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Submitted. I expect the next Mariah Carey season to come around soon and that earworm reappears.

This was originally for 2022 but obviously the servers crashed over Christmas, so it's now a 2023 song. Pretty sure Mariah Carey will be here for the next 10 years at least. The wording has gone back to "Christmas" because I realized that singing "Maxxmas" is actually harder and could cause trademark problems. Plus this is a blatant parody of an earworm, so "Christmas" it is.

IC

A white bear in a Christmas hat in the Strangers' Bar starts to sing karaoke and can be heard even in the SC campus - and it's getting louder as the Bear walks over to the Three Walled Bar, with karaoke equipment in tow....

Change history

Changes made to the lyrics as per Sedgistan and United Calanworie to comply with wording requirements. Many thanks to the Mods for their help. See below for the changes.

There had been some very minor wording changes in lyrics over the last year, mainly to revert the change from Maxxmas back to Christmas.


Submitted version

The Security Council (hereafter, “we” or "our") hereby declares and urges all member nations (hereafter "members", "nations" or "you") to bring joy to themselves and in turn to their citizens during Christmas:

We don't want a lot for Christmas
Peace and joy are all we need
No more fights over C and C, R and D and RNTs
We just want to see more peace
More citizens to say cheese
Make our wish come true
All we want for Christmas is you
(Oh... yeah)

We don't want a lot for Christmas
Hope you find more top artworks (oh yeah)
Don't care about the zombies underneath the Christmas tree
We don't need more nuclear weapons - blowin’ up the human-ity
Challenges and sports bring more joy - with a win on Christmas Day
Hippos can go on some dates
Make money on world fair trades;
Make our wish come true
All we want for Christmas is you
(Cheer up, yeah)

Oh, we won't ask for much this Christmas
We don't ever want a coup (really)
Hope you'll-all keep story-tellin' - all across the multiverse
We won't fight or argue over - shall or will or gnomes or cheese
We won't even stay awake to hear those magic hamsters click
'Cause we just want you here tonight
No instas 'n' pillow fights
What more can we do?
Oh, nations, all we want for Christmas is you
(Oh, yeah)

Uh-oh, all the lights have blown up so gone dark everywhere
(Hamsters gone home, yeah)
Still the sound of nations' laughter fills the air
(Oh, yeah)

Hope everyone start singing
We want these joyful tinglings
Members won't you get the citizens what they really need?
Won't you do some joyful good deeds?

Oh, we don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all we're asking for
We just wanna' see all nations
Spreadin' joy 'cross all the seas

Oh, we just want you to have fun
More than you could ever know
Make our wish come true
Oh yeah, all we want for Christmas..... is.... you

All we want for Christmas is you, oh yeah
All we want for Christmas is you, oh yeah

OOC

Parody.

For copyright purpose, I hereby release this parody text into the public domain.

Operative clause

I am trying to practice my comedy writing, so here you go.

This is an opinion to wish that nations ("you") can bring joy to their citizens and to show joy through singing along.

Singing advice

Sing to the melody of "All I want for Christmas is you" by Walter Afanasieff, Mariah Carey as a parody.

The parody is most popular in TNP according to a regional poll: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=194462

Caution: don't try this at home. Attempt at your own risk. May cause all your friends and family to hate you. (OK, if you live in a log cabin on your own in the middle of nowhere, fine).

Brackets indicate featuring/backup vocals. The comma after "C&C" is deliberate and indicates a break. There are quite a few half-notes with an apostrophe: "challenges", "spreadin'" etc. The semi-colon "trades" need to long have a long "s" hence I inserted a semi-colon to indicate.

Hate to grinch your effort (not really), but most definitely illegal - mention of roleplay. Use of the word “spam” is very likely verboten as well.

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:Hate to grinch your effort (not really), but most definitely illegal - mention of roleplay.

Oops. Changed it to "play-hopping"

I am more trying to inject some humour anyway

"Fight or argue" now, rather than "spam or argue"

“Play-hopping” makes no sense; storytelling would be better.

“Flaming” is against site rules, so encouraging it in a Declaration (even a tongue in cheek one) is probably going to be illegal.

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:“Play-hopping” makes no sense; storytelling would be better.

“Flaming” is against site rules, so encouraging it in a Declaration (even a tongue in cheek one) is probably going to be illegal.

Changed both. Any interest in singing this?

Simone Republic wrote:

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:“Play-hopping” makes no sense; storytelling would be better.

“Flaming” is against site rules, so encouraging it in a Declaration (even a tongue in cheek one) is probably going to be illegal.

Changed both. Any interest in singing this?

I’m more your Jethro Tull/Greg Lake/Steeleye Span type of Christmas song rather than Mariah Carey (who I can’t stand).

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:

Simone Republic wrote:
Changed both. Any interest in singing this?

I’m more your Jethro Tull/Greg Lake/Steeleye Span type of Christmas song rather than Mariah Carey (who I can’t stand).

I deliberately picked Mariah Carey because doing a parody of her song, which CNN calls an earworm, is easier and legally on much safer ground.

Even The Economist has parodied it with an article titled "all I want for Christmas is... something else"

Yes.

Full support 10/10 proposal .

"Full support!"

Imperial Japanese Nation wrote:"Full support!"

OOC: whoops that's my puppet...

"Full support,"

Okay, this is actually funny.

FULL SUPPORT

yes!!!! Mariah Carey is amazing

But like actually, full support.

Say you’re trying to outdo me without saying you’re trying to outdo me /j. In reality, I don’t mind whoever gets a resolution passed. I have plenty more ideas. But my one critique for this lovely draft, is the abhorrent rhyming of night with tonight. Have standards. Maybe change it to “Coming together with no fights”

Pfft. Screw this. I don't want you for Christmas. I want a pony.

Wrapper wrote:Pfft. Screw this. I don't want you for Christmas. I want a pony.

i want a ford-f150 with an extended cab and 6 tires so same ig

For. But please add that I also want to turn into a west highland terrier

Nigeria Number Two wrote:Say you’re trying to outdo me without saying you’re trying to outdo me /j. In reality, I don’t mind whoever gets a resolution passed. I have plenty more ideas. But my one critique for this lovely draft, is the abhorrent rhyming of night with tonight. Have standards. Maybe change it to “Coming together with no fights”

I need to check the rhyming this weekend but anyway I plan to submit this by Christmas Day EST

Edit: that's the line "holding on to me so tight" in the original lyrics, I changed it to "join together with no fights"

I think I can mention pony and puppy but not car brands...

You're missing a verse at the end! Sorry!

Torn between my apprecation for this creativity and my hatred for this song.

Tinhampton wrote:You're missing a verse at the end! Sorry!

It's missing the bridge but the rhyming is actually quite hard on that one, especially as that line is belted. And need to refresh onto a slightly different topic..Working on that...

Wrapper wrote:Pfft. Screw this. I don't want you for Christmas. I want a pony.

I want a hippopotamus! After all, it is the opinion of this Assembly that they are “really very large”.

Hulldom wrote:

Wrapper wrote:Pfft. Screw this. I don't want you for Christmas. I want a pony.

I want a hippopotamus! After all, it is the opinion of this Assembly that they are “really very large”.

You can go on a date with a hippo now in Draft 2. The draft has also been revised to reflect that all the hamsters running in the basement went home for Christmas so all the lights went out. The hamsters obviously refer to the Mods but I can't say Mods, so hamsters it is.

This is going to get submitted as soon as the gameside servers are back up - come hell or high water.

This is a really good parody of Mariah Carey's Christmas Song!

This has been submitted. Let's see what happens...