"Baby It's Cold Outside" -- Holiday Song? Rapey?

Twenty years from now, kids listening to "Baby it's cold outside" are gonna find it really, really weird.

We're gonna have to explain that it has to be understood in the context of its time.

You see, it used to get cold outside.

— Zi Teng Wang (@Zi_W) December 10, 2018

Sad lols

<i>i can't believe we still have to see these fucking thinkpieces like 5 years after this thread was started/<i>

because clickbait

That's *their* excuse

Wow: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4941087

(Ceeb reversed their decision, citing audience reaction.)

I'm just dropping by to reiterate my confusion as to why the word "rapey" needs to exist.

I have no idea if I responded to it way back in 2013, but Hurting's three-item refutation of the word was OTM.

As for the song itself, I've cooled on it - it is certainly creepier to me since it became the subject of an ongoing discussion.

xxp A Bay Area station has done the same: http://www.ktvu.com/news/san-francisco-radio-station-brings-back-controversial-baby-it-s-cold-outside-

listeing to the updated version of the "baby its cold outside" song where the guy's trying to convince the woman to leave so he can jack off

— wint (@dril) December 12, 2018

Lol came here to post that

Baby I ordered you a Lyft

— Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marxist (@andymosk) December 12, 2018

Front page of the NY Times today! quoting Wm Shatner, no less.

i'm waiting to see if this culture can get any more pedantically boring

'Tis the season!

https://pitchfork.com/news/john-legend-rewrites-controversial-lyrics-from-baby-its-cold-outside/

god damn it

halloween hasn't even been yet fuck

Halloween’s kind of rapey too, come to think of it.

my new hot take: this song isn't rapey enough

Is ‘Rape Me’ a holiday song?

It is cold outside tbf

“What will my friends think...” sings Clarkson.
“I think they should rejoice,” Legend responds.
“... if I have one more drink?”
“It’s your body, and your choice.”

Smooth.

thread needs more pharaohe monch.

Telling a woman who's over for a drink "It's your body, and your choice" seems more creepy than "please stay."

it seems like the dumb articles about this song come out earlier & earlier each year

when i was a kid they didnt start putting out the holiday clickbait until the weekend after thanksgiving

I wish Two Sleepy People took over from BICO as Loesser's holiday classic. It's such a better song.

“What will my friends think...” sings Clarkson.
“I think they should rejoice,” Legend responds.
“... if I have one more drink?”
“It’s your body, and your choice.”
Smooth.

― jmm, Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:25 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

god this is like a parody of a millennial PC rewriting of the song that a boomer would come up with

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"Mele Kalikimaka is a culturally appropriative way to say Merry Christmas to you"

fwiw, I always thought Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time sounded like a father in denial trying to enforce a fun atmosphere in a dysfunctional family

just something about the frenzied tone and pacing of it

imo all christmas songs are oppressive + offensive as it christmas itself being as how it celebrates the birth of a jewish heretic in whose names millions of jews were murdered + forcibly converted

Up on the housetop, reindeer paws
Here comes castle doctrine law
Down through the chimney, to his surprise
Papa put one between his eyes

you scumbag, you maggot
you old crumbly baguette

I forget, did we discuss the version where "what's in this drink" is answered "pomegranate La Croix"?

Pronounced pah-ma-GRAN-it la-CROY

Dude I respect the intent but there are three words there and two of them are not pronounced in an idiomatic fashion. Go back to the drawing board. Songwriting is not a new art and there are, like, standards.

lacroix, as in the band of sparkling drink, is pronounced la croy

Are there any Jewish anti-Jesus carols?

Like idk

"God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
A mediocre Hebrew boy
Was squeezed out yesterday"

Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time ... just something about the frenzied tone and pacing of it

... google doesn’t seem to know a song by this title. Are you really taking the extremely chill stoner ditty Wonderful Christmastime as frenzied?

One of my friends already rewrote this song in 2014:

https://www.facebook.com/orinj/videos/10152590373516309/

jim in v: uh ok but why? I see C R O I X and think "kwah" (because I studied French in my otherwise completely inadequate education).

I know that no one says "kroyx." Where does "croy" come from? The Caribbean island of St. Croix? Uh, okay. It makes approximately zero linguistic sense, but ok.

https://amp.insider.com/how-to-pronounce-lacroix-water-2016-9

It's pronounced "la croy" because it came from the upper midwest, where people pronounce "croix" as "croy"

Apparently it's a mashup of La Crosse and the St. Croix river, which is pronounced "Saint Croy"

but Mordy what about all the Xmas songs by Jews

False messiahs roasting on an open fire...

I'm dreaming of a frum Shabbos...