The original ‘Santa Baby’ sung by Eartha Kitt (1953) is a tongue-in-cheek classic. There were radio stations that banned the hit for being ‘too suggestive’.
Covers of it just seem annoying.
Agreed. Eartha hit it out of the park, everyone subsequent, easily below par. And yes it was definitely tongue-in-cheek. Eartha’s voice, pardon the expression, raised the hair on any red-blooded American males neck, then and now. She was something. Lol.