Growing Up with Mariah Carey: All I Want for Christmas Is You, The Never Ending Story Edition

There are a few things that you can count on with yearly certainty. 

People will surprise you. The government will collect its taxes. And Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You" will play, incessantly, this holiday season. 

It's every retail holiday worker's bane of existence on repeat. This call for wanton consumerism during Christmas. A decorum, Holiday-themed, of polite seasons greetings dressed in hues of red, green, and gold. The synonymous colors of December's incentivization to spend money. The void of consumption asking to be filled with presents, candy cane-flavored schnapps, and the decking of some halls with holly.

Six. I was six years old when Mariah first bellowed her first invocation. Her call for Christmas and Holiday cheer. An event now repeated every decade with timeless Grammy awards and sudden comeback playlists of the top 100. Despite the fact that somehow, this many years later, "All I Want for Christmas" is now 28 years old. Yet still breaking the airwave records.

Why this is, should be most concerning. How despite the present offerings, stocking, and threats of mistletoe, the very weapon that took down the invulnerable Balder himself, Mariah arises. Like a Phoenix not of Ash... but of Snow. Singing. Celebrating. Waiting. Asking you for one thing and one thing alone. 

Has it ever occurred to anyone to ask the question? Have you ever wondered why it was that all she wanted for Christmas was... 

Well, it was clear to me back in 2004. Ten years after its first debut. There was a chance that 'All I want for Christmas' is a siren's song. Clear signs, that to me anyway, how despite a decade having past, the ravenous beast was still hungry... 

Mariah emerges. Like her predecessor, Pennywise. To beckon her next unsuspecting victim. How despite the bribery with boundless presents. Nothing will stop her from attaining her goal this holiday season:

YOU.

I loved this song when it first debuted. Though I always found it strange how it lived on the decade after. Then the nearly almost decade after that. 

I think. That until she gets what she wants... the song shall forever continue.

Mariah Carey, in the never-ending story, written by Christian Angeles, edition...

Will never be satisfied until she consumes us all.