A Radio Station Banned “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” And It Experienced A Huge Genius Pageview Spike

Hey pallies, likes the bannin' of the seasonal croon made fabulously famous by our one and only Dino, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," by an Ohio radio station (see yester-Dino-day's Dino-gram as well as last Sunday's Danny G.'s Sunday Serenade With Dino), has resulted in tons and tons of more pallies searchin' the ol' world wide web for the lyrics to this Dino-classic.  And, likes that is great news for all of use Dino-holics 'cause that means more and more searchers will be surely be welcomed into our Dino's world!

Likes from the web pad of "GENIUS" whose mantra is "Genius brings music intelligence to the masses" comes wisely written words  by GENIUS staff scriber Mr. Eddie Fu, (pictured on the left), "A Radio Station Banned “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” And It Experienced A Huge Genius Pageview Spike."

As all youse Dino-philes will remarkably read below, seems our Dino has once 'gain turned lemons into lemonade as the bannin' of "A Winter Romance" from the air waves in Ohio has incredibly increased the number of hits at GENIUS for pallies wantin' to read the lyrics of the banned Dino-croon.  In Eddie's word's, "After news spread about Star 102’s decision, pageviews skyrocketed even further. From November 29 to November 30, the song saw a pageview increase of 700 percent. On December 1, pageviews rose another 120 percent for its recent peak of 20,175. It currently sits at No. 21 on the Genius Top Songs chart.

As often happens when word spreads that somethin' has been banned, it simply brings more and more interest in the subject of the ban.  We solemnly salute Mr. Eddie Wo and all the pallies at GENIUS for sharin' this noteworthy news with the Dino-world.  To checks this out in it's original source, likes simply clicks on the tag of this Dino-report.

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A Radio Station Banned “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” And It Experienced A Huge Genius Pageview Spike

“In a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place.”

Cleveland radio station Star 102 recently removed the Christmas standard, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” from its rotation after many listeners raised concerns about its lyrics. In a blog post published last week, radio host Glenn Anderson said that the song “seems very manipulative and wrong.”

“I didn’t understand why the lyrics were so bad… until I read them,” Anderson wrote. “I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong. The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given women the voice they deserve, the song has no place.”

While Anderson didn’t mention which version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Star 102 banned, the most popular cover on Genius is Dean Martin’s rendition from his 1959 holiday album titled A Winter Romance. Thanks to the approaching holidays, people were searching for the song’s lyrics and it racked up 24,195 total pageviews last month, representing a 456 percent increase in comparison to October

After news spread about Star 102’s decision, pageviews skyrocketed even further. From November 29 to November 30, the song saw a pageview increase of 700 percent. On December 1, pageviews rose another 120 percent for its recent peak of 20,175. It currently sits at No. 21 on the Genius Top Songs chart.

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is a duet between a man and woman. On the song, the woman makes it clear that she has to leave because it’s late at night, while the man tries to convince her to stay because “it’s cold outside.”

The song opens with the woman stating that she needs to go home after a nice evening together:

I really can’t stay (But baby it’s cold outside)
I’ve got to away (But baby it’s cold outside)
This evening has been (Been hoping that you’d drop in)
So very nice (I’ll hold your hands, they’re just like ice)

Later in the first verse, it’s implied that the man may have spiked her drink:

Say what’s in this drink (No cabs to be had out there)
I wish I knew how (Your eyes are like starlight now)
To break this spell (I’ll take your hat, your hair looks swell)
I ought to say “No, no, no sir” (Mind if I move in closer?)
At least I’m gonna say that I tried (What’s the sense in hurtin' my pride?)

Broadway songwriter Frank Loesser wrote “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as a duet to sing with his wife Lynn Garland, according to a biography written by their daughter, Susan Loesser. In 1948, the song was sold to MGM for the romantic comedy, Neptune’s Daughter, and it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song the following year.

Since then, the duet has been covered by dozens of artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Nelson, Kelly Clarkson, and Mac Miller, who released his version with Ariana Grande in 2012.

Read all the lyrics to Dean Martin’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” on Genius.