| 'Baby, It's Cold Outside': Holiday tradition or date-rape anthem? | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 10:41 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 10:35 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| At first, I thought this Huffington Post video was a satire, but I guess there are folks who really have a lesser opinion of Loesser's original party tune. The commentator says it's clearly a song about predatory ''seasonal scumbags,'' and that recently the roles of the man and woman have been reversed in the song, to take some of the offensive edge off of it, like the version with Lady Gaga and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Uh, no. In ''Neptune's Daughter'' (1949), the film it was introduced in, there are TWO versions of the tune: Ricardo Montalban tries to get Esther Williams to stay 'cuz ''Baby, It's Cold Outside'' (which the Huffington Post highlights), and then the roles are reversed in a reprise: Betty Garrett tries to get Red Skelton to stay 'cuz ''Baby, It's Cold Outside'' (which the Huffington Post doesn't mention or highlight). (The tune went on to win the 1950 Oscar for Best Song.) By the way, with so many celebrity versions of this song, why did HuffPost choose to feature what seem to be its own less-than-stellar singers? |
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| Link | Huffington Post: 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' - Festive tradition or date-rape anthem? |
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