Blue star Lee Ryan wants to enlist the likes of Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and Pink on a new Band Aid style song. But Michael said today's chart stars are too manufactured and too trivial for their song to be taken seriously.
The people involved would be "extremely young and extremely lacking" in political knowledge, he said. The former Wham! star was part of the 1984 Band Aid line-up which had a huge hit with Do They Know It's Christmas, in aid of Ethiopian famine victims.
But he told the BBC: "I'm begging, I'm hoping that there will not be a Band Aid 2 because the reality is that very, very few people in the industry now, that you're hear ing on the radio, make their money from their own hearts and minds.
"They make their money from singing the words of others, and so therefore the weight of something called Band Aid 2 would be incredibly slight." He added: "It's not the same as making a record to send money to Ethiopia.
"This is different and I really hope the current pop music industry, the current generation, stays away from it because I really don't think it would be a very genuine move."
Ryan revealed at last week's Brit Awards that he wanted to assemble a host of big name artists to record his single Stand Up As People, which he wrote last year. Ananova
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Does anyone else find this story has a certain Bizarro World quality to it?