Randy Newman: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Michael]]'' (1996),

** ''[[Cats Don't Dance (Animation)|Cats Don't Dance]]'' (1997),

** ''[[Babe]]: Pig in the City'' (1998) (song: "That'll Do" by Peter Gabriel)

** ''[[Pleasantville]]'' (1998)

** ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' (1999),

** ''[[Meet the Parents (Film)|Meet the Parents]]'' (2000)

** ''Seabiscuit'' (2003)

** ''[[Meet the Parents (Film)|Meet the Fockers]]'' (2004)

* [[Incest Is Relative]]: Implied in the lyrics of "Naked Man":

{{quote| He said, "They found out about my sister/Kicked me out of the Navy/They would have strung me up if they could/I tried to explain that we were both of us lazy/And were doing the best we could."}}

* [[Long Runner]] -- four decades of music, and still going.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: One of Newman's favorite tactics. "Sail Away" is a quiet, gentle song...until you realize it's written from the perspective of a ''slave ship owner'' pitching the natives on what a great life they're going to have. "Little Criminals" seems to be a case of [[Badass Boast]]...until you realize just how much the narrator and his crew live up to the song's title.

* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: "Naked Man", written about an infamous purse-snatching streaker in the 1970s.

* [[One Woman Song]]: "Kathleen", "Marie", "Suzanne", "Lucinda"...notable in that almost all of them are subversions of the typical love song.

* [[Oscar Bait]] -- straight and subverted

** Really, you'd think the line "We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground" would be a dead giveaway.

* [[Sympathy for The Devil]]: "Rednecks" actually ''was'' intended to display a back-handed sort of sympathy for southern racists, specifically speaking out against northern liberals' tendency to mock them dismissively rather than argue with them on the merits (an argument Newman obviously believed the northerners would win handily).