Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah’s New Dance Mixes) (a J!-ENT World Groove Digital Single Review)

Although a remix of Mariah’s popular christmas song, “All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah’s New Dance Mixes) is actually not that bad.  Low Sunday does a good job pulling off the remixes and paying respect to the original track!  Definitely worth checking out!

ARTIST: Mariah Carey (feat. remixes by Low Sunday)

DIGITAL SINGLE: All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah’s New Dance Mixes)

LABEL: Columbia

DURATION: 15:16

RELEASE DATE:  November 23, 2009

Every Christmas, I have to get my Mariah Carey “All I Want for Christmas” fix as the song for me is just one of those “must-listen-to” Christmas songs.  And while perusing the digital online stores, I saw a digital single release of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” featuring 2009 dance mixes by Low Sunday.  Low Sunday recently did a remix for Mariah Carey’s “I Want to Know What Love Is”.

I know there will be some who will roll their eyes and thinking “why must they remix this song”?  But I figured, it’s a pretty fun song, why not give it a try.

Dance remix for “All I want for Christmas” is a pretty solid, upbeat dance mix version.  As for three songs on the single, they are very much alike, so you can pretty much either go for the first track or the extended version (the third track) if you are interested in purchasing one of the digital tracks (you really don’t need all three).  But personally, if you can find the original, buy the original version of the song and if you want a remixed, upbeat house mix the track then definitely check this single out.

Whitney Duncan – ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU (a J!-ENT World Groove CD Single Review)

“Country singer Whitney Duncan’s cover of the popular Mariah Carey Christmas classic.  With so many terrible covers of the song, fortunately Duncan’s cover is among the better ones out there.”

ARTIST: Whitney Duncan

CD SINGLE: ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU

LABEL: Warner Bros./Nashville

DURATION: 4:07

RELEASE DATE: November 4, 2008

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Whitney Duncan definitely was a welcome site on USA Network’s “Nashville Star” as the beautiful blonde vocalist from Scotts Hill, Tennessee reached fifth place on the televised competition.  Since the show, Duncan was signed by Warner Bros. and has one major label CD single release with “When I Said I Would” and an upcoming album planned in 2009.

But with the Holidays coming soon, Duncan released a cover of the popular Mariah Carey Christmas song “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU”.  Let me say that Mariah Carey’s version is quite awesome and I have heard various covers of this song (from around the world) that really haven’t done it justice.

Having listened to Whitney Duncan’s, fortunately I can tell you that her version is pretty cool and goes pretty conservatively in her own cover version and doesn’t stray away from the musical style that made the original so popular.

Duncan’s version has more of an electric guitar accompaniment towards the end with a slight hint of Country in terms of the musical arrangement but all in all, it’s a pretty well-sung.  I actually enjoy Whitney Duncan’s vocals, it has a slight resemblence to Shania Twain and that is definitely not a bad thing.

Overall, a pretty fun Holiday release from Whitney Duncan.

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Whitney’s “ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU” is available only via digital release and for the upcoming Holidays, if you’re open to another cover version of the song, give her version a try.  It’s pretty cool!

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