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It Had To Happen: Radio Station Pulls Xmas Song Over #MeToo Movement
It was never a question of if, but when. And now a Cleveland radio station has pulled a long time Christmas classic from their airwaves, citing the #MeTooMovement. And after listening to the lyrics, it's easy to see they're not entirely wrong.
'Baby It's Cold Outside' pulled from Cleveland radio station amid #MeToo movement
As a non-fan of this uncool cruel Yule gruel, I just wish we could find an excuse to get rid of the other endless Xmas tunes, too!
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So does this mean other songs that offend the meeeetoooooers have to go, and if so, can they go to work on the stuff black stations play?
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TomSanders wrote:
So does this mean other songs that offend the meeeetoooooers have to go, and if so, can they go to work on the stuff black stations play?
LOL @ "black stations".
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LOL @ "black stations".
Perhaps it's a politically incorrect term but perhaps that refers to stations like WBLK in Buffalo.
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L.C.B.O.s have to play the 'c.d. of the month'...no two ways about it. ALL day/EVERY day for anywhere from 28 to 31 straight days. Worse rotation than a top 20 station. It drives them nuts and it should be outlawed as cruel and unusual punishment in the workplace. The latest version includes 'Baby It's Cold Outside'. What?!?!?!?!?
Maybe they could have had it pulled. Problem was I told the lady 'manning' the cash-out at my 'favourite stock-up centre' about it yesterday while picking up supplies. Doubtful they would have that song on 2 consecutive months.
The same CD every day!!! All day. Shoot me. [twice]
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If banning this song was a publicity stunt, I have to say it worked - probably wilder than the station could ever have expected. Here are just a few links to this story that have appeared on the web, a yarn that has now gone worldwide. (And these are just a small number of the ones I found.)
CTV News
Washington Post (AP story)
Yahoo.com
KRON-TV, San Francisco
KSAT-TV San Antonio, Texas
KFLY-TV, Fayetteville, La.
KGUN-TV Tucson
KWCH-TV Wichita, Kansas
HotNewHipHop
The Sun (U.K.)
The Independent (Britain)
The Independent (Ireland)
Irish Examiner
News.com (Australia)
Newshub (New Zealand)
Huffington Post
CNN
The Inquisitr
York Daily Record
Black Christian News Network
Complex
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Well, I skimmed the list of songs submitted for public approval on the station's website, looking for "Santa Baby," and there it was (Taylor Swift updating this holiday favorite for a new generation of listeners). The song's lyrics reinforce every negative stereotype I can think of re greedy females obsessed with the acquisition of luxury material possessions. But that's apparently okay for airplay.
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The sound you hear is Dean Martin and many others spinning in their graves. What's astounding is spending most of my life hearing (all of my career playing) Baby It's Cold Outside** without hearing one complaint about the song.
** written by Frank Loesser in 1944.
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I'm with you there Mike. Please say hi to Val for me.
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I'm with you there Mike. Please say hi to Val for me.
Thanks, John. Val says hi and we hope you two are enjoying your...what retirement is this, anyway?
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Gosh, you mean a radio station took advantage of a social movement to score some cheap publicity while obscuring the real meaning of the protest? I never would have believed it.
Hey, sometimes cheap publicity can be quite effective. 
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Yes Mike. Please say "hi" to Val for me as well. And Paul I'd like to suggest that you change the word "Lost" to Lots. Works better I think.
Hi John.
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"Grandma got run over by a reindeer" for explicit violence? Bob n' Doug's "12 days of christmas" for promoting excess drinking? this is silly talk.
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Well, this was pretty predictable: both Bell and Rogers now say they won't be playing "Baby It's Cold Outside" this Christmas season, either. In the case of the former, it's unlikely it was ever in their playlist in the first place.
Some Canadian radio stations pull 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'
What's really irritating about all this is that it's my understanding that the original station that started all this, WDOK in Cleveland, decided to pull the tune because one - count 'em - one listener complained.
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Well, this was pretty predictable: both Bell and Rogers now say they won't be playing "Baby It's Cold Outside" this Christmas season, either.
I'm running it on a 24/7 repeat loop in the house. My spouse is running around with her hair on fire, but I remind her that, "Baby, it's cold outside". 
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I love the sound of dentures shattering in the morning.
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Yes Mike. Please say "hi" to Val for me as well.
Val says hello. Hopes you are well.
Hi John.
Hi again, John.
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To Lee, Val, Mike, Luke & John: National Post states @ pg. 3 this morning that in 2004 (almost 15 yrs. ago) it published a tongue-in-cheek article arguing that Baby It's Cold Outside s/b immediately banned.
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If anything, I've always thought of Baby It's Cold Outside as a love song.
Any song will stand or fall based on its virtues.
A radio station can ban a song but we will make the final decision.
This one will be around a little while longer.
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Meanwhile Nicki Minaj is still on the airwaves....
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Ok here goes.
Pull these for various reasons.
White Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (replaced by Humankind)
And what about "Twas the Night Before Christmas. " Animal cruelty..On Dasher, On Prancer, etc..
What was in Santa's pipe? Smoke circling his head like a wreath???
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As a coda to this story, perhaps this, too, was inevitable:
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” Sung by Dean Martin is Number 9 on iTunes
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Yesterday, Michael Smerconish on CNN asked:
Should radio stations stop playing the holiday classic "Baby It's Cold Outside"?
Results:
No - 92%
Yes - 8%
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Tried to make it 93-7 but my vote didn't change the numbers.
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CBC now says it is restoring "Baby it's Cold Outside"to playlists.
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Ok here goes.
Pull these for various reasons.
White Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (replaced by Humankind)
And what about "Twas the Night Before Christmas. " Animal cruelty..On Dasher, On Prancer, etc..
What was in Santa's pipe? Smoke circling his head like a wreath???
At that rate, also kindly ban all Christmas Carols with the word "gay" in the lyrics...
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RadioWiz & THE Wiz are NOT the same person.
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🎅"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" could be a good target for listener faux outrage, it'd also be perfect for an SNL skit using the song, imagine the Mommy/Santa combos you could come up with... are Toronto stations even playing it anymore??
I'm surprised that the, what was it Stafford used to call them.... Leaside Lucy's, haven't petitioned radio and television to ban the Chipmunks Christmas song because it's encourages children to be greedy.
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Well, this was pretty predictable, too. A radio station in Louisville, Kentucky has pledged to play every different version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" non-stop for several hours in a row on Sunday.
"We just thought everybody should calm down," said Chris Randolph, one of the station's disc jockeys.
More here.
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Thanks to my old friend The Real Bob James for directing me to this one, the inevitable next stage in all this PC Christmas craziness:
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