Mariah Carey claps back at ‘ridiculous’ claims from ‘All I Want for Christmas’ co-writer

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Mariah Carey claps back at ‘ridiculous’ claims from ‘All I Want for Christmas’ co-writer
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“Mariah is very respectful of writers,” a rep told The Post.

Mariah Carey is pouring leftover eggnog all overCarey’s former co-producer and co-writer Walter Afanasieff controversially told the “

“I was up at the farm, upstate where we did the video, and it was nighttime, and I was just walking around, and I got the idea for the song,” she said at the time. “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,” Afanasieff said.“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 on the podcast.

Mariah Carey performs onstage during her “Merry Christmas to All!” at Madison Square Garden on December 13, 2022, in New York City.The producer charged that he was playing the piano when Carey starting singing, “I don’t want a lot for Christmas.”

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