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Mariah Carey delivered loads of vacation cheer whereas kicking off the NFL’s Christmas Day video games with a efficiency of her seasonal hit.
The Grammy winner, 55, opened both games — the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers at 1 p.m. ET and the Baltimore Ravens vs. the Houston Texans at 4:30 p.m. ET, which streamed on Netflix — with a taped rendition of “All I Need for Christmas Is You” on Wednesday, December 25. Carey surprised in a red sequin bodysuit throughout a rooftop efficiency, flanked by dancers in Nutcracker costumes.
“All I Need for Christmas Is You” was launched 30 years in the past because the lead single from Carey’s first vacation album, 1994’s Merry Christmas. Three many years later, the track continues to dominate the charts and has been licensed 16 occasions platinum, making it the highest-certified single ever carried out by a feminine artist.
In November, Carey mirrored on the track’s origin in an interview with ABC News.
“I used to be engaged on it on my own … on this little Casio keyboard and writing down phrases and fascinated about, ‘What do I consider at Christmas? What do I really like? What do I would like? What do I dream of?’” she recalled. “And that’s what began it.”
Whereas crafting the observe, Carey hoped it could grow to be a vacation traditional.
“My purpose was to do one thing timeless, so it didn’t really feel just like the ‘90s, which is once I wrote it,” she added.
Now, 30 years later, the track continues to be one of many season’s hottest tracks, which Carey attributed to the truth that she “actually, really” loves Christmas. “It’s not pretend,” she emphasised.
Regardless of her genuine love for the vacation season, in a November interview with The New York Times Carey revealed that her 1994 Christmas album nearly didn’t occur.
“I felt it was too early in my profession,” she informed the outlet.
Finally, Carey’s love for the vacations received out and she or he ultimately grew to become referred to as the queen of Christmas.
This 12 months, Carey took her appreciation for the season up a notch by embarking on the 16-date Merry Christmas One and All Tour, which made varied stops all through the US and Canada from November 15 by means of December 17. (Her 2023 vacation tour solely consisted of a complete of 4 reveals in Toronto and New York Metropolis.)
Mariah Carey has already decked her halls, however loads of different musicians are entering into the spirit of the season with unique vacation songs this 12 months. Jack Antonoff’s band, Bleachers, dropped a single titled “Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Name” in November. The producer make clear the inspiration behind the track in a prolonged Instagram […]
“Final 12 months we didn’t go, like, throughout the nation,” she informed ABC Information. “So this 12 months we’re doing that.”
Carey hoped that the tour would give her followers “the merriest of Christmases” whereas additionally permitting them to get pleasure from “being collectively.”
She went on to tease that new music is “on the horizon,” hinting that she had lately been “writing new songs” and spending time within the studio “engaged on one thing with a choir.”
