The Queen of Christmas has spoken — it’s not the vacation season simply but.

Mariah Carey took to Instagram on Wednesday (Oct. 2) to share a video of herself on a non-public jet, as her music “All I Want for Christmas Is You” begins to play in the background. “This is your pilot speaking. Welcome onboard, Mariah. We are headed to the North Pole,” the airplane’s captain is heard saying over the audio system earlier than a report scratch noise interrupts the festive spirit.

“Not yet!” Carey calls out. “Sorry! They always rush me.”

Carey sometimes waits till Halloween is over for her annual “It’s time” submit honoring the kick-off of the vacation season. Her iconic 1994 vacation monitor, “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for the first time in 2019 and has since ranked as the hottest vacation music of all time on the Billboard Holiday 100. 

While it’s not fairly time to hold up the mistletoe and holly, Carey introduced in August that her annual Christmas Time tour is coming again for 2024. According to a press launch, the tour can be Carey’s “grandest spectacle to date” in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of her 1994 album Merry Christmas, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. The launch additionally teased that the tour is simply the “first of many surprises” Carey has deliberate this yr.

The 20-date run will kick off on Nov. 6 in Highland, Calif., and can make stops in Los Angeles, Atlanta, D.C., Boston and extra earlier than wrapping up Dec. 17 in New York City at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Arena.

In the meantime, watch Carey shoo off the vacation season under.