For almost thirty years, she has made the whole world sing with her hit
All I Want for Christmas is you
.
But at the end of 2021, Mariah Carey has just delivered a message as ambiguous as it is paradoxical.
The pop diva thinks that her title of Christmas queen is no longer up to date, even usurped, but comes out, in the process, a new song of ... Christmas!
His title ?
Fall in Love at Christmas
.
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"
Christmas Queen?
, it
is the others who called me like that and I just want to say humbly that I do not consider myself that way
, ”she indicated at the microphone of the Zoe Ball Breakfast Festival.
A title that she willingly leaves ... to the Virgin Mary.
"
She's the Christmas queen,
" she concludes at the microphone of British radio.
However, the abandonment of this title did not prevent him from making this other single, called
Fall in Love at Christmas.
, released on December 5 alongside singer RnB Khalid and gospel icon Kirk Franklin. New music on piano notes, accompanied by a music video where her 10-year-old twins make a cameo appearance. It is also possible to see his platinum records proudly hanging on the wall of his publishing house. And of course, a glittering American Christmas tree.
This novelty was presented during the recent show
Mariah's Christmas: The Magic Continues
broadcast on Apple TV + and directed by Hamish Hamilton and Roman Coppola.
This is actually the new version of the much appreciated Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special last year, which also allowed the platform to accumulate a significant number of subscriptions.
Knowing the value of Mariah, Apple even decided this year to increase the show's budget, from 4.9 to 6 million according to British newspaper
The Sun
.
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“I love Christmas. I am very honored to have been able to do
All I Want for Christmas Is You, ”said the singer at the microphone of
BBC Radio 2
.
It must be said that the diva would collect each year between 600,000 and 1 million dollars for this title according to
Forbes
magazine
.
A song that has just surpassed the billion stream this month on the Spotify platform, and would accumulate more than five million listenings daily.
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Voted the greatest pop star of 2014 by Time, she also joined the famous
Guinness Book of Records
last November
for having sold nearly 17 million copies. In total, fifty million euros would have been collected by the singer for a title that she co-wrote, reported
The Economist
in 2017. And this, thanks to the adaptation of her tube in books, in films of animation, decorations or even tours in Europe and the United States. A sufficiently winning recipe for her to continue cooking it with all the sauces.
Even if the fiftieth birthday disputes her title of Christmas queen, she therefore particularly likes this period which is favorable to her.
And better that her entourage appreciates it too ... Indeed, she declared on
E!
News
during the promotion of his show: “
I had someone in my life - we won't say a name - who didn't like Christmas.
And I said something to her like, 'Well you're with the wrong person'.
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