Terrible. Was that T. Pain with Autotune? :smack:
We need a vomitting smiley. Horrible.
I believe that was lil’ Wayne.
Can we hear it online?
I would rather share a taco salad with a naked zombie Michael Jackson then watch that again. I had to watch it once, had to see if it was better or worse. Far worse. and I hated it 25 years ago.
So funny. 25 years ago, I knew almost every performer, now I don’t know very many. I have a pleasant nostalgia for the old one (came out when I was in high school!) and loathe and despise auto tune so the old version is still the big winner for me.
PS Where are the country artists (unless there was one I didn’t recognize). I still remember Willie Nelson’s beautiful twang in the first version. Replaced by rap I guess? I am not anti rap per se, and I get that the song is a reflection of current musical tastes.
Uh . . . does nobody remember how much the original sucked? It was not an attempt to make great music, it was an attempt to raise money. If it holds a place in musical history, it’s probably for being the first example of a song that was a “hit” despite sucking so bad, purely for fundraising reasons.
This is more of the same. No one who buys it is doing anything other than donating money for Haiti; no one will play it after they buy it. It’s like a Veteran’s Day poppy.
Sorry, I don’t think the original sucked. I liked it at the time and when I happen to catch it now, I love it for the memories associated with that time in my life.
Re: the country stars - Kris Kristofferson was in there, but he was the only one I recognized.
Reason 256792 why you don’t rely on my for updates on the pop culture of my peers: I recognized two or three artists, one because they apparently perfected time travel (or stock footage, same thing), and Miley Cyrus because her face is plastered on everything. I’m 20. I can pick out at least 4 from the original.
Quincy Jones deserves to be punched in the face for allowing this to happen. I don’t have to even listen to it to know it’s absolute cack.
It’s not atrocious, a number of the singers are certainly talented, they did make a couple… questionable choices near the end and should have chosen two or three of their soloists better.
But…but…we haven’t even seen the full length version! I’m sure Miley Cyrus and one of the Jonas dudes will make it ever so much better!
Six, I can name 6 (not including some of the extras/non-soloists), strongly recognize the faces of 3 or 4 more, and the voices of a couple others in the original. The 2010 one I recognize two of the non-stock-footage artists by name (Miley Cyrus, by proxy of “unavoidable” and “Justin Beiber” by “my friend on Facebook just joined four groups making fun of him.”), and sort of vaguely recognize two other soloists and one extra. No voice recognition however, my personal music tastes get more and more obscure the more recent you get.
Here’s a list of the singers in the video:
Note that Kris Kristofferson was not there, as claimed by Ogre. I suspect that he’s confusing Jeff Bridges for him.
Old moldy douch fell over and spilled. So they sopped it up and put it back on the shelf. Fuckin Drew Barrymore. Nuff said.
Ah well. Shit happens.
It just came to me that We Are The World demands a remix with The World is Just Awesome.
Why the hell was Jeff Bridges there?
Because he was a singer in his latest moviewhich has gotten some critical acclaim, and I think because Jeff enjoys singing and playing the guitar.