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12 Songs of Christmas: Baby, It's Cold Outside [1]
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Date: 2022-12-20
Each day until Christmas, I am going to write briefly about a Christmas song I enjoy. Because I can, that's why. And I an unabashed corny dork.
Today’s song cannot really be called a Christmas song, but the fact that it is perfectly American. Baby, It's Cold Outside is a song of seduction. It can be song with a certain earnestness, or sweetness, or playfulness, or even with a great deal of the sinister. But it is, emphatically, about getting someone into bed. And that is not, I think, the generally accepted meaning of the Holiday Season. But it does take place in the winter, and so generations of marketing dweebs have sold it to us as a holiday song because, hey, it’s cold in December and people drink a lot. It has, therefore, through the very American application of advertising and the elevation of perception above reality, become a Christmas song.
And at the end of the day, it really can be a very good song. The song is a duet, so the first portion of each line is one singer, (traditionally the female, though it works perfectly well with the roles reversed or no gender difference) the second portion the other.
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