defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

REM's worst album

will.i.am & kanye trading Heartfelt lines on a charity single is really what the whole past decade of popular rap music was leading up too -- i truly believe this

That was AMAZING. As in, I totally understand why I don't listen to the fucking radio anymore if these are the clowns that are getting played.

I cried so much for Haiti. Will it survive this?

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1631796/20100212/lil_wayne.jhtml

Ok I stop listening to Ron Carter for this shit. When will I ever learn? I always gave the original a smirk and a roll of the eyes but this new one is well just bad. At first I was angry at for subjecting myself to something I knew was going to suck but at the end of the day I realize this songs just doesn't matter. Oh well.

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I had a version with all of the mouths moving but something got fucked up and now I'm too friday nighted out to fix it

good lord, I apologize for posting that, it's weird looking

no that's awesome -- especially w/ only some of the mouths moving, makes it extra creepy

Z S = hero

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Dying here.

Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), whose own personal efforts as well as those of Artists for Peace and Justice have already saved countless lives in Haiti, filmed the private recording session to create the accompanying video and behind-the-scenes production, and serves as Film Director and as an Executive Producer with Jones, Richie, Jean, Phillips and Tortorici.

He's saved so many lives that he can't count them.

They just look like a bunch of hungry birds now.

Haitians?

I want someone to animate a mother bird distributing worms among them.

"We Ate the Worms"

lol ned

I wonder what Tony Bennett did when the song went into the gangsta-rap breakdown with LL Cool J.

Actually I'm just waiting on what St. Sanders will do with all this.

YES Please

A) as previous posts have said, WTF with the yodeling?

B) why did Cher redo Lauper's goofy "woah woah WOAH WOOOAHHH"

C) why did LL & others rap in unison on the breakdown part? it sounded retarded, and also the lyrics sounded like quincy Jones trying to write a rap, which I suspect is what happened

this video only serves to push me deeper into my bitter cave of rockism

I mean seriously, Beiber & Jo Bros are equivalent to Willie, Tina, Bruce etc?

plus, none of the singers wer really interesting or had much character to their voices cause almost all of em were autotuned & shit

i mean, fergie (i think?) filling in for Ray Charles' "let me hear ya" really put the last nail in the coffin for me.

A friend noticed they misspelled Mechastreisand's name as Barbara in the credits. There will be blood.

wow, this is horrible on so many levels. amazing !

of COURSE it would be directed by the "crash" dude.

also, i think i speak for many when i ask, who the fuck are these people?

also brian wilson was apparently in the chorus. along with bizzy bone and benji and joel madden.

is the guy behind Celine using the Haitian flag as a toothpick? INSENSITIVE.

You may think it's bad but IMO better than the original....it had rappers in it!!

both terrible. but new one is so bad a poll would be useless.

"will.i.am & kanye trading Heartfelt lines on a charity single is really what the whole past decade of popular rap music was leading up too -- i truly believe this"

word is born ... to be fair this tune only really kicks in when it threatens to turn into a posse cut ... however it needs some bun b

also what on earth is going on when jamie foxx does that little auto tuned jokey singing bit

The sad thing is there are probably people who think this is the best decade for music so far.

Looking forward to 25th anniversary of Hear N Aid..... Let's get on this.

big lol when i went to http://rappersiknow.com/ this morning

directed by the Crash dude? lol j0hn D. called it upthread

they just want us to hurt like they do iirc

We Are The World is disaster relief because it shows Haitians that things can be much worse.

It's everything that's wrong with modern music in 8 minutes. I especially love how they're all sucking their own dicks now thinking they did such a great thing (aside from the fact that proceeds go to a good cause, obviously)..

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like how The Dude is at the peak of his inhale here

some thoughts:

1. girl from sugarland has that always sparkly eyed bonnie langford thing going on. does she ever look glum?
2. tony christie phoning it in like a motherfucker.
3. barbara streisand saying 'daaay' made me laugh a lot as she puts on a dylan voice.
4. so much obvious autotune on people who shouldn't need it.
5. oh my fucking god will.i.am.please.die
6. oh my fucking god wyclef oh my god
6. where are status quo?
7. santana is now some sort of robot, you push a button on his back and funky solo comes out.
8. jamie, you're not ray charles any more.
9. the rapping is actually worse than john barnes in world in motion.
10. did the divas refuse to be in the same room as all the non-talent?

basically other than maybe usher and celine dion the best person in it is a dead pederast.

This version basically confirms it wasn't the song but the performances that carried the original. Not that it was ever in dispute.

This is like W. to the original's Reagan.

it sure was in dispute, since the original also sucks ass in hell.

4. so much obvious autotune on people who shouldn't need it.

Seconded, it's totally in that mindfuck zone of "did they just not hit the notes or was the mix engineer just using it for the sake of same???" I understand the auto-tuning of Akon/T-Pain/Lil' Wayne because it's part of their whole shtick, but Barbra Streisand and Tony freakin' Bennett?

considering that they recorded 50 people for this thing and rush released it i could see them preferring sloppy AutoTune to taking the time to get better takes

Well the people on the production side of things were probably saying "throw in some more automatic-tunes or whatever cause thats whats all the rage these days" like somebody's disconnected dad, because they're as in tune with todays cultures as most disconnected dads out there.

Wow yall are not kidding, this is one of the worst things I've ever seen. I made it up to the first couple of lines during the rap but had to shut it down out of respect for Haiti.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Pulp's "Bad Cover Version" video on this thread. It's classic!!

Also, might I suggest that the next time a group of well-meaning celebrity musicians decide to sing together for charity, they begin by WRITING A NEW FUCKING SONG?

some dude OTM btw imo fwiw