Short People Prejudice in Music!

[Peffkitten]

Short people got no reason
short people got no reason
short people got no reason to live
they've got little hands, little eyes
they're walking round telling great big lies
they've got little noses, tiny little teeth
they wear platform shoes on their nasty little feet and I
don't want no short people
don't want no short people
don't want no short people around here
short people got nobody
short people got nobody
short people got nobody to love
they've got little baby legs, stand so low
got to pick 'em up just to say hello (hello!)
little cars going beep, beep, beep
they've got little voices going peep, peep, peep
grubby little fingers, dirty little minds
they're gonna get you everytime and I
don't want no short people
don't want no short people
don't want no short people around here
in this beautiful world
(short people are just the same as you and I) fault of design
(all men are brothers till the day they die)
it's a wonderful world, it's a wonderful world
yeah, it's a beautiful world
don't want no short people, in this beautiful world
don't want no short people, in this beautiful world
don't want no short people, in this beautiful world
don't want no short people, in this beautiful world

(By Randy Newman)

[Lauren]

I wrote a reply to this earlier and the computer screwed up. It was something like...

A weird coincidence is that I read something about this song not long ago, about how since Randy Newman's no giant, it's satirising meaningless prejudice. He is a great songwriter ;D

Isn't it weird when you read/hear about something quite obscure... and it suddenly comes up elsewhere?

A while ago I just happened to pick up a copy of Brave New World and read the author's biography in the front. For some reason I noticed that Huxley died in 1963, same as Kennedy. Later that evening, a friend showed me an interview with Marilyn Manson in which Manson was saying that Huxley and Kennedy died on the same day, but he got the year wrong. Weird.

That's an example is just thought of, but that kind of thing happens to me all the time.

[Peffkitten]

Lauren said:

A weird coincidence is that I read something about this song not long ago, about how since Randy Newman's no giant, it's satirising meaningless prejudice. He is a great songwriter ;D

*sigh* Way to prevent outraged replies, Lozza

[Lauren]

Sorry. Ignore that everyone, bring on the outrage. ;D