John Legend and Kelly Clarkson are redoing “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by removing the controversial lines from the lyrics.

According to Vanity Fair, the Voice coaches joined hands with Insecure star and writer Natasha Rothwell to update the song’s lyrics and convert it into a Christmas song more appropriate for 2019.

After the news first emerged, Legend’s label Columbia Records confirmed it in a press release.

The new lyrics don’t have any controversial sexist lines in them, and go like this: “I really can’t stay (Baby it’s cold outside)/ I’ve gotta go away (I can call you a ride)/ This evening has been (so glad that you dropped in)/ So very nice (time spent with you is paradise)/ My mother will start to worry (I’ll call a car and tell ‘em to hurry).”

The track will be featured in A Legendary Christmas: The Deluxe Edition, an expanded version of Legend’s Christmas album due November 8.

The original song was written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which he wrote as a duet to sing with his wife.

Over the decades, “Baby It’s Cold Outside” became an iconic holiday classic track, sung by a number of celebrities from Chris Colfer and Darren Criss to Michael Bublé and Idina Menzel to Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart.

However, the song raised concerns with its lines like, “Say, what’s in this drink?” and a back-and-forth line in which a man repeatedly asks a woman to stay the night despite her refusals — “I really can’t,” and “The answer is no.”

In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, the song was stopped from being aired on various radio channels.

Speaking to NBC News, Loesser’s daughter Susan said that “Bill Cosby ruined it for everybody,” referring to him being accused of sexual assault by around 60 women.

Susan added: “Way before #MeToo, I would hear from time to time people call it a date rape song.

“I would get annoyed because it’s a song my father wrote for him and my mother to sing at parties. But ever since Cosby was accused of drugging women, I hear the date rape thing all the time.”

 

 

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