History YMMV / MariahCarey

** The sheer ubiquitousness of "All I Want for Christmas is You" throughout November and December[[note]]Some places, like the Philippines, has the Christmas season start -- and her emerging -- at the first of September[[/note]] has led to countless jokes about it. Some treat her like a SealedEvilInACan who thaws from a block of ice at midnight of November the first (in the Northern hemisphere) and retreats when Christmas comes. Disgruntled retail workers will make jokes about having to listen to it all day long as it plays over the store's speakers. Carey herself eventually [[AscendedMeme got in on it]], releasing videos every November 1 where she inaugurates the switch from the [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve spooky season]] to the holiday season by announcing "it's time!"

%% No meme explanation ** "I don't know her"

** The sheer ubiquitousness of "All I Want for Christmas is You" throughout November and December[[note]]Some places, like the Philippines, has the Christmas season start -- and her emerging -- at the first of September[[/note]] has led to countless jokes about it. Some treat her like a SealedEvilInACan who emerges when the first snowflake of the year falls (in the Northern hemisphere), and retreats when Christmas comes. Disgruntled retail workers will make jokes about having to listen to it all day long as it plays over the store's speakers. Carey herself eventually [[AscendedMeme got in on it]], releasing videos every November 1 where she inaugurates the switch from the [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve spooky season]] to the holiday season by announcing "it's time!"

* CondemnedByHistory: "All I Want for Christmas if You" was originally one of the most beloved modern Christmas songs ever made and became one of Mariah's {{Signature Song}}s. However, constant overplay during every Christmas season caused many retail workers and media consumers to eventually get sick of the song. As such, the song has devolved into an internet punching bag and is now considered one of the most annoying songs ever made.

--> Hate on me/Much as you want to/You can't do/What the fuck I do/Bitches be/Emulating me daily

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: "Always Be My Baby" is about a {{Yandere}}. Which is probably why Creator/AriAster used it for a cwrtain [[Film/BeauIsAfraid film of his]].

* FetishRetardant: After two minutes of [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing Mariah basically stripteasing the audience]] in the "Touch My Body" video, we are greeted with the lovely sight of [[Series/ThirtyRock Jack McBrayer]] climbing up a staircase on all fours, with [[PlumbersCrack his ass basically hanging out the back of his pants]], while he clumsily lip syncs to the 'touch my body' lyric.

** The sheer ubiquitousness of "All I Want for Christmas is You" throughout November and December[[note]]Some places, like the Philippines, has the Christmas season start -- and her emerging -- at the first of September[[/note]] has led to countless jokes about it. Some treat her like a SealedEvilInACan who emerges when the first snowflake of the year falls (in the Northern hemisphere), and retreats when Christmas comes. Disgruntled retail workers will make jokes about having to listen to it all day long as it plays over the store's speakers. Carey herself eventually [[AscendedMeme got in on it]], releasing videos every November 1 where she inaugurates the switch from the [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEver spooky season]] to the holiday season by announcing "it's time!"

** The sheer ubiquitousness of "All I Want for Christmas is You" throughout November and December[[note]]Some places, like the Philippines, has the Christmas season start -- and her emerging -- at the first of September[[/note]] has led to countless jokes about it. Some treat her like a SealedEvilInACan who emerges when the first snowflake of the year falls (in the Northern hemisphere), and retreats when Christmas comes. Disgruntled retail workers will make jokes about having to listen to it all day long as it plays over the store's speakers.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: "Always Be My Baby" is about a {{Yandere}}.

** The sheer ubiquitousness of "All I Want for Christmas is You" throughout November and December has led to countless jokes about it. Some treat her like a SealedEvilInACan who emerges when the first snowflake of the year falls (in the Northern hemisphere), and retreats when Christmas comes. Disgruntled retail workers will make jokes about having to listen to it all day long as it plays over the store's speakers.

* NeverLiveItDown: Her disastrous performance during New Year's Eve 2016, plagued by technical issues that hardly let her get out a single audible word until she finally just walked off. However, she may have finally done so the following New Year's Eve 2017, which had her singing in -7° weather, yet she was able to pull it off without even (as she said) getting a drink of hot tea and having to suffer like everyone else outside in Times Square.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Some of her releases are among the top-selling albums in Japan, and she's still very popular there.

* CoveredUp: Most people don't realize that "Without You" is a cover originally by Badfinger. The same could be said of the Music/HarryNilsson version, which went to No. 1 24 years before Mariah's version was released.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Some of her releases are among the top-selling albums in Japan. She is still very popular there.
** "All I Want for Christmas is You" is very popular in Japan, to the point Mariah has performed it in concerts there! Despite this, she has never gigged in Japan in December.

* DorkAge: Started when ''Film/{{Glitter}}'' tanked and almost [[CreatorBreakdown ruined her career]]. It ended after the success of ''The Emancipation of Mimi''.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Japanese Love Mariah Carey]]: Some of her releases are among the top-selling albums in Japan. She is still very popular there.

** "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is arguably one as well, to the point where Mariah's associated with Christmas. It helps that it made #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 ''twenty-five years'' after its 1994 release.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: All those jokes on shows like SNL about Carey's breakdown and her various bizarre appearances (TRL, New Year's Eve 2017) don't seem so funny now that she's revealed that she has Bipolar disorder, which explains many of her actions.
* HarsherInHindsight: "Without You," with its despair-filled lyrics, considering that both of the song's co-writers died by suicide. Also, the fact that Music/HarryNilsson, who took the song to No. 1 in 1972, passed away shortly before Mariah's version hit the charts - the week Carey's version debuted on Casey Kasem's weekly countdown, the host used the opportunity to pay tribute to Nilsson.

* MemeticMutation: On Website/{{Tumblr}}, people often use gifs of Mariah Carey when they want to convey a diva-like attitude.
** "I don't know her"

* WinBackTheCrowd: After the critical and commercial failure of ''Charmbracelet'' in 2002, many abandoned Carey and assumed her career was over. Jump cut to 2005, with the release of ''The Emancipation of Mimi'' and it's hit single "We Belong Together". Many consider the former to be her best album and the latter to be her best song. Both won back a ton of the fans she lost, reviving an interest in her music and eventually paving the way for two more #1 singles ("Don't Forget About Us" and "Touch My Body") to add to her already impressive tally of ''sixteen''.