You're right, Boru, I read the lyrics, not the article. Definitely changes my view a bit, but I still am okay with it not being played on a radio station.
Regardless of what it meant in the 30's, (and I agree it's much more innocuous now I know the meaning of "what's that in my drink?") I think the tone of the lyrics is still enough for it to be a retired song. I'm certainly not going to protest anything, but it is 2018, and I still think a song in which 98% of the context is gone from the zeitgeist and sounds like a woman repeatedly rebuffing a man can be removed from one radio station's playlist and we'll all be okay.
Regardless of what it meant in the 30's, (and I agree it's much more innocuous now I know the meaning of "what's that in my drink?") I think the tone of the lyrics is still enough for it to be a retired song. I'm certainly not going to protest anything, but it is 2018, and I still think a song in which 98% of the context is gone from the zeitgeist and sounds like a woman repeatedly rebuffing a man can be removed from one radio station's playlist and we'll all be okay.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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