\u2018It\u2019s time\u2019 to ring in the 2025 holiday season, according to music superstar Mariah Carey.<\/p>\n
Right as the clock struck twelve on Nov. 1, the singer released her annual holiday announcement declaring the unofficial start of the Christmas season.<\/p>\n
The 1-minute video, which is a partnership with the beauty retailer Sephora, features a skit with actor Billy Eichner who plays an antagonistic elf that attempts to run-off with Carey\u2019s gifts and threatens to cancel Christmas.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny last words?\u201d Eichner\u2019s character asks before marching out the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah \u2026 it\u2019s time!\u201d Carey responds in amusement.<\/p>\n
The singer delivers the line in her signature high-pitched whistle register which forces Eichner to be frozen in time before morphing into a snowman.<\/p>\n
Carey herself, transforms out of a heavenly white angel costume and into a red bodysuit embellished with sparkling crystals and a white fur collar, emphasizing the transition from Halloween to Christmas.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s then carried away into the winter\u2019s night on a sleigh by a team of reindeer and is shown dropping a Sephora gift bag down a chimney, much like Santa Claus. The scene unfolds while her record-breaking 1994 hit \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d plays in the background.<\/p>\n
The video was directed by Joseph Kahn, who previously worked with Carey on music videos for her songs \u201cType Dangerous\u201d in 2025 and \u201cBoy (I Need You)\u201d in 2003.<\/p>\n
The clip has garnered tens of millions of views on social media within less than 24-hours and has become a seasonal tradition in recent years for Carey\u2019s fans who have long-dubbed her the \u2018Queen of Christmas.\u2019<\/p>\n
The singer first began making the special announcement in 2019 and has carried on the tradition every year since then.<\/p>\n
She is also gearing up for a Christmas residency in Las Vegas that will be held at the Dolby Live amphitheatre at the Park MGM hotel and casino from November 28 to December 13, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s time\u2019 to ring in the 2025 holiday season, according to music superstar Mariah Carey. Right as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-255881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}