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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas

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If you ask anyone to name the most influential, popular Christmas album of all time, there is very little competition. Without fail, when I pose this question, I get the same answer: Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas. Some of my lesser holiday-inclined friends even cite this album as the only good thing about the season. While I might not be that much of a fanatic — or unenthused about the holidays — an investigation into the staying power of Mariah’s contribution to the Christmas music canon seemed fitting on its twenty-fifth anniversary.

When it comes to the success of Merry Christmas, the first thing Mariah Carey did right was release a holiday album when she was still at the peak of her fame. When she released this now-classic album came in the early ‘90s, it was only her fourth album ever. It wasn’t an afterthought coming late in a lagging career, it wasn’t a filler release, and it wasn’t a rushed or half-assed affair. The reason Merry Christmas is such an important, resonant album twenty-five years later is because Carey didn’t treat it like a Christmas album — she treated it like a Mariah Carey album.

-- Caitlin White, UPROXX Pop Critic on how Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas has reigned supreme for 25 years as the best Christmas album.
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