NEWSMariah Carey Cozies Up To Longtime Love Bryan Tanaka & Twin Children To Ring In Boxing Day
Christmas may be over, but Mariah Carey is still celebrating!
On Monday, December 26, the chart-topping superstar rang in Boxing Day with longtime boyfriend Bryan Tanaka and her 11-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan.
"Happy Boxing Day! ❄️🎄❤️ (Every day is a celebration! 🎉🎉🎁)," Carey, 52, captioned her Instagram carousel, featuring her getting cozy with her man, 39, and posing alongside the children she shares with ex-husband Nick Cannon in front of twinkling lights.
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Tanaka, whom Carey has been dating since 2016, made sure his girlfriend felt the love, leaving multiple heart emojis under the sweet pictures from the post-holiday gathering.
The celebration comes after her co-songwriter, Walter Afanasieff, shockingly accused the performer of lying about how the smash-hit song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" came to be.
After Carey claimed she wrote the tune as a child on a keyboard, Afanasieff revealed it would have been impossible for her to have penned the classic on her own — given her alleged lack of talent.
"She doesn’t understand music," the music producer explained on the Thursday, December 22, episode of the "Hot Takes & Deep Dives" podcast. "She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord."
"So, to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale," he declared of the Glitter star's side of the story. "When she started to hint at the fact that, ‘Oh, I wrote that song when I was a little girl!’ But why weren’t you saying that for 12 or 13 or 15 years prior to that? So, it just sort of developed in her mind."
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According to Carey, the origin of one of the most successful songs in music history went a bit differently.
"I went into this small room, and there was a little keyboard in there," she stated in the 2019 documentary, Mariah Carey Is Christmas: The Story of 'All I Want for Christmas Is You.' "And I started playing. And I’m a terrible piano player, right? Sometimes it’ll be like a happy accident. When I got into the studio with Walter A, we came up with a lot of different ideas to make it feel like a classic."
