Mariah Carey shares new video for ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’
Mariah Carey premiered on YouTube livestream a new visual for the holiday tune, which finally reached No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart 25 years after its release.
The new Joseph Kahn-directed clip contrasts with the grainy footage in the original video, which was shot in 1994 in upstate New York.
The visual follows Carey as she takes a little girl in her own winter wonderland, which is populated with Santas on ice skates, dancing polar bears and toy soldiers.
“There’s a lot of things to be discovered in this clip. We wanted to make a modern classic. That’s kind of been the theme of this song,” the songstress explained in a special Q&A on YouTube.
In addition to being immortalized in a brand new visual, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” also received its own Amazon mini-documentary earlier this month.
Article continues after this advertisementThe short film dives into the history of the 1994 holiday classic through insights from Carey herself and her collaborators.
Article continues after this advertisementThe new visual for “All I Want For Christmas Is You” arrives a few weeks after Carey unveiled a 25th-anniversary reissue of her “Merry Christmas” album, which notably features unreleased covers of holiday standards like “Silent Night” and “Joy to the World.”
The two-disc deluxe reissue also includes a selection of previously-unreleased live takes from her 1994 performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
During the YouTube Q&A, Carey hinted that she was working on a new album with new collaborators, which she elusively described as “two different guys.” “The more the merrier, I always say. It’s Christmas!” she added.
Details about the forthcoming full-length, which would mark Carey’s 16th studio project, are still scarce to this date.
The yet-untitled opus would follow her latest studio album, “Caution”, which the pop star dropped in November 2018. NVG
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