people complain about too many things these days.. they are SOOOO OFFENDED!
For sure.. it's not exactly an xmas song of the older days.. but it's a holidays wintery song.. i like it and it should be left alone... it was news on my facebook feed that a station in wi. took it off the air as well! ugh!
As I wrote elsewhere, I don't know if offensive is the right word. I think there are a lot of competing definitions of what it means for something to be offensive. An example I used elsewhere is Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell." There's a lot of adversarial gender relations there, and sex being used as a bargaining chip in relationships. Those are horrible things to base real-life interactions on. But I do like the album and play it regularly in the car as I drive.
The underlying problem for me in both cases is that the songs are an obfuscated discussion about something that should be discussed openly; attraction, sex, and consent. There's a place for that kind of art, and it explores things that are relevant to people's lives. That's what art, in part, ought to do.
But I think neither Meatloaf nor "It's Cold Outside" are well-suited to being played as background holiday muzak. I'm happy to hear that people are choosing not to play it anymore.
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For sure.. it's not exactly an xmas song of the older days.. but it's a holidays wintery song.. i like it and it should be left alone... it was news on my facebook feed that a station in wi. took it off the air as well! ugh!
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The underlying problem for me in both cases is that the songs are an obfuscated discussion about something that should be discussed openly; attraction, sex, and consent. There's a place for that kind of art, and it explores things that are relevant to people's lives. That's what art, in part, ought to do.
But I think neither Meatloaf nor "It's Cold Outside" are well-suited to being played as background holiday muzak. I'm happy to hear that people are choosing not to play it anymore.
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