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?
Wait till you hear Leslie Strickland's tale of woe. The 49-year-old Port Charlotte, Fla., woman hit an alligator with her car on Friday night.I wonder if she's blonde?Stricken with guilt, she went back the next day to rescue the critter. She put it in her car, drove it home, watered it down with a hose, and phoned the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which was closed for the weekend.
Strickland's neighbors pointed out to her that it's illegal to possess an alligator, so "she loaded it in the car again and drove off in search of a pond to release it." In the back seat it "started to thrash its tail." A distracted Strickland ran off the road and hit a mailbox. She tried to drive off, but her car got stuck in a ditch. So she walked home.
Police showed up at Strickland's home to arrest her, "adding a charge of resisting arrest after she struggled with officers who tried to handcuff her." She ended up spending a night in jail.
Oh, and the alligator died.