{"id":2610,"date":"2010-03-09T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-30T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:40:12","slug":"sincerity-why-do-i-even-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerity: Why Do We Ever Care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SK-p3mtyhRc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Another long-suffering musician commits suicide, opening new opportunities to explore the signs of his downfall in his lyrics. An old music-scene friend whose deadpan humor was a set-up for truly good times passes through town and plays a last-minute show. Thomas Newman, brother of Randy <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care#c38707\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to see that I&#8217;ve already been corrected about this blatant inaccuracy &#8211; it was noisy in the kitchen while I was trying to hear this interview the other day, sorry]<\/em>, is interviewed on NPR regarding his Oscar-nominated score for some movie, probably <em>Up<\/em>. Did you know Thomas Newman talks nothing like brother <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care#c38707\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to see that I&#8217;ve already been corrected about this blatant inaccuracy &#8211; it was noisy in the kitchen while I was trying to hear this interview the other day, sorry]<\/em> Randy?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve long been aware of the pitfalls of the <strong>Sincerity Fallacy<\/strong>, but let&#8217;s face it: there are times now and then when even the most enlightened among us like a little sincerity.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRandy Newman has long been a thorn in my side. Part of it&#8217;s his music, although I&#8217;ve very slowly come around to appreciating it over the yearss. Most of it has to do with his voice and the way Newman fans defend his approach to music that for some reason gets filed under <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/em>. Randy Newman probably would never have bugged me so much if his albums were filed alongside those by people like the jazz cat who did most of the <em>Schoolhouse Rock<\/em> stuff &#8211; or that guy with the bushy mustache and the white suit. Randy Newman should be filed in some bin that&#8217;s labeled something with an extraneous e: <em>Olde Tyme Musik<\/em>, or something like that. Not <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LZa4lVXzeII?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThomas Newman speaks nothing remotely like Randy Newman. I believe they were raised together <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care#c38707\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to see that I&#8217;ve already been corrected about this &#8220;misbelief&#8221; &#8211; it was noisy in the kitchen&#8230;]<\/em>; as Thomas told his family history <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care#c38707\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE&#8230;<\/a>]<\/em> in a clear, California voice, there were no mentions of Randy being shipped off to a plantation in the South. Why should it matter to me that Randy Newman&#8217;s schtick is ingrained as deeply as his speaking voice? I believe Dylan remodeled his speaking voice too, but I get a good share of what I consider sincerity out of Dylan, whether it&#8217;s foolish or not that this matters. There must be some instance where you fall on the side of sincerity, regardless of whether it&#8217;s a fallacy or not.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not bringing this up to rag on Randy Newman or bemoan the setback this temporary Thomas Newman interview caused my latent appreciation for brother <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care#c38707\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE&#8230;<\/a>]<\/em> Randy&#8217;s music. I&#8217;d like to discuss the role sincerity plays in our appreciation of music. <em>What am I looking for out of music that would ever make these thoughts cross my mind? What do you seek out of music that ever brings sincerity into the equation?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another long-suffering musician commits suicide, opening new opportunities to explore the signs of his downfall in his lyrics. An old music-scene friend whose deadpan humor was a set-up for truly good times passes through town and plays a last-minute show. Thomas Newman, brother of Randy [CLICK HERE to see that I&#8217;ve already been corrected about <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sincerity-why-do-i-even-care\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}