Christmas, I started playing boogie-woogie, which is a kind of rock. Mariah agreed and began singing, “I don’t want much for Christmas.”
“It just kept going and it was like a ping pong game,” Afanasieff said. “I would hit the ball to her, she would hit it back to me.”
The two are credited as the song’s sole writers and producers, with Afanasieff crediting Carey with the lyrics and music while he credits the music and chords.
“I studied music, I have diplomas in music. I am an experienced orchestrator and arranger. I’m learning music I’m not a chump. I don’t play by ear,” he added.
Author: Bruce Herring
Source: Deadline
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