Timmy84 said:

I think the list involved In this project gonna be shocking, I don't know why.....

I love Justin I don't give a fuck but at the same time NO I don't want him singing that .. these people can't write nothing NEW ...shows the talent that we have these days

funkycat00 said:

HUBBA HUBBA!

I heard a rumor that they're gonna use Michael's vocals on the new version.

If they'll be using current pop artists on the remake I think I'd even prefer this version over that:

PDogz said:

holy shit now I feel old

Quincy Jones: Remake Will Include 'Three Times' As Many Stars
January 31, 2010


We Are the World, the 1985 all-star anthem that raised funds for famine victims in Africa, will be re-recorded Monday in Los Angeles with a fresh batch of artists.
"We'll have three times as many people as we did the first time," says Quincy Jones, who returns as producer. Plans were already underway to mark the song's 25th anniversary, but the Haiti earthquake created an urgency and vital purpose. Proceeds will benefit relief efforts there.

Helping those in need "is why we did it in the first place, so why not do it now?" says Jones, who predicts the new version will have as much reach and fundraising success as its predecessor. "I have confidence, always. I'm so excited."

Lionel Richie, who co-wrote the song with Michael Jackson, will coach singers at Henson Recording Studios (formerly A&M) in the same studio where the original was taped. Music director/composer Rickey Minor is on board, and the project will be filmed. Jones says no participating artists will be identified until Monday.

"I'm planning to be there," Smokey Robinson revealed Saturday. "It's a wonderful idea, not only because it's needed, but as a tribute to Michael Jackson."

The song, he said, "will hold up forever."


http://www.usatoday.com/l...orld_N.htm

ViintageJunkiie said:

I wonder if a few rap versus are going to be forced in.

Identity said:

Lame-old Quincy Jones. Write a NEW charity song dude, like Mike did in 2001. No one is gonna buy this remake. If they don't sadly interpolate MJ's original vocals, who is gonna sing his part? Timberlake? Stevie's part? Usher? Springsteen's part? David Cook, or worse, that Daughtry dude? Diana Ross' part? Mary J. Blige? Dionne Warwick's part? Rihanna? Steve Perry's part? Adam Lambert??? Again, I say:

RKJCNE said:

I hope not!

ViintageJunkiie said:

I think it is beyond doubt that we will have a rap verse added. The question is by who? Jay-Z or Eminem or perhaps Lil' Wayne or someone from Young Money? lol

ViintageJunkiie said:

You know they will. Kanye and Snoop is there

this was on twitter



what?

bboy87 said:

midiscover said:

Quincy couldn't call Tina?

He didn't have Kenny Loggins' number?

James Ingram was at a family barbecue?

Diana Ross had a nail appointment?

c'mon, son....
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bboy87 said:

Right!

You know this is going to be a shitty mess

what next? are we going to re-create fucking Hands Across America too?

midiscover said:

I have respect for Quincy, but damn, is it about talent anymore?

Is it?


Look at the 1985 lineup

Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon
Kenny Rogers
James Ingram
Tina Turner
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson
Diana Ross
Dionne Warwick
Willie Nelson
Al Jarreau
Bruce Springsteen
Kenny Loggins
Steve Perry
Daryl Hall
Huey Lewis
Cyndi Lauper
Kim Carnes
Bob Dylan
Ray Charles
Harry Belafonte
Lindsey Buckingham
Mario Cipollina
Johnny Colla
Sheila E.
Bob Geldof
Bill Gibson
Chris Hayes
Sean Hopper
Jackie Jackson
La Toya Jackson
Marlon Jackson
Randy Jackson
Tito Jackson
Waylon Jennings
Bette Midler
John Oates
Jeffrey Osborne
Anita Pointer
Ruth Pointer
Smokey Robinson
Dan Aykroyd

I mean, with the exception of Dan Aykroyd , that's one hell of a lineup

If they're going to do some corny all-star tribute, it might as well be We Are The World, even if that song sucks.

If they wrote a new one, it wouldn't have the same impact. Only Do They Know It's Christmas and We Are The World ever made a difference, and all the ones since then go pretty much unnoticed, even for a good cause. Including the one MJ did in 2001.

errant said:

I'm okay with all star tributes, but at least have the people included have talent

bboy87 said:

I love your posts dude! Seriously, you make one crappy mess like this
at least something I can laugh about instead of be pissed about.

What irks me the most is that
I bet if MJ was alive he wouldn't have approved of this junk and
it would have been dead in the water. But without him here, people
think they can just do crap like this. Ruining a classic (sorta cheesy)
but still classic song.

Where is Vanilla Ice? Couldn't they book his dreadful ass for this
crappy remake? Seriously. Go away modern music. Bring me back my
MJ and George Michael 80s/early 90s hey-days. PLEASE!!!

Lil Wayne is suppose to take Dylan's part and MJ, will be involved in some way.

shorttrini said:

no comment




yeah,I heard that they're gonna use some of his old vocals for the new recording.

Vanilli said:

Oh please. If MJ were here, he'd be the one spear-heading it. He never missed an opportunity to mark an anniversary. Or to come up with some over-blown star-studded mess to save the world. Putting the two together would have been impossible for him to pass up.

And as for who's invovled.... The original one included the hot artists of the time. And their friends. And whoever happened to be walking down the street. The names of the stars involved in 1985 were ones that were going to sell the public and radio on buying into the song and the cause. It's the same in 2009. If you had Diana Ross and Lionel Richie and James Ingram and Kenny Loggins on this thing, no one would even hear it. The point is to raise money by getting the hottest acts out there on it. It wasn't about talent the first time, it was about star power. Why would it be any different this time?

VIDEO SURFACES:


celine channeling cyndi

http://www.tmz.com/videos...166c52decc
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Again, I'll go on record as saying I love "We Are the World." A little cheese never hurt anybody and the vocal performances are inspired. I can speak at length on the brilliance of having Stevie & The Boss duet, but I won't.

Anyway, this remake is a terrible, terrible idea.

Justin Bieber & Julianne Hough were there

Not that I really care,but....does anyone have a complete list of the participants? I wanna see how awful this thing is gonna be,lol.

Stars gather to cover `We Are the World' for Haiti
AP, Feb 2, 2010 6:37 am PST

The charity anthem "We Are the World" has been rerecorded by 80 artists who came together in the same Hollywood studio where the original was cut 25 years ago.Pink, Natalie Cole, Kanye West, Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion, Brian Wilson and others stood shoulder-to-shoulder on risers at Henson Recording studios Monday night to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief.
"This one, the enthusiasm, I've never seen anything like it," said Lionel Richie, who wrote the original with Michael Jackson and oversaw the new version with music mogul Quincy Jones, 76.
Jones, who produced the 1985 anthem, announced last week that he planned to redo the song to benefit recovery efforts after the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12.

"We Are the World — 25 for Haiti" will premiere this month during coverage of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics on NBC, according to a release from promoter AEG Live.

On Monday, stars converged on Studio A in the afternoon and stayed several hours. Richie and Jones worked with a select number of soloists, including Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, later into the night.
At one point during a break, the musicians broke out into an a cappella version of "Lean on Me," a classic moment jump-started by singer Melanie Fiona leaning on another artist because her feet were tired.
Gesturing with her hands, and shifting her headphones from ear to ear, Barbra Streisand recorded her solo over and over, completely absorbed in the recording process and stopping only to correct her pitch.
Later, a who's who of rappers, including Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J and Wyclef Jean, recorded an interlude written by Black Eyed Peas frontman and producer will.i.am.
Rapper Lil Wayne said he was blessed to record the tune but was surprised when told he would do Bob Dylan's part from the original.
"I don't know how to sing," he said with a smile.
Asked how the earthquake had affected him, he said he had Haitian friends in Miami who lost relatives in the disaster.
The original "We Are the World" thundered up the charts when it was released in March 1985.
An unprecedented number of top pop musicians gathered at A&M the night of Jan. 28, 1985, following the American Music Awards, to record the tune. The song featured 45 American superstars, including Jackson, Richie, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper.
The record raised more than $30 million for USA for Africa, a nonprofit organization the singers founded to fund hunger relief in Africa.
None of the original performers returned Monday because none were asked, said Randy Phillips, chief executive of AEG Live and also Richie's manager.

"This is about a new generation mixed with an old generation," Phillips said.
Proceeds initially are to go to the newly formed charity We Are the World Foundation LLC, and then be distributed to Haiti.

Some top music names were either unavailable or chose not to rerecord the original, Phillips said. Taylor Swift's touring schedule kept her from joining, and Beyonce had returned to New York with husband Jay-Z, he said. Janet Jackson, who was out of town, will contribute vocals remotely, he said.
Filmed by Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis, the event was shot using 3-D cameras, a futuristic twist from the 1985 version. A few people dressed in head-to-toe green stood next to the celebrities as place holders so viewers would eventually be able to insert themselves into the star crowd, Jones said.
Josh Groban, flush from doing his high-flying solo, said: "I can only hope this can have the impact the original has had."

banks said:

a fucking Pussycat Doll got a solo?

clearly not enough name singers showed up if she's getting a solo.