His updated, pro-consent lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — written with Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell and sung as a duet with Kelly Clarkson — has been accused of “destroying” Christmas , but John Legend is standing his ground.“The song was supposed to be silly!” the singer says in a new interview with the Observerin the U.K. “It wasn’t supposed to be preachy at all. I never disparaged the old version. And, by the way, the original writer, or his family, gets paid for my version, too.”That’d be Frank Loesser, who wrote the Christmas classic — deemed flirty by fans, and predatory by critics — in 1944. Since then, it’s been a holiday favorite sung by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Dean Martin, whose daughter Deana Martin called Legend’s new lyrics “absolutely absurd.” In Legend and Clarkson’s version, the male protagonist offers to call his date an Uber when his female date insists she’s got to go home.“It would be fun, and it would be newsworthy,” Legend says of the thought process behind updating the song for his new Christmas album. “And — yeah — it was both.”Related: John Legend out and about
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