Mariah Carey

Does anybody understand? I'm not doing this because it's like, oh, this is such a huge money making opportunity. Yeah, we love that. Like you said, we love money. We can talk about money. Yay. But I really do live from Christmas to Christmas and I really do plan for it the whole year and work towards it the whole year.

You know what? Yes, I'm always going to make other music. And of course, I love the Emancipation of Mimi. We could talk about Butterfly all day long. There's lots of albums, the first album, whatever. But this whole Christmas moment for me is like, I don't know, I'm really thankful.

I was telling my friend the other day and I said, I'm just thankful that I wrote the song because it really does make me happy every year.

Thank you. Appreciate you. Merry Christmas.

Hi, Mariah. Hi, John. How are you? Great to see you. Great to see you as well.

every Christmas, my goal is to be festive and to celebrate. And it's really, it's funny because when you said this Christmas business, I know that it's a business, but it really is a true, I don't know how to explain it except that I think I love it more than anybody. And I really think the special is going to make people get in the Christmas spirit.

I can't create like festiveness for people if they I mean, I can try. I do try. But if they're not into it, I can't make them have as much fun as I do with it. But, you know.

I go over the top. Yeah, it's an over-the-top thing. I'm sitting here with Christmas trees in my house. Like, there's eight trees here. Whatever. It's completely over the top.

Because when I first did it, I was like, am I really doing a Christmas song right now? This feels very premature to me. And I really have to say it was such a smart decision to do it. And All I Want for Christmas is You was the first song that I wrote and recorded for that album.

Thinking about it, like there's been people that said to me, you wrote All I Want for Christmas Is You? Like grown adults that assumed it was a remake because that was the vibe I was trying to give it in terms of making the record in the first place and writing the song.

I don't know that there is one specific note. I know that I would be doing, let's say, the Tokyo Dome, right? Even in July, when the bells that begin the song, the ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, when that would start, because it was always a very calm audience, like a different experience culturally. And then the bells came on. And it's like the place suddenly woke up even in the summer.

It became this thing where you're like, wow, people really know it from the first bell.

I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need

So I remember Christmas Day last year, I was sitting in Aspen in the house, three o'clock in the morning, had seen the billboard piece. It was such a feeling of, not just a feeling of accomplishment, but also a feeling of joy. content, like really feeling at peace, really feeling extremely thankful just for the moment and just taking a beat to enjoy it and to acknowledge it.

They did it. Like I wasn't sitting at home maniacally trying to make that happen. It actually happened organically all around the world. Fans really, really tried to make it happen for me for this as my 19th number one. But it wasn't just the fans.

If you want to give me some, you can. Don't expect much from me. Don't expect much from me, darling, because I failed remedial math.

Oh, I have no idea. I have no idea. I know that it's like at like a billion streams or something at this point. I don't know. I know very little about all these details, believe it or not. Let's put it this way. Not as much as it would have if we still had physical CDs and such.

Yes, I do.

Oh. Yeah, yikes. I don't know. I think that, um... I can't imagine if I had been like let I was very, as you know, sequestered when I first started out. And if I was just allowed to be like young and with a young boyfriend who's also a star and, you know, you're working and you're both. I don't know what goes on. You know what I mean? So it's like I wasn't really allowed out of the house.

Abuse has several categories.

Emotionally, mentally.

Well, it's scary. You know, I just think you get into a situation and you feel locked in if your situation is similar to one of these situations I've been in, which I won't.

For me to really get out, it was difficult because there was a connection that was not only a marriage, but a, you know, business thing where the person was in control of my life.

Yeah.