![]() ![]() Say what's in this drink? (No cabs to be had out there) The neighbors might think (Baby it's bad out there) Well maybe just a half a drink more (I'll put some records on while I pour) So really I'd better scurry (Beautiful please don't hurry) My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar) My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what's your hurry?) So very nice (I'll hold your hands they're just like ice) This evening has been (Been hoping that you'd dropped in) I really can't stay (Baby it's cold outside) The female singing the first part (with male singer in parentheses). ![]() The song is about a woman inside a man's home, and she says it's time to go home, but the man tries convincing her to stay by saying it's cold outside.įor each reason she gives to leave, he tells her it's too cold, or he somehow blames the weather as to why she should stay. You know, 'this drink is going straight to my head so what's in this drink?' Back then it didn't mean you drugged me." "People used to say 'what's in this drink' as a joke. "I think it would be good if people looked at the song in the context of the time," she said. For example, one part of the song has the female singer saying, "what's in this drink?" Though some say it eerily relates to Bill Cosby drugging women's drinks, Susan Loesser said the time frame of the song's text is more geared for those in the 1940's and 50's. In the age of the #MeToo movement, it appears the lyrics written more than 70 years ago don't sit well in today's world. It's the decision of our listeners," WDOK midday host Desiray said, adding that the station's listeners help develop the holiday song lineup. WDOK Christmas 102.1 FM in Cleveland confirmed last week it pulled the song from its rotation after getting complaints from listeners who claimed the song conjured undertones of sexual harassment. But ever since Cosby was accused of drugging women, I hear the date rape thing all the time." I would get annoyed because it's a song my father wrote for him and my mother to sing at parties. "Way before #MeToo, I would hear from time to time people call it a date rape song. "Bill Cosby ruined it for everybody," Susan Loesser told NBC. Susan went as far to blame Bill Cosby for music listeners getting so politically correct that a Cleveland radio station pulled the song from its rotation of Christmas music. Susan Loesser, 74, told NBC this week that her father, Frank Loesser, had no ill-will when he wrote the song in 1944 for him and his wife to sing at Christmas parties. She said the song has no correlation to date rape or any reasons why it was probably shelved at one radio station. Silly me, but it seems to be a playful and almost coyish exchange between two adults set to a great melody.A woman whose father wrote the Christmas song "Baby, It's Cold Outside," said people have the meaning of the song all wrong. I can say that I like hearing various versions of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton and Lee Ann Womack & Harry Connick Jr. I’ve also been told by some that I’m clueless when it comes to not being aware if someone is flirting with me. I’ve been told by more than a few people that I’m a prude. Rather its about making a mountain out of a grain of sand when it comes to demanding the rest of the world rewrite history - cultural and otherwise - to reflect their self-center of the universe views of what the world is or has been. This is not an attempt to deflect from their point, regardless of how culturally moot 1949 is compared to today’s social mores that make the Roaring ‘20s look like a repressed version of the Victorian Age. Not a peep from the people demanding the banishment of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” was made at the time about the worst genre of rap music that leaves nothing to the imagination about the glorification of rape of sexual harassment. ![]()
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