Just Because Music: Glenn Miller’s The Lady’s In Love With You

With Tex Beneke singing:

I’m pretty sure that this song wouldn’t make the cut today, what with the sexist assumptions (ladies make men wait), the mansplaining (there are no women in this conversation), the undoubtedly wrong assumptions on the part of the man that would lead him to engaging in behavior she considers harassment. I mean, after all, these lyrics came from Frank Loesser, the same sexist, misogynist, rapey pig who wrote the lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”