Leaked notes from the We Are The World 25 sessions...

[JasunStrikesBack]

... "Lionel opens it up... who's the modern day biggest wuss in music?"

"Oh, some little boy from Youtube."

"Who's the modern day Michael Jackson?"

"um... Janet?"

"Ok then.. Who's the modern day Cyndi Lauper?"

"Lady Gaga."

"Ok, great... let's get her to do Cyndi's part"

"um... if Lady Gaga can't actually.. like... sing."

"oh... well... fuck it, just let Celine do it."

"Who can we get to sing the..."

"there's no singers anymore...."

"Ok, well then let's just get a bunch of rap guys to make jibberish noises for a bit and just fade out,.... nobody's going to care anyway.."

"I'll see who's not it jail this week."

"someone call Cher and see if we can borrow that auto-tune machine she's got."

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Many will remember the 10th anniversary of "Do they know it's Christmas" that was so bad I can't make it through without cringing... it was ghastly.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

this is better...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41mMxnj_6xg[/ame]

 

[NedNickerson]

I just now listened to the Haiti version for the first time - god, that was awful... Listening to it and watching the video is stark testimony to just how badly musical talent has deteriorated in one generation.

I remember the original video having soaring moments that made you feel inspired, and I was able to recognize everyone singing in the video. In the Haiti version, I only recognized a handful of those singers... Who was the white woman with the short-cropped hair?

As bad as that video was, it's still probably going to go viral. The American Idol generation doesn't have a clue what real talent is.

Here's the original version:

We Are The World


25 for Haiti

 

[FPNY]

the whole video stinks, people dont sing anymore, they scream. i changed the channel during that vid on the olympic opening last night. it did not make me wanna call and contribute money to Haiti. to sum it up in one word....SUCKSVILLE!

 

[Hello-Good-Bi]

Here's hoping it raises a bunch of money for Haiti, but....LOL! I really am turning into a grumpy old man. I only recognized a few faces and the rap parts made me cringe.

 

[G-Lexington]

I seem to recall a lot of complaining when the original came out.

The song sucked.
The performances were self-serving.
It was considered a grandstanding move.
At least half the performers had no business being there. (Kim Carnes? The News? LaToya Jackson? Dan Akyroyd?)
The attitude behind the song reeked of ethnocentrism. "WE are the world. Not you. Feed off the scraps we throw as we grow fat on your plight."

Time changes everything. We'll see how this song looks in a few years. My guess is it'll be rapidly forgotten.

Shame UMG won't let me post the video for Pulp's "Bad Cover Version". If ever it was appropriate...

Lex

 

[boxerdudeuk]

please someone put l'il wayne out of OUR misery. and why the fuck did they include that little lesbian fetus justin bieber or whatever the fuck his name is? or miley cyrus?

the terrorists missed a great opportunity to finish them all off while they were all under one roof.

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>why the fuck did they include that little lesbian fetus justin bieber or whatever the fuck his name is?

His manager was one of the ones helming the project. He's attempted to cut everybody off at the pass by saying it's a charity project, and they couldn't include everyone, and petty jealousy shouldn't be involved.

Oh, and Justin Bieber's debut album is available on iTunes and wherever finer CDs are sold.

Lex

 

[sabot3ur]

wow, this is a special kind of horrible. just like the original lol are they trying to make Haiti funny?

and old people, fear not. this is not good current music, you are obviously looking in all the wrong places for it

 

[kevbo]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qBq7cJg_s[/ame]

 

[NedNickerson]

I thought it was odd that they showed all those Haitians singing, clapping, and dancing. What was that about?

 

[Joshua_me]

And WHAT is that noise that Wyclef is doing with his voice ?

It sounds like someone backing over a cat.

And, Babs, Babs, Babs.... Honey, I luv ya, really I do, but perhaps you didn't get the memo: THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU !

And yes, I'm old enough to remember when the first one came out. It seemed like a lot of grandstanding back then as well, but at least it wasn't cringe-inducing.

I've got to hunt down that old Simpsons episode. Remember the one where the entire town thinks Bart (aka Timmy O'Toole) is trapped in a well ? And Sting and all the other celebs of the day gather to sing, "We're Sending Our Love Down a Well."

Not much has changed, has it ?

 

[G-Lexington]

>>>And, Babs, Babs, Babs.... Honey, I luv ya, really I do, but perhaps you didn't get the memo: THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU !

I read somewhere that Barbra Streisand passed on the first one. But when the song became a big hit, she complained to her manager that she wasn't on it, and so when the next opportunity came to do a similar project, she leapt right on it.

Which is why she features so prominently in "Hands Across America".

Lex

 

[Joshua_me]

I thought it was odd that they showed all those Haitians singing, clapping, and dancing. What was that about?

Yes, that is odd...

It's as if to say, "Hooray ! We're living in abject poverty, our parents corpses are under ten feet of rubble and we don't even have clean water to drink... But, hey ! We got rhythm !"

Ghastly.

 

[Joshua_me]

Maybe we're just too old to understand the music of today's youth.




*cough*

 

[gdude30]

Uhm yeah the new version sucks. Some parts were passable but the rest was meh. I think some of the singers were overshadowed by others or upstaged and some people were just trying to make random noises or make their voices heard instead of singing in unison. It was just god awful.

I think that one of the singers sounded like a billy goat. But yeah it was painful to watch and hear.