Randy Newman’s NEW Satirical Song: “I’m Dreaming of a White President”
Randy Newman, the multi-award-winning composer and singer-songwriter has recorded a new song in reaction to the latest shenanigans of the Republican Party. “I’m Dreaming of a White President” is sung to the Christmas classic “White Christmas”.
The staff of You Think What understands and we appreciate many of the cleverly written farcical lyrics and melodies created by Newman in the past…tunes like, “The Great Nations of Europe”, or “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” from the “Toy Story” series of Disney/Pixar animated films.
Newman has joined some other popular composers like the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, or the iconic Bob Dylan, and equally prolific creator, Ry Cooder in putting pen to paper to express their political feelings…ridicule, mock, ludicrous, lampooning, being sardonic…
“I’ve done Disney and Pixar stuff. In ‘Toy Story,’ there’s my voice saying, ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me.’ And then here’s my voice singing that I want ‘A real live white man / Who knows the score.’ I’d like it to be clearer which side I’m on. Of course, it comes a little late.” ~ Randy Newman
Seems the GOP, with its adjunct political party faction the so-called Tea Party, is hell bent on moving as far to the right as the east is from the west; ( in 1954 Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, in a letter to his brother, called the millionaires at the time, “a tiny Splinter group” of the Republican Party, who not only wanted to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, they believed they could be successful in doing so. Back in 1954 the then Republican president, a former army general in World War II, said of those millionaires, “Their number is negligible and they are stupid.” President Eisenhower, affectionately known as “Ike” also said if any political party would attempt to abolish such government programs, “…you would not hear of that party again in our political history.”
The once tiny faction has grown within the modern day 21st Century GOP, and the stupid quotient has increased seemingly exponentially with the number of Tea Party affiliates within the regular GOP.
Randy Newman, King of Political Satirical Songs, has captured in this song, the frustration and likely the true color sentiments, of the fifty-three percent Willard Romney’s expecting to capture in his win column in November.
Make no mistake those who are unfamiliar with the term satire, please note Newman, in a recent interview with Slate Magazine Newman asks listeners donate to the United Negro College Fund, (UNCF), explaining, “I’ve done Disney and Pixar stuff. In ‘Toy Story,’ there’s my voice saying, ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me.’ And then here’s my voice singing that I want ‘A real live white man / Who knows the score.’ I’d like it to be clearer which side I’m on. Of course, it comes a little late.”
We know which side you’re on Randy Newman…
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