I think it's one of those songs that is very rooted in a cultural moment and codes that are not perceptible to the younger generations.
I always interpreted it as the woman wanting to stay but cultural perceptions have changed and the song as it is interpreted by our own cultural experiences has become wildly innapropriate.
Yeah, most of the criticism I've seen is that the song has a "no means yes" narrative because of its contemporary morals. She wants to stay, and women who wanted to fuck back then had to play coy or be called loose, or have it assumed you'd fuck any guy who asked, or whatever, but that also means there were plenty of women who said "no," meant it, and were ignored.
So it's fine if you like the song, and it's fine if it just reminds you that social mores in the 1950s were really fucked up, and I can't believe I'm giving in to op's obvious attempt to start this fight before we've even started eating our leftover Halloween candy.
Um Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in Elf will always be my fav even though its a minute long in the movie. They should have recorded it and put it on the soundtrack.
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sorry the melody and harmonies slap
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I always interpreted it as the woman wanting to stay but cultural perceptions have changed and the song as it is interpreted by our own cultural experiences has become wildly innapropriate.
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So it's fine if you like the song, and it's fine if it just reminds you that social mores in the 1950s were really fucked up, and I can't believe I'm giving in to op's obvious attempt to start this fight before we've even started eating our leftover Halloween candy.
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