Ohio radio station stops playing 'Baby It's Cold Outside' after listener expresses concern over song's lyrics
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Ohio radio station stops playing 'Baby It's Cold Outside' after listener expresses concern over song's lyrics
Paul’s MPL owns the music publishing
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Here are the lyrics to 'Baby, It's Cold Outside,' the Christmas song facing a radio ban
This Frank Loesser is a ladies man!
He also wrote STANDING ON THE CORNER from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
It goes:
Standing on the corner watching all the girls go by....
pub rights also owned by Paul’s MPL.
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They still play it on our Christmas station, and by other artists as well.
I don't see how overly forward that it is.
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I don't like to tell people what they should and shouldn't be offended by, everyone is different. I, however, am pretty active in women's right and think the lyrics to this song have been misinterpreted. They are, first off, a time stamp, especially since the song was written well over 50 years ago. Secondly, woman back then weren't allowed any sort of promiscuity without horrible stigma, which when you actually listen to the song is where the issue is. He is not pressuring her to stay, everyone else in her life is pressuring her to leave, SHE WANTS TO STAY AND IS DESPERATE FOR AN EXCUSE. He's giving her one. I actually think the song is progressive for back then. Just my opinion though.
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HelenWheels32184 wrote:
I don't like to tell people what they should and shouldn't be offended by, everyone is different. I, however, am pretty active in women's right and think the lyrics to this song have been misinterpreted. They are, first off, a time stamp, especially since the song was written well over 50 years ago. Secondly, woman back then weren't allowed any sort of promiscuity without horrible stigma, which when you actually listen to the song is where the issue is. He is not pressuring her to stay, everyone else in her life is pressuring her to leave, SHE WANTS TO STAY AND IS DESPERATE FOR AN EXCUSE. He's giving her one. I actually think the song is progressive for back then. Just my opinion though.
Thank you for that beautifully intelligent and objective elaboration. You are 'spot on' as our host might say!
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It's a great song, and one of the better duets for singers in modern popular music. I don't like to tell people what to be outraged about this week either, but interpreting this song as encouraging date rape is one of the most asinine things I've heard this year. And this has been a pretty asinine year.
As HelenWheels pointed out, it's just as easy to interpret it as a feminist song. Women back then, and even today, had very little sexual autonomy. Men have been trying to control women since the beginning of time. The woman in this song just wants to do what she wants rather than what is expected of her.
Ironically, the song was written for Loesser and his wife to perform at parties, mostly as a way to tell guests that it was time to go home. It's cold outside, but the party's over, so get the hell out.
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"During the 1940s, when Hollywood celebrities attended parties, they were expected to perform. In 1944, Loesser wrote "Baby, It's Cold Outside" to sing with his wife, Lynn Garland, at their housewarming party in New York City at the Navarro Hotel. They sang the song to indicate to guests that it was time to leave.[1]
Garland has written that after the first performance, "We became instant parlor room stars. We got invited to all the best parties for years on the basis of 'Baby.' It was our ticket to caviar and truffles. Parties were built around our being the closing act."[1] In 1948, after years of performing the song, Loesser sold it to MGM for the 1949 romantic comedy Neptune's Daughter. Garland was furious: "I felt as betrayed as if I'd caught him in bed with another woman."[2]
The song won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Original Song.[3][4]
Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key did a parody of the song with a "switch", on their Comedy Central show in November 2012, called "Just Stay For the Night".[5] " ~ Wiki
The Christmas Music Radio Station that I listen to has mostly Women DJs, and has played around 7 different versions of this song.
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SurSteven wrote:
They still play it on our Christmas station, and by other artists as well.
I don't see how overly forward that it is.
I agree with you SurSteven!
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William Shatner Sets Tweeters to Stunned With ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ Defense
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How ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Went From Parlor Act to Problematic
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One of the big complaints about this song is the line, "Say, what's in this drink?" Modern audiences seem to be misunderstaning it. Watch a few movies from that time period. When a character says, "Say, what's in this drink?" he's not talking about Mickey Finn. Cocktail parties were a relatively new concept at the time and not everyone knew all of the newfangled drink combinations. In westerns, they order whiskey, not cosmopolitans and lime rickeys. There's a reason for that.
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HaileyMcComet wrote:
One of the big complaints about this song is the line, "Say, what's in this drink?" Modern audiences seem to be misunderstaning it. Watch a few movies from that time period. When a character says, "Say, what's in this drink?" he's not talking about Mickey Finn. Cocktail parties were a relatively new concept at the time and not everyone knew all of the newfangled drink combinations. In westerns, they order whiskey, not cosmopolitans and lime rickeys. There's a reason for that.
Yeah, she wasn’t wondering if there was a Roofie (Rohypnol) in her drink!
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Despite #MeToo Backlash, Dean Martin's "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Hits Top 10 on Digital Song Sales Chart
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It seems to me that many backlashed songs makes the hit charts!
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jimmix wrote:
William Shatner Sets Tweeters to Stunned With ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ Defense
Really? And you didn't tell where to see it??? OfcourseIcould'vemissedit!
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I have a red nightshirt that says that! I like it. (the nightshirt that is). You gotta remember the era it was written. Don't we have enough trouble monitoring today's stuff?
