| re: WAP, Sondheim, and the Degradation of Culture | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 05:20 pm EDT 03/18/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:14 pm EDT 03/18/21 | |
| In reply to: re: WAP, Sondheim, and the Degradation of Culture - Michael_Portantiere 03:37 pm EDT 03/18/21 | |
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| So for the past 5 years our entire culture (including this board) has discusses near every Christmas season how "Baby It's Cold Outside" sounds a little rapey, and only sounds a little less rapey when it's gender reversed. (I don't recall it coming up as a topic this past year, so perhaps we've all put that conversation to bed.) Not sure how you missed it. The whole song is one person saying all the reasons they need to leave the house and the other person ignoring all of their concerns while plying them with more drinks. Midway through, there's this observation: Ah, you're very pushy you know? I like to think of it as opportunistic And the ending is: Okay fine, just another drink then That took a lot of convincing! Which, just as written words, is kind of gross. The song can be approached in a way where they're both in on the game, but it can also be approached where one of them is breaking down the other. Either way, we've been talking about this song in these terms for years, so there's nothing new, interesting, nor unique to me in that observation. In any event, there's a rich irony in someone who is scandalized by the self-created thought of young girls singing about their pussies insisting that they sing instead about not being able to leave someone's house while being plied with cigarettes and booze. Seems odd to me. |
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