I read the article, waiting for the eventual condemnation, but it never came. MSN - nobody’s idea of a cultural conservative news outlet - published a piece by Kenneth Partridge last week on the “ complicated, controversial history” of the song. ![]() That makes all action, all intent, suspect.”īut I’ve seen one glimmer of hope that “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” might finally be getting the rehabilitation it deserves. Just what I wanted for Christmas!īut as a Twitter friend said to me the other day about millennial rage and this delightful little song: “I submit that one of the issues is they’ve been not just taught but incentivized to see each other as the actual enemy. In other words: a nice girl with a naughty side. She’s wanting to stay, but she’s worried about what people will think.” Or as Loesser explained: “She’s flirting like crazy. She isn’t threatened or out-of-control drunk she showed up at his place knowing exactly what she wanted. ![]() Susan Loesser backs up that interpretation, telling the Journal, “The female singer’s repeated insistence that she needed to go was halfhearted, as she too wanted to stay.” Which is exactly how every female performer in every version of this song has sung it. When I heard it, I said, ‘This can’t possibly be.’ You know, it’s a sweet, flirty, fun holiday song that’s been around for 40 years.” The same generation as the Loessers, middle age didn’t make them any less playful with one another.ĭean Martin recorded the song in 1959, and his daughter Deana told Fox News on Tuesday that she’s “flabbergasted” by the controversy. The Journal spoke with their daughter, Susan, who said that “the reference to what is in the woman’s drink was common at the time, signifying only that having an alcoholic beverage was cool.” When I was a young boy in the ’70s, I can remember on many occasions my grandmother asking the very same thing when my grandfather had poured her a stiff one, and him replying, “Nothing I didn’t make for you last night,” or words to that effect. ![]() And not just sung, but to be performed, perfectly staged, live at parties. The actual history of the tune is that Frank Loesser wrote it for himself and his wife to perform as a duet.
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