“Baby It’s Cold Outside — Elf 2003

A song with great lyrics and a clever theme. Good melody, it’s joking and playful: a song that succeeds in making light of nervousness while keeping the audience in the know. Achieving all that, the song still has a great, infectious undercurrent that puts sexualism on display in a repressed society. At least, the socially conservative 1940s and 1950s are what we used to call repressed