Mariah Carey under fire over hit Christmas song … but star hits back

Mariah Carey has hit back at allegations she said wrote her hit song as a child – despite saying so herself in 2017. Source: TND/Getty/Hot Takes And Deep Dives

Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You continues to break records 28 years after its release, but the singer’s long-time collaborator has sparked controversy by throwing cold water over the song’s origin story.

Carey told Billboard in 2017 that she wrote the song, which this year marked Christmas Eve by achieving the most streams in a single day on Spotify, as a kid on her “little Casio keyboard”.