your yearly reminder that Baby Itās Cold OutsideĀ is a song about a woman having CONSENSUAL sex, at a time when premarital sex was frowned upon. The female singer is offering up the token demurrals society expects her to, becauseĀ itās expected, not bc she doesnāt fully intend to stay and have awesome sex with a dude sheās into. The male singer knows this, and is in turn offering her an excuse to give to the neighbors in the morning (āit was too cold for me to go home, the only responsible thing to do was spend the night at his place. because of the weather, get your minds out of the gutterā). A 1950s audience would have understood all this, but the nuance gets lost in a modern age where women are actually allowed to say yes when they mean it.Ā Ā
Also theĀ āhey whatās in this drinkā thing was a common joke at the time, where the punchline was that there was in fact nothing in the drink. the womanās making a joke that she wouldnāt do this if she wasĀ sober, oh goodness no! itās only a joke bc both she and the man are in on the punchline: she isĀ sober, and is only staying bc she wantsĀ to