--- title: Miley Cyrus Has Some Feminist Revisions for "Santa Baby" description: While on Jimmy Fallon's show, Miley Cyrus gave the "Santa Baby" classic song an emancipated update with a whole new set of lyrics. canonical: https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-21T19:20:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:36.769Z og:title: Miley Cyrus Has Some Modern Revisions for 'Santa Baby' og:description: "Listen, Santa, to what I say: a girl's best friend is equal pay" og:url: https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miley Cyrus Has Some Modern Revisions for 'Santa Baby' twitter:description: "Listen, Santa, to what I say: a girl's best friend is equal pay" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Miley Cyrus Has Some 2018 Revisions to the Classic 'Santa Baby' Song  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 21, 2018 7:20 PM CUT  by [Raisa Bruner](/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 21, 2018 7:20 PM CUT We all know the controversy around [“Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”](http://time.com/5476720/baby-its-cold-outside-daughter/ "undefined") But [Miley Cyrus](http://time.com/5338162/miley-cyrus-instagram/ "undefined") is here to make us rethink that other Christmas classic tune, “Santa Baby.” In her appearance on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ on Thursday night, Cyrus decided to rework the lyrics of “Santa Baby” and turn the old-fashioned song into an emancipated ode to independent womanhood — no gifts from Santa required. “Santa baby, I hear you’ve got some presents for me, Miley,” she began, traditionally enough. But things take a turn: “Santa baby, I don’t need any fancy jewelry, not me,” she insists, forcing Fallon — who was about to present her with a necklace — to rethink his strategy. “Listen, Santa, to what I say: a girl’s best friend is [equal pay](http://time.com/money/5406344/paralympic-athletes-equal-pay/ "undefined"),” she goes on, “So stop interrupting me when I talk, and don’t text me pictures of your —.” Besides calling out the “Santa” in the song for his dated insistence on keeping a woman imprisoned in a golden cage of capitalist goodies, Cyrus also appears to have had enough with [workplace harassment](http://time.com/4988137/me-too-men-listen/ "undefined"), too, requesting any resident “dirtbag” to “put away the chimney tonight.” Here are her updated lyrics: --- > “” --- By the end, musician [Mark Ronson](http://time.com/3713183/mark-ronson-uptown-funk-bruno-mars/ "undefined") — who features Cyrus on his new song “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” — and Fallon have joined in with Cyrus on the new chorus. Maybe this version will catch on. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/"},"headline":"Miley Cyrus Has Some 2018 Revisions to the Classic 'Santa Baby' Song","datePublished":"2018-12-21T19:20:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:36.769Z","description":"\"Listen, Santa, to what I say: a girl's best friend is equal pay\"","url":"https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Miley Cyrus","Late Night Television","Holidays 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5487074/miley-cyrus-santa-baby/","name":"Miley Cyrus Has Some 2018 Revisions to the Classic 'Santa Baby' Song"}}]}] ```