Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You -CINEMAS 2025

It’s Cinemas, it’s the weekend, and that means it’s time to talk about cartoons and animation.

Merry Christmas everybody. >> Sinners is not over and we’re dropping a uh a cartoon on a Monday aka powder. I I apologize. I know we reserved the weekends for cartoons, but uh I recorded this for a Sunday drop, maybe the last of the cinemas cartoons. I pushed it to today because I wanted to refresh my mind and re-record because I felt like so and this happens from time to time aka pads. There’s a lot that happens in the aka film buff world. Sometimes my my brain my thought process isn’t quite

there. So I do what any of you would do. I hate myself. I scream at the ceiling. I wait, maybe I do some additional research. Maybe while I’m out and about, I strike up a couple couple conversations just to air out the ideas and what I want to say. The the film buff process, aka Patter, isn’t just what’s recorded. There’s a lot that happens around these recordings. And we have something here. Uh, I think it’s special. I think we have to pay attention to it, which is why I wanted

to get it right. So, hey, it’s the AKA Pad Film Buff podcast. It’s still cinemas. We’re approaching New Year’s. Hopefully, some of you just want to watch more Christmas movies after the holiday. Maybe maybe you got some extra Christmas spirit. I’m hoping because we still have a movie or two to go over, but we’re we’re going to kick things into a different gear also moving forward. I want to do my favorite movie of the year. I want to do my most watched movie of the year. Uh we’re

we’re we’re trying something a little bit different going into New Year’s and after New Year’s. And yes, we still have makeup episodes for Thanks Flicking and the 31 days of we will probably have makeup episodes for Cinemas because we we the just the nature that we record. We sometimes batch record. We inventory record five to six episodes at a time. With that time for Mariah Care’s All I Want for Christmas is You. What is you? Well, you is a puppy. It’s a dog. So, there’s a lot around this production

that we can lend to. Uh, like recently we did Susle that I attribute attributed a whole genre stemming from the 2005 Bill Goldberg World Champion starring Sainistly where Santa Claus is a murderous satanic demon. But for a thousand years, he’s under a curse to do good things. And well, guess what? The curse breaks in 2005 and all hell and murder ensues. So Brett Ratner and his orbit, we’ll we’ll we’ll call it made that movie and Brett Ratner’s orbit made this movie. He acquired the rights. They set up the

project with Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey being friends with Brett Ratner, you know, we know this guy. Rush Hour, come on. He’s got one of the great Hollywood stories. He saved X-Men 3. By the way, guys, I don’t care what you say. He set the project up, then sold it. This is how Hollywood does Hollywood. We know him through her music videos, I believe, like through some of her promotion and his promotion. She would like hover around him and she was highly associated with Brett Ratner at one

time. I would say by 2007 might be like the end of the the optics of this relationship and some of it you know like professional relationship but this is also like the absolute true rise of of Mariah Carey where this song hits the lexicon and hits the culture. Uh even now you go Christmas shopping, you go do things, uh you go to the car wash, you go to your local convenience store, you will hear this song. You may hate this song and the world will deliver this song to you a couple times this holiday season. So Mariah Carey

buddies this release with a children’s book. Now here’s the wild thing, aka Powders. Few songs in human history are as impactful as All I Want for Christmas is You. That’s the absolute truth. You would think um a really good and and I and I’m saying really good in the context that this was a straight to DVD release. I believe it might have got some airtime on on Cartoon Network or TNT. You would think like a multimedia push of one of the biggest songs in human history would resonate, but it hasn’t.

My local Barnes & Noble, Center City, Philadelphia, fantastic Barnes & Noble bar. I hated that Barnes & Noble when when they moved it and reopened it uh because they took away all the community uh all the communal seating. They took away the cafe. But it’s it’s grown on me because they really do have all the new stuff and you guys know me. I’m a huge window shopper. But no, like this book is not in the forefront. Like I should walk into a Barnes & Noble and see Mariah Car’s All

I Want for Christmas book. So it’s gone. the now we’re talk and this is this comes down to the importance of this episode because sometimes we get into the culture. It’s completely faded away. This animated feature which is in my view topnotch for the budget for the type of release it was. This is a highly uh fun, light-hearted, emotional story where we see a young Mariah Carey, right? like a young kid, but we see a little bit of her home life. And I know she uh was highly connected to her grandmother.

Now, this is all of this stems from things that I remember my sister talking about. My sister is the biggest Mariah Carey fan girl one could imagine. So, I could be wrong. Feel free to to fact check me on any of this. But let’s get into the larger observation when it comes to the cultural relevancy of this. See, at one time, music got media attention, and I know recently we have the the K-pop Demon Hunters, right? Like that the that’s the surprise hit of anything this entire year. Made money on Netflix, made money on

stream, went viral, people discussed it. I a lot of the songs went viral on on Tik Tok, so on and so forth. [snorts] When I grew up, I remember the New Kids on the Block, the MC Hammer Saturday morning cartoons, where popular music really became pop. Some of these acts, toy lines, animated adventures, comic books, right out of the gate, like it was full steam ahead. this led uh led itself and and we reviewed some of this on my YouTube channel where even like Stain Lee uh collaborated with the New Kids on the

Block for a amazing magazine comic book by the way guys really well made but [snorts] a line of action figures designed by Stan Lee and his company and distributed by Burger King through Kids Meals. And then the previous generation had the Osmans had like I know the monkeys did not have a animated cartoon but I believe some of the the episodes might have had like animation sequences or something like it. But you had the Beatles, you had the Osman’s, you had the Jackson 5, Saturday morning, early early 70s, like late 60s,

mid7s releases. And then we go into the modern day and and AK Patterns, let me know if you’re still with me. Where’s the animated adventure of Sabrina Carpenter, of Olivia Rodriguez, of Taylor Swift? And I and I know I’m talking about even like Billy Isish, even like uh the Jonas Brothers or that red-headed dude Ed Ed Shireen. Like there’s there’s acts today that would that have larger than life personalities that you know a an animated front would would benefit. But now when we discuss Mariah Care’s

All I Want for Christmas Is You, we can say that this might be the last of the line that pretty much started with the Jackson 5 cartoon that started with the Beatles cartoon or started with Sergeant Pepper, uh the the Lonely Hearts Club, that movie and and you know, all the Peter Max like animations and illustrations for that. It it it really makes you look at this now as an artifact and I think it’s it’s it’s of note. It’s a little bit depressing because the way we absorb culture and absorb content has

shifted. Now, some of this could be that because of social media, because like everything is kind of like a documentary or like a vlog that you know, for example, Taylor Swift has that six episode errors tour documentary that just dropped on Disney Plus, which is fantastic. By the way, if you really want to get into some of the the creative process for for her, these individuals can put their own voice out. They don’t need animation. They they where at one time animation would be a bridge between the act or the

performer and the audience and reaching a younger audience like Taylor Swift. If she wants to put out a message, she can go on social media. Same as Green Carpenter. They can go on social and put out the message and and control the message and and you know approve everything. But there is like a cool factor, right? So maybe it’s not about reaching a young audience and messaging, but there would be something cool about Sabrina Carpenter animated feature or cartoon series from HBO Max from Disney Plus. I

mean Disney has Disney written all over it cuz you know she has Disney ties, but even like like the comeback hits like Britney Spears should do this. Right spirit should develop an animated series based around her music with her uh re-recording and and redistributing some of her like you know greatest hit type tracks. I don’t know AK patterns but I I just wanted to bring this thought to your attention. I believe it’s significant and I believe it’s it’s another thing that is not said enough

today which is >> musical acts channel directly to their audience now. They all need outside media other than social media. All right, AK Badgers. I love you. Rock and roll. Okay, that’s a wrap. [applause]


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Cinemas is AKAPAD’s annual podcast event dedicated to celebrating the enchanting world of Christmas cinema. Blending festive film reviews, discussions, and holiday cheer, it runs throughout the month of December—the heart of the season—with occasional episodes dropping just before or after to extend the magic. Ready to binge the full feast of festive flicks? Dive into the complete Cinemas collection on this dedicated page—every episode, review, and yuletide yarn unpacked, from heartwarming, definitive take on what qualifies as a Christmas movie to snowy, bloody horror that’ll fire up your cocoa. Your all-access pass to holiday movie nirvana awaits!

PETER A DELUCA AKAPD

AKAPAD is a versatile thinker known across Philadelphia, Europe, and even in the vast Multiverse as The Electic One. By day, he excels as an IT Mastermind, assisting individuals, both big and small, with a wide range of simple and complex solutions. In contrast, he is also a talented illustrator, a passionate comic book enthusiast, a creative content creator, and an active live streamer. Additionally, his podcast, “AKAPAD The Film Buff Podcast,” boasts an impressive catalog of over 500 episodes available on nearly every major platform.