![]() It came up among some performers recently while riding in a van on the way to a gig in Winter Haven, said Jeremy James from the Orlando-based Caroling Company, which employs around 100 singers for holiday events all over Florida. Would the station stop playing it if people complained? ![]() Menzel-Bublé, Eldredge-Trainor and the 1959 version by Dean Martin currently occupy Billboard's Holiday 100, and the song is "extremely" popular, said Chris Conley, program director for New York City's all-Christmas music station Lite FM 106.7. (Lady Gaga has done it both ways, once with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and once with Tony Bennett.)Ĭritics thought the song might finally wane in the year of the "Weinstein Effect" and the "silence breakers," women who came forward to report harassment, being named Time magazine's "Person of the Year." Since 2014, new recordings have charted for Seth MacFarlane and Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé, Darius Rucker and Sheryl Crow and Brett Eldredge and Meghan Trainor. Meanwhile, straight-faced, traditional versions of the song have remained immensely popular. Others, like the duo She & Him, have reversed the traditional gender roles, identified as "The Mouse" and "The Wolf" in Frank Loesser's original 1949 score. The annual winter flurry of critical takes has come from celebrities, plus parodies of the song's outdated attitude toward consent from Key & Peele, Saturday Night Live and Funny or Die. ![]() We've all been enabling Dean Martin in "Baby It's Cold Outside". ![]()
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