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Entertainment WeeklyNov 3, 2010Carey's second holiday collection leavens soaring takes on traditional hymns with a handful of funkier originals. [5 Nov 2010, p.71]
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Dec 14, 2010It's not particularly clever, but it is expectedly big: if you're a Carey fan with a stocking that needs filling this year, this'll perk you up better than any alternative speech or sherry trifle could.
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Feb 9, 2011The rest of this album intersperses originals with classics--a respectful "First Noel," an aptly baby-making take on "O Little Town of Bethlehem," and "Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)" as routed through a strip club. But nothing beats "All I Want for Christmas Is You," from her 1994 album Merry Christmas," one of the great modern holiday albums.
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Nov 8, 2010Apart from that pair of stiff originals, the whole thing is cheerful and engaging, a worthy sequel to its predecessor.
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Nov 3, 2010It's hard to figure out what's "extra festive" (as the full song title promises) about her "All I Want for Christmas Is You" update, and far easier to determine what's wrong with "Auld Lang Syne" (an awkward dance beat), but the LP's warm heart is in the right place.
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Nov 3, 2010It's an attempted rewind. As such, it's probably one of the most revealing and none-too-flattering approximations of the mindset of a certain sort of adult's Christmas spirit.
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Jan 14, 2011It's 16 years since Mariah Carey's first Christmas album, and there's nothing here to suggest she's developed significantly since then.
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Nov 24, 2010The near-crazed desperation to please listeners for her own sake is all over Merry Christmas II You: A "gift" to her fans (or so she claims) that they, of course, must pay for, it's her fascinating, career-long saga of self-obsession in a nutshell.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 81 out of 251
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Mixed: 8 out of 251
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Negative: 162 out of 251
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Feb 19, 2015
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Nov 7, 2022i HATE Christmas bc of this woman. Her music is so commercialized it means nothing.
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Nov 4, 2022This album and Mariah Carey make me HATE the commercial side of Christmas, vapid, meaningless music like every song on this album are just atrocious.