{"id":177969,"date":"2025-12-10T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/177969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:46:07","slug":"the-surprising-controversy-behind-mariah-careys-holiday-hit-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/177969\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Controversy Behind Mariah Carey&#8217;s Holiday Hit \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Everyone is familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/musicians\/mariah-carey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mariah Carey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mariah Carey<\/a>&#8216;s No. 1 hit \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d\u2014but did you know there&#8217;s a surprising controversy behind the song?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As it turns out, the modern Christmas classic has long been the subject of copyright disputes, but Carey insists she wrote and produced the song by herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In this special holiday episode of I Never Knew That, editor Catherine explains the track&#8217;s origin and delves into the little-known debate surrounding its authorship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you enjoyed this video, please let us know at editor@biography.com. Be sure to check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/i-never-knew-that\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:other episodes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">other episodes<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/activists\/a69606695\/rosa-parks-bus-boycott-aftermath\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:last week&#039;s installment;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">last week&#8217;s installment<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/activists\/rosa-parks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rosa Parks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rosa Parks<\/a>&#8216;life after the Montgomery Bus Boycott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You Might Also Like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone is familiar with Mariah Carey&#8216;s No. 1 hit \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d\u2014but did you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46,7956,2221],"class_list":{"0":"post-177969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kevin-mazur","13":"tag-mariah-carey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}