Christmas FM to pull 'Baby it's Cold Outside'

1800_Ladladlad · 03-12-2018 12:58am

Will santa be allowed to say HOE HOE HOE next year or there after?

nullzero · 03-12-2018 12:59am

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Will santa be allowed to say HOE HOE HOE next year or there after?

Definitely a micro aggression.

eviltwin · 03-12-2018 1:30am

Dr_serious2 wrote: »

The Irish station also have.

yeah but not because of its content, one of the dj's is doing the current AMA and confirmed as much.

Mam of 4 · 03-12-2018 1:32am

Dr_serious2 wrote: »

The Irish station also have.

Go to the AMA thread and you'll find the reason why Christmas fm here aren't playing it .

Purple Mountain · 03-12-2018 1:34am

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Go to the AMA thread and you'll find the reason why Christmas fm here aren't playing it .

Yes and its less juicy than is been made out!

Suckit · 03-12-2018 1:38am

https://i.imgur.com/Ue0qGGc.jpg

Suckit · 03-12-2018 2:00am

Partially quoted from other thread

ChristmasFM: Ronan wrote: »

The Official thinking here is that we'll be open to playing an updated version of this song if someone was to modernise it to not be a male asking a female to reconsider and make it more relevant / easier to explain to kids who listen. Thats not Pro-Feminism in my opinion, but we've loads of other amazing songs we can play and its just not worth the hassle or our focus.

In the original movie, the roles are switched halfway through the song. So it's not a male asking a female to reconsider..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

RabbleRouser2k · 03-12-2018 5:25am

Suckit wrote: »

Partially quoted from other thread

In the original movie, the roles are switched halfway through the song. So it's not a male asking a female to reconsider..

The strange thing is, Baby it's cold outside is actually about women owning their sexuality, not 'date rape'. It's essentially sexual liberation, not supposed 'rape culture'.

The people trying to ban it are those who do the 'slut walks'. They don't get that it's very liberal, ahead of it's time in many respects.

https://www.indy100.com/article/baby-its-cold-outside-consent-song-drink-spiked-feminist-feminism-christmas-misogyny-8084571

prinzeugen · 03-12-2018 5:42am

Back in 1997ish, we won a big goodie bag from the old Vrigin Radio 1215mw.

It was the only station we could get in the tractors and the breakfast show was looking for "PC" lyrics to a Robbie Williams song as it would cause issues in the USA.

Original words

"My breath smells like a thousand fags and when Im drunk I dance like my dad"

We phoned in with " My breath smells like a million smokes and when im drunk I dance like my folks".

Never checked to see if RW used it! We did get the goodie bag and a verbal warning for misuse of the work phone however!

Just reword it but not make it over PC.

daheff · 03-12-2018 8:36am

more snowflake nonsense.

Its a song ffs

facehugger99 · 03-12-2018 8:38am

Suckit wrote: »

Partially quoted from other thread

In the original movie, the roles are switched halfway through the song. So it's not a male asking a female to reconsider..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

The image does seem slightly rapey.

WoollyRedHat · 03-12-2018 9:18am

It's not even that cold outside to be fair.. Something something Global warming.

Floppybits · 03-12-2018 9:21am

theguzman wrote: »

Next to get the chop is Fairy Tale of New York over the inclusion of the word "******". These type of people won't be happy until all Christians are executed I think.

If only we were that lucky not to have fairytale of new york inflicted on us every 15 minutes.

Outlaw Pete · 03-12-2018 9:50am

theguzman wrote: »

Next to get the chop is Fairy Tale of New York over the inclusion of the word "******".

Next on the list is Eartha Kitt, apparently, for portraying women as being materialistic and Mariah's in the their crosshairs too for having the cheek to want a man person.

I had actually thought this one was taking the piss, especially given her comments on I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, but nope, bizarrely she's completely serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDnr2s9yxQ

WoollyRedHat · 03-12-2018 9:59am

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Next on the list is Eartha Kitt, apparently, for portraying women as being materialistic and Mariah's in the their crosshairs too for having the cheek to want a man person.

I had actually thought this one was taking the piss, especially given her comments on I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, but nope, bizarrely she's completely serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDnr2s9yxQ

Surprise surprise the comments are disabled for her videos.. Can't take ridicule. These people scare me.

Captain Obvious · 03-12-2018 10:16am

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Next on the list is Eartha Kitt, apparently, for portraying women as being materialistic and Mariah's in the their crosshairs too for having the cheek to want a man person.

I had actually thought this one was taking the piss, especially given her comments on I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, but nope, bizarrely she's completely serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDnr2s9yxQ

Of course she is. She is like the left version of Alex Jones. Made famous mainly by the threats of rape and murder made against her following her stupid game trope videos.

Cienciano · 03-12-2018 10:27am

touts wrote: »

Grandma got run over by a reindeer - Clear case of Elder abuse

I think this song should be banned. By all radio stations.

Captain Obvious · 03-12-2018 10:29am

I wonder when they will be editing the rapey scenes from the Bond movies. Has to be the next big outrage.

3DataModem · 03-12-2018 10:35am

greencap wrote: »

ok. actually a bit rapey. but only cause its a theatrical performance.

Really, nobody was following anything but the tune up until these loons started their shyte.

was anyone actually imagining these semi-rapey shenanigans?

that video is 10 times more graphic than anything i'd pictured when the song was in my head.

This movie is Neptune's Daughter, and the song is actually performed twice by two different couples with the words / roles reversed.

nullzero · 03-12-2018 10:35am

Captain Obvious wrote: »

I wonder when they will be editing the rapey scenes from the Bond movies. Has to be the next big outrage.

James Bond, the spy, who upon reflection engaged in what I now deem to have been unwanted sexual activity with me(my book will be in all major retailers before this storm in a teacup blows over).

Berserker · 03-12-2018 10:37am

theguzman wrote: »

Next to get the chop is Fairy Tale of New York over the inclusion of the word "******".

I can see this coming down the line and I'm surprised that it hasn't happened already. If you or I used that term in work today, we'd be in excrement up to our necks. I'd be delighted as I've grown to dislike the song over the last few years. "Do They Know It's Christmas" should be banned also. Something odd about drunk first world folk belting that out like it's a pop tune.

Plopsu · 03-12-2018 10:39am

"The Official thinking here is that we'll be open to playing an updated version of this song if someone was to modernise it to not be a male asking a female to reconsider and make it more relevant / easier to explain to kids who listen. Thats not Pro-Feminism in my opinion, but we've loads of other amazing songs we can play and its just not worth the hassle or our focus."

More mealy-mouthed, annoying and jumbled than the American station's reasons. Okay if a women does it, sexual harassment if a man does it.

whisky_galore · 03-12-2018 10:40am

Next: the Supreme Being aka God, criticized for non consentual behaviour in Galilee c. 0 AD.

nullzero · 03-12-2018 10:44am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Next: the Supreme Being aka God, criticized for non consentual behaviour in Galilee c. 0 AD.

He also forced Mary to have the baby, surely her choice should have been respected.

eviltimeban · 03-12-2018 11:07am

SingleMalt wrote: »

This is a song that should be embraced by feminists as it is not about a woman being 'manipulated' by a man but rather it is about a woman trying to break free of social convention. She wants to stay & have some fun but is afraid of being judged by family & society.

Exactly, and at that time the phrase "what's in this drink?" didn't refer to roofies or date rape, more like "this is stronger than I thought" / "I can't hold my drink".

I love Baby It's Cold Outside. I have the She & Him version on my Christmas playlist.

What I object to is the overplaying of the 70s / 80s Christmas songs - Shakin Stevens, Slade, Wizzard, Wham etc. Just sick of them. I know the popularity of Christmas songs peaked at that time, which is why there's so many of them, but there's been Christmas songs and albums since then - Smith & Burrows, for one. Why can't shops etc play those?

TCM · 03-12-2018 11:07am

P_1 wrote:

That horiffic Slade song would be nice.

P_1 wrote:

Actually for the sake of everyone who has had to work retail can we just ban the lot?

Don't know how somebody can stand at a counter and listen to dreadful xmas songs for over a month. Would drive me crazy.

eviltimeban · 03-12-2018 11:08am

TCM wrote: »

Don't know how somebody can stand at a counter and listen to dreadful xmas songs for over a month. Would drive me crazy.

I used to work in retail and the shop had one Christmas CD, which was played, on repeat, from 8am to 9.30pm every day, for a month before Christmas. I can still remember the tracklisting and I grew to hate every one of those songs. It took me years to get over it.

TCM · 03-12-2018 11:08am

theoneeyedman wrote:

Well.... she does call him a cheap lousy ******, clearly hate speech and should be banned as a result.

What a load of nonsense.

setanta1000 · 03-12-2018 11:08am

biko wrote: »

Snowflakes ruining everything

Except Christmas

vangoz · 03-12-2018 11:29am

Dr_serious2 wrote: »

Catholic Church did a lot of banning in its heyday. They also spent a lot of time telling people there was only one way to think on the issues of the day and that anyone who differed from it should be excluded from social discourse.

The 'tolerant' politically correct types can't see any similarities but they seem just the same to me.

Can you define what 'tolerant' politically correct type are exactly? And are you seriously comparing the what the Catholic church done to this non-issue?

Christmas FM to pull 'Baby it's Cold Outside'

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