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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nemesis6 on February 27, 2010, 06:16:09 pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI
I think it's absolutely horrible and they should feel ashamed of this dead-on-arrival monstrosity. They basically just scraped up whoever is popular, as opposed to who is actually a good singer as they did in the 80s original, and hence we end up with auto-tune, T-pain, Lil Wayne, half-hearted rap, off-key singers whose performances are just downright bad, and general lack of harmony in the song. How the hell can they sing about unity when they act like total strangers and care so little about the whole thing? I applaud the message, but they should be ashamed of putting so little effort into something this important.
Repeating myself slightly - Auto-tune, seriously? It's just so absurd -- It shows how the idiots who use it can't sing, and yet they still use it in the song? I don't understand why they didn't realize how bad this would reflect on the whole thing.
Apparently, Jay-Z didn't take a shine to it, either: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Jay-Z-Says-We-Are-the-World-Remake-Should-Not-Exist-135167.shtml
I think this video is a perfect example of the ethical question: Does the end justify the means?
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Is everything a travesty with you?
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Who are all of those people, and why should I care?
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Charity songs are srs bzns.
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People are totally missing the point.
So what if the ****ing song sucks? They're raising money for suffering human beings. Nobody erased the original 80s WATW. Get over it.
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I saw this on TV the other night and could not believe how horrible it was. A whole bunch of celebrities, each singing in a different key, stitched together by some supermarket tabloid and marketed as glurge. No harmony, unity, cohesiveness, or even emotional impact whatsoever. It sounds and looks awful.
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So does your mother at two in the morning :P
What does it matter? It's an ineffective ad, sure; but certainly nothing spectacular.
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wig0otzt_PY) is a spectacular ad.
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So does your mother at two in the morning :P
Ohhhhh SNAP
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It all means well, with the collecting of money for people in need, but this particular song is quite possibly the most anti-West, anti-capitalism piece of garbage ever.
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****.
****.
Lil Wayne, go, **** YOURSELF. WHY
THE FLYING ****
WOULD YOU USE AUTOTUNE IN A SONG LIKE THIS?
****ING WHY.
YOU STUPID PIECE OF GHETTO-BRED ****. HOW COULD YOU ****ING DESTROY THIS SONG. Pretty much all of you artists in that video, why? What a commercialized piece of ****ing bull****. Intentions were good, sure. If it raises money, I'll act happy. But we really, really, don't need a modernization of "We Are The World". What happened to originality in the music industry? Why couldn't they have wrote their own song about the specific tragedy? AND WHY THE **** WAS JUSTIN BIEBER THERE. As a devout underground rap listener and 'Hip-Hopper', I have to say, that rap section of the song absolutely sucked ass. Man, way to ****ing ruin a classic.
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It all means well, with the collecting of money for people in need, but this particular song is quite possibly the most anti-West, anti-capitalism piece of garbage ever.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Giving nothing to back that up? Then don't bother posting it at all.
Come on, how many times have we been over this?
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I think this video is a perfect example of the ethical question: Does the end justify the means?
What do you mean? I don't think they realized how ugly it'd be :P
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I think this video is a perfect example of the ethical question: Does the end justify the means?
What do you mean? I don't think they realized how ugly it'd be :P
Come on, they MUST have known. It doesn't take a genius to know that if you redo one of the biggest charity songs ever with autotune, bad egomaniacle rappers, and generally just people whose only reason for being there in the first place was attending the Grammys, that you'd end up with a travesty. If I hadn't already donated, I would be put off of donating by this shameful commercial stunt. I mean, it's so obvious that the only thing these people care about is the publicity.
I wouldn't have any complaints if they had made a new song. That would be absolutely fine, and by today's musical standards, it would probably be radio-worthy, but to give an idea of how much they shamed the original, think of Uwe Boll remaking Citizen Kane. Yeah.
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It all means well, with the collecting of money for people in need, but this particular song is quite possibly the most anti-West, anti-capitalism piece of garbage ever.
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Giving nothing to back that up? Then don't bother posting it at all.
Come on, how many times have we been over this?
You are correct, I should have backed up my statement, and upon further review I was thinking of some other song that was "like" We Are The World.
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Come on, they MUST have known. It doesn't take a genius to know that if you redo one of the biggest charity songs ever with autotune, bad egomaniacle rappers, and generally just people whose only reason for being there in the first place was attending the Grammys, that you'd end up with a travesty.
Maybe, or could it be you're somehow more attached to this song than most? Factually, it's just one mistreated song among thousands of others :)
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Come on, they MUST have known. It doesn't take a genius to know that if you redo one of the biggest charity songs ever with autotune, bad egomaniacle rappers, and generally just people whose only reason for being there in the first place was attending the Grammys, that you'd end up with a travesty. If I hadn't already donated, I would be put off of donating by this shameful commercial stunt. I mean, it's so obvious that the only thing these people care about is the publicity.
I wouldn't have any complaints if they had made a new song. That would be absolutely fine, and by today's musical standards, it would probably be radio-worthy, but to give an idea of how much they shamed the original, think of Uwe Boll remaking Citizen Kane. Yeah.
Who cares? Honestly? Let them redo any crappy song they want. If you don't like it, don't listen to it.
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I certainly wouldn't have known about it except for your overreaction to it. I never heard of the original song ever, but let me tell you, it's not that great. Riddled with cliches and altogether booorrriiiinnngggg.
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I wouldn't have any complaints if they had made a new song. That would be absolutely fine, and by today's musical standards, it would probably be radio-worthy, but to give an idea of how much they shamed the original, think of Uwe Boll remaking Citizen Kane. Yeah.
Um...no. Not even remotely close. At all.
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Again, totally missing the point.
If this song raises even a penny for Haiti you should be more than willing to overlook its faults. Hell, even if Uwe Boll made a movie and donated the proceeds to charity I couldn't care less about the movie itself.
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When discussing anything Uwe Bol creates, the ends under no circumstances justify the means.
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Again, totally missing the point.
If this song raises even a penny for Haiti you should be more than willing to overlook its faults. Hell, even if Uwe Boll made a movie and donated the proceeds to charity I couldn't care less about the movie itself.
:yes:
Charity songs are for charity, not enjoyment. Only people who donate to said charity or buy an album should be allowed to comment on its quality :doubt:
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Agreed.
That said I'll point out that Band Aid did it first and did it better. :p
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Agreed.
Perhaps, but that's stupid since anyone can listen to it and thereby form an opinion.
As for the song...This is not bad. It is not awful. It is not stupid. It is where bad and awful and stupid and bad combine together like the Voltron episode That Sanity Forgot and destroy anything remotely resembling artistic talent or good feeling.
Sure I'll grant it's for a good cause, but that's no excuse for not even making an effort. If anything, they should have tried harder. So in the end all it does is reveal its own hypocripsy; they're not getting paid enough for their time to give a rat's ass about Haiti.
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That's like telling a REALLY ugly babies parents that their baby is REALLY ugly. We all see it on the street, but even if we knew the parents it's still not the done thing.
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Perhaps, but that's stupid since anyone can listen to it and thereby form an opinion.
If you're complaining about the quality of the song preventing you from donating to a charity then you're a bastard. Just donate without buying the song.
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I wouldn't have any complaints if they had made a new song. That would be absolutely fine, and by today's musical standards, it would probably be radio-worthy, but to give an idea of how much they shamed the original, think of Uwe Boll remaking Citizen Kane. Yeah.
Don't mention UB. His name alone causes nightmares....
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I wonder how much the participants on this song could have raised for Haiti if they'd just gone to their banks and each coughed up a couple of hundred thousand each. I'm fairly sure Vince Vaughn is in the background of one of the big scenes there - you're telling me he's going to raise more money through his contribution to this song than if he donated 10% of the proceeds of his last movie contract? :doubt:
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COMMIEE!!!!!
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That's like telling a REALLY ugly babies parents that their baby is REALLY ugly. We all see it on the street, but even if we knew the parents it's still not the done thing.
No, this is like telling your friends in the pub about this REALLY ugly baby that you saw once and how REALLY ugly it was.
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Music videos usually ruin the song anyway...
If it's a charity song, then I'd take the view that they are trying their best to sound crap and good at the same time, and it should be funny. As it is, how did we stumble upon this "remake"?
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Music videos usually ruin the song anyway...
Except when they make it awesome by association (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDyDz8WeiM4).
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This is better, I wish I was a baby again. (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HSlZBNwUQ&hl=en-GB&gl=US&warned=True&client=mv-google)