How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it)
Adam Ragusea
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My name is Adam Ragusea. I cook in my house, and I show you how you can too (in your house, not mine). I like to use my head when I cook, but I have no time for being fussy or fancy. I post a recipe video every Thursday, and some other kind of video about food every Monday (usually with science). I also... am married to Lauren Morrill: https://laurenmorrill.com/ write music: https://soundcloud.com/aragusea make silly podcasts about music with my friend Meg: https://megandadamlistento.wixsite.com/website am a dad: [They're not old enough to have links yet.]
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Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/adamragusea12201 My original 2014 Slate article (republished in 2015), "All I Want for Christmas Is Diminished Chords: Why Mariah Carey’s immortal holiday classic sounds so darn Christmassy": https://slate.com/culture/2015/12/mariah-careys-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you-a-musicological-explanation-of-why-the-song-sounds-so-christmassy.html The 2016 video that Vox made, "The secret chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy": https://www.vox.com/videos/2016/12/21/14043244/secret-chord-makes-christmas-music-christmassy Adam Neely's 2016 video responding to the Vox video (I've never brought myself to watch it all the way through, so don't ask me specifics about it): https://youtu.be/V5WfgMVtueo
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