‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has slowly developed into one of, if not THE, main Christmas song over the past decade or so, but out of nowhere Mariah Carey’s co-writer on the song has decided to come out and say that she’s straight up lying about how it was written.

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It turns out that in her 2020 autobiography ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey’, Mariah claimed that she wrote the majority of the song when she was a teenager on an old Casio keyboard but professional song writer Walter Afanasieff is disputing this version of events. Speaking on the ‘Hot Takes And Deep Dives’ podcast, he said the following:

We were both on the same page about how we wrote ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, there was never any alternate story until probably 10 years ago.

When she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!’ But why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that? So it just sort of developed in her mind.

She doesn’t play anything, she doesn’t play keyboard or piano.

She doesn’t understand music, she doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that.

She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord.

So to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale.

Wow. Guy is going in hard there isn’t he?

I’m guessing he probably isn’t on Mariah Carey’s Christmas list at the moment, but fair play to him. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him before and can’t even remember his name even though I just wrote it down which means Mariah has probably done a pretty credible job of erasing his contribution to the song from history.

About time the guy spoke up and stuck up for himself, although I’m sure he’s not too bothered considering the size of his bank balance because of that song. Put some respect on his name, whatever it is.

For more of the same, check out when Mariah Carey’s Twitter got hacked and she posted about Eminem having a small dick. Hacked, sure.