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[quote=Anonymous]I keep seeing Facebook posts about it and I have heard people talk about it in real life. I always just thought the song was about a guy wanting a girl to stay and her putting up a half hearten fight, even though she really does want to stay.  I mean, it seems like if she wanted to leave she would've picked up her purse and left. There's no lyrics to the song about him tying her down or forcing her to stay... it's all very playful.

Of course this is one of those things where when something is allegedly about rape if you disagree, suddenly you're "OK with rape ".  I'm a feminist and I do think we have a serious problem with rape in our society and allusions to not giving women freedom over their choices however I don't think this song is an example of that.

I also don't think the part in the song she asked "what's in the drink? "Is alluding to her being roofied...  it just sounds like she's drinking some eggnog with alcohol in it and maybe I'd getting tipsy.

Also I don't think this song is really about sex, I think it's about her feeling like society is going to have so much to say if she spends the night so she's giving him excuses as to why she can't but I guess in the end she decides to stay.

Anytime I hear this song, I think it's flirty and kind of tip toes around the fact that the two people like each other but they aren't immediately jumping into bed. They have this flirtatiiom but it doesn't seem like at any point she says "I want to go home, let me go, I'm scared" or anything like that.  Am I completely wrong or do other people feel like people have decided that this song is more than it seems?[/quote]

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