There a good ideas that go badly, bad ideas that tun out good, and there is We are the Word 25, a well-meant bad idea that sadly, turned out horrible.
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View Poll Results: What's the most painful bit about We are the World 25?
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Starting out with a 16 year old kid who'll probably be forgotten in a year
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Giving solos to has-beens like Enrique Iglesias and Toni Braxton
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Not giving solos to up-and-coming talent like Melanie Fiona and Jodin Sparks
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Not giving solos to the best singers in the room, Gladys Knight and Patti Austin
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Having Janet duet with Black Lantern Michael Jackson
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Wyclef Jean's weird noises
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Jamie Foxx impersonating Ray Charles
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Kanye West's "Katrina to Haiti" rap
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Other
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02-13-2010, 07:49 AM #1They call me Mr. Pip!
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What's the Worst Part about We Are The World 25?
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02-13-2010, 07:58 AM #2The Man of Your Dreams
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Using the voice modulator thingee took the new version from cute if silly to really, really lame.
At least the original group could all SING.
Even Dan Akroyd.-----
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02-13-2010, 08:00 AM #3Lost cause
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It's not as bad as "Do They Know It's Christmas", but it is horribly smug and overproduced. At least when Bob Geldorf said "Give us the fucking money!" you believed he really cared.
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02-13-2010, 08:15 AM #4Were You There?
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Other: The fact that they're doing it at all.
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02-13-2010, 10:02 AM #5They call me Mr. Pip!
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Well, it certainly was well-meant. 25 years on, and on the heels of a huge humanitarian catastrophe.
Originally Posted by Michael P
But I am genuinely stunned at a lot of decisions that were made along the way.My blog.
We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about; our very skins. It is the same with sexual orientation. It is a given.
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02-13-2010, 11:40 AM #6BANNED
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Is there an option I can tick for "All of it"?
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02-13-2010, 11:41 AM #7Your Friend The Atom
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Yes, I don't know why, but I was very surprised by how completely terrible it is.
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02-13-2010, 11:52 AM #8They call me Mr. Pip!
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That is why I made it a poll where you can choose as many options as you like. Originally Posted by FeminineMystique
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We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about; our very skins. It is the same with sexual orientation. It is a given.
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02-13-2010, 12:17 PM #9Senior Member
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I thought it was awful. Justin Bieber and Wyclef's "singing" are tied as the worst offenses. Another I would have added was the blatant use of autotune on almost everyone.
The only two I thought who came off well were Jennifer Hudson and Pink.
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02-13-2010, 12:30 PM #10Senior Member
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I voted for everything, because it was front to back awful.
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02-13-2010, 12:33 PM #11Veteran Member
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I missed this when it originally aired, but it seemed like everyone on the internet was panning this, so I went to catch it on Youtube. It started out "ok" and I thought everything was just overblown, but then it just continued with a bunch of auto-tune junk and a ridiculous rapping segment in the middle of the song that just killed it.
Just goes to show that talented people occassionally producing trash isn't limited to the comic medium.
I would put my $10 in a Haiti Fund for people who never want to hear that We Are the World song again.Last edited by titanfan; 02-13-2010 at 12:35 PM.
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02-13-2010, 01:00 PM #12Bargain bin addict.
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I voter "other" because their biggest mistake was inviting Kanye West and Jamie Foxx to begin with.
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02-13-2010, 01:02 PM #13BANNED
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I think I'll follow your wise example darling Originally Posted by scout1279
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02-13-2010, 02:47 PM #14Say WHAT?!?!?!?
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Where is the "All of the Above" option?
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02-13-2010, 02:54 PM #15BANNED
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Just tick everything darling, it's multiple choice Originally Posted by FanboyStranger
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