{"id":148283,"date":"2023-12-20T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=148283"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:14:09","slug":"what-makes-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-so-popular-after-thirty-years-cordis-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/what-makes-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-so-popular-after-thirty-years-cordis-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221; so popular after thirty years? CORDIS answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Every year, the catchy <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tune<\/a> with the opening bell chimes and tour-de-force delivery re-enters charts worldwide in the weeks before Christmas. Whether you\u2019re indoors or outdoors, the enduring track is unavoidable during the holiday season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-148280 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anthony-cantin-9PqSxmMXIkc-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The music industry and mainstream media have covered the cultural impact and reasons for the timeless, classic quality of a festive hit that famously took 15 minutes to write. There\u2019s even a <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6678950\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">movie<\/a> and a <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/535327\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-by-mariah-carey-illustrated-by-colleen-madden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a> based on the iconic melody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But what does science have to say about the song that stands the test of time? Two academics from Northeastern University in the United States offered explanations.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"c-article__title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Fond memories<\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are many reasons why songs stick,\u201d <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/news.northeastern.edu\/2023\/11\/28\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-mariah-carey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained<\/a> Psyche Loui, associate professor of music and psychology. \u201cThere are certain melodic properties, pitches \u2026 or rhythmic properties \u2026 that make music particularly sticky. There\u2019s also more psychological reasons for why some melodies are more memorable. Maybe they remind us of previous happy experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt opens with Mariah at her diva-esque best,\u201d added music and communication studies professor Murray Forman. \u201cShe hits notes that other people can\u2019t. She\u2019s got such a fluid kind of vocal that stands out right at the beginning. But then it becomes like a 1960s girl group hit (with piano and that girl group vocalization). The very aesthetic of the song is structured on the one hand showing this is Mariah at her peak and then we go to something that\u2019s super familiar, recognizable and catchy as hell that a lot of people in the 1990s would be familiar with.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"c-article__title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Forever young<\/span><\/h6>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere seems to be this time in your adolescence where it\u2019s an opening of a sensitive window for memorable experiences,\u201d continued Assoc. Prof. Loui. \u201cIf you\u2019re in your 70s and you\u2019re thinking about music that you\u2019ve heard anytime in your life and trying to listen to songs that are particularly memorable or emotional to you, chances are you\u2019ll pick songs from your adolescence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMusic from childhood is kind of a warm and fuzzy blanket,\u201d she commented. \u201cIt\u2019s a bit of this positive autobiographical memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The birth of the internet in the 1990s and music streaming in the decades that followed have led to renewed success for the single. In 2022, it <a class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2022\/12\/mariah-carey-all-i-want-for-christmas-spotify-record.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke for a fourth time the all-time record<\/a> for the most streamed song in a single day on Spotify with 21.2 million global streams. It became the first song in history to be streamed more than 20 million times in a 24-hour span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think that\u2019s part of the secret of how something endures,\u201d Prof. Forman concluded. \u201cYou get this cross-generational appeal. (It\u2019s incorporated) into each new generation, integrated into their traditions, which then becomes part of their nostalgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article__text \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Love it, hate it, or just fed up with it, this Christmas song is an immutable fact of life at this time of year. Happy listening!<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/cordis-unos-expertos-afirman-que-decorar-antes-de-navidad-nos-hace-mas-felices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jonathan-borba-vcX5AhBwk6s-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/cordis-decorating-before-christmas-makes-us-happier-say-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CORDIS: Decorating before Christmas makes us happier, say experts<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More information: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/article\/id\/448170-what-makes-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-so-popular-30-years-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CORDIS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the catchy tune with the opening bell chimes and tour-de-force delivery re-enters charts worldwide in the weeks before Christmas. 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