I dunno... these numbers are pretty impressive for a song that should only be looked up by the 50+ crowd... and seasonally
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I dunno... these numbers are pretty impressive for a song that should only be looked up by the 50+ crowd... and seasonally
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I'm offended that you didn't put Christmas in the thread title and instead 'old winter holiday song'
What is wrong with people these days!?!?!? Its a song from the 40s with vey different meaning that what you perceive today. People now a days need to give their head a shake
I get your point, but using your logic it'd be okay to play a song about hanging a black man from a tree?
Actually I don't get your point, does it really have a different meaning? I don't think it does...
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Likewise, my beyond friend, likewise.
Anyways, this has no impact in my life, I don't listen to the radio and I hate Christmas music.... Funny to watch all you people complaining about other people complaining.
but... read?
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”If we look at the text of the song, the woman gives plenty of indication that she wants to stay the night,” wrote Slay Belle for Persephone Magazine. “Her beau in his repeated refrain ‘Baby, it’s cold outside’ is offering her the excuses she needs to stay without guilt.” None of the woman’s lines indicate that she feels unsafe or is uninterested — they’re all concerned with societal expectations (even the “no” line expresses that she “ought” to say it). “Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not,”
It's not really all that impressive when you consider most of the popular Christmas songs pass the 100M+ mark.
White Christmas, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Jingle Bell Rock (this one's second most popular version has 50M on it's own), etc. all pass it.
Even the worst Christmas song of them all, the one that brings nothing but pain and sorrow to all that hear it has over 70M (Wonderful Christmastime).
It's a competitive airtime market out there, it's not worth it to go to bat for 'Baby It's Cold Outside' when there's a profit to be had. Do they gain anything from publicly announcing it rather than just quietly not playing it? Who knows. But these are companies desperately trying to appease to Millennial and younger now that their traditional listening audience is dying away. Like I said, it isn't much of a gamble.
Generation before boomers pretty much mostly insist that this is normal courtship.
Guys literally have to ask 100x. Any girl who doesn't say no for the first 99x is a slut. That's pretty much my take.
Just heard the song while walking through a downtown building.
Ban history, if you don't you're a bigot/rapist/misogynist/abuser/sexual predator.
I actually DID have Christmas in the title, but changed it to holidays because the song has nothing to do with Christmas except for it being winter. It usually is played a lot around Christmas, but I don't associate it with Christmas.
That was the logic in that. I seriously had it typed out and was all "this doesn't make sense" and then changed it.
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You are confused. There is nothing extreme about this song, or anything wrong with it. #liberalrevisionism at its finest :rofl:
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Guy I'm working with confirmed his grand daughter, at a Catholic school, does not have/is not allowed to have Christmas plays in Calgary. "Holidays" only.
its not really an extreme... it shows a level of thought beyond knee-jerk reaction. why do you still refuse to comment on this interpretation?
at the time the song was written things were very different than today. if anything this song was progressive, part of the long battle for equal rights, now its being demonized cause people are quick to forget what once was. if anything songs like this should be cerebrated, cause without them the shift would have never began.Quote:
”If we look at the text of the song, the woman gives plenty of indication that she wants to stay the night,” wrote Slay Belle for Persephone Magazine. “Her beau in his repeated refrain ‘Baby, it’s cold outside’ is offering her the excuses she needs to stay without guilt.” None of the woman’s lines indicate that she feels unsafe or is uninterested — they’re all concerned with societal expectations (even the “no” line expresses that she “ought” to say it). “Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not,”
haha. SJWs are so easy to bait into making themselves look ridiculous.