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Randy Newman on his career as songwriter: "I didn't make any calculated decision - 'Well, I'm good at this, so that's what I'll do.' Wasn't out of any great love for it, though. I was good at it. I never wanted to be a doctor, like my father, or a lawyer. Baseball player, I wanted to be..." As fate would have it, the majors passed him by - too much music in the blood. Newman's uncles Lionel and Emil were composer/arrangers and a number of relatives worked in the music and movie business; even his physician father, Irving, wrote songs for a hobby (and had a Bing Crosby B-side credit for "Who Gave You The Roses" in 1959). But during Newman's childhood, all other influences were overshadowed by his "Uncle Al" - the reknowned (prior to the MAD mascot) Alfred Newma More... (Submit New Randy Newman Lyrics) (Submit New Randy Newman Lyrics) Review about Randy Newman Response to Webmaster | Reviewer: First Timer ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman RE: Reply to short people | Reviewer: webmaster at supportfortheshort.org | 5/24/09 Dear small-minded individual (no pun intended), I have never actually taken the time to respond to anything like this. Upon reading your post I just could not in good conscience let this go! The audacity that you have in some of the things you have said makes me feel somewhat ill. First of all, to compare this song on any level or compare in general the prejudice directed toward short people to what the black community has gone through is mind boggling. You are truly a very naive individual to think this way. Secondly, as NuclearSunrise pointed out the fact that you call people "Brain-Dead" because of their opinions further shows your naive, small minded nature. Everyone is entitled to their opinions (even you). If you don't like the song, simply state that, and then never listen to it again. I mean that is the great thing about finding music that you don't like or that offends you in some way....you have the choice to never listen to it again. There is no need to attack the writer or the good people who are trying to enjoy it / celebrate here. To all that like this song, - I agree, it made me laugh and it is quite catchy! Another delightful little gem from Randy Newman | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman This light hearted song is so catchy, I can't stop singing it everywhere I go. I believe Randy definitely had a clear message in this song. It's not meant to make anyone upset. He is just singing about what he believes, in his heart, to be true. That's what makes this song so great. Just an honest man, singing about his unbridled feelings toward the vertically challenged. To the webmaster | Reviewer: NuclearSunrise ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Blimey, you must be a laugh at parties... I'll be BIG enough to respond. You have quite clearly taken this song with no sense of humour whatsoever. It's an amusing little song poking fun at prejudice and discrimination. Your later statement that you wish to be pardoned for using the terminology "brain-dead" shows how hypocritical, needless and detatched from reality your post is. Please, get your prorities right next time. As for the song itself, I love it! Very good, very funny, made even better by the occasional person commenting with a serious issue about their height. Satire in Randy Newman's "Short People" | Reviewer: Sanford ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Everybody: This song is a satire, you can stop freaking out. The accusations are obviously absurd, and that's the precise point. Very few people seriously believe there to be a fundamental difference between short people and others. The excessive nature of the accusations and statements leads the listener to see their absurdity, which by extension shows the listener the equal absurdity of laying claims against other large groups of people who they may be as inclined to view as normal. Most ive ever wrote in my life! | Reviewer: Josh. ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Reading everyone's little arguments is quite funny. When i first heard the song i thought it was just about how cute little people are (probably cause i heard it on the movie little rascals which has the cutest funniest little kids ever on it). So anyway when i read the lyrics i was a little confused whether Randy was just singing a funny little song that didnt really have a message and didnt think it would cause such arguments or whether he was intending to say that being prejudice is silly or whether he was being mean cause he doesnt like little people. So anyway i came to a conclusion that he was sticking up for short people and saying being prejudice is silly. Until i listened to the song and read the lyrics at the same time. This particular verse raised an interesting question: Short people are just the same As you and I (A fool such as I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It's a wonderful world) Randy sings the bits in brackets and the other bits are sung by someone else. I think this other person is saying: no randy these people are just like us, dont be mean to them. And randy is arguing back saying no when they die it will be a wonderful world or whatever. I used to think that that verse was him actually working out short people were alright, but it goes back to him being prejudice towards them so it got me thinking. Soooo am i on too something or am i looking into it too much? Please comment on my thoughts and either tell me im mentally challenged or that i might actually be making sense. Thank you :) Someone get randys number and ask him personally!!! Reply to short people | Reviewer: webmaster at supportfortheshort.org ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman What is so sad and pathetic is that some of these people writing so-called reviews are also short - or so some of them say. Let's say we had a song called "Black People" and the lyrics went something like: Black people got no reason to live Black people got no reason to live (and one could make up disparaging lyrics here) Don't want no Black people round here. Would some of the nincompoops here be writing things like: "A little better wording would be good" "If you are offended you didn't get the message of the song" "For those offended by the song I just want to say "grow up". "I like this song, and I made up some rockin' dance moves to it" "Engage your brains a bit. Critical thinking isn't that hard, your life will be richer for it, I promise." I hate to be so harsh but I believe these people posting here should engage THEIR brains a little bit - if they have one that is. If this song was made about mostly any racial, ethnic, religious group or women or gays, etc. the song would most likely never have even been allowed on the airwaves let along "celebrated" like some of the (and again you'll pardon my terminology) brain-dead here seem to be celebrating it. If it had, Newman's career would have been over. Period. End of sentence. This is the socially acceptable prejudice called heightism that I discuss on my website, a prejudice that mostly all of the posters here seem to engage in rather freely - There are even some self-deprecating shorters here too that don't seem to mind being used as fodder for a tramp like Randy Newman and his very heightist song. By the way, I do get Newman's message, unfortunately he chose the short-statured to use as an example and the reason he did that was because he would not have had any career after making a similar song about any of the above groups and I think even some of the people posting here are smart enough to agree. Is anyone "BIG" enough to respond to this post?? No? I didn't think so. This person is retarded....!!!! *read*! | Reviewer: CamDaMan ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman how dare him. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/27/09 No, this is not funny. Short people have more prejudice aimed at them today then anyone else. You CAN'T relate. No one can help it. This man deserves to be punished for these stupid lyrics. Shorter people are just as successful as tall people and we should not be looked down upon like this. What if someone made a song called "tall people"? Oh, then it would be SO MEAN right and not funny? Oh,but this, this is HILARIOUS isn't it. So everyone whose tall and says this is funny needs to get out of here There is a song called Tall People, google, "tall people lyrics." I am 6'7 and the lyrics bash tall people, do you think I am offended by this? No, you being offended by this shows 1) how insecure you are about your height 2) you have no sense of humor and 3) you are short, get used to it! PS: I think the song is extremely funny and even if it was aimed at making fun of little people I still would rub it in your short face just because it pisses you off. peace out short fry!! hahaha Short thang.. | Reviewer: BobbyBrown ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Well I am 5'0 and when I was reading this song in school I laughed with my friend and got in trouble. This song is funny but people who do not get this may get offended a little better wording would be good. Thank you. If You are offended... you didn't get the message of the song. | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman To be honest, I am not tall, but short. However, I love the song. The song has a message, and it's not what you think! The message is pointing out how silly it is to judge people on their appearance. About halfway through the song You'll hear these lyrics: Short people are just the same As you and i (a fool such as I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (its a wonderful world) Oh Please get a life! | Reviewer: Fifthhorseman ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman As a lifelong short person I have loved this song since I first heard it. Sure I get ribbed about being short but oddly not by tall people but by women marginally taller or smaller than me ( 5'5"). Randy Newman Rocks .If you are short and are offendend by this song you really do need to grow up (pun intended) wrong lyrics- what is this song about? | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Bad News from Home performed by Randy Newman There are some mistakes in these lyrics. Randy Newman doesn't sing HER hair is... HER eyes.., but THE hair/THE eyes. That makes a big difference, because it means that that whole strophe is about two persons, and not one. What is this song about then? His parents? It's from an album that deals with his childhood a lot, so it's possible. Well... | Reviewer: Mcfizzlestick ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Gee. I mean, I like this song, and I made up some rockin' dance moves to it, but I AM only 4'8 and have been teased a lot by my "friends" who "don't really mean it". LOVE the song; but I HATE people who make fun of others just because they are different.So people who do, go get a life! "Grow up" | Reviewer: John ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman For those offended by the song I just want to say "grow up". The song makes a great point and pokes fun at prejudice. Spend a little more time looking for the positive intent in others and you will probably find it. Great! | Reviewer: Shorty ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman I heard this song for the first time on the episode "boy to the world" of ally mcbeal and I could not stop laughing! I'm one of those short people, and even so, I love this song. Most of the verses are actually true, that's what's making this song so funny. Everyone who's just complaining is wrong! We really need to joke around much more, even if it gets a little sarcastic... tongue in cheek. | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Newman's said that this song is about how stupid prejudice is, and is about some lunatic. Do you think there are people out there who are heightist? That's absurd. The bridge gives it away. Also, everyone's got some hangup that "no one else could possibly know what it's like to have", like being short, or tall, or fat, or skinny, or black or ... Wow. | Reviewer: emjay ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Just stumbled onto this page, and am perplexed by these posts by people who don't understand the point of the song or Randy's intended irony. Engage your brains a bit. Critical thinking isn't that hard, your life will be richer for it, I promise. Wow alot of people taking this like it's offensive... | Reviewer: Daniel ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Can't believe how many (short) people find this song offensive... I'm not tall myself but this song isn't about that it is bad to be short, it's about peoples prejudice. It's exactly like the comment Adam wrote, couldn't have written it better myself. Great song! Wow | Reviewer: tara ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Ok for everyone saying that this is insulting i am way taller than average and everyone teases me about my height even though they say they dont mean it so this is just a harmless song just like when short peole make fun of tall people but dont mean any harm this is what that song is . This is my opiniion xoxoxo Randy Newman's," Feels Like Home" | Reviewer: Debbie ------ About the song Feels Like Home performed by Randy Newman Oh My - I love this song. I cried when I 1st played it & I have cried every time since. I played this for my man who has a "Blues" radio show and we both had tears rolling down our faces. He will now include it in his list of songs for the show. It is horrible that I go onto the Internet to find the lyrics to this song & this is the only site that has the correct lyrics.... the others did not even come close to the correct lyrics and that upsets me because - how could they get the true meaning of the song if they have no idea what a beautiful mssg the lyrics send???? Oh well - I feel bad for them. I am a Blues singer and have so many songs in my memory - it takes a lot to get into my, "Top 50 list" and this one has now been added... Love it! Chin up | Reviewer: Bilroy ------ About the song Short People performed by Randy Newman Always one of my favorites, and I have always been short. I you cannot laugh yourself, you have a real problem. If someone laughs at you, and you join in the laughter, you help them solve their potential problem. Now, let's here it for Tall People !! You could review the artist/band Randy Newman in Biography page You could review Randy Newman album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Randy Newman song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Randy Newman" Music | |
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