How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it)

Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: My original 2014 Slate article (republished in 2015), “All I Want for Christmas Is Diminished Chords: Why Mariah Carey’s immortal holiday classic sounds so darn Christmassy“: The 2016 video that Vox made, “The secret chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy“: Adam Neely’s 2016 video responding to the Vox video (I’ve never brought myself to watch it all the way through, so don’t ask me specifics about it):