“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is not a Christmas song, but like "Jingle Bells" and "Winter Wonderland," we only hear it at Christmastime because of the snow mentioned in the lyrics. And speaking of lyrics, those are what make people argue about the song. In its first few decades, it was just a flirty song that echoed the way romance was done at the time. Eventually it started to become clear how problematic those lyrics are.
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” was written in 1944 by Broadway songsmith Frank Loesser, and he and his wife performed it as a novelty song at parties, where other guests loved it. You can see why no one back then would think twice about a married couple singing the song to get a laugh. But then it went to the movies. By the 21st century it was known as the date rape song, with the man coercing the woman to stay all night with him and her wondering what was in her drink.
But while we've come a long way in "how romance is done" since the 1940s, some of the lyrics in the 77-year-old song didn't mean what modern audiences think they did. Get an explanation of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" at Mental Floss.
When we get new tenants at the apartment complex who are problematic - drinking, smoking, fighting, breaking all the rules etc - typically you can hear Baby It's Cold Outside coming though the walls.
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One of my favorites. The Dean Martin version is by far the best. Menzel/Buble have the best alternative take.
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Also, despite it's reputation, it's very unifying. . .
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chyna
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Regardless of original intentions, yeah, I've always found this song really, really cringe. Long before it became widely controversial, but for all the same reasons.
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I would like to thank Slay Belle for the context relevant interpretation of the song. It shows an effenct that the way one and the same thing is interpeted in a different context / time. Just imagine how the meaning of even older texts may have percieved / interpreted in a different manner.
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It's odd to listen to old favorite songs and realize that they're really disturbing. I recently listened to Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting", which was one of my favorite songs when I was a teenager. Now I realize that it's about a man who is waiting until a young girl becomes old enough to consent to sex.
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WOKE strikes AGAIN!
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I am waiting for Happy Birthday to You to be banned for the word “dear.”
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I feel like I sing the Birthday song wrong sometimes. Like sometimes I say "Happy Birthday TO ___" instead of "Happy Birthday Dear ____"
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OMG! I think that's one of the nicest things anyone's ever done for me. Thank you. It means a lot since I just got out of the hospital this morning. I hope all of you at Neatorama have a truly blessed holiday season and may 2022 be so much better for us all.
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