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Speaker 1: Colusey and leases The Story behind a Song Christmas Edition. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the story behind the song Christmas Edition. There's no surprise,

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Speaker 1: It's all I want for Christmas? As you It needs

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Speaker 1: no introduction, but what is the story behind the song.

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Speaker 1: It's Mariah's fourth studio album. It was her first holiday album.

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Speaker 1: It was called Merry Christmas. Funny Way came out in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four. It's written and produced by Kerry and

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Speaker 1: Walter Afanasiev.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen, the song was released.

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Speaker 1: As the lead single from the album Let's Hear From

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Speaker 1: Mariah On the inspiration I.

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Speaker 3: Put on It's a Wonderful Life. I was up in

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Speaker 3: a little tiny bedroom upstate New York with a Cassio keyboard,

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Speaker 3: a little keyboard, and I was just playing the d

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Speaker 3: the Little Poet and just started thinking about, like, what

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Speaker 3: are my favorite Christmas things? What did I love? What

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Speaker 3: are the things I wished I could have had as

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Speaker 3: a kid for Christmas? And like, my Christmases weren't great

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Speaker 3: as a little kid, and my mom really tried, but

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Speaker 3: there were some other forces that just weren't great, and

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Speaker 3: so we dealt with it. But like I was just like,

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Speaker 3: how do I do this? Because I've always loved Christmas

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Speaker 3: so much. I just wanted to make it a festive moment.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to make everybody just be like, it's Christmas.

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Speaker 3: This is like I'm going to be happy. Like I

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Speaker 3: think what I did as a kid is I pushed

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Speaker 3: through the sadness and was like, we're going to be festive,

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Speaker 3: Like if nobody else is gonna bestive, I don't be fastive.

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Speaker 2: You want to be fastive at this time of year.

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Speaker 2: You want to get an she's actually and you're first

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Speaker 2: off when you're making a lot of money out of it,

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Speaker 2: which we'll talk about. But Walter Affadesia, as you mentioned lace,

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Speaker 2: he was not the name of the eighties with baby Love.

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Speaker 2: Not if he was upsessed, he was baby Love. He

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Speaker 2: was he was the dude okay. And he worked on

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Speaker 2: the first six Mariah albums and he was a Grammy

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Speaker 2: winner because he produced My Heart Will Go On for

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Speaker 2: Selene Dion. So he knows his way around a song

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Speaker 2: this blake. So he's Walter talking about the simplicity of

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Speaker 2: the song with Mariah.

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Speaker 4: Musically, it wasn't that great big deal effort on all

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Speaker 4: of up for Christmas. Is it's a very very simple arrangement.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's in fact, it's so simple that at

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Speaker 4: the time I thought it was overly simple, and I

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Speaker 4: really didn't like it. So the oversimplified melody, I guess,

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Speaker 4: made it so easily palatable for the whole world to go,

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Speaker 4: oh yeah, I can't get that out of my head.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be letting out a huge secret out

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Speaker 4: of the bag here. But that entire song is just

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Speaker 4: me at the computer. So and the only other thing

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Speaker 4: real on there is the vocals.

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned money. Mariah could happily live off this

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Speaker 1: one song for the record for the rest of our days.

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Speaker 1: Forbes says Mariah pulls in millions of dollars every single

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Speaker 1: year for it. It's generated over eighty million dollars in

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Speaker 1: royalty since it's nineteen ninety four release, and that's US

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Speaker 1: so one hundred and twenty five million Aussie dollars. It

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Speaker 1: has sold in excess of sixteen million copies and counting.

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Speaker 1: I imagine it'll sell a few.

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Speaker 2: More, make a few more this week thanks very Christmas shopping.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine