Mariah Carey & Justin Bieber’s new music video: uncomfortable or hilarious?

I’m not in full-blown love or hate with this Mariah Carey-Justin Bieber music video for “All I Want For Christmas Is You”. First, I always really like this song. Well, almost always. My favorite version is the Love, Actually version, sung by that amazing little girl. My second favorite is Mariah’s original version from the 1990s. As for this version… the first time I started to watch it, I had to turn it off because I was so uncomfortable. Mariah’s got her figure back, and good for her, but I want her to STOP trying to make Christmas about her hindquarters. I don’t need to see the back of her thighs to enjoy Christmas, you know? And of course Mariah has got a cutout Santa’s Elf costume.

As for Bieber… first of all, his voice sounds rough. It’s really auto-tuned where Mariah’s voice just seems normal. His whole dancing thing is fine – I would have enjoyed it more if it hadn’t been inter-cut with Mariah giving him “Come hither to my hindquarters” eyes. Rough.

PS… what’s up with Mariah’s bangs when she’s in Santa’s sleigh? They look like bangs extensions.

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  1. ahoyhoy says:

    It’s creepy that she’s old enough to be his mom, or close anyway.

    • SkyNet says:

      Right?!? Why do people keep forgetting that he’s a little boy? That whole Kim K thing was creepy too.

    • Cindy says:

      Actually, I’m pretty sure Mariah is a good 6-7 years older than his mom. Super awkward video.

  2. Lia says:

    Love Mariah but totally agree Justin sounds way auto-tuned!!

  3. anon says:

    How did they make this song about buying gameboys? sick.

    • Lola says:

      Ikr. That’s what bugs me the most is the product placement.

    • supalolly says:

      ITA! Does anybody else see the irony in choosing ‘All I want for Christmas (is you)’ to sell Macys / Gameboys? Especially thought the scenes where beaver is loading cart full of stuff was weird.

  4. Blueflie says:

    Mariah looks pretty damn hot. Can’t stand the Biebs. ANd……jeez, product placement much?

  5. Nanz says:

    I watched part of this video. It was the first time I’ve ever heard Bieber’s singing voice (I know know, I live under a rock). First thought, “THIS is the kid that everyone’s freaking over? THIS is the voice that Usher and J.T. battled over?” I had to turn it off, but only because it sounded so bad. I liked the original song way back when. The Biebs ogling at Mariah in the beginning is a touch uncomfortable. It’s like accidentally stumbling upon a 17 yo’s sex fantasy, and who wants to see that??

    • Cathy says:

      I’ve never heard him sing either and I’m not interested in hearing it sing

    • Kristin says:

      I’d never heard his voice either and I don’t get it. If that’s what teenage girls are into these days, I weep for the future.

    • Julie says:

      I’m not just saying this because I’m Canadian, but I swear his voice normally sounds better. I mean, still not like he has the most amazing voice in the whole world, but normally the kid can sing. Trust.

      But yes, he sounds TERRIBLE here.

      • Lithe says:

        He was amazing to listen to before his voice started changing. I didn’t used to see what’s so great about him, but then I watched some early videos of him on youtube. This one is of him drumming on a chair when he was around 3:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hARH6e7CbWE

        Kid definitely has talent. I don’t know how much good it’s doing him to work with Usher. But I hope Justin finds his groove again, cause he’s more than just a pretty face.

    • Hakura says:

      OMG. I demand to know the exact longitude & latitude coordinates I need to enter into my GPS to bring me to this ‘rock’ you speak of… This blessed sanctuary that has somehow avoided the inescapable plague that is Justin Beiber’s voice.

      I can’t leave my home without hearing it coming from somewhere, forget about even grocery stores, or dental/doctor’s/hospital halls & waiting rooms. x_x

    • cc says:

      I’m no beiber aficionado, but his voice definitely sounds different than it used to. I’m pretty sure his voice is just in that awkward changing phase. It’ll be interesting to see what it sounds like in a couple years.

  6. Kim says:

    So embarrassed for Mariah!. I was hoping she would mature after having babies and not squeeze herself into to small, to young outfits and try so hard to be sexy.

    Pathetic & creepy because Beiber could be her son so it looks like she is coming on to her son.

    • Mourning the Death of Music says:

      That was disturbing on many, many levels.

    • Hautie says:

      Off topic a bit…. but dang! Mariah is a stellar example of a girl with Daddy’s issues.

      The thing about Mariah and her clothes… for me. Is she really thinks of herself as a tiny girl. She really does behaves as if she as 5’1 and 90 lbs. So she is in constant mode, of this whole “I’m a sexy baby girl” routine.

      But she is not tiny.

      Not with those size 13 feet.

      And doing the coy sexy baby girl routine with the Beiber is just creepy as hell!

  7. Bite me says:

    What the fuck did I just watch… JB voice is horrid

  8. Detriotgirl says:

    What a shameless Macys commericial. And the product placement for the DS? God, they weren’t even trying to pass that off as anything but a mad grab for money! The only thing that surprises me is that they didn’t work in spots for their respective perfumes.

    Yes, the Biebs has a perfume. A woman’s perfume. He also has a nail polish line. Yeah, you read that.

    Also, holy auto tune batman! I totally agree with everyone about how rough Bieber sounds here.

  9. fabgrrl says:

    Music video? All I saw was a Macy’s commercial.

  10. jay says:

    mariah is pretty natural but beiber is way too forced. I mean…he’s the whitest kid ever. He’s not black. What’s with all the bopping around and those earrings and the super concentrated squity faces like he’s belting it out? The song literally just ends with them doing various noises. Like they kept playing the song after it was supposed to end.

    • Erinn says:

      I guess that’s what happens when you’re Usher’s protege? I feel like he was steered in the direction that he is now in from the beginning.

  11. RocketMerry says:

    Good grief.
    It’s like she came into the studio early morning, sang her part a dozen times until it was perfect, very professional; while he just sounds as if he showed up late afternoon after non stop partying with a rough voice and still hangover.
    No comparing.

  12. Embee says:

    I watched without sound so I have no comment on the singing, but I HATE the video. The beginning where he ogles her and she simpers back at him is just…uncomfortable and plain icky.

    I hate the “pose a against a wall” suggestive of doggie-style sex. (Yes, Mimi, you look great! No need to do that.)

    Justin Bieber is a very cute little boy who rightly appeals to teenagers, but this dynamic is gross. He comes off as sexually precocious which I find disturbing in either gender.

    Yuck.

    • zesty says:

      Was the “pose against the wall” part from an original video of this song from way back when? I think they edited Bieber in to make it look like he was looking at her. She looked a lot younger in that part than the part in the sleigh–Hair different, outfit different. Very odd video.

      • Rick says:

        I thought the “pose against the wall” sequence also looked like it was grabbed from old footage. The Mariah in those shots is not forty one years old. Not sure what the effects are, but the only forty-something Mariah Carey in that video is the one in the Sleigh with Bieber at the end.

    • SoCalGal in FL says:

      “Pose against the wall”…way over done. After the third time I began to think ‘ok, I get it…you’re in heat…enough w the pose against the wall’.

  13. Zigggy says:

    Christmas is supposed to be about children (and Jesus, but you know)- not bending over and presenting yourself like a dog in heat in a wayyyy to short & sl*tty outfit. Silly. And the DS thing is so lame.
    She’s legitimately talented, WROTE this song- she doesn’t need to stoop to that. But hey, it’s Mariah.

    • pwal says:

      And it doesn’t help that after Mariah had her ‘mental issue’, she seemed to revert back to pre-teen (the pink, the Hello Kitty, etc.) It makes me think of all of those female teachers who have sex with their male students and how people observe them reverting back to adolescent tendencies during the course of the molestation.

      Seriously, I think Mariah has a tin ear (or eye) about her image. Ever since her ‘issue’, she’s been cheesing things up, trying to convince people that she’s sexy, young and free; she’s not that anymore. She just seems desperate.

  14. Bleuladi says:

    I personally think that one day we will find out that Justin is really a girl. I know a girl that looks just like him. I keep waiting for the shoe to drop.

  15. Quest says:

    Mrs. Cougar Clause is in the house.

  16. Kimbob says:

    Ok, ok….ENOUGH ALREADY!!! This video totally repulses me. The song is saying, “All I want for Christmas…is YOU,” but yet it is so commercialized, like the subliminal (or NOT SO SUBLIMINAL) message is…not really, suckers…so go spend all the damn $$$ you have to fill that empty void. What with all the products flying off the shelves and the excited looks on all the faces when the products are in their hands…oh just f+#k this. This is why Christmas has become an absolute kill-joy for me.

    I couldn’t watch/listen to it after like, ONE MINUTE. I was being bombarded w/conflicting messages. It’s cheapening it all for me.

    Oh, & Miss Mariah….she just think she’s THE BOMB, doesn’t she? It’s so obvious she has an inflated opinion of herself….like…she’s SO enchanting and charming….NOT!

    I need some Pepto Bismol to recover from this STAT!

  17. Turtle Dove says:

    Mariah’s got to stop with the sex-kitten stuff. She’s 40-odd and it’s awkward.

    This was a commercial not a video. Disappointing.

  18. Pont Neuf says:

    Sorry, is this video meant to be one of those “before and after” comparisons?

    All I can say is, Santa sure does change after a shave, a bit of Spanx and the Tammy Faye “Cake It On” beauty treatment!

    The only thing that baffles me is, why does Santa only have one elf? What happened to the rest? Were they scared by all the caterwauling, squealing and panty flashing?

  19. DarkEmpress says:

    Ok I am a mariah fan and I don’t see the beef for her to remake this song with bieber. He sounds horrible. It is gross that Mariah looks like she is flirting with him. Yuck. She does look good though and I would have liked the song and video without bieber.

  20. Kasey says:

    LMOL! HiLARious! IMO everything Mariah does IMO is either really awesome or really funny to the point that it cracks me up. Their are few adults who can do the things she does and not annoy but just amuse me. I SO love her for this-she brings the jokes for days! This chick is one of a kind. HOWEVER, I don’t like that it sort of looks like she’s flirting with this baby boy.

    About Beiber. I wonder what he’s going to sound like when his voice changes? Does anyone know anything about singing and voices? Will he have to retrain his voice or something or since his voice sounded decent before it’ll automatically sound decent but be a different tone?

  21. Delta Juliet says:

    I didn’t watch the vidoe but I just came back to my office from lunch, during which time I heard this song (which I previously loved). I had to turn it off when Bieber came on. It was that awful.

    Then I saw this post. LOL Timing……

  22. bagladey says:

    Why did she even do this? JB’s singing is on the same level as selena gomez’s and demi lovato’s etc. and they’re B class singers, at best. JB’s not gifted, he’s just really lucky – like a talentless Kim K.

  23. Leigh says:

    Is this a Macy’s commercial??

  24. Jackson says:

    All this video is missing is the stripper pole. And MC is either filtered or digitally altered or something because she looks like a PhotoShop project come to life. And what else to say but LOL at JB’s voice.

  25. Amanda G says:

    Bieber has managed to ruin my favorite Christmas song. He has one of the worst voices I have ever heard. I’d like to think that my teen idols had more talent! And BTW, he’s just singing over the original song. There’s no way Mariah can hit those notes anymore LOL

  26. MoMo says:

    I love the original version of this song. Mariah’s suggestive clothing, body language and interactions are inappropriate for a video co-starring a child, and a video that is geared toward a child audience. That is the second time I’ve heard Bieber sing and it sounds like an out of tune goose honk/alvin and the chipmunks hybrid. Puberty really is a cruel time in a person’s life.

    • MoMo says:

      OMG is he 18? He’s so easy to mistake for a minor- that makes it still inappropriate. I’m so used to MK on dlisted referring to Bieber as a ‘yodeling fetus’ I just assumed he’s underage.

  27. Erinn says:

    I found this creepy…
    too much t&a in the video. I was like Mariah’s trying so hard to be a slutty santa pinup girl, and it’s kind of sad. She got her body back, and she should be proud, but she IS a mother. That doesn’t mean she has to completely cover up, but there’s a difference between slutty and sexy.

    And the fact that it’s her dressing and running around like that with Biebs… he’s young enough to be her son.

    Actually- Mariah is OLDER than his mother, and the way the video goes (when not being a complete Maceys commercial) seems like she’s hitting on him. It’s a duety song, and when it’s a child singing with a woman dressed like that, and older than his mother it gets a little sketch.

  28. Schnauzers!!! says:

    Umm. Love the original. Will be changing the station when this comes on. Singing is terrible…and it looks like a video of a mom flirting with her son. Kinda grosses me out.

  29. weeble says:

    I vote hilarious. Mariah, bless her heart is over the top, and Justin creeps me out. Something isn’t right about that boy….

  30. Angela T says:

    He’s 17 shes 41 maybe she wanted to convince herself that she still got it. Have you seen her Jenny Craig commerical shes dressed like she did in her Honey video

  31. GirlyGIrl says:

    Saw it on the xmas Tree show last night…

    You really don’t get the total creepy crappiness of it unless you see it in full HD.

    Terrible video, terrible editing job, just plain awful.

    The way Mariah keeps posing “ass-out” is just embarrassing.

    Hey Mariah, cheerleader tryouts were 25 years ago

  32. seVen says:

    Mimi looks good. Bieber needs to stop. The whole damn thing is gag inducing with his over acting and her omg look at meeeeee. Love the original better.

  33. Embee says:

    Is it my imagination or does she have oddly large ears?

  34. Cerulean says:

    Terrible version. Terrible video.
    Can’t she ever skip the bitch in heat routine? I do love the sheer self delusion that is her though. It’s fun to laugh at her.

  35. fabgrrl says:

    She does look GREAT, I will give her that. But, seriously, grow the hell up, Mimi!

  36. Lizzy says:

    Wow, their voices do not compliment one and other at ALL. Honestly, I would have much preferred hearing a Beiber only version, since we already have the Mariah version with the exact same vocal track, she didn’t even re-record it.

    This is actually the first time I’ve heard him sing, I don’t know what I was expecting, but he isn’t nearly as awful as I assumed he would be.

  37. KellyinSeattle says:

    Now I’ve seen it all….put some clothes on, Mariah! Ridiculous. An insult to my intelligence. I’m so glad she didn’t have a daughter! Think of the syndrome that poor child would have!

  38. KsGirl says:

    Woefully bad video. Couldn’t be more obvious that this was a last-minute, rush-edited $$$ grab. The worst part for me was the ‘ass-out’ (as an above poster said) posing by Mariah. That’s just…cringeworthy. And so odd to see in a video that’s also trying to be all Christmassy and white bread.

    Bieber doesn’t sound good here, and his voice doesn’t mesh well with Mariah’s. His voice, tho, HAS broken. Before it broke he had one of those high, clear voices you can get on pre-puberty males, and now it’s broken they’re trying to retrain it. Sometimes it works (the vid he did with Chris Brown is a much better showcase for his current voice), but it doesnt here, at all.

    But as a Bieber fan I now have an odd craving for 6 Nintendo 3DS’s. Ha ha.

  39. Jordan says:

    Beiber’s auto-tuned voice is likely due to his voice changing or has changed already. It is always a question on whether child singers will grow up to be great adult singers. Considering how little girls are willing to make death threats over him, it may not really matter.

  40. Hakura says:

    I decided to watch the video on mute. So I could just judge it based on the movement/expressions. First – Mariah, as is her way, overdid the ‘overt sexy’ & ‘flirtation’ here. If it was just -her- in the video, it would be more forgivable. Second – Justin… Is not a great actor, so attempts (such as the exaggerated facial expressions) just make me feel… embarrassed for him.

    *But*. The first *half* of the video, (which had Mariah & Justin completely separate (each in their own part of the store, singing/gesturing to the camera/audience) was really not too bad, all things considered. If they had continued this way, it would’ve been fine. But the 2nd half, which takes place in the sleigh (with Mariah & Justin sitting next to/touching eachother, singing to eachother, as Mariah continues to ‘coyly’ flirt with ‘sexy’ moves exposing her thighs & stiletto boots, as Justin looks on with seeming attempts to flirt back)…

    It becomes very uncomfortable, crossing the line from ‘Ok, whatever’ to ‘creepy’. Mariah, you look damned good, & should be proud of your body. But not *everything* has to include sexuality & exposure, especially not a song more focused on the light-innocent aspects of Christmas… & especially NOT when it’s a duet with a young boy.

  41. the other mel says:

    yuk yuk and yuk.

  42. fabgrrl says:

    Bwahaahaha! If you want to read a hilarious interpretation of this video, check out Linda Holmes’ Monkey See blog entry at NPR.

    0:30 Brought to life by the eager stares of the underaged, Mannequin Mariah comes to life, ringing her little bell and looking around the store lustfully. She turns and gives the boys a little bit of the rear view, and they break into toothy grins and run away.

  43. Kosmos says:

    Okay, this was always a fave for me of Mariah’s songs, and I do love her singing, but she’s totally overdoing it with the sexy vampy thing here….it detracts from what could be a cool video with the two of them. Although I find it hard to accept even that given the fact that she is so much older than Justin, who looks like a kid here. It was overkill seeing her face the wall so many times so she could show off her legs, gag…don’t get me wrong, I really love her songs, but she’s always been over the top in other areas. Oh, well, I guess we live in a world now when lots of things are way over the top.

  44. sosuzy says:

    Mariah get over yourself, really inappropiate. Enough with the vampy image it is disturbing and getting very tiresome.It cheapens her talent. What I can not understand is that she has children now, which should make her not want to do a video such as this. A cougar seducing a child, really, really weird.

  45. usurper says:

    um.. okay
    is it just me or is he trying hard to be black!? it looks like I’m watching jason derulo sing trapped in Biebs body.. no, no no no no.. vanilla ice!

  46. usurper says:

    oh and by the way.. justin is losing his singing skills (whats left of them!)

  47. loveyourwork says:

    uncomfortable AND HILARIOUS!!!

    Mariah…Mariah, Mariah…she’s like Mrs.Claus – MAKING EYES AT A CHILD!!! and what is up with the whole sleigh she-bang…like Golden Girl Claus.

    AND BIEBER! his voice was cracking like thin ice!

  48. MAMAKOWALSKA says:

    GOOD LORD!!! I’m happy for her she’s got her body back, but it’s really gross her ASS DANCING and winking and rubbing herself like she’s the Christmas whore. ICK!!!

    She could have played it cute and appropriately sexy, it’s a really nice song.

  49. KLO says:

    Packages! Packages! magnificent Packages! Department store! Buy! Buy!

    😀

    The way consumerism is like a religion during christmas time, you’d think the makers of the video come from a country that’s really POOR.

  50. fancyamazon says:

    I’m with all of those who said it is just a commercial. The song version is terrible. And as for the “chemistry” or whatever they are trying for between Mariah and Justin, well, there is just nothing there. And why is the Santa, who is typically on the street corners trying to get people to give to charity (usually the Salvation Army) giving people passes to a sale? The whole thing just sucks, and makes me sad that I watched it.

  51. tyquashaia says:

    this what im talking a mariah carey do it……….. You working

  52. tina says:

    why is mariah humping the wall

  53. Ms. Tanya Degano says:

    P-p-p-p-p-p-roduct placement

  54. Holly says:

    No I get it! She wants some more money for christmas so she gets a job in her local department store. Enter pre-pubescent Justin who sits and stares for 4 minutes and 14 seconds of our time.

  55. forelithe says:

    wish I hadn’t watched that !

  56. Lori G says:

    I’m still trying to figure out which products their promoting in this video!

  57. Dave says:

    Too much Beiber, not enough Mariah.

    Yes she may be getting on now, but hell has she still got it. Wouldn’t mind finding her under my tree i can tell you.