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Seattle band Ladies set out to reinvent 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" has been a controversial song this holiday season. Radio stations across the country have banned it from the airwaves, and dozens of articles have questioned if the song holds up in the midst of the #MeToo movement.

The Seattle-based super group called Ladies recorded a cover of the song more than a year ago and released it in November with their own spin, hoping to change the narrative of the original.   

Band members Miranda Zickler, Erin Austin and Lydia Ramsey talked with KNKX Morning Edition producer Ariel Van Cleave about their version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." 
 

Ariel first entered a public radio newsroom in 2004 while in school at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. It was love at first sight. After graduating from Bradley, she went on to earn a Master's degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Ariel has lived in Indiana, Ohio and Alaska reporting on everything from salmon spawning to policy issues concerning education. She's been a host, a manager and now rides shotgun with Kirsten Kendrick as the Morning Edition producer at KNKX.