Our local news Tuesday morning reported on a song
that had run afoul of the #MeToo movement – “Baby It’s Cold Outside.” This
isn’t a song I am familiar with, so I had to look it up. Here’s a couple of
links on the brouhaha.
The song was written by popular Broadway
composer Frank Loesser, who originally performed it as a humorous number with
his wife. But the lyrics, in today’s context, have taken on somewhat more
sinister connotations.
Now, I do realize that when the song was
written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems
very manipulative and wrong. The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and
people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women
the voice they deserve, the song has no place.
I won’t lose any sleep over the absence of this
song. It doesn’t fit my Christian viewpoint. Nevertheless, I wonder why it in particular got picked on? The various musical media is full of vile and vulgar
songs that are available for regular consumption. This one seems “sinister-lite” in comparison.
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