'We Are The World' remake brings artists together

[Chris]

...and I use the term "artists" loosely.

LOS ANGELES — The energy was electric Monday night (February 1) at Henson Studios as more than 80 of music's biggest stars gathered for a charity remake of "We Are the World" in support of Haitian earthquake relief.

"I feel like a kid in a candy store," Wyclef Jean said, speaking to the press about the idea of remaking such an iconic song, which is getting production help from RedOne and Will.I.Am. "What's bigger than a contribution is that you lend your voice," the Haitian native said earlier in the day to his peers while trying to inspire them during the session, which began around 3 p.m. and lasted well into the night.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631018/20100202/lil_wayne.jhtml

It's awful.  Seventh level of Hell awful.  It was bad enough until Barbara Streisand made her ear-shattering, brain-curdling entrance. What a sorry, sad collection of egos and no-talents. Is this the best the modern music industry can claim?  Who the hell are these people, and why should I care that they bothered to resurrect a 25-year-old song that wasn't that good to start with?

If I had to watch it, so do you:
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Even the creepy Japanese version isn't this bad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87-MUkH3fgU

I've never heard such egregious abuse of an autotuner. These people need to be beaten with their own microphones.

[Chris]

PJ O'Rourke's review of the original...

We are the world [solipsism], we are the children [average age forty].
We are the ones to make a brighter day [unproven], so let’s start giving [logical inference supplied without argument].
There’s a choice we’re making, so let’s start giving [true as far as it goes].
We’re saving our own lives [absurd].
It’s true we’ll make a better day [see line 2 above],
Just you and me [statistically unlikely].

That’s three palpable untruths, two dubious assertions, and nine uses of a first person pro-noun, not a single reference to trouble and anybody in it and no facts. The verse contains, literally, neither rhyme nor reason. And these musical riots of philanthropy address themselves to the wrong problems.

[bijou]

My ears are bleeding. I hate you. 

I any 80s charity song has to be released it should be this one. At least it is listenable.

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