re: How did randy Newman get away with saying the n word?

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Randy Newman is still alive and wrote the Rednecks song in the OP in 1974

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saw him play in a bar in BR in '77, I think it was, can't remember the name of the place, Kingfish? or something

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Cat you're better than this. You know that song was written for the opposite reason right?

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I have no idea what you're talking about actually.

I just remember hearing it in Toy Story and really thinking about the lyrics and thinking "wow, this dude has some serious beef with midgets"

Also, to not know who Randy Newman is, is quite impressive:

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Academy Awards

2011: Winner – Best Original Song – "We Belong Together" – Toy Story 3
2010: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Almost There" – The Princess and the Frog
2010: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Down in New Orleans" – The Princess and the Frog
2007: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Our Town" – Cars
2002: Winner – Best Original Song – "If I Didn't Have You" – Monsters, Inc.
2002: Nominee – Best Original Score – Monsters, Inc.
2001: Nominee – Best Original Song – "A Fool in Love" – Meet The Parents
2000: Nominee – Best Original Song – "When She Loved Me" – Toy Story 2
1999: Nominee – Best Original Dramatic Score – Pleasantville
1999: Nominee – Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – A Bug's Life
1999: Nominee – Best Original Song – "That'll Do" – Babe: Pig in the City
1997: Nominee – Best Musical or Comedy Score – James and the Giant Peach
1996: Nominee – Best Original Song – "You've Got a Friend in Me" – Toy Story
1996: Nominee – Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – Toy Story
1995: Nominee – Best Original Song – "Make Up Your Mind" – The Paper
1991: Nominee – Best Original Score – Avalon
1990: Nominee – Best Original Song – "I Love to See You Smile" – Parenthood
1985: Nominee – Best Original Score – The Natural
1982: Nominee – Best Original Score – Ragtime
1982: Nominee – Best Original Song – "One More Hour" – Ragtime

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Grammys

2018: Winner - Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals - Putin (song)
2011: Winner – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Toy Story 3
2011: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "Down in New Orleans" – The Princess and the Frog
2007: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "Our Town" – Cars
2004: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Seabiscuit
2003: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "If I Didn't Have You" – Monsters, Inc.
2003: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Monsters, Inc.
2001: Winner – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "When She Loved Me" – Toy Story 2
2001: Nominee – Best Score Soundtrack Album – Toy Story 2
2000: Winner – Best Instrumental Composition – A Bug's Life
2000: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – "The Time of Your Life" – A Bug's Life
1992: Nominee – Best Instrumental Composition – Avalon
1992: Nominee – Best Instrumental Composition – Awakenings
1990: Nominee – Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Parenthood
1985: Winner – Best Instrumental Composition – The Natural (tied with John Williams' Olympic Fanfare)
1983: Nominee – Best Album of Original Score – Ragtime

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Also, to not know who Randy Newman is, is quite impressive:

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I’m sorry I’m bad with names

I’ll go flog myself and repent for my sins

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Wasn’t the song made with the intention of poking fun at how rednecks are dumb?

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short referred to people(southern people, of course,) as being short-sighted and bigoted

Surprised no one has brought up this gem yet:

Louisiana 1927

What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it start to rain
Rained real hard and rained for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day, the river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river have busted through, clear down to Plaquemine
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train
With a little fat man with a notepad in his hand
President say "little fat man, isn't it a shame?"
What the river has done to this poor cracker's land

Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away
They're tryin' to wash us away

Whatever ya do,don’t look up Jonny Rebel. Yikes!

The end of the song speaks to the Hypocrisy of northern whites and their attitudes toward both the south and black people in their own cities.

Incidently Randy Newman spent some time growing up in NOLA.

Because once upon a time we were adults and we realized that words , even “ bad “ words could be used as political satire. We didn’t hear the “n word” said by a white guy and immediately demand that he be hung, we listened to why he was using it, and used our brains . But now that Progressivism has infantalized our entire culture, we must pretend we are offended and stick to Correct Speech.