Honestly, how I can sing this song anymore as I am out playing with my kids? It has always been my go-to opening snow song for throwing snowballs, building snowmen, or sledding down gentle hills of packed powder. Now start canoodling! Although, aren’t you on your way home? Who is driving? Aren’t the roads snowy? I feel an accident coming on… Maybe he’ll freeze to death if you do not snuggle him! And do you want his death on your conscience?! I didn’t think so. In fact, he asks her (or him, I have no idea who lyricist Sammy Cahn was currently into as gender is not specified in the song) to hold him tight all the way home so that he will be warm.
#Play the song let it snow movie
He starts with a fire (delightful!) and then starts making popcorn, that most romantic of aphrodisiacs (hopefully with movie theater butter flavor), and then moves in for the kissing. While nowhere near as creepy as the terrifying “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” this song is basically one long pick-up line to someone that can no longer avoid you due to the presence of that most foul white powder that has arrived to wreak havoc in your neighborhood. So why does this song sound so joyful and exultant? Well, because thanks to the snow, you might be getting some hot lady action. There go my happy childhood memories, crushed beyond recognition. The only good thing about snow is staying inside to avoid it. We move on from calling the snowy weather “frightful” to saying “I hate going out in the storm.” According to this song, snow sucks. You know, frightfully awesome! But no, the snow is not a good thing in this song. “Oh the weather outside is frightful.” Frightful! How did I not pick up on that? I guess I thought it meant frightful in the same way that Count Chocula cereal is frightfully delicious.
The clues were all there, right from the very first line. The song does not mean what I think it means. It’s snowing, and so to celebrate this first “walk to school in the snow” moment of the year I broke out my favorite anthem of snow celebration, that classic winter song of joy, “Let it Snow.” And never before today had it occurred to me that I’m using it incorrectly.
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