Before Carey's tune began, a minute had passed since the Christmas song had also become a huge hit.
If you do the math Bam!the mournful “Last Christmas” as a holiday staple, we're talking about 1984. If you prefer more pep in your deer's steps, Jose Feliciano first wished us “Feliz Navidad” in 1970.
John Lennon And Yoko Ono made their cultural mark with the 1971 song “Happy Xmas (The War Is Over)”, but it initially had little success in the US. And it's more melancholy than fun, Carey herself calls it “pretty sad.”
Indeed, not since then Brenda Lee1958 banger “Rockin' About the Christmas Tree” (by: Johnny Marks), if only there was such an optimistic addition to the canon that would also sell millions of records. And suffice it to say, Carey's magic has yet to be replicated.
Comparing their song to a “cosmic phenomenon that occurs once every 5 billion years,” Atanasyev said. Billboard that “thousands of original Christmas songs have been written over the last 20 years… But for some reason, 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' just became What song.”
And, as he noted, “It was the last major song to enter this Christmas canon, and then the door slammed shut. She just closed down.”
As for why she thought the song lasted three decades. “I think it's because I really, really love the holidays,” Carey said. Night line in 2023. “It's not fake.”
