Even if you don't want a lot for Christmas, chances are you're going to be singing along to Mariah Carey at some point.

The octave slayer has become synonymous with the holiday season thanks to her unavoidable 1994 classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You," the relentlessly catchy ode to Yuletide romance and the days when songs about snow, bells and Santa regularly climbed the charts.

"My goal was to do something timeless," Carey told ABC News in 2023 , "so it didn't feel like the '90s, which is when I wrote it."

She recalled working out the melody on "this little Casio keyboard and writing down words and thinking about, 'What do I think of at Christmas? What do I love? What do I want? What do I dream of?'"

Or, as Carey's credited co-writer and co-producer Walter Afanasieff r

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