Co-writer of "All I want for Christmas is You" hits back at Mariah

Recently she made absurd claims that she wrote the song on a Casio keyboard as a child. Please....you're embarrassing yourself, Mariah.

Co-writer, Walter Afanasieff stated:

"She doesn’t play anything, she doesn’t play keyboard or piano. She doesn’t understand music, she doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord,” Afanasieff claimed. “So to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale,” he added on the podcast. “I’ve studied music, I have degrees in music. I’m an accomplished orchestrator and arranger. I teach music. I’m not a schlump. I don’t play by ear.”

https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-co-writer-slams-mariah-carey/