Holiday song ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ frozen out by US radio station
A US radio station is giving the cold shoulder to the classic “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” removing the song from its lineup of holiday music because its lyrics are inappropriate toward women, staff members say.
The decades-old catchy song, recorded by such big names as Dean Martin, Ray Charles and Dolly Parton, recounts efforts of a man coaxing a woman to stay with him and overriding her objections.
The woman’s lines say “I really can’t stay” and “Say, what’s in this drink,” and his lines include “Beautiful what’s your hurry” and “Baby don’t hold out.”
Cleveland, Ohio, radio station WDOK took the song out of its list of holiday music due to objections from listeners, Desiray McCray, an on-air radio host, told local media late last week.
“When the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong,” wrote Glenn Anderson, another on-air host, on the station’s website.
“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.”
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December 04, 2018 at 03:44PM
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