All Mariah Carey Got for Christmas is Sued
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s (whistle tone) TIIIIIME…for Mariah Carey to lawyer up. On Wednesday, the Queen of Christmas was sued for copyright infringement over her holiday banger “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Musician Vince Vance says MC swiped the title and key parts of her hit from his 1989 song. And Richies, if this story sounds familiar, it is. He filed the exact same claim last year before dropping it a few months later. But now he’s back with a hotshot lawyer who took on Taylor Swift last year, and he's hoping for a big Christmas payday. So does Vince Vance have a shot? Or is this just a “sweet, sweet fantasy, baby…?”
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| 0:00.0 | So Brooke, I know one of our points of contention is we're in a never ending standoff on which of us is the true |
| 0:14.4 | Queen of Christmas. Yeah I will say only one of us knew this other song that's |
| 0:21.4 | suing Maria Carey and the other didn't so I don't know I mean do I know |
| 0:26.2 | every Christmas song ever written possibly well to be fair you sang it and |
| 0:30.0 | that was unrecognizable but when I listened to the actual audio, |
| 0:33.2 | I didn't recognize that song. |
| 0:34.7 | I bet, yeah. |
| 0:35.7 | I bet decades and decades of people who have heard me saying |
| 0:38.7 | were just all lying. |
| 0:40.3 | Wouldn't be the first time people have been lying in this world? |
| 0:43.0 | But what we both know in our heart of hearts |
| 0:45.0 | that I am the Queen of Christmas. |
| 0:47.0 | There's another Queen of Christmas who's making headlines. |
| 0:50.0 | Maria Carey might be in some hot legal water |
| 0:52.0 | thanks to her Christmas National Anthem. |
| 0:54.6 | All I went for Christmas is you. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, and that other Queen of Christmas |
| 0:58.1 | is being sued by some Grinch who says she stole the song from him. |
| 1:02.8 | It's just hope his heart grows three sizes. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.2 | From Wundery, I'm Marisha Skidmer Williams. |
| 1:08.2 | And I'm Brooks Diffran. |
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