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Justin Bieber’s Christmas Video With Mariah Carey: Creepy, or Really Creepy?

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On Wednesday, Justin Bieber released the video for his duet with Mariah Carey, a remake of Carey’s suddenly-classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” The song, released in November 1994 — just eight months after Bieber was born — didn’t really need an update, especially one with laughably blatant Nintendo 3DS product placement. But, somebody, somewhere thought it would make money (and that Michael Buble’s version wasn’t enough), and it was unleashed on the world.

In the first half of the video, Carey is dressed in a skimpy Santa outfit, and poses against a wall in various sexy poses (although she tends to go for the “back-to-the-camera-while-looking-over-her-shoulder” pose every other time the camera is on her). Bieber, meanwhile, is shopping with friends and joyfully doing that thing where people throw gifts into those ubiquitous Macy’s shopping carts. Sexy singer and teenager. Fine.

In the second part, Bieber and Carey are now together as crowds surround them. Carey is sitting in a sleigh, and Bieber eventually joins her. That’s when the sexual energy gets ramped up. The two flirt, Carey flashes her legs as Bieber stands across from her in the sleigh, and we get the idea that this might lead to something less innocent. At one point, it almost looks like they might neck. Then a puppy shows up, and the video ends.

Nothing says Christmas like product placement, cleavage, Macy’s shopping carts, and a 17 year-old Canadian who just emerged from an insane scandal where he allegedly impregnated an older woman… flirting with an older woman. Is the song good? Yes, it actually kind of benefits from Bieber’s addition. Is the video unnecessarily awkward and creepy? Absolutely. But how creepy it actually is remains up to the individual.

Watch the video below, courtesy of Bieber’s VEVO channel, and judge for yourselves:

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  • http://twitter.com/Breakingkilla99 Jason Smith

    why is it creepy? I was taught everything I know by an older woman. I wish it had been mariah carey. Before that twins of course. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Will someone please check his papers?  

  • Anonymous

    The original release was better. I guess these two needed some more Christmas money by re-releasing.

  • Jon Bershad

    WANT NINTENDO 3DS. MUST BUY NINTENDO 3DS.

    Seriously though, as someone who has no feelings good or bad about Bieber, his verse in this is awful. This better not become the version they play everywhere from now on.

  • Anonymous

    Mariah Carey’s version of “All I Want for Christmas” has been tainted. As a female, it was one of my fave. pop holiday soundtracks for its girlie vibes.

    I will not torment myself in listening to the Bieber version because I’d like my thoughts about the original to remain intact. :)

  • Anonymous

    Not creepy at all. They are entertainers, remember? Not nearly as creepy or offensive as some “entertainers” promoted & approved here at Mediaite.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2CQ7WM4AQNF5NSFBIHWRAAGIFU Nikki

    Beiber is not the problem, Mariah is being way creepy. This song is not provacative so she should not be barley clothed and acting provacative. The fact that she keeps facing the wall and looking back only says that she want so “done” from behind not be with her loved ones on Christmas.

  • Anonymous

    Wow. On one hand, this is one of my very favorite contemporary Christmas songs and I’m too old to think that Bieber is anything more than a product of a machine stamping out teen pop sensations every couple of years. So I’m not inclined to like this to begin with. But beyond the fact that Mariah is old enough to be his grandmother, this video plays like it was not only undewritten, but actually produced by Macy’s. It barely qualifies as a video. It’s just a four-minute commercial. And a bad one at that.

    But here’s the thing I find interesting: Mariah re-recorded this song last year, and you could really hear how her voice has matured. But with this video… I just replayed her original version for reference, and I don’t think she recorded tracks for the video above at all… I think they dubbed Bieber’s vocals over her original recording for a duet she didn’t actually participate in, like the duet of Unforgettable that Natalie Cole recorded “with” her father.

  • Anonymous

    Mariah Carey- the owner of the biggest cheek implants on Earth.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve never seen a Mariah Carey video before, have you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1403371222 Serumun DudeNvm Hagher

    let that boy cook.

  • Anonymous

    Mariah Carey is hot. She’s 41 so it’s a challenge for her to look young. Bieber obviously doesn’t have to do anything to look like a teenager.

  • Anonymous

    It is all very manufactured, not requiring any talent at all. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    what if you don’t think it’s creepy does that make you a creep? I didn’t see anything really wrong, the only thing I saw that was wrong was the bad acting singing together

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690550741 Michael A. Leach

    Justin Beiber is a no-talent ass clown who will most likely be in prison by the time he’s 23.

  • Anonymous

    Very, very weird.  Society is elevated more each day.

  • http://twitter.com/kathy_kitt ksqared

    I’m not sure who I’m more disappointed with, Mariah Carey or the Biebs.  I also may have to cut up my Macy’s card.  The entire thing is just icky.  Icky, icky, icky.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=14233011 Crystal McCormick Ware

    LMBO……………………………..

  • Anonymous

    All I want for Christmas is Mariah.

  • david r

    I hope the kid got to hit it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sterling-Hallbrook/100001761276049 Sterling Hallbrook

    I am absolutely perplexed as to the popularity of that little talent-and-testosterone-challenged twerp. Now, Mariah, on the other hand, is a great singer and is totally luscious. Dumb as a box of rocks, but luscious.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    “beyond the fact that Mariah is old enough to be his grandmother”
    Barely technically true, as it would be a very tight squeeze. Anyway: Coming soon! The alternative version they did for the upcoming -

    Hustler Presents Mariah Carey and Justin Bieber Xmas with the Xmost, Starring Larry Flynt as Father Xmas, and Featuring the Full Line-up of Xmen in the All-New Xbox; non-stop Xcitement!

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Possibly so – IF he does any benefits shows for the Republican Party, the Kings of Kreepy!

    (Remember what the name of the Nixon 1972 election campaign was? The Committee to RE-Elect the President, that’s what – CREEP!

  • Anonymous

    It’s the first MILF christmas carol!

  • sweetdog

    It’s creepy because JB is in it. I mean isn’t he like 12 or something?

  • Rex derWunderGott

    She should have stuck with opera; try as she might, she simply lacks sex appeal. And man, does she ever try.

    In fairness, the overreliance on shots of her facing the wall is a director’s choice not hers – tho if it’s a deliberate nod to the rumored way in which the Biebs was alleged (falsely, it appears) to have gotten that groupie preggers, that’s pretty clever.

    And now I wonder- is this an industry insider meme, that the Biebs kinda goes for them grabbing onto some wall?

  • Hartley (Buck) Macklin

    I thought it was really nice.  Not creepy at all. I think it had a sort of store mannequin come to life sort of feel to it… 

  • Anonymous

    I have an idea the kid was hoping the exact same thing.

  • Anonymous

    Sex sells. Simple as that

  • Anonymous

    On her booty or face? 

  • Anonymous

    Its pre-teen girls’ fault that the Biebs is successful. Its no doing of his own 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PNLB7H72W7GYKJHQ3RZE5G3PSA Stuart B

    Yawn….

  • Michael Holland

    But there are no cameo appearance shots. I”m surprised Elmo or Willie Nelson wasn’t somewhere in this. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1011553247 Abbas Abedi

    What happened to Beiber? Looks like a backstreet boy!

  • Anonymous

    “she simply lacks sex appeal.”

    I never realized you played for the other team.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002953350939 MrLawless Antipc

    Yeah, every year I watch her original music vid for this song.  She was so cute.  It was perfect, no reason for this mess.. other then money.

  • http://twitter.com/medbob Bob Kellum

    Come on….  In the words of one of my favorite Sergeants…  ”Lighten up, Francis!”
    It’s a feel-good remake.  It has some interesting vocal twists.
    Must you drip venom for everything?  Sheesh…

  • Anonymous

    Not the world’s best video – but hardly worth slamming – it’s just a duet with two pretty good singers

    As a note – I think Mariah’s original XMAS CD was one of the best ever – but I don’t mind a remake – I still got the original

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Jason, whatever you’re drinking, I owe ya one. Cheers and a hat tip, sir.

  • J Bianca Jackson

    Yeah, at least in my household, “All I Want for Christmas” was an instant classic and the album has been 1 of  only 3 contemporary Xmas albums to consistently be in rotation at my family’s house every year for the last 15+ years.

    If I understand correctly, this is a charity album, so the blatant commercialism is to help someone, somewhere in need…

  • Thomas Estes

    Ouch. Okay we know that Mariah likes them young. I was struck by the irony of the song about not wanting presents juxtaposed with images of Bieber going on a shopping spree through Macy’s, then handing out swag to the huddled masses.

    It was like political hypocrisy in convenient music video form.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3CVIUD6XBKYWNXGBZIUBAFXOYU joyus1

    The entire video was in my opinion a commercial. I was fairly disgusted by Mariah Carey’s “costume” touching herself, and her looking back from facing the wall with her legs spread apart while singing. What the hell was that about? Never mind, I think I know (visibly gagging)
    At least Justin Bieber was fully dressed and interesting looking.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RHLSUVX3NCPB4OSS5BM7GZIXUE P. Capet

    mariah carey’s constant “sexy” mugging for the camera seems really odd and inappropriate for the video, esp. considering that most of bieber’s fans are little kids.  i love her voice, i love this song, i like her big xmas earrings, i like her makeup and her smile, but otherwise, she comes off as really tasteless and a little desperate.  justin bieber, on the other hand, looked cheerful as always and age-appropriate.  mariah, take a cold shower and come back for another take! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7J5PE5R5V66ZX6HIY4F7EGXSRI Joe Sloppy

    I am just thankful that he did something differant with his hair. Yay! Merry Christmas

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