Why ‘All I Want For Christmas’ Is The Only Modern Holiday Classic 

this. I saw destiny's child uploaded their 8 days of christmas Music video on their youtube and it sounded sooo dated because it makes references to a chloe bag and denim jacket 😂

Yeah you are so right, and that goes for songs in general not just Christmas 😂😅.

Thats true and thats exactly why the song can and will be played for generations. It was made purposefully simple so it remains easy for everyone no matter how old to understand and relate to forever.

kristina sophie like Dashing through the snow/In a one horse open sleigh?

Notice the 'Classics' are 1940s - 1950s USA on top of the world, post world war 2 baby booming years... A lot of good going on for patriotic USA back then, before the infection of the Left, and infestation of socialist communist agenda : Banning the Bible in schools, Banning prayer, effectively silencing the story of Christmas and Jesus for millions of American Children. 1960s - 1970s rise of drug culture, liberalism and hendonistic immorality, leading to the evil insanity of 50,000,000 million dead American children murdered by Abortion, and so many millions more people killed by addiction, drug over doses, alcoholism, and Tobacco & Agent Orange Cancers, crime and wars. Blaa - No More Bad stuff !! It's time for the whole world to Remember - Hey, it's really GOOD to have happy families and Merry Christmas again. Mariah Carey Puts the Love back in Christmas. All around the world loving couples marry and celebrate the births of their children. Her song is a straight forward invitation of Love, and has played the part of many marriage proposals every Christmas since she has wrote this song ! So a great big THANK YOU to Mariah Carey, for the perfect Christmas Proposal Song ! You have set the mood for thousands of happy couples asking that Universal question, 'Will you Marry me ?' " YES ! " and for all those weddings and thousands of children born to happy mothers and fathers. What do you know ? That Greatest Generation had some great ideas, like falling in love, getting married, and raising your kids around happy Christmas Trees - the greatest gift of all : Loving Each Other, our families and friends all together for the Holidays. This is Wonderful ! :-)

Right!!!

right on the money 👌

She deserves it! :D

Last count was $75 million for this song alone...

Genuis. Put some Respect on her songwriting skills.

Damn ._.

Just like a total solar eclipse...

Maybe not, but I'm content with the ones we have. I mean they've worked for this long

santa tell me by ariana grande???

Ishan not as iconic but still good no doubt. Being a modern Christmas classic should not measure how good a song is

@GamingMaster _09 she has 19 #1 hits, what are you even talking about...

My 14 year old daughter doesn't listen to her, but she DOES know "All I want for Christmas is you". That's my point here, her other hits are important to me, my generation, not so much my daughter or son's generation, but a Christmas classic will always and forever get radio play!

Linda Lavin Somebody sounds pressed lol. So why are you here when you knew the video was going to praise Mariah and the song and talk about why it is such a huge hit?

@@lindaloreign9346 ok boomer

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Yes! If we counted "Last Christmas" by popularity/downloads we'd have to call Faith Hill up for "Where Are You Christmas" too! The worldwide cultural impact of Carey's can barely be compared to these others if we are truly honest with ourselves and give credit where its due.

Tahtahme Xero Where Are You Christmas is written by Mariah as well

I also like "Oh Santa" by Mariah Carey because it's catchy and has whistles which i luuuvvvv

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Imagine Mariah Carey says that she doesn’t want a lot for Christmas then asks for you is pretty sad I got from reddit so don’t comment “Stolen comment”

If we counted "Last Christmas" we'd have to count "Where Are You Christmas". Cute songs, but neither compares statistically to Careys in widespread use and of course downloads (neither of the other songs has hit 1 mill in downloads & Careys was at 3.5 mill last year).

@@TahtahmesDiary Not true.

Tahtahme Xero fun fact: mariah wrote where are you christmas

Last Christmas is A HUGE hit, especially WW. Undoubtly the second biggest after Mariah modern classic. I don't get how you could compare it to "Where Are You Christmas" - most people don't know that song.

Tahtahme Xero I mean I would say that in the uk the two are more or less equal. But I British Christmas music is honestly very different and I would say 80s Christmas music is even more widespread than the 60s

Nabeel Audah they won’t cos they’ve not yet finished being naked in their videos, singing bout money, showing money , alcohol and nudity in their videos then their lyrics encompass the same thing without meaning. It’s a shame what music has finally become.

@@numokeji8023 depends on where you find music. If you're expecting to be handed good music on the radio, you're gonna have a bad time. r/listen to this is a good resource, or even just following a RU-vid recommendation Rabbit Hole after watching a song you know you like. You'll find lesser known stuff that you'll love. I hate when people talk shit about 'today's music'. Music on the radio/Top 40 has always been questionable. You have to hunt for good music, and it's well worth it. I promise.

@@numokeji8023 not all artists are like that. The current most successful and celebrated musical artists, BTS don't do any of those and have very meaningful lyrics. Other than them there is a whole field of other artists such as Amber, Suggi, Siames and etc.

@@yugoandcalirobbedmyheart292 and some are nostalgic like Hyuna

@@numokeji8023 the shade😄

Wtf, they never compare her to Celine or Whitney. Get ur facts straight

@@thequeengamernijah girl do ur research u sound super dumb

@@thequeengamernijah in the 90s...they most definitely did

Mariah is pop n rnb

@@thequeengamernijah Mariah was made to compete against Celine, Whitney and Madonna. They are all queens and got their crowns but there was some serious catfighting among their fans back then.

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It's more of a musical explanation to be honest

Dog Lover ok boomer

Aness Taharboucht bruh

@@apmullermyrolli no u

last christmas i gave you my heart but the very next day you said you were gay

@@luvvsoph wait what- (fun fact, i danced this song at my school wirh friends)

sophiwe i never said lgbt....i said bltg (born life trump guys)

@@jasonle520 2019 - 1984 = 35.

Its not nearly as popular or widespread a song, I think we all need to be honest!

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I hate hearing the covers.

@@lenni9669 Olivia Oulson slayed it

it annoys me as a SHOPPER, I can't even begin to imagine your pain >_>

And Obsessed's memeable lyrics and foreign karaoke contestants wanting to sing Hero to get to the semifinals.

Age gets bag all year

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Cold hard C A S H

*A Popular Christmas Song*

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I've never understood it when people said that her singing is emotionless.

TooLittleInfo it is for the most part.

@@TooLittleInfo Really? have never heard or read someone saying that her voice is emotionless until your raised it. LOL. Her voice has the richest emotion among any other artist who stood up behind a microphone Her self-written songs ‘Forever’ and ‘Underneath The Stars’ highlight her emotions vocally.

@@BootyWarrior80892 Have you not watched any of her live performances? Butterfly, Forever, Over The Rainbow, If Its Over, Love Takes Times, I Don't Wanna Cry, My All, Hero and Anytime You Need A Friend are all sung so passionately.

Arrow idk I just always felt her high sadity personality overshadowed any type of genuine emotion that her songs tried to display her possessing but failed to do so.

i knowww it still sounds fresh and the other new christmas songs that people are releasing now already sound aged💀💀

I could say she sings "It's the most wonderful time of the year" quite fervently every December 😂😂😂

She is a legend she is the icon

Boykin where's the essay

7MonarC 😂

I respect that as a musician. Funny, because people think it’s simple, or just fun making music. While it is, and can be fun, it’s always hard work. Blessings🙏⬆️

Did not know so much went into making a song

Moxie Beast I didn’t expect you here lol

Oh my god this made me laugh😂😂

Still better than Vox's music theory

Everything can be nerdy

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She wrote it to honor the music in the 30s and 40s

I see you everywhere, LAMB. And I'm with you

I agree

@@transakira 👈💖

🙏❤ Mariah is a musical genius

GarageStudio yessss another lamb

Akmal yes

Walter Afanasieff deserves the most credit tbh he wrote the majority of the song in 15 minutes Carey wrote some lyrics and a fairly simple vocal melody.

@@joeofdoom that's quite wrong. It's Mariah who wrote all the words to the song and Walter who composed much of the melody. Both deserve credit.

@@joeofdoom Wrong 😆, you just can't accept the fact that a women can be a genius too

@@joeofdoom I see it's no easy for you accept the fact that a woman like her is an genius songwriter.

i don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own more than you can ever know

make my wish cOooome truuuuuuuUuuuUuUuue

I won't ask for much this Christmas, I won't even wish for snow

I'm just gonna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe 😂

Alot

That’s awesome. 😂

Damn that's a good one 😂

@Kiyraa Miller 9 months later, and that genuinely pains me to hear. Well, Christmas is coming up soon, so she’s gonna be 4M+ richer.

I love this answer

Lol 🤣🤣🤣

Lol😂

Every riffs and runs, melody, high notes, vocal breaks, low notes, and all the stuff mariah does including the hand movements... Modern artist:WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!!

🤣🤣🤣 i thought the same hahhahaha

Its Alpha Cast It wasn’t aloud on the charts till 2012 though

Audri F why wasn’t it allowed?

Because it’s not a great song and her voice is obnoxious

@@jacquelinegoodman5243 more like Jacqueline Badman

@@jacquelinegoodman5243 it's actually really funny you said that, because she's considered as one of the best and most influential vocalists in the world. And no matter how much people hate AIWFCIY, they will disagree with your ignorant comment.

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The first of its kind? You mean that no other female artist had ever recorded a Xmas song before Mariah? Are you on drugs? I definitely know that AIWFC is the biggest Xmas song of the modern era, but your post is not just hyperbolic; it is factually incorrect. Many female artists had recorded Xmas songs before AIWFC, from Whitney, to Madonna, to Annie Lennox, to Alison Moyet, Eartha Kitt and many many others.

T. E. Burgos Not even close to what she was alluding.

@@jdredman Oh, please...Mariah stans are well known to be delusional (they actually think she can still sing). She also said that all other Xmas songs are "recycled versions" of AIWFC, which is really funny and ironic, considering that Mariah herself recorded a REALLY bad rip off of the song ("Oh Santa!") that, unsurprisingly, flopped, precisely because it was quite transparently a recycled version of AIWFC. Sorry, but she wrote what she wrote, and it was ridiculously inaccurate. AIWFC is a great song (nobody can deny it) and it has deservedly become a Xmas classic, but IT IS NOT the first of its kind, it did not open doors (except for Mariah herself) and it is not any kind of groundbreaking, especially when Mariah herself said that she worked very hard with Walter Afanassief to make sure that the song "sounded" like a classic. So, she pretty much admitted that they used many musical tropes that are always present in holiday songs. In many ways, she recycled many other holiday classics.

“AIWFCIY”

Yes! Theres no heart to what they attempt to do... theres no depth and thought

why is that so important? Genuinely curious

@@MariosPOS the placement of the chord within the arrangement makes it sound like the song is melting like snow 😊

@@MariosPOS If you follow Adam Neely you'll realise that he's being sarcastic lol. Vox made a video highlighting how Dm7b5 made Christmas songs sound "Christmassy", and Adam did a video explaining why Vox couldn't be more wrong

@@TDo280199 oh thank you

OMG ADAM DO A VIDEO ABOUT MARIAH'S MUSICCCC

No, it literally gets old. It's a few decades old right now.

Shad Pierre Those poor retail workers

@@persephonepomegranate9652 I've been working in retail for two yeats, and I literally love this song. It has such a happy vibe to it, and it just makes me so happy. Christmas is literally my favorite holiday. I don't know, it might just be me 🤣

Do you celibate Christmas? You are Muslim?

@@houssameddine6885 yes I do and I always listen to this song during Christmas

Think thats Santa Claus

She invented Christmas

@@omotorera lol......yeah she is the first thing i think about when dec comes around

M C drunk enough you can sing Bohemian Rhapsody.....

Well, not all her songs have transcended time. Think about it. How many of her songs have you heard on the radio in the last 2 years? I don’t know about you, but I have never heard many of her biggest hits like Dreamlover and One Sweet Day anywhere but on RU-vid in the last 6 years. Meanwhile, I have heard almost all of Nirvana’s hits on the radio at least twice in the last year and none of their songs were as successful as Mariah’s were.

Nah. More like just this one song. I can't remember hearing any of her other songs in the radio or anywhere else in the last few years.

Lol, whatever you say

@@bigfatrockstar4991 hero, one sweet day, fantasy still playing on the radio. and obsessed just went viral on tiktok.

It's not necessarily about hearing her other older songs on today's radio. It's more like if you listen to her older records or compare them to some of today's good music, hers will still sound and feel fresh. And the lyrics too are top notch

@Singapore Pearl *Outside* *Slipping* *Away* *Just* *To* *Hold* *Once* *Again* *Melt* *Away* *When* *You* *Believe* That was a kind of song that hidden gems from mariah but there was many too

There are secret whistles layered in the climax with the "aah" that the choir sings .

Yes, they’re blended in with the choir at the part where it begins with “all the lights are shining so brightly everywhere”

@@itsjanzhen5917 and babY I JUST MELT AWAY, FALL LIKE RAAAIN

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Oyes

Is money

I am trying so hard to avoid all the sweets and not become a land whale

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1st 7th liker I got this as my algorithm

My algorithm doesn’t care about what I want.

Me.

I never try to find out more about the song because I always thought Mariah Carrey did a cover on this song, when the truth is she is the one creating the song. Im dumb X,D

Quite

No she isn't.

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW she is

I WANT MY SLAW!! She is underrated.

She has a net worth of $500 million. How is that underrated?

@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW why?

Stream Mariah's Side Effects featuring Young Jeezy instead of that military-hating flop. 🤩

Whatt? What that was mean? 🤣🤣

@@danielerlanggasantiagosila7170 because she's basically retired. It gives her money even if she doesn't work

@@kaorugrimm6176 OMGG YASSS 🤣🤣🤣 Just relize this song give mariah multimillion dollars/year

@@danielerlanggasantiagosila7170 yeah I think it’s 60 million in 2017

Is is also hugely popular in China as it is in the US? Because I read most Chinese doesn't celebrate Christmas at all.

NY umm true meaning of Christmas is to praise Jesus for He was born

That's not the meaning of Christmas.

@@michelledaniela6448 spot on.

@@michelledaniela6448 Literally in the name.

@@michelledaniela6448 listen to mariah Jesus borned on this day that she wrote on the same album as all i want for xmast.

And again

Again actually 🤣

LOL

Good point lol

You are ENOUGH,a lot can be really TIRING.

A lot in number not value. Grammatically the point still stands.

It’s because it hit #1 on the charts for the first time this year I think :)

Agreed

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I was born in 2004 and I totally love Mariah, and with some research i've also come to respect her very much, and even call her legendary

@@domil912 yes and yes! This woman had a hit for every year of the 90s. If more did the research you did, they would see why the world loves and loved Whitney, Mariah, and Celine. Once in a lifetime talent that all appeared around the same time

Ok boomer

@@lusyi9844 lol I'm a millennial. Born in 1989

@@TheAlfredPlatform Then show it,every generation has great singers because they all just sing in a different styles just because you dont understand it does not mean that they dont sing well or sing at all.

Might wanna recheak your comment

@John Chaser look woes talking

Meeeeeeee....😍😍😍😍😍

ME I belt to the 1996 live Tokyo Dome performance all the time

Weird

If so you need to be sent to an asylum

But she just go on by her spirit.

She is a big star though...

@@bossbabyfuyuhiko6657 girl I think you didn't understand that but let me edit that.

Josh Santiago that’s what they mean...

Let's be fair. She lost weight. No need to be mean.

Amen and should have gotten Grammy nominated for Caution. The industry is a pure joke.🤭

She was in the 90's and 00's, that's fine

@@subhishankar4293 lmao same

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Yeah I was thinking that too when they were saying she was the only one with a hit Christmas song in so long....I was like uumm hold up....

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues too. It charts every year, is considered by most a modern classic.

@@emilchandran546 The Pentatonix and Kelly Clarksons' Underneath the Tree are also rising in this category too.

I was thinking that as well but mariahs song is on a different level.

@@cubanita365 The video didn't say that. It clearly said that it's the only modern classical christmas song. Last Christmas usually used modern beats and less classical instruments to be considered classical. It was a huge hit and still is and will always be a huge hit but we're not talking about hits here.