A tale Mariah Carey recently told has now come under fire. According to Huff Post, the co-writer of Mariah Carey ‘s smash hit All I Want For Christmas apparently didn’t quite come to be as she has claimed a number of times. According to Mariah, she previously claimed that the tune was practically written when she was a child though that allegedly isn’t true. Walter Afanasieff her longtime co-collaborator disputed the 2017 claim first made to Billboard.
In an appearance on Hot Takes & Deep Dives, Alan disputed that she made the song when she was young because even now he claims shhe doesn’t fully understand music.
He claimed in the appearance ethere was “never any alternate story … until probably 10 years ago, when she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, yeah, 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,” the producer shockingly claimed. “But 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,” he added. Mariah Carey has not commented on the claim as of this writing.
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