![]() Today, Carey says the song is "one of my greatest achievements," she told Variety in October. Obviously, I couldn't have been more wrong." ![]() "As much as I love Christmas, I thought that the record company was off. "I didn't feel, from a strategic point of view, that it was time to do something like that," Carey told EW in a recent interview. Whichever version is true, Carey wasn't originally sold on releasing "All I Want for Christmas Is You." She wasn't sure an original Christmas song from a new artist would resonate with audiences. (A representative for Carey could not be reached for comment.) However, according to Afanasieff, he played the piano as they wrote the original melody together. It's true the basic song only took an hour to write, then a week of two of finessing the lyrics, Afanasieff told Billboard. The final song was created by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, a co-writer and producer on the track. "It was done very quickly and kind of came out organically, which the best songs do," Carey said in the documentary. ![]() A self-described "terrible piano player," she started plunking around on an old Casio keyboard.Ĭarey has said she stumbled upon the melody and chord progression and recorded it on a mini tape recorder. You could hear it throughout the house," Carey said in the documentary. "Actually, I put on 'It's A Wonderful Life' downstairs. Not bad for a song whose famous melody was a "happy accident," said Carey in Amazon Music's recent documentary, "Mariah Carey is Christmas: The Story of 'All I Want for Christmas is You.'"Ĭarey says she started writing the song while living in upstate New York. ![]()
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