I like how the AV Club acts like it was disappointed to get Shane instead of Ariana Grande, instead of dancing in the hallways over the chance to publish yet another Shane Gillis clickbait piece (assuming the AV Club still has hallways?  I don’t know how this stuff works now)

I want to see Bill Hader and John Mulaney’s James L. Brooks samurai movie, “But What If You’re Wrong?”

I don’t like or support Shane Gillis, for the same reasons as hinted at here, and I still think this article is absolutely embarrassing. I would truly guess this was an amateur Tumblr post if it were stripped of context & formatting. 

Jesus Christ. Don’t get me wrong, Shane Gillis is very much not to my taste and I find his loudest fans on the internet to be obnoxious but I don’t know that he’s done anything to deserve this much vitriol.

It was actually a healthy gender dynamic that was trying to cope with an unhealthy societal expectation of women. The man and women in the song are taking part in an intentional verbal dance due to the expectations of society as a whole.

People have a hard time articulating why the song has aged poorly. The woman can’t say “yes” or “no,” so the man (and the listeners) interpret her excuses as coyness. The social expectation that women won’t say “yes,” and men have to pursue them over their (fake) objections, relies on men correctly distinguishing fake…

Put some pants on your blue freak!!

something new

It is October 2019. I am reading a news story about how “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is bad. They say there is a new version by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.

Elaine devolves rapidly in the show around the dudetrio, and there’s even an arc where she finds a better version of them and becomes a better person but realizes she is addicted to being terrible and dumb.

I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about?

Fashion is frequently dumb and capricious. She thought she could play the game.

He’s literally just mad that young audiences don’t connect with his material, so he has to fabricate a reason why that isn’t his comedy sucking.

I’d take Selena in a second over a sequel to Trump.

It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”

I just...don’t know what the fuck Seinfeld is on about. Dude never was in any danger of being too fucking edgy, blue, or controversial. I’ve not seen a single thing that approaches even the tamer parts of a Bill Burr or Patton Oswalt show.

On point. The song is a time capsule of the way adults used to flirt. Within the context of the song there is no rapey vibe at all. People of that time probably just thought it was a cute way to demonstrate the playfulness of dating in a more reserved society.

‘It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”’

Christ, isn’t a little early for the “Baby It’s Cold Outside” clickbait discourse machine to fire up again? Didn’t we settle this years ago, or has the COVID brain fog destroyed that part of our collective memory?