I can't HEAR Janet.....

Paris9748430 said:

Don't you be playin' like that!!!!

Lionel Richie says Wow at the end of the music video.....
[Edited 2/13/10 0:13am]

seeingvoices12 said:

Yup. Agreed.

Turn Janet up.
Shut Wyclef and his weird ass noises down.
And then I would download it...no still won't.

I saw the long video also. What happened to Michael's kids' poem?
I was looking forward to that just as much as seeing Mike and Janet
sing together.

As it stands now, given that whoever mixed
Michael and Janet was awful and that
I didn't see any of Michael's kids anywhere
on that mess (maybe it is a good thing) I'm
not very pleased with this song.

bboy87 said:

I tweeted the same shit about Dan Akroyd!!!

http://twitter.com/Jay6Se...9046133257


LMFAO @ this part!!!

http://twitter.com/djbrai...9039955779

Vanilli said:

here's a better idea

just scrap the whole thing altogether and re-release the original

bboy87 said:

Creativity is GONE.....

Evvy said:

I agree. I didn't think it was as horrible as people here are making it out to be. We must remember that this song is about raising money and to evoke emotion in the masses. It does that. It has enough elements of different types of music to attract a wide variety of artists.

I don't like the way they did Janet's vocals, but I do like some of the different elements that were done with the song. I really like the rock bridge when MJ sang.

Ugh.. who was the mixer?

daPrettyman said:

I rather the people who participated give up at least 1/3rds of their weekly allowance to help Haiti rather than do the song at all.

Why they changed some of the lyrics?

http://www.washingtonpost...05518.html

Less-than-stellar remake 'We Are the World' debuts at Olympics in Vancouver

By Chris Richards
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 13, 2010

"We Are the World" got a bad rap. Not the original charity anthem recorded in 1985, but the 25th-anniversary remake that debuted Friday night during coverage of the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The updated take was horribly oversung, but it was largely faithful to the original tune written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie -- save for the 21st-century rap verses added toward the end of the track. One group rap-along, penned by Will.I.Am and led by LL Cool J, ends with a particularly platitudinous couplet: "We are the world connected by a common bond: Love! The whole planet is singing along."

Just probably not to this version. The remake starts with a slew of well-endowed vocal cords hyperextending themselves during precious seconds in front of the microphone.

Guilty parties from the opening verse include Jennifer Hudson, Justin Bieber, Josh Groban and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, each of them cramming too many notes into not enough syllables. Take it easy, guys.

If the original cast assembled by producer Quincy Jones were "the children," this new ensemble that Jones and Richie summoned the day after the Jan. 31 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles are the grandchildren. It's a sprawling extended family of singers -- more than 80 altogether. That's almost twice as many as the first cast, handfuls of them not even born when the original was recorded.

But despite the maxed-out guest list, quite a few future legends were absent. Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Rihanna and Mariah Carey were some of the biggest names not at the recording session. Also, there were too few voices from the country, rock and Latin music communities.
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And that's really what's most disappointing about this overblown redux. Nobody can argue with its worthy cause -- the song's latest proceeds will go to earthquake relief in Haiti -- but the recording's original thrill was due to the panoply of voices gracefully working together: a reedy Willie Nelson, a roaring Bruce Springsteen, an angelic Michael Jackson.

On the new version -- its video will be simulcast around the world Saturday -- Jackson's original vocal contribution was wisely left intact.

seeingvoices12 said:

It's sad isn't it?

She either did that on purpose, or someone blatantly ridiculed her singing ability.

Already a thread here http://prince.org/msg/8/328546

Timmy84 said:

Exactly. I'd much rather they all cut a check. Which I'm sure they did.

There's gotta be a better way.

You know what, I'ma be the bad guy and come out and say it...

All these charity songs since Do They Know It's Christmas have been corny as shit.


The Original We Are the World was corny as shit.

Hands Across America was Corny as shit.

Sun City was corny as shit.

All the charity songs that came out post 2000 have been really corny as shit because all they did was remake old songs!!!

What's Going On

We Are The World '10

Oh, they just had to give everyone 4 second to show off their most trite mannerisms.

I couldn't believe it when the "autotune vocalists" were given their own turn. Well, at least this remake didn't have Fred Durst on it.