It’s only four days after Christmas, but the party is over.
December 29th– Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” — talked about endlessly for one week — is gone. Gone from iTunes top charts, no longer being streamed on Spotify’s top 50.
Also gone are all the other freaking Christmas songs like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “Jingle Bell Rock.”
Poof!
Kudos to Mariah for milking Christmas like crazy starting around December 10th. There are endless stories during this slow news period about Mariah as the Queen of Christmas and the record being the greatest thing since sliced bread.
And then, as Christmas ebbed, the real writer of the song, Walter Afanasieff, burned Mariah’s playhouse down. He fessed up in podcast about how the song was written, what her participation really was, and that they haven’t spoken — except briefly over a legal matter– in two decades.
Plus Mariah’s being sued by the writer of a song with the same title released four years before her record.
And that’s a wrap. Are people gullible? Oh boy, are they!
