defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

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)..

http://i45.tinypic.com/2uqlm4i.gif

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

i didn't get jamie foxx's joke voice? was he supposed to be imitating r. charles ??

Yes, singing the same lines Charles sang in the original.

Toni Braxton though!

i know, right? the first time i saw her in one of the photos i was like "that looks like Toni but they wouldn't invite her to something like that these days...maybe Ciara got a new haircut? no, Ciara was never that gorgeous."

thought it was K. Hilson until she started singing

Turns out there was already a worse remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEjpl50_XE

This is way less worse than I remembered...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qBq7cJg_s

Who is Justin Bieber?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Justin_Bieber.jpg/506px-Justin_Bieber.jpg

that vid is worse than the we are the world one. 'we are all the same! like... gays and addicts and asians, right?' Also I'm with you Gwen, STOP GLOBAL AIDS.

Better giving rappers their own verses though. And just having ?uestlove looking around going 'why the fuck am I here with these retards? What are you doing to my ears?'

Yeah I was able to figure out that he was the five year old who started the song but... why is it him starting the song?

he is a popular new artist

With whom -- pedophiles?

Revisiting the original after this awful remake = we really didn't know how good we had it.

Yeah back then artists had to use an older model called "manual-tune."

he is a popular new artist

― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 15, 2010 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
With whom -- pedophiles?

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Bahahahaha

Bieber has his moments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6B1upS49NM

For a brief half second I'm all "He covered 'My World' by Guns'n'Roses?"

A solo version of the well known charity song, entitled "I Am My World"

HA

Dude owns Twitter too. Girls and pedos united as Bieliebers.

challop: The Fred Phelps parody version of WATW sounds better than the autotuned one.

massive lols at "Bieliebers"