The chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy
Christmas music is all about the chord progressions – plus a dash of Mariah Carey, the Christmas Queen. Check out this video (that Vox published five years ago!) for more details.
If you walk around a shopping mall, turn on the radio, or go to a coffee shop between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you’re going to hear Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” It’s one of the only Christmas songs written in the last 20 or so years that has reached the same popularity as the American Christmas standards that came before it.
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