Posted on 02/13/2010 11:09:51 AM PST by RGirard
The song "We Are The World" was originally released in 1985 to raise money for Africa, and now it has been re-released in 2010 as "We Are The World - 25" to raise money for Haiti, but is it any good?
... The new version features none of the original singers except Michael Jackson who is spliced in for a duet with his sister Janet. We Are The World -25 was first shown tonight, Feb. 12, before the opening ceremony for the 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver on NBC, local station KNSD 7 in San Diego.
Here are some current online reactions.
"The new song is not good at all. Older version blows it away." ~ Yahoo! Music User
"this is a horrible remake the talent in the first version is miles ahead of these "singers" of today... it is really sad to see that these are the musicans we have today!" ~ mike
"I like the new remake of the song we are the world.It was good. But the old song was better." ~ sicpup
There also seems to be some displeasure toward the change in lyrics. Yes, for some reason the song has been re-written both musically and lyrically ...
"It's sad, in a time when our "World" needs God the most, you chose to leave Him out." ~ hunny
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Typical secular humanist drivel. Barf.
The original song was crap. I can’t imagine a remake being any better.
Maybe I’m too old but I didn’t recognize most of the people in the video. As for musical ability/quality, it didn’t come close to the original and I thought it was kind of creepy to see the recently deceased Michael Jackson spliced in.
It obnoxiously wove rap into the mix, while eliminating the lyrics where God is credited with Satan’s temptation of Christ. Maybe any reference to God, even a wrong one, was more than they could handle.
Wow....the new one must suck hard because the old one blew chunks.
If I have this dreck stuck in my head I’m going to be pissed.
Actually, the original Mitch and Mickey version was quite dark, tortured and sardonic.
In retrospect a cry for help.
I just heard it today for the first time. I thought it was alright. I really think they should have written another song. The original is classic and should not have been sung again by different people.
Does anybody know who the short, white guy is...second from the right, with the peach/orange colored shirt? Thanks!
The first one was no good so I can’t imagine the new opus is any better. That whining is probably what gave the enemies of the West the idea that we were easy pickings. Popular culture is overrun with troubadours and minstrels. People would do better to turn off the music and do a little more thinking and contemplation and a lot less indulging in the emoting of the professional warblers, whiners and moaners.
Seeing that the first one sucked, I’m going on my gut intuition and saying “Hell no.”
It is amazes me these clowns think anyone would actually want to hear, much less pay for, a remake of this brain dead song! For all the PR Entertainment Tonight is giving this thumb sucking effort they must be getting some cut from it too.
When I saw Barbara Streisand moralizing through song, I asked myself, “What has she done to make the world a better place?”
Its like the “Its A Small World” song at Disneyland. Annoys the hell out of you.
That was one of the first arguments I had with Liberals in college. That song was good because it was for a good cause. No, it's a good cause, but the song was lacking.
Now if they had remade THAT, they would've had something!
Disney would've wanted their cut tho.
I remember Joe Bob Briggs, I used to read his column. I really liked the Dallas Times Herald, but I wasn’t into politics - I was just a kid. I mainly focused on the comics - beetle bailey, broomhilda, etc.
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