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Randy Newman

Louisiana 1927

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  • Pop
  • Space
  • Rock
  • Vocal
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1927
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  • 2012

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Randall Stuart “Randy” Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores. Newman often writes lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman’s own experiences, sometimes using the point of view of an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song “Sail Away” is written as a slave trader’s sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of “Political Science” is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, “Short People” was written from the perspective of “a lunatic” who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ They're tryin' to wash us away ... Louisiana, Louisiana

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