[ SECRET POST #5818 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5818 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Yup, it is profoundly sexless and completely negates everything fun and interesting about the song. But Taylor was seventeen at the time, and a country star at that. Not sure what else you'd expect. If the argument is that she was extremely ill-suited to cover it and therefore it's silly that she did...yeah, I'll support that. But again, at the time she was seventeen and a breakout country star with one album to her name. Yes she has a reputation for calling the shots when it comes to her career, but I doubt she was out there digging her heels in when her label asked her to do a Christmas covers album and that songs was in the line-up. It's innocuous, the label wants it, and there's money to be made; why fight it?

[(Anonymous)]

She was definitely profoundly ill-suited to cover the song, but not because of her age (she'd been singing somebody done somebody wrong songs for a couple of years at that point) or her genre (female country artists have been embracing sexual innuendo since at least the '60s). It's not a good style of song for her, specifically, and she's never been good at covers anyway. She's a talented singer-songwriter, but she doesn't do well with other people's words.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree if we're talking about commercial covers. OTOH, I really love some of her live covers. Off the top of my head I love at least four that she's done.

Can't Stop Loving You by Phil Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6FXmdoGut8

Drops Of Jupiter by Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwE8Lg2fZk

Riptide by Vance Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGRdwfhl-U

Nashville by David Mead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYSvaVUmZGk

Nashville in particular is absolutely phenomenal. Riptide is the shakiest of the bunch due to weak vocals, but the feeling in it is great regardless.

[(Anonymous)]

It's just a song that doesn't fit her emotional range at all. She can do ingénue, and later in her career she's developed the ability to do sort of ice-queen man-eater, but neither of those works for Santa Baby.