The cowriter and coproducer of one of many all-time nice Christmas songs – Mariah Carey’s “All I Need For Christmas Is You” — can solely go “ho, ho, ho” when he hears her inform the story of how the tune got here to be created.
Carey collaborator Walter Afanasieff, chatting with the Sizzling Takes & Deep Dives podcast, Afanasieff claims that Carey has invented an “alternate story” on the tune’s origin.
Afanasieff claims that Carey is saying she created the tune as a younger baby, and it’s been bothering him.
“When she began to trace at the truth that, “Oh, I wrote that tune once I was slightly woman!” However why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years previous to that? So it simply kind of developed in her thoughts,” Afanasieff stated. “She doesn’t play something. She doesn’t play keyboard or piano. She doesn’t perceive music, she doesn’t know chord adjustments and music concept or something like that. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a serious seventh chord.
‘So to assert that she wrote a really sophisticated chord-structured tune together with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was slightly woman, it’s type of a tall story.”
The reality, Afanasieff stated, was that the 2 devised the tune whereas engaged on materials for her Christmas album. They’d a protracted collaboration relationship, courting again to her albums Feelings and Music Field.
“We have been holed up on this stunning house that they have been renting, and it was {the summertime} and there was a piano,” he stated. “So the writing of “All I Need For Christmas” is, I began taking part in a boogie-woogie, type of a rock. Mariah chimed in and began singing “I don’t need so much for Christmas.”
“So on and on, and it was like a sport of ping-pong,” Afanasieff stated. “I’d hit the ball to her, she hits it again to me.”
The 2 are credited as the only writers and producers on the tune, with Afanasieff crediting Carey with the lyrics and music, whereas he takes credit score for the music and chords.
“I’ve studied music, I’ve levels in music. I’m an completed orchestrator and arranger. I educate music. I’m not a schlump. I don’t play by ear,” he added.
