Darlene Love Wants to Rerecord 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' as a Duet with Mariah Carey

Mar. 15, 2025

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Darlene Loveis looking to collaborate on Christmas music withMariah Carey!

“That’s her wishlist for 2023, to invite Mariah to rerecord the song with her in the studio,” Love’s rep, Len Evans, tells PEOPLE, noting that his client has always “loved” Carey but “didn’t understand” her attempt to trademark the “Queen of Christmas” title.

When news that the 52-year-old “Hero” singer filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to legally market herself as the “Queen of Christmas” broke in August, Love took to Facebook to express her thoughts.

“Is it true that Mariah Carey trademarked ‘Queen of Christmas’?” she asked in aFacebook postat the time. “What does that mean, that I can’t use that title?”

(Last month, fellow notable Christmas performer Elizabeth Chan announcedthe U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board blocked Carey’s attemptof owning the exclusive rights to the title, along with her attempts to trademark “Princess Christmas” and “QOC.")

Earlier this month, the 5-time Grammy winner praised Love in an Instagram video.

“I listened to that song every year — like, every year — and it was an homage to Darlene Love, the Queen of Christmas, Darlene Love, that we love!” said Carey. “We live for her. She can have that title forever. Like, we love that song.”

Since the video was posted,the remaining shows on Love’s holiday concert tour have completely sold out, Evans tells PEOPLE, and Carey’s fans have expressed immense support for Love.

“The last couple of shows that she was doing, they sold out right away, and a couple of the Mariah fans actually stood outside and wanted to get pictures with her,” he says. “They said, ‘Hey, we didn’t like you, but we love you now,’ and she was just happy to hear that this was all ended on a very positive note … Now, she loves [Carey] even more.”

Looking forward, he says Love would like to act as Carey’s “Queen mother” throughout the holiday season: “She says, ‘I will hand her the Christmas throne, and we will be there to support each other.”

source: people.com