Mariah Carey formally kicks off the holiday season, those are the rules
Common wisdom tells us that the annual U.S. holiday season begins after Thanksgiving. But real ones understand that it's actually Mariah Carey who's in charge.
With Halloween officially in the rearview as of Sunday, the "All I Want For Christmas Is You" singer took to her social media accounts with a message. The holiday season has begun. So start getting festive, folks.
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For those who aren't familiar, this has become a Thing for Carey. She did a similar one in 2019, staging a post-Halloween video in which she gets a call from none other than Santa Claus himself. That's the moment the 2019 holiday season began.
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This time, Carey's back with another post-Halloween video. A masked, robed stranger guides us through a pair of spooky doors, eventually revealing Carey, decked out in her Christmas jammies and sitting front of a fully decorated tree.
The video ends with a caption: "It's time! (But let's get through Thanksgiving first)." Diplomatically apolitical. A majority of Americans would probably fire back on Nov. 1, 2020 that the real hump we need to get past is Election Day on Nov. 3 and the legally mandated vote counting that will follow in subsequent days (and hopefully not weeks, but maybe weeks).
Still, Carey has officially proclaimed the start of the 2020 holiday season, so that's that. It's the 2020 holiday season now. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
Topics Music
Adam Rosenberg is a Senior Games Reporter for Mashable, where he plays all the games. Every single one. From AAA blockbusters to indie darlings to mobile favorites and browser-based oddities, he consumes as much as he can, whenever he can.Adam brings more than a decade of experience working in the space to the Mashable Games team. He previously headed up all games coverage at Digital Trends, and prior to that was a long-time, full-time freelancer, writing for a diverse lineup of outlets that includes Rolling Stone, MTV, G4, Joystiq, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, EGM, 1UP, UGO and others.Born and raised in the beautiful suburbs of New York, Adam has spent his life in and around the city. He's a New York University graduate with a double major in Journalism and Cinema Studios. He's also a certified audio engineer. Currently, Adam resides in Crown Heights with his dog and his partner's two cats. He's a lover of fine food, adorable animals, video games, all things geeky and shiny gadgets.
