Mariah Carey—“All I Want for Christmas Is You”
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Is There an Essential Christmas-Ness to This Song?
There are quite a few elements that you can hear very obviously that achieve this literal jingle bells. The entire arrangement is really like walking into college as a freshman and taking a class called Introduction to Christmas 101. It's really very, very Christmassy in every explicit sense of the holiday. But then of course there's the music theory element of it.
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