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re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’
Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:41 am EST 12/21/15
In reply to: re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’ - pierce 10:30 pm EST 12/20/15
I can be as PC as the best of them, but I always saw this song as a seduction duet for two equals (the line about what's in the drink suggests the woman still has control of her faculties). It is from a time when you couldn't simply write "Let's Stay the Night Together." It's a song for sophisticated adults, who enjoy a nightcap, a cigarette, and whatever else may happen. I don't find it "rapey" at all.
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re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’
Posted by: Chromolume 01:14 am EST 12/21/15
In reply to: re: The creepiest classic of all: What should we do about ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside?’ - BruceinIthaca 12:41 am EST 12/21/15
It's also a great example of oblique lyric writing. Her coy suggestion that she really can't stay is answered in turn with a coy excuse about the weather, etc...both of them not quite ready to say what they both know they really want. (He doesn't sing "but baby, stay here with me and let's get it on" - he simply suggests that it's too cold out there for her to leave, knowing she'll read between the lines. And then she answers back with another excuse, etc.) It's a game. A sophisticated game, as you pointed out. All in fun.
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