| re: WAP, Sondheim, and the Degradation of Culture |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 10:00 pm EDT 03/18/21 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:58 pm EDT 03/18/21 |
| In reply to: re: WAP, Sondheim, and the Degradation of Culture - Singapore/Fling 05:14 pm EDT 03/18/21 |
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The song can be approached in a way where they're both in on the game
Yes, it can. And I feel that if Loesser wanted to write a song about dark seduction and rape, he would have written (and did write) "Don't Cry" instead. The playful music of "Baby It's Cold Outside" does, I think, signal that she's playing the game right along with him. The darkly seductive (and downright menacing) music in "Don't Cry" tells a different story.
Too much has been made over this whole thing.
There are better musical topics for future Christmases:
Why does Burl Ives think we're all deaf?
Exactly who would build a "Parson Brown" snowman, and what's with all this conspiring in front of the fireplace? (Enough with the conspiracy theories...)
Can that drummer twerp play ANYTHING except pa-ruppa-pum-pum already?
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