Baby, it’s woke outside.
Singers John Legend and Kelly Clarkson will release a remake of the classic Christmas tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with new “consent-friendly” lyrics Friday — and the remake is already receiving a chilly reception.
The new #MeToo-fueled version of the holiday ditty scrubs the song of lines in which a male suitor insists that a woman stay because the weather is bad, for ones where he calls her a cab and asks her to text him when she gets home.
In another eye-rolling instance, Clarkson’s character asks, “What will my friends think? If I have one more drink?” to which the Legend ‘s suitor replies: “It’s your body and your choice.”
In a lighter moment, Clarkson offers up the excuse, “My father will be pacing the floor,” to which Legend replies, “Wait, what do you still live at home for?”
The song will be released on a deluxe edition of Legend’s Christmas album, “A Legendary Christmas,” also out Friday.
But news of the duet — released in 1949, and famously crooned by the likes of Bing Crosby and Doris Day — has already been met with a flurry of criticism.
Nay-sayers include Deana Martin, the daughter of Dean Martin, who sang one of the most popular version of the hit.
“You do not change the lyrics to the song,” she fumed on “Good Morning Britain” earlier this week, adding that the new song is oddly more sex-focused.
“He made it more sexual with those words … and I think what he’s done is, he’s stealing the thunder from [composer] Frank Loesser’s song and from my dad,” she said.
She called the tune’s new iteration, which was penned by Legend, “absolutely absurd.”
“He should write his own song if he doesn’t like this one, but don’t change the lyrics. It’s a classic, perfect song.”
In recent years, critics have called the original song a “date-rape anthem,” and demanded it be yanked from the radio because it features a male suitor insisting that a woman stay with him, and have a drink, even as she repeatedly says no.
“It really pushed the line of consent,” Cleveland Rape Crisis Center president and CEO Sondra Miller told a local Fox affiliate last Christmas during the now-annual hand-wringing over the ditty.
“The character in the song is saying ‘no,’ and they’re saying well, ‘Does no really mean yes?’ And I think in 2018 what we know is consent is ‘yes’ and if you get a ‘no’, it means ‘no’ and you should stop right there.”
But defenders say Legend’s P.C. reboot is absurd.
“What would John Legend do, if in 40 years, if somebody wanted to … re-record one of his songs, and there was some group that found it offensive, and somebody just went, ‘Oh, I can change the lyrics on that,’ “The Talk” co-host Sharon Osbourne said on a recent show.
“It’s, to me, like a master painting,” Osbourne argued. “It’s a piece of art.”
She pointed specifically to the new “It’s your body, and your choice” lyric.
“What the hell are you on? That’s ridiculous,” Osbourne said.