baby_it's_cold_outside epitome of incomprehensibility I know that the choir songs are decided on in advance, and needn't be changed due to current news cycles. Still. I wasn't a fan of this anyway, because... well, the idea to have a romantic Christmas song but in a duet wasn't bad. In the land of Ubiquitous Holiday Ditties, slight variation is innovation. But this is basically a sexual harassment version of Let it Snow - except that the Internet tells me Baby It's Cold Outside came first. Another joke ruined by linear time. But is it really advisable, especially NOW, to be doing this whole sexual harassment = seduction thing? Serious concern: you don't seduce someone by threatening them. Silly concern: you don't seduce someone by talking about the weather. Or maybe you do. I'm not an expert in seduction. Past experience tells me that I can get a first date by pretending to know about Hegel's Phenomenology, but I don't know if that's replicable. Time to try out my new pick-up line: "Hey, it's cold outside. Reminds you a bit of Hegel's Phenomenology, doesn't it?" Anyway, I was tired last week after the choir concert and the gosh-darn thing kept jangling around in my head, so I changed the words for my amusement. I can't remember them now. I think the two voices confessed to being gay and then started arguing about global warming, which is the true meaning of Christmas. Then I realized that I didn't just find the words bad - the tune was also annoying. And it was stuck to my brain like a price tag sticker on a book cover. Gradually I pried it off without tearing up grey matter. I think. Oh for the innocent yuletide songs of yore: "Joy to the world, the school burned down. And all the teachers are dead. The principal was naughty, we flushed him down the potty, and barbecued his head, and barbecued his head, and ba-a, and ba-a-arbecued his head." 171211 ... unhinged the only song i can stand on the holiday track at macys the louis armstrong + a female jazz singer version.. maybe ella? 171213 ... e_o_i Hm, timbre and arrangement were things I hadn't considered - e.g. nice-voiced people singing - and those mean a lot in making a song more or less annoying. Liking and disliking is also pretty arbitrary; for me it might be affected by how I feel at the time. With this one I still don't like the lyrics, but I guess the tune's not that bad and the duet arrangement's nifty. Nifty? Yes, nifty. 171221 ... unhinged eh, yeah...the lyrics are definitely dated. but i just think of them as relics of a past era. this year especially though they seem sexist at best... then again, i find myself wishing more and more for a cuddle_bug in the winter 171222 what's it to you? who go blather from