Well, it was awkward!
Let’s talk about Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show, presenter Andy Cohen asked the singer, “When you recorded ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You,’ did you feel like you were going to live for so long? one of those songs that you listen to and it still sounds like a whole new song ”.
“Thank you,” the Grammy winner replied, “but first of all, I hate to always say it, but as a writer I wrote this song.”
Cohen quickly added, “I know,” but it was too little, too late for the diva.
“Yeah, but you said,‘ I recorded it, ’so I just had to clarify it for the people in the house,” Carey, 50, replied. (Carey and fellow composer Walter Afanasieff co-wrote the song, supposedly in just 15 minutes).
Adding just one more twist to the exchange, Carey asked what the background noise was, forcing Cohen to answer that it was Jennifer Lopez’s performance for the night.
Carey, the alleged conflict with Lopez goes back to the feeling that Lopez was copying his “Loverboy” with “I’m Real,” he kept a fixed smile.
The situation was addressed obliquely in Carey’s recent memoirs, which described “a woman of animation [Sony’s] label (who I don’t know) “, a section that refers to his famous answer in the” I don’t know her “interview to a question about López.