Newman's 'Few Words' Stir Furor (on YouTube)

[Swamp Rat]

(also posted in GD):

I came across this article in the 'Living' section of the New Orleans Times Picayune yesterday. I find it humorous on a few different levels, for example: an article that discussed message board comments in a printed newspaper column. :rofl:

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Newman's 'Few Words' Stir Furor
By Douglas Lytle

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Randy Newman's song "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country'' has sparked an online catfight on YouTube.com and iTunes, with some listeners calling the singer- songwriter a "blowhard'' and telling him to get lost.

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Newman addresses the song to Europeans, who he says show no respect for Americans. He replies "to their scorn'' with words that recall centuries of European empire-building and monstrous rulers including Hitler and Stalin.

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Anyone familiar with Newman's jibes knows this is no sop to President George W. Bush. "The end of an empire is messy at best,'' he sing-speaks. "And this empire is ending/Like all the rest/Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea/We're adrift in the land of the brave/And the home of the free.''

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"I just burned my Toy Story soundtrack you incompetent blowhard,'' writes someone who goes by the handle "Earthwirm'' (sic) and is offended by Newman's attack on Italians and African-Americans.

Others accuse Newman of being un-American and advise him to leave. "I for one would be happy if he never came back,'' says "RyanBaruch.''

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2N1xaOFrSWI#
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YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs#

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Randy Newman!:loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

1. kick

[Breeze54]

2. LOL! Randy Newman is funny!

Thanks for posting this!

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

4. no problemo

:hi:

[peekaloo]

3. Irony is his forte.

"we're rednecks, rednecks, we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground......."

:rofl:

[TheBaldyMan]

5. as a European who 'gets' irony - I think it's a brilliant song.

You septics can be very proud of him. You're lucky to have such a talented man in your ranks.

[Swamp Rat]

10. LOL!

Yes, we are very lucky! :D

[merh]

6. I am so sick of the "if you don't like it, leave"

Christ, how about, I don't like it and want to fix it, return it to the greatness it once knew!

Jeeeeeeeessssssssssuuuuuuuuusssssss



Hi ya Swampy :hi: :loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

8. Way'at merh!!!

:hi: :hug:

[Tsiyu]

7. Hey good lookin!

Thanks for sharing.

:hi: :hug:

[Swamp Rat]

9. Oi buddyhollysghost!

:hi: Tudo bem??? :hug:

[idgiehkt]

11. interesting angle for a song

I agree it's ironic about it being a newspaper article on message board comments too. EVERYTHING stirs up controversy at youtube, everything. The difference between trance and techno, the difference, if there is one, between rap and hiphop...any video you watch if you read far enough down they will be arguing about something. I entertain myself sometimes just by reading the comments.

[Swamp Rat]

12. Your sigline...

Thank you for helping New Orleans animals! I lost one dog, but her sibling survived. Poor old fella... he misses his sister. They were together 14 years before Katrina. :(

I miss her too. :cry:

[allalone]

13. remember

We Love LA? that song became an anthem. and short people? I'm very short and I thought it was very funny. he's great.