I think John should've just left it alone," she said. He should write his own song if he doesn't like this one, but don't change the lyrics. I think what he's done is he's stealing the thunder from Frank Loesser's song and from my dad. Speaking in defense of her late father, Dean Martin, who performed an iconic rendition of the song in 1959, she continued: "He's made it more sexual with those words that he has just said. "You do not change the lyrics to the song," Deana Martin said last month on Good Morning Britain, according to The Daily Wire. People on Twitter weren't the only ones discussing the new approach to the wintertime standard.
While I commend efforts to make “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” less creepy, I feel like the lyrics could have used a polish.
"Do us a favor and PC your own music! Do not destroy classics!"Īnother viewer called the rendition "hot garbage." Yet another said that he was "no fan" of the performance and that the "original was much better." "Kelly Clarkson and John Legend just sang classic 'Baby Its Cold Outside' and they managed to destroy it with their PC version of it," one viewer tweeted. However, following their Tuesday night performance on The Voice, both Legend and Clarkson were criticized on Twitter for the new, progressively minded lyrics. "Finally, a version of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' you can listen to without worrying about the questionable social implications," Vulture wrote Wednesday about the revamped song. The public radio organization said the 1944 song's lyrical content rings "date-rape warning bells."Īs Newsweekreported last month, Vanity Fair wrote that listeners can now hear Clarkson singing "What will my friends think?" and then Legend's reply: "I think they should rejoice." Clarkson continues by asking, "If I have one more drink?" Legend's answer: "It's your body, and your choice." The release follows the controversy provoked by the song's lyrics in the #MeToo era, which prompted many radio stations to "pull the plug" on it this time last year, NPR reported.
On Tuesday's episode of The Voice, NBC's hit talent-competition series on which Legend and Clarkson are both judges, the vocalists performed their version of the song, which was released in early November. Grammy-winning singers John Legend and Kelly Clarkson are taking heat for their remake of the Christmas classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside."