At one point the woman asks, “Say, what’s in this drink?” - which is pretty alarming to a modern audience that understands how roofies work.
The guy ignores his date’s protests and badgers her to stay, which feels a lot like sexual coercion. The ending is ambiguous, but it’s implied that she decides to stay after all, keeping them both warm on a cold winter’s night.īut when you listen closer, the song’s lyrics also seem, well. On the one hand, what would her parents or the neighbors think? On the other hand, it’s just so cold outside. When you first hear it, the song seems like a cute, flirty call-and-response duet between a man and his lady friend who are debating whether she should stay the night. Frank Loesser’s 1944 “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has been a beloved Christmas-song staple for decades, covered by legendary pairings from Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting in 1949 to Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé in 2014.
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