Mariah Carey Reveals Her ‘All-Time’ Favorite Christmas Song — and It’s Not One of Her Own!

Carey said she doesn’t “let anybody listen to anything but Christmas music” when she celebrates the holiday, and even “movies have to be Christmas-related”

Mariah Carey is getting candid about the Christmas things she’s “obsessed” with.

The self-professed “Queen of Christmas” revealed on Wednesday’s episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show her favorite Christmas movies and songs — outside of her own hits “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and “Oh Santa!”

“My favorite all-time Christmas song is Nat King Cole’s version of [The] Christmas Song — that’s my favorite,” Carey, 54, told host Jennifer Hudson who noted, “That was my grandmother’s favorite.”

The songstress added that she doesn’t “let anybody listen to anything but Christmas music” when she celebrates the holiday — and even the “movies have to be Christmas-related.”

“Do you have a favorite Christmas movie?” Hudson asked.

“Well, I love Elf. I gotta say that,” Carey revealed. “And then I like Miracle on 34th Street, the original one. It’s an older one, but it’s got something about it.”

Hudson noted that her own favorite is Home Alone. “Yes, everybody loves Home Alone!” Carey said.

However, the “Emotions” singer’s Christmas spirit doesn’t just extend to music and movies. Carey said she also likes to make sure her home feels like the holidays, and that includes having multiple Christmas trees throughout her home.

“In the main part of the house, there will be a nice, tall Christmas tree with gold and silver — not actual gold,” Carey explained. “Then I have a smaller multicolored-lights tree, like the Charlie Brown tree, with some ornaments that my fans made for me and different stuff like that.”

She said she and her family also take “little pictures” in the form of Polaroids and “put them on the tree” — and she even cooks for the holidays, even though “nobody believes me.”

“I cook Italian food on the 23rd, because my father had a recipe for linguine with white clam sauce that he left for me before he passed away. It’s very good,” said the five-time Grammy winner. “I make that and some other things.”
“I do a traditional Christmas dinner, and I help. I’m not there doing everything alone. I’m not gonna say that. But I do add a little bit of seasoning,” Carey added with a laugh.

The Jennifer Hudson Show airs weekdays in syndication (check local listings).

source: people