All YouTube wants for Christmas are more Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas Is You” videos, apparently.
The diva’s 1994 hit is considered a holiday staple and one of the few tolerable Christmas jingles. Every year, dozens, if not hundreds, of YouTubers upload their own parodies, lipdubs, or covers of the tune. Here are the best new renditions that rocked this December.
Dancers Alexandra Karigan and Zac Hammer star in “Miracle on 42nd Street.” In an email to the Daily Dot, the professional dancing duo wrote that “anyone can’t help but smile or tap their feet when they hear it … It also has a great build, energy-wise, starting slowly and building in energy to that high, high, high note.”
Speaking of dancing, Preston Leatherman did his own, albeit wacky, dance to the song. An aspiring musician, Leatherman hit microcelebrity status after his “Dancing in Public with an iPod” video went viral (and subsequently started the “Dancing in public with an iPod” trend).
VazquezSounds, a family affair, racked up more than 7 million hits in less than two weeks. The trio joined YouTube in October and immediately made mainstream headlines (and TV appearances) for their phenomenal cover of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” which has been viewed more than 19 million times.
The cast of the hit TV drama “Glee” also covered the song, thereby qualifying it as musical Americana to the max.
Even the Brits are doing it. The aviation department on the Royal Navy ship HMS Ocean pantomimed to the song in celebration to finally coming home after 225 days at sea. According to the description, 15 babies were born while the fathers were away, so you know the joy portrayed in the video is real. (3.4 million people agree.)
