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Even the holiday season won’t prevent the Smith family fromgetting super honestwith one another.
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Next, Will insists that the woman is “contradicting herself” all the way through, and Willow answers, “She’s not,” before calling out that the female voice is concerned her father will worry about her if she doesn’t get home in time.
“She just got me,” Will says with a smile on his face. “She tapped into it … She said, ‘As a father.’ ”
To hit her argument home, Willow concludes, “This is the line right here: ‘Say, what’s in this drink?’ ”
Will responds jokingly — “She means, like, cinnamon!” — and then asks his son,Jaden, 20, who was behind the camera, for his thoughts on the debate.
“I feel like you were making solid points, but she was just very persistent,” Jaden said of his sister.
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“People might say, ‘oh, enough with that #MeToo,’ but if you really put that aside and listen to the lyrics, it’s not something I would want my daughter to be in that kind of a situation,” midday host Desiray told Cleveland’s Fox 8 about the decision. “The tune might be catchy, but let’s maybe not promote that sort of an idea.”
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Ina blog post on the station’s website, radio host Glenn Anderson further explained: “I gotta be honest, I didn’t understand why the lyrics were so bad…Until I read them.” He concluded, “Now, I do realize that when the song was written in 1944, it was a different time, but now while reading it, it seems very manipulative and wrong. The world we live in is extra sensitive now, and people get easily offended, but in a world where #MeToo has finally given womenthe voicethey deserve, the song has no place.”
source: people.com
