So Madonna has recorded ‘Santa Baby.’ I am withholding until I hear it a few times.
Here is the Wiki-link, now required by law in some states.
What the heck is the lyric I am mishearing?
"Santa Baby, there is one thing I need
A deed
to a SOMETHING SOMETHING mine "
Little help?
Deed to a Platinum Mine.
BTW, I don’t like Madonna’s version. She’s trying to be Betty Boop or something.
Hard to figure. Since she is forcing her voice into a role, I find it hard to make a fair estimation. Sort of like the songs from Dick Tracey.
I’m a little confused. Her version came out in like 1987… are you just now hearing it? I’m just curious… did it take that long to make it over to Saudi (and/or have you been there since then)?
Last year I heard this atrocity about 190 times between November and January (on the Seasonal Workplace Soundtrack from Hell™).
When I clicked this thread the first time, my computer crashed. Coincidence? I think not.
“I’m sitting of you blasting your 1980s American rock music we got here last week!”
Eartha Kitt is the only person who ever sang that song.
Not to mention that an outer-space convertible is stupid. Other modern-era artists have done “Santa Baby” with the ''53 convertible" line in it. It’s a classic car now! It’s actually worth more in real money than it was in '53! It’s a valid Christmas wish for a material girl.
She should have kept that line.
There’s a short version of the song in an ad for a Victoria’s Secret cologne. One of the VS girls, in a red, faux-fur-trimmed hoody sort of thing, breathily sings that she’s been a really good girl, so hurry down the chimney tonight. She’s a cutie, and if I were Santa, I’d pencil in a delay at her house. Santa knows where all the bad girls live.
That’s not just one of the VS girls, that’s Heidi Klum, of Project Runway.
And if we’re trying to jot down her naughty acts, I heard she blew a Seal…
No, no, it’s just ice cream
The Pussycat Dolls do their take on “Santa Baby” on a new holiday compilation. Not too bad, IMO.
I’d like to see the video. :D:D
Based on a Google search, the convertible is from '54, not '53. (I thought it was '52- makes a little rhyme. “A '52 convertible too, light blue.”
And the convertible is not from outer space (although that would be cool), it’s “out-of-space.” Whatever that means.
While we’re talking about misinterpretations of this particular song, I’ll just add that when I first heard it, I thought a “sable” was some sort of sword. I’m guessing I confused “sable” with “saber.” (What is a sable? According to Wikipedia, it’s a small furry mammal. In this case, the singer wishes for a coat made from that animal’s fur.)
I’ll accept the '54, because I was going from memory. But the “out-of-space” doesn’t make any sense at all, and lyrics sites are known for having beaucoup mondegreens.
All I can say is I never heard it before yesterday, when the Armed Forces Radio put it in their mix.
Consider yourself lucky. I heard it on literally seven different occasions today. Seven. Ugh.
For the record, I wasn’t neglecting my duties. I stayed away from this thread on principle, because I HATE this song and if I could grab that blessed girl and give her a paddlin’ for it, I would.
Ah, the Eighties. How I don’t miss your twee excesses.
Lissener: You are right, Miss Kitt is da bomb on “Santa Baby”. All other attempts are a joke.
It was written for her specifically, IIRC.