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The cowriter and coproducer on Mariah Carey\u2019s much-loved Xmas track \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d is refuting Carey\u2019s declare that she wrote the track as a child. For context, Walter Afanasieff collaborated with Carey on her first six studio albums and has gained two Grammys: one in 1999 for Record Of The Year (for producing Celine Dion\u2019s \u201cMy Heart Will Go On\u201d), and in 2000 he gained Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical. Anyway, just lately Afanasieff went on the Hot Takes & Deep Dives With Jess Rothschild<\/a><\/em> podcast, the place he claimed that Carey had invented an \u201calternate story\u201d round how \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d happened.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen she started to hint at the fact that, \u2018Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!\u2019 But why weren\u2019t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that?,\u201d Afanasieff stated. \u201cSo it simply kind of developed in her thoughts. She doesn\u2019t play something. She doesn\u2019t play keyboard or piano. She doesn\u2019t perceive music, she doesn\u2019t know chord adjustments and music principle or something like that. She doesn\u2019t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a serious seventh chord. <\/p>\n \u201cSo 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\u2019s kind of a tall tale.\u201d<\/p>\n Afanasieff went on to say how the 2 got here up with the track whereas engaged on music for her 1994 Christmas album. \u201cWe were holed up in this beautiful home that they were renting, and it was the summertime and there was a piano,\u201d he stated. \u201cSo the writing of \u2018All I Want For Christmas\u2019 is, I started playing a boogie-woogie, kind of a rock. Mariah chimed in and started singing \u2018I don\u2019t want a lot for Christmas.’\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cSo on and on, and it was like a game of ping-pong. I\u2019d hit the ball to her, she hits it back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2017, Carey advised Billboard<\/a><\/em> that she got here up with the track when she was a child. \u201cI am proud of this song that I wrote basically as a kid on my little Casio keyboard,\u201d she stated. Carey additionally advised a distinct model of occasions in her 2019 documentary Mariah Carey is Christmas: The Story of \u2018All I Want for Christmas Is You<\/a><\/em>, where she implied that she\u2019d began the track on her personal earlier than \u201cgetting in the studio\u201d with Afanasieff.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n