{"id":43344,"date":"2012-12-23T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43344"},"modified":"2012-12-15T20:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T01:14:19","slug":"mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-1994-to-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/23\/mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-1994-to-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas”: 1994 vs 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of our favorite Christmas-themed posts from the archive. \u00a0We hope you don’t mind the re-post!<\/em><\/p>\n

Stressing remarkable differences between the two, Rachel and Lucy sent in the music videos for the original Mariah Carey version of “All I Want for Christmas is You” (1994) and the re-make (2011). \u00a0They suggested that the comparison reveals two trends: the rising emphasis placed on consumption and the new hyper-sexualization. \u00a0I figured, “yeah, I’ll bet they’re onto something there.” \u00a0And boy were they.<\/p>\n

The first video involves Mariah mostly bounding around in the snow in a snow suit. Often acting pretty darn goofy, with dogs and Santa.
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She spends part of the video inside with kids, a Christmas tree, presents, and more animals. \u00a0She’s usually wearing a sweater.
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She spends less than (I’m guessing) 10 seconds of the video in a sexy Mrs. Claus outfit and, when she’s wearing it, it looks like she’s got long johns on her legs.
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The new video, featuring Justin Bieber, is wildly different. Instead of a snowy field or an intimate home, the video takes place in a shopping mall. \u00a0It centrally features a Nintendo product.
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Likewise, instead of bounding around in the snow like a goof, she spends the entire video up against a wall in super high heels and the sexy Mrs. Claus outfit (except this one doesn’t have sleeves or a midriff).
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At one point she runs her hand down her body, touching her breast and moving down to her crotch; at another she just leans against the wall with her back to us and swings her butt back and forth.
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So there’s one data point, for what it’s worth, but in line with emerging research<\/a> on and plenty of anecdotal<\/a> evidence<\/a> of the “pornification” of American culture.<\/p>\n

“All I Want for Christmas is You” (1994):<\/p>\n

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“All I Want for Christmas is You” (2011):<\/p>\n

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\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of our favorite Christmas-themed posts from the archive. \u00a0We hope you don’t mind the re-post! Stressing remarkable differences between the two, Rachel and Lucy sent in the music videos for the original Mariah Carey version of “All I Want for Christmas is You” (1994) and the re-make (2011). \u00a0They suggested that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,15,55,253,254,120,23705],"class_list":["post-43344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-history","tag-holidays","tag-sex","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43344"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53053,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43344\/revisions\/53053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}