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Baby It's Cold Outside (rapey?) for the #MeToo generation I think this level of reaching is troubling. Again, another instance where someones feelings is now defining how things should be seen. Was someone ever raped because of this song? I think it is a bit disrespectful to the writer of the song. . . . I reallyβ
can't stay (Baby it's cold outside) . The lyrics of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' have been updated by John Legend for the #MeToo generation The new PC version of the Christmas classic is sung as a duet by Legend and fellow Voice coach Kelly Clarkson. . Oct.. 29, 2019, 5:04 PM EDT By Corky Siemaszko Baby, your ride's outside. The lyrics of Frank Loesser's venerable and contentious Christmas season song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" have received an update more befitting the #MeToo era from John Legend and comedian Natasha Rockwell. . Legend and fellow Voice coach Kelly Clarkson recorded this new version of the Oscar-winning classic for Legend's first Christmas album, which is due out next month. Based on a sampling of the lyrics provided by Legend's people, no longer is this Christmas classic about an extremely persistent fellow trying to convince a lady to spend the night with him by plying her with liquor and telling her the weather outside is frightful. . Instead of hinting at date rape, which is what some critics contend the song is alluding too, when Clarkson sings "I've gotta go away," Legend responds with "I can call you a ride," rather than just singing "baby, it's cold outside." . And when Clarkson frets about her mother starting to worry, Legend's response is "I'll call a car and tell 'em to hurry" rather than the original, "Beautiful, what's your hurry?" Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings. Sign UpThis site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of Service Other revamped lyrics were revealed in a recent Vanity Fair profile of Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen. "What will my friends think?" Clarkson sings at one point. "I think they should rejoice," Legend sings back. "If I have one more drink," Clarkson sings. "It's your body, and your choice," Legend replies. Writer Karen Valby's review? "The song's every bit as fun and swinging as the original," she wrote. Music fans will be able to decide for themselves when "A Legendary Christmas: The Deluxe Edition" is released Nov. 8 by Columbia Records. | |
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It's not rapey. Never was, never will be. I get tired of snowflake liberals (and frankly conservatives too) trying to fuck stuff up. I don't believe "Blurred Lines" was rapey either. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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What a perfectly sanitized world we're creating. Now smile and be joyous. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
This moment is all there is... | |
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This has gotten ridiculous beyond words...
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Are they going to remake Bill Cosby's Christmas song? I mean that one is rapey for sure, but jeez just leave the song alone. Some people are so sensually and sociall disconnected. | |
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Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Kinda π. He doing Cosby shit n everything. I was thinking this way b4 this metoo stuff. I know they playing but . Free Extra Loveable n Lust U Always tho π. For all time I am with you, you are with me. | |
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Mr. Legend is cooking up a sanitized remix of "Extra Loveable" where he offers a platonic car ride home during the bridge instead. [Edited 11/1/19 22:14pm] | |
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LOL
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Nawww not even close. Cosby was sneaking into peoples house and climbing down chimneys slipping stuff in the hot chocolate Hell if that is the case all my aunts my coworkers and my drinking buddies have been rapey to me lol | |
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Y'know what's too rapey? Rape.
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S2DG said: Y'know what's too rapey? Rape.
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John Legend and that full moon face wife of his are annoying as hell! I used to like John Legend but now I can't stand him! For God sake, leave the song alone, and stop trying to force others to do what you want them to do, so sick of these people! Come Christmas, I'm going to blast the original version of Baby It's Cold Outside, and I don't give a damn what John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, or anyone else thinks or feels about it! [Edited 11/3/19 10:26am] | |
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As someone who frankly believes political correctness hasn't gone far enough can I just say that changing the lyrics to this song is such a dumb idea. It may have been possible to change the lyrics if they bothered him so much but these new lyrics are so cringey and on the nose, no one is winning here. | |
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No one asked for this trash. | |
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I love the original song. My favourite version is the Tom Jones one. It's kind of funny though. Last Christmas I made a joke to my cousin saying that the way the world is now, some moron is going to complain about this song. We laughed at how ridiculous it would be if someone did. And now, just one year later, I see this bullshit about the song being "rapey". You couldn't make this stuff up. So, I'll make a prediction. Sometime in the near future, another idiot will complain about the song Santa Baby. That the woman singing is too promiscuous and that it's an insult to women to suggest that she's flirting with a married man (Santa Claus is married after all). Now, that sounds ridiculous, right? But mark my words, it will happen. | |
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EmmaMcG said: I love the original song. My favourite version is the Tom Jones one. It was actually Christmastime last year when the subject matter of the song was first questioned.It's kind of funny though. Last Christmas I made a joke to my cousin saying that the way the world is now, some moron is going to complain about this song. We laughed at how ridiculous it would be if someone did. And now, just one year later, I see this bullshit about the song being "rapey". You couldn't make this stuff up. So, I'll make a prediction. Sometime in the near future, another idiot will complain about the song Santa Baby. That the woman singing is too promiscuous and that it's an insult to women to suggest that she's flirting with a married man (Santa Claus is married after all). Now, that sounds ridiculous, right? But mark my words, it will happen. Now they've escalated to actually making preachy, sanitized PC version to avoid offending the 4 people that whined about how "rapey" the song is. | |
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Uh oh, wait till they find out about The Police' "Every Breath You Take" its not rapey though [Edited 11/5/19 2:51am] | |
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EmmaMcG, it already is happening, I heard someone on the TV talking about Santa Baby as well, saying that the woman was being too sexually flirtatious in the song | |
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EmmaMcG, it already is happening, I heard someone on the TV talking about Santa Baby as well, saying that the woman was being too sexually flirtatious in the song Hahaha. I'm speechless... | |
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Oh boy. Some people are just puritans to the core. Why doesn't the slightest 'sexual' tinged lyric offend some people.
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Bill Cosby's 'Merry Christmas Momma' now that one after all that's been revealed about Bill, I cannot listen to. But I've always thought this song was hilarous. | |
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People complaining about people complaining over this song is so old now that it's become boring. What's it been? At least ten years on now that peeps have been moaning about this? I mean, gramma got run over by a fucking reindeer, man. Where's the outrage?!
Edited to say that complaints of this song began prior to the recent metoo movement. Guess that's a new, trendy narrative to give fresh life to the "wtf is wrong with people" crowd. Head pats for all. [Edited 11/6/19 8:51am] [Edited 11/6/19 8:54am] | |
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Difference is now, people have gone on to re-record the song with lines that fit the MeToo narrative | |
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Yes, the Pied Pipers of Moaners. I'm sure it will pay well for them. | |
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In fairness, we still have the original and he's welcome to try and change it as he sees fit, we'll see if it catches on. The Fairytale of New York is still the biggest Christmas song around these parts and it's got a much more problematic line it it, and I (thankfully) haven't heard the sanitized Ronan Keating version in over a decade. | |
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jaawwnn said: In fairness, we still have the original and he's welcome to try and change it as he sees fit, we'll see if it catches on. The Fairytale of New York is still the biggest Christmas song around these parts and it's got a much more problematic line it it, and I (thankfully) haven't heard the sanitized Ronan Keating version in over a decade. I don't even remember Ronan Keating doing that song. Lol | |
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Same here with regard to Baby, It's Cold Outside; to me, the song's about a man trying to get his girlfriend to stay with him at his place instead of going home because the weather is too damn cold, walking home is impossible because of the visibility, public transit might be stuck and not working, and she foists him off with her responses. However, he eventually succeeds, and she stays.
https://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/23/the-world-isnt-a-safe-space/#comment-1924339953 | |
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20 years ago now, thankfully long forgotten. It got a fair bit of airplay at the time though. The horror. | |
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