| | By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Short People (page 1/ 10) ------ performed by Randy Newman Not mean | Reviewer: Tall since Birth | 5/6/2008 To ease my pain my grandmother (who is 5'1) would sing this song to me to make me laugh and feel better about myself (I'm 6'0). Some say it's mean because they are short, others say it's funny because they are tall (or somewhere in between). this song is mean | Reviewer: tim | 4/26/2008 I hate this song its the meanest thing ive heard in years. I hadnt heard it in years and this week i heard it two times. once was on a bus full of kids and once was with my 12 year old son in the car and he couldnt believe what he was hearing. I really dont know how stupid we couldve been to have allowed something so mean and idiotic on the air. yes yes i am enlightened enough to see the song as a satire and that yes we can discriminate really against any type of person so let pick a group and do it. randy Newman you really should be ashamed of yourself to call yourself a songwriter-you know you really do have a responsibility to a society that makes you rich.and dont think the verse about everybody is a brother redeems that song. you just felt guilty and stuck it in there (which makes it worse its not even an art song anymore it really was mean spirited to begin with so you tried to fix it) or maybe you arent rich maybe youre just a old grey haired man with nobody to love. newman you need to take the song off the air and try to recover what little diginity you have left. Get a grip people! | Reviewer: Twinkthewonderkid | 4/2/2008 Jeez, I swear some people look for things to be offended by. It's a satirical joke! "short people are just like you and me..." just like black people or white people or tall/skinny/bald/French/hairy/whatever... people. The point is that we're all the same underneath and that it's pretty stupid to make rash, idiotic assumptions about people based on their differences to you. I think it's clear in the song that Newman thinks that petty prejudices are moronic. So if, like me, you are short and proud and someone sings this song 'at' you, smile politely and savour the knowledge that they are much dumber than you are because they didn't 'get it'. its just fun,, | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/29/2008 The lyrics are just so funny and outrageous as to be just plain fun. Nobody with an ounce of common sense would believe it true, and if so, the they're the one with egg on their face. A breath of fresh air in this stuffy PC world we've become. u suk | Reviewer: kassidilangelo | 3/25/2008 your poem song or wutever is ridiculous and i am appauled that u would say such things of me!!!!! u suk and u are just jelous!!! i am a midget and offended. i have to stand on a ladder to write this and there is nothing wrong with that. u r just a stupid tall hobo who has no life and nothing better to do than make fun of short people. show some respect u stupid turd.... bye evil short person against person. short people | Reviewer: spencer | 2/29/2008 that is the funniest song i have`ever heard. but i really think this song is meant to short PEOPLE not short in intelligence. we are running out of thingsto write about but this song is so funny my dad toll me about it and i went look it up and laughed the whole time i read it and after it is so so FUNNY! Please | Reviewer: claw71 | 2/15/2008 Randy Newman isn't simple enough to actually pen a song about diminutive people. This song is about people who are short on intelligence, patience, compassion and empathy. Short is a metaphor. I guess in that includes some of you. Everyone here is dumb | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/30/2008 O.k. please listen to the song... It says, in the chorus, that they are the same as you and I and if you knew anything about Randy Newman, you'd know he was very small. It's a joke, but not about short people. It's about how dumb people are and that size doesn't matter. If you thought how silly and inaccurate this song is, then you just prove his point. He is trying to remind you how dumb it does sound. So the next time a comment says I totally agree and short people are dumb or the opposite Randy Newman is so dumb and this song should be banned, then think twice and think about your own stupidity! head versus gut | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/26/2008 While I know intellectually that this song is pure satire and has a message I applaud, why does it feel like I am being hit in the gut by a brick everytime a tall person sings this "at" me? this song is stupid | Reviewer: andrea | 1/24/2008 it is offensive, but whatever. he didnt like short people and sang about it. tell me thats not running out of things to sing about. its a dumb song and randy newman is a retard. thats what i think...maybe ill write a song about him. hmmm... Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | | ||||||||||
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