Yes! It's slow and kind of sultry. Some versions are sped up a tad too much and they lose that sultry vibe.I like the Rod Stewart, Dolly Parton version.
¡Precisamente!I don't get the attitude here. Are you...angry because some people don't interpret a song the same way you do? Believe it or not, there are some rebels around who don't take knee-jerk offence to everything.
Or Frank Sinatra's "I'm Walking Behind You". FWIW, I don't like either song. As for the song sending "wrong messages" ... take a listen to any of the rap/hip-hop stations for more than 1-2 songs. Oh vey!If “Baby It’s Cold Outside” puts your panties in a bunch then you should listen to the Police’s “Every Breath You Take”.
Just because the concept of consent wasn't as elevated (or even understood) back in those days as it is now, it doesn't make the song any less creepy. The woman wants to go home, the guy is doing everything he can to convince her to stay the night, including plying her with alcohol. At the time it was considered "cute," just like Anthony Michael Hall sweet-talking Molly Ringwald into giving him her underpants so he could show his nerd friends in Sixteen Candles was considered "cute" in the 80's. Today that would be considered sexual assault and AMH would be expelled from school.
I'm not calling for the song to be banned or anything - in fact I rather like it. But let's call a spade a spade here, the song is about date rape.
I love that movie too! I also love the song and don't consider it a "date rape" song at all.
For those who have not seen the movie, wait until the second part of the song when Red Skelton sings it.
I think that when we look into any work of fiction from a generation or more ago, we're going to see things that simply don't fly with modern audiences. Hell, half of the things the kids did in the teen movies I watched in the 80's would be crimes today. Anthony Michael Hall brought a GUN to SCHOOL in The Breakfast Club, and got Saturday detention for his efforts. Today he'd be in prison. Try explaining that to your preteen daughter when she watches the show.
The Flintstones did a commercial for Marlboros. Half of the Bugs Bunny cartoons I used to watch have intensely crude portrayals of Japanese or Mexicans. Song of the South may be a cute move, but it's hella racist.
Baby It's Cold Outside is a cute song, but it's hella rapey.
Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever asked 'cause
What you don't understand is I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah)
Throw my hand on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah)
Oh oh, I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for ya baby
But you won't do the same
No, no, no, no
I think its funny when people are horribly offended by people being offended.
She picks up her alcoholic beverage, takes a sip and asks whats in this drink? It has a cute tune, but yeah, its rapey. The movie makes it worse.
This actually happens to people and its actually pretty un-cute when it does.
Say it once more with feeling. The what's in this drink line isn't about date rape in the least.