Naughty Or Nice? Chlöe Bailey & The Thin Line Of Sexy Christmas Music

Like clockwork, Chlöe Bailey is once again being treated like Meg from Family Guy.

The new age R&B chanteuse’s latest offense was making the bold move of entering the taboo lane of sexy Christmas music with her recent holiday single, “Mrs. Claus Don’t Have 2 Know.”

With lyrics centered on adultery, an ill-conceived Lolita aesthetic and euphemisms for sex that bring to mind all types of naughty thoughts, it’s not hard to see where she might’ve missed the mark.

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“My cookies out for you, time to devour,” she serenades to her two-timing Santa, further suggesting that he load up his “sleigh” so that she can, in her words, “ride it all night.” If the thought of an elderly man with a full white beard and potbelly coming down the chimney isn’t unsettling enough, Chlöe pairs it with an official visualizer (seen above) that sees her dressed up as a doll baby with pigtails, a rocker horse and her best Cindy Lou Who impression. While she’s far from the first to get horny during the holidays, the picture she paints is far from the sensual sophistication of Eartha Kitt’s pioneering sexy Christmas single, “Santa Baby.”

Although similarly critiqued for its suggestiveness at the time of its release in 1953, it would go on to become the best-selling Christmas song of that year and a staple during the holiday season since. Sure she’s lamented about being a well-kept sugar baby, but it’s through the lens of a grown woman that doesn’t get too vulgar with the literal patron saint of children.

However, there are some valid arguments on behalf of Chlöe’s creativity. Some fans have brought up the racial disparities between a Black girl getting flack for getting her ho, ho, ho on, while a white pop star like Sabrina Carpenter gets celebrated. Her 2022 holiday song, “A Nonsense Christmas,” starts off with the line “I might change your contact to ’Has a Huge North Pole,’” and ventures into “I need that Charles Dickens” and even “I’m talkin’ big snowballs.” Two years later, she received her own Netflix special to perform the Billboard-charting jingle.

Chlöe hasn’t gone without any praise for the song though, with Lizzo recently jumping into the conversation on social media to applaud her overall career trajectory by writing, “Chloë Bailey is giving us exactly what we need. She has endless artistic talent and is a lighting rod for our attention, like every mega star from any generations past. I hope she keeps creating and building a legacy that will have impact and value in our lives & in music culture.”

Bailey responded positively by promising to keep building and never letting the naysayers stop her.

Can Chlöe Bailey get sexy for the holidays without getting flack, or does “Mrs. Claus Don’t Have 2 Know” simply miss the mark? See what many are saying out there in the world of social media below:

1. no shade but yall have been perfectly fine with multiple white artists making sexy songs abt christmas but now all of our pearls are being clutched over chloe bailey doing it

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