Speaker 1: Mariah, we got festive for you. I put up my
Speaker 1: bling backdrop and my bling dress just for you today
Speaker 1: and it's giving us purple. So is that your holiday
Speaker 1: color of choice? It is, it is definitely, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be very royal Mariah's christmas, the magic continues set
Speaker 1: to debut globally on december 3rd. How are you going
Speaker 1: to talk last year's special? Because that was fantastic. What
Speaker 1: can we expect? Oh my gosh, first of all, thank you,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you liked it, thank you for watching. We
Speaker 1: had such a hard time getting that together because it
Speaker 1: was the beginning of Covid, I mean, having that many
Speaker 1: people and all the rules and everybody had to be
Speaker 1: covid tested twice a day, like it was a lot.
Speaker 1: So this year we were just thankful we wanted to
Speaker 1: bring more eyes back to the special and we also
Speaker 1: wanted to enhance it and create something new. So joseph Kahn,
Speaker 1: who was one of my favorite favorite people,
Speaker 1: to me, one of the best directors I've ever worked with,
Speaker 1: he got on board and we have this kind of very,
Speaker 1: very fabulous deco moment and just the production value is
Speaker 1: spectacular To me, The kids are, they're my kids, we
Speaker 1: just go through a lot of different moments as a
Speaker 1: brand new song I wrote. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: heard it fall in love with christmas, Love it. Love it. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it's featuring Khalid and Kirk franklin. It's sort of
Speaker 1: like a love song that then leads you into a
Speaker 1: gospel moment that, you know, Kirk franklin brings to the
Speaker 1: table so easily
Speaker 2: you
Speaker 1: get festive work.
Speaker 2: But what
Speaker 1: Mariah's household like for christmas is 1000 times more festive
Speaker 1: at home. Oh no, it's totally bleak. We have no decorations, nothing,
Speaker 1: of course it's festive santa claus comes the reindeer come
Speaker 1: we go on a two horse open sleigh, like I'm
Speaker 1: not playing games, it's christmas, you're serious about it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I am. What is life without something like that? Really?
Speaker 1: I can't imagine it. Like I really love it that much,
Speaker 1: I think other people like it and they're like okay cool,
Speaker 1: it's christmas and then we'll do something else. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I want the whole entire year for christmas
Speaker 1: but I love, I love all types of music and
Speaker 1: doing all this stuff, it's just that I truly do
Speaker 1: love the holidays. So you see all of us for
Speaker 1: feeling festive. So the theme of your christmas special is magic.
Speaker 1: If you could have one magical power, what would it
Speaker 1: be Mariah? And how would you use it every day?
Speaker 1: The theme is christmas
Speaker 1: magical came into the thing when everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 1: magical christmas, EMC merry christmas, Mariah, Carey. Like somehow they're
Speaker 1: all m C. S right, I think the magic of
Speaker 1: it is like the whimsical childlike view of christmas when
Speaker 1: you really are looking up for santa.
Speaker 1: Like I I've had so many incredible moments where I
Speaker 1: just looked up and seen like a shooting star in
Speaker 1: the middle of like a field of snow and it's christmas,
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. These things make my life special,
Speaker 1: they make it different and I don't know that everybody
Speaker 1: holds onto that kind of childhood
Speaker 1: shall like quality. But that's something that I love. We
Speaker 1: love that about you, Mariah so much I want to
Speaker 1: just say before I wrap up that I host a
Speaker 1: radio show and we start playing your song on my
Speaker 1: show in july and that's the only christmas song we play.
Speaker 1: All I want for christmas is you and we love
Speaker 1: it and we love you. I love you and thank
Speaker 1: you for doing that. That makes me so happy. I
Speaker 1: can't thank you enough to have the best holiday and
Speaker 1: send love to all your viewers and listeners and everybody
Speaker 1: absolutely love you.