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Mariah Carey suffers almighty Twitter blunder while announcing new Christmas song
Mariah Carey, Kirk Franklin and Khalid are teaming up for a new Christmas song (Picture:AP/Getty)
Mariah Carey has teamed up with Khalid and Kirk Franklin for a brand new Christmas song set to storm the charts this holiday season, but the announcement didn’t quite go to plan.
New track Fall In Love At Christmas is set to be released in just two days, on November 5, with Mariah announcing the news and sharing a short clip of the song with fans this morning.
Taking to Twitter, the chart-topper tagged her collaborators and wrote: ‘Fall in Love at Christmas … Out 11/5’.
At least, she thought she had tagged her collaborators.
Mariah actually tagged the wrong Khalid in the tweet, accidentally sending her 21 million followers to the page of a random person.
This person is also called Khalid, and has a similar Twitter handle to the Young Dumb And Broke singer, but that’s where the similarities end: this Khalid has just 115 followers (compared to music star Khalid’s 4.9million) and has just one tweet reading ‘wats up’.
Mariah was quick to add another tweet, correctly tagging the real Khalid and writing that he ‘is actually on it’.
But the original tweet stayed up, and fans flocked to the wrong Khalid’s page to jokingly congratulate him on his collaboration with one of the world’s biggest music acts.
‘Khalid I love your music’, one person wrote. ‘Congrats on the collab with Mariah.’
‘You have a collab w Mariah wake up bestie!!!’ another joked, while one added ‘support your song dude can you at least retweet’.
One wrote simply: ‘GET READY TO SINNNGGG’.
No, Mariah Carey is not collaborating with a random person with 115 followers who has not tweeted since 2012 (Credits: Greg Pace/REX/Shutterstock)
Fall In Love At Christmas sounds far more toned-down than the absolute anthem that is All I Want For Christmas Is You, as the singers duet about, well, falling in love at Christmas.
But while the clip is short, it does feature one of Mariah’s iconic whistle notes, which was already enough to send fans into a frenzy.
‘Literally falling in love with this song right now!!!’ one fan wrote. ‘That whistle, the magical tone, the sound!’
Another added: ‘That whistle oh Lord the collapse’.
Mariah’s 1994 track All I Want For Christmas Is You rockets up the charts each year (though only reached number one for the first time last year), but it remains to be seen how the newest song will fare.
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The music icon celebrated the end of Halloween and marked her return as queen of the charts with an incredible video posted to Twitter yesterday which saw her smash up pumpkins with a candy cane,
Announcing ‘It’s time’, the 51-year-old went into full Christmas mode, donning a sparkling Santa suit and throwing snow in the air as the opening notes to All I Want For Christmas Is You began blaring in the background.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Fall In Love At Christmas is out on November 5.
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