Mariah Carey's Christmas song from 1994

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I was in my GCSE year when this charted. Don't think it was a no.1 but it still did pretty well. I liked it as far as Christmas songs go, but no more than that. I just pigeon-holed it as a track from my teenage years. This year however, it seems to be everywhere - Christmas lights switch-on in Stafford, on the radio, played in our office, in the gym and in bars. Maybe it's part of the ageing process of "me becoming old" but I do find it weird. Is the song now regarded as a Christmas classic like Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone, Band Aid I, Walking In the Air etc? I would be interested to get your views on this.
 
Regarded now? Ever since it was released it's been trotted out every Christmas as one of the standard Christmas classics.
 
All things considered I think it's the best Christmas song. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy, like a detuned TV on a radiator.
 
Monserrat said:
I was in my GCSE year when this charted. Don't think it was a no.1 but it still did pretty well. I liked it as far as Christmas songs go, but no more than that. I just pigeon-holed it as a track from my teenage years. This year however, it seems to be everywhere - Christmas lights switch-on in Stafford, on the radio, played in our office, in the gym and in bars. Maybe it's part of the ageing process of "me becoming old" but I do find it weird. Is the song now regarded as a Christmas classic like Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone, Band Aid I, Walking In the Air etc? I would be interested to get your views on this.
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Well, it's been played every Christmas since 1994. I think that qualifies :p
 
My bad then guys. I just had the impression that it was getting more airplay this December :-) Sure, I like it, just not as much as the 80s Christmas stuff like Slade, although my era was actually 1994-6 for dance music.
 
It's always been popular but interest here probably increased a lot when it became integral to one of the storylines in Love Actually.
 
Belmit said:
It's always been popular but interest here probably increased a lot when it became integral to one of the storylines in Love Actually.
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Good point.

Although I did buy the single on cassette back in 1994, so I can claim I liked it before it was mainstream :cool:
 
I'm also going to point out that its a song that is played every Xmas.

It was simply a proper Christmas song that was successful in the charts, so will be put it on every single Xmas compilation album sold, so will continue to get airplay every Xmas for the foreseeable future. Its pretty much the reason why everything else considered a Xmas classic became one.
 
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