I'm not sure this belongs under "weird and unusual" but I can't help wondering how much of this was a radio station's publicity stunt. Every year lately, there's a group of people in the US outraged by this song and another group defending it:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... p-baby-its
Listeners polled at a radio station in Colorado have reportedly voted to keep "Baby, It's Cold Outside" on the air, despite the winter standard facing increasingly scrutiny for what many see as predatory undertones in its lyrics.
Colorado’s Christmas radio station KOSI 101.1 had previously pulled the song, but the station will now be playing the track in its rotation after respondents to an online poll appeared unbothered by the song’s lyrics, The Denver Post reported.
...However, KOSI 101.1’s online poll generated over 15,000 responses, with 95 percent of respondents voting to keep the tune in its rotation.
And while there is much debate over an old song from the 1940s that was a product of its time (including reinterpreting the old joke line of "say, what's in this drink?" - often used in old movies as a way to justify acting silly - as referring to date rape drugs), there doesn't seem to be the corresponding outrage over some seriously misogynistic lyrics in certain rap modern songs...
(I admit it, I'm amused by the things people get themselves worked up over sometimes. Don't like something, don't listen to it.)
Edit: along those lines...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ld-outside
Don’t listen too hard to Christmas songs: their lyrics are always creepy
And if we’re really going to scrutinise Christmas tunes for their inappropriateness in the modern world, where do we stop? Good King Wenceslas glorifies a patriarchal definition of charitable giving that belittles the value of a properly funded welfare state. The 12 Days of Christmas, with its celebration of the senseless carnage of literally dozens of innocent game birds, is offensive to vegans....
(some of the comments on this one are actually pretty funny)