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Topics: Mariah Carey, Christmas, Music
Joe Yates
Topics: Mariah Carey, Christmas, Music
Nothing screams Christmas more than Mariah Carey... but unfortunately for her kids, those screams are deafening.
There's a reason she's dubbed the 'Queen of Christmas'. As early as November, if you're in a mall, you're likely to hear her festive anthems on - and whether you're a fan of the tunes or not, you know all the words.
The 56-year-old also holds a Guinness World Record, among a multitude of other accolades, for her hit 1994 single, 'All I Want for Christmas Is You', which achieved the award for 'highest-charting holiday (Christmas/New Year) song on the Billboard US Hot 100 by a solo artist' in 2019.
But despite raking in around $2.5 million to $3 million in royalties each year, her two children are seemingly not on her side.
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Well, taking to Instagram in 2023, Carey revealed that her twins, Monroe and Moroccan, are 'sick' of hearing 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'.
In the clip, which featured the 'Fall in Love at Christmas' songstress donning her staple Santa-esque red jumpsuit with a white fur trim, in front of a Christmas tree with her kids looking anything but Christmassy.
Yes, Monroe and Moroccan were standing alongside her, looking less than impressed, dressed in black.
"Mom, please, we don't want to do this every time!" they said, but their mom refused to let them back down.
"It's just being festive!" Carey replied, adding: "It's not every-"
At that moment, Carey cut herself off to break into the tune we all now know off by heart, singing: "I don't want a lot for Christmas."
Those few words were all it took to completely break the kids, who stormed off camera as they clearly didn't want to hear another note of their mom's famous song.
The video received more than a million likes from Carey's followers, but she assured it was all a skit she'd come up with in the spirit of Christmas.
Alongside the video, she wrote: “Had to do it. Merry Christmas Eve!!"
Though Carey's kids jokingly pretended to be completely sick of the song, it's clear that 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' remains one of the best-love songs of the festive season.
On December 16, the track secured its 16th total week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, and it's also tied for the third-longest total domination in the chart’s 66-year history, coming only after Shaboozey’s 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' and Lil Nas X’s 'Old Town Road'.
'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is also one of the Hot 100’s longest-leading No. 1s by a woman artist - no small feat, considering the track celebrated its 30th anniversary this year.
In 2019, Carey described the song to Variety as 'one of [her] greatest achievements'.
“It was done very quickly and kind of came out organically, which the best songs do,” she also revealed while speaking about the track in her Amazon Music documentary, Mariah Carey is Christmas: The Story of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You'.