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

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...

I see C R O I X and think "kwah" (because I studied French in my otherwise completely inadequate education).... It makes approximately zero linguistic sense, but ok.

Tell it to the residents of Des Plaines, IL.

but Mordy what about all the Xmas songs by Jews

quite a few jews involved in the gospels too

Maccabees nipping at your nose...

Silver bells, silver bells, it's bagel time in the deli...

In the stores some gentile's paying retail

I was pleasantly surprised that a discussion of this fuckin song came up at a party in Sept (whyyyy?) and two people started doing the "it's so raaapppeey" kneejerk attack and my friends H@ye5 and C1ndy actually criticized that view and the other two people seemed shocked cos nobody had ever challenged that bit of received wisdom before

still have never heard this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Rbkcxiibw

and if you'd like somewhat less ambiguous but equally catchy ray charles abuse songs, heres one where he ends by threatening to bludgeon his wife to death with an axe handle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUX2E_3uxSY

Pronouncing lingerie as lonzheray makes zero linguistic sense too but that doesn't stop Americans. BTW I live in Atlanta, GA and I've never heard anyone pronounce the drink as anything but La Croy.