Mariah Carey’s reps slam the rumor that she claimed to write “All I Want For Christmas...” by herself as a kid: “That would be ridiculous.”
Walter Afanasieff, who scoffed at the pop star for supposedly saying she wrote her iconic holiday ballad “All I Want For Christmas” by herself when she was a child. The singer’s representatives told, “Mariah has never claimed to write ‘All I Want for Christmas’ by herself or as a child. She has always credited Walter, as he is cited as a writer on the song, so that would be ridiculous.
Not sure where that rumor came from, but Mariah is very respectful of writers and the craft, as she is a songwriter herself.” On an episode of the Hot Takes & Deep Dives podcast, Afanasieff claimed that Carey’s story about how she came up with “All I Want For Christmas” changed over the years, despite having created the song together in the 1990s. “She started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl.
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