Would have been a lot less confusing if you hadn’t quoted the U.S. statistics I posted, then asked me to filter out Canadian stations from those stats.
I didn’t ask you to filter out Canadian stations. Yes, I guess I should have done a couple one sentence paragraphs.
Make that one U.S. station-San Francisco station KOIT has reversed the ban.
Translation for those following the story on Facebook: “HALF THE RADIO STATIONS ARE BANNING THIS SONG!!!”
Czarcasm, you are being awfully nitpicky and tendentious. The point is, it’s not just some myth that stations are pulling the song. Why shouldn’t Canadian stations count?
ETA: Not sure if I posed this question last year, but: why is this even a Christmas song at all? Most of the coldest time of year is in January and February.
Since I am not a resident of Canada, I have no opinion on that.
Any residents of Canada care to weigh in on this part of the story?
Are you joking with this? Even if 5 or 10 stations pulled the song, so what? Aren’t there 1000s of stations? .01% of a group doing something is not 'OMG! IT’S CENSORSHIP AND THE WORST THING EVER!"
:rolleyes:
Because it’s a Winter song. Jingle Bells also has no mention of Christmas. Btw, it was -4F (-20C) here in Ottawa last week.
I am Canadian and this “ban” seems a lot more pervasive here. I think it’s crap because I always took the playful banter interpretation of the song. The Dean Martin version is my wife’s favorite Christmas song.
Since the ban is(or will be) wide-spread there, is there any great media uproar to match the hullabaloo that has taken place from only a couple of stations banning it in the U.S.?
Well, I’m not big on Facebook but from people I’ve talked it’s mostly a “wtf? That’s stupid”. The CBC itself was carrying it as a news story for a couple days but no, I haven’t seen much hullabaloo.
Yeah, the whole “But how MANY stations” is some bizarre argument by proxy versus stupid Facebook memes. I don’t think anyone here is insisting that there’s a nationwide banking going on or anything. If you want to argue with Facebook memes, that’s best done on Facebook.
No idea. The only thing I found with cursory googling is that home distilled alcohol was much stronger during Prohibition than commercial varieties. However, the Thin Man movies (and most I’ve watched with this in mind) were made after Prohibition was repealed. So, I’d guess that Nick was not drinking anything stronger than today.
I’m trying to see how far you’re willing to take your argument from post 109. If all you have is pointless division and fake outrage, so be it.
Supposed test aside, how about answering the question: Prohibited by whom?
Are you of the opinion that people not agreeing with you on the value of a work of art is akin to censorship? That’s not how it works.
ETA: and it’s a fairly narcissistic view of reality.
You are the one guilty of hyperbole in search of a strawman. No one here that I’ve seen has called it “the worst thing ever”, certainly I have not. I started the thread to defend the song because it was taking a lot of heat (including in a pointed satire on SNL). That doesn’t mean I think it’s the great issue of our times, so simmer down now.
Yes. It’s strange that if we defend the song against criticism, that means we suddenly have to take responsibility for every outraged reaction on Facebook (none of which I have seen BTW).
I wasn’t thinking of the liquor being stronger, but that maybe they used less mixer.
You’re closer than you think. There are more verses - the second one gives us:
*The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot *[sic]
And in the last verse:
Just get a bobtailed bay
Two forty as his speed*
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you’ll take the lead.*
So one horse gets stuck in a “drifted bank” and has the sleigh he’s tied to overturned, and another gets whipped. Horse cruelty all over the place.
But at least no one is trying to get the horse drunk and seduce it.
Well, for this season Baby It’s Cold Outside is safe. Had a big boost in sales.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/music/baby-its-cold-outside-sales-soar-radio-stations-reinstate-song-despite-controversy/amp/
I’m sure the Snowflake generation will be back next year attacking our holiday traditions again.
I’m not sure poor Rudolph and Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving will get aired next year. I sure hope so.
Charlie Brown Christmas airs Dec 20. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
A reversal at CBC:
Wouldn’t the snowflakes be the people who freak out because other people don’t like a particular song? And as for the snowflake generation, my vote is on white baby boomers. They’ve been pandered to by all aspects of culture for over fifty years and now that their stranglehold on what is and is not allowed is starting to finally loosen, they lose their shit.
Yeah, I guess there was more hullabaloo than I realized.