--- title: Mariah Carey Christmas song sung like 20 different musicians description: A rendition of Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 20 musical styles. canonical: https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-02T20:17:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:57.247Z og:title: Hear ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Sung Like 20 Different Musicians og:description: A rendition of Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 20 musical styles. og:url: https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt590d623053dde433/69876bfe5f570f830fb13e77/screen-shot-2014-12-02-at-3-16-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=706&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 706 og:image:height: 397 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-02 at 3.16.22 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hear ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Sung Like 20 Different Musicians twitter:description: A rendition of Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 20 musical styles. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt590d623053dde433/69876bfe5f570f830fb13e77/screen-shot-2014-12-02-at-3-16-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=706&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hear ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Sung Like 20 Different Musicians > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a56809fe-950c-4d48-937e-17d3df2644a9&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2014 8:17 PM UTC   by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 2, 2014 8:17 PM UTC For many who grew up in the 1990s, there hasn’t been a lot of holiday music in the last two decades that tops Mariah Carey’s 1994 Christmas album _Merry Christmas_. And although the best part of that album is the diva’s voice covering a host of Christmas classics, it also gave us the much-loved new classic, “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” MORE: [Top 10 Best Songs of 2014](http://time.com/3613567/top-10-best-songs/) Feeling moved by the holiday spirit, Anthony Vincent of [10 Second Songs](https://www.youtube.com/user/TenSecondSongs) performed Carey’s hit in the style of 20 different musicians, from Tom Jones to Depeche Mode to Usher. Particularly fitting were his impressions of the Vince Guaraldi Trio (of _A Charlie Brown_ _Christmas_ fame), the Grinch and Alvin and the Chipmunks (aided by some helium). It’s a feat of impersonation and a solid reminder that Carey pretty much got it right the first time. MORE: [Top 10 Worst Songs of 2014](http://time.com/3613505/top-10-worst-songs/) _Read next:_ [_This Is the Most Popular Christmas Song Ever_](http://time.com/3613551/christmas-song/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/"},"headline":"Hear ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Sung Like 20 Different Musicians","datePublished":"2014-12-02T20:17:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:57.247Z","description":"Here’s that heavy metal Mariah Carey rendition you didn’t ask for","url":"https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","covers","Mariah Carey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt590d623053dde433/69876bfe5f570f830fb13e77/screen-shot-2014-12-02-at-3-16-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt590d623053dde433/69876bfe5f570f830fb13e77/screen-shot-2014-12-02-at-3-16-22-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-02 at 3.16.22 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3614330/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-20-styles/","name":"Hear ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Sung Like 20 Different Musicians"}}]}] ```