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John Legend Discusses The Backlash Towards The #MeToo Movement

"People thinking we’ve gone too far speaking up for a woman’s right to not get raped or sexually harassed" - by Isabelle Truman
  • 10 Dec 2019

John Legend's recently-released Christmas album, A Legendary Christmas, has both original songs and covers of iconic festive music from over the years, including the famous 1944 Frank Loesser track, 'Baby, It's Cold Outside', which Legend updated to fit with the post-#MeToo era.

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Last year, some radio stations pulled the song from air after people took issue with Loesser's persistence of the woman in the song to stay the night with lyrics such as, 'What's the sense of hurtin' my pride?' and 'Baby don't hold out.' In his updated version, Legend changed both these lines, something which prompted backlash from the likes of Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan, the latter of which called the musician a “virtue-signalling horror story”.

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Of the criticism, Legend told The Guardian, “It’s interesting, this whole backlash to the #MeToo movement.”

“People thinking we’ve gone too far speaking up for a woman’s right to not get raped or sexually harassed, when some would argue we’ve not gone far enough, when we have an admitted sexual assailant in the highest office in the land,” he said, speaking of US President Donald Trump, who he and his wife Chrissy Teigen have been vocal about not supporting.

He continued: “People think that because some people have lost their jobs, or have been expelled from Hollywood, like Weinstein, that we’ve gone too far. I don’t agree. But people wanted the 'Baby It’s Cold Outside' war to be a proxy war for all that.”

In September, Trump tweeted that Legend is a “boring musician” and Teigen, his “filthy mouthed wife” in a rant after an interview the singer did about criminal justice. Teigen responded perfectly calling Trump a "pussy ass bitch."

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Isabelle Truman is a freelance writer based out of London, UK. She specialises in fashion, lifestyle and travel and knows a thing or two (read: everything) about both Meghan Markle and 'Sex and the City'.

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