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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:11 am • # 1 
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I haven't particularly liked the clips I've seen of this new version ~ but the whole video is really excellent ~ the children are so beautiful ~ and you can see the spirit of the Haitian people ~ Sooz


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Sidartha
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:12 am • # 2 
um.... there's something missing....
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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:14 am • # 3 
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Can you see it now, Sid?

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Sidartha
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:14 am • # 4 
that's better...
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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:16 am • # 5 
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The video didn't want to be c/p'd ~ here's the link for the op: http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ld-video/1[/url] ~

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Sidartha
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:20 am • # 6 
Sorry Sooz... I know you put a lot of extra effort to get this video posted and all, but I have a really hard time watching it, like I did the original 25 years ago. I don't know why, but it just doesn't hit me right.
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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:22 am • # 7 
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No apology necessary, Sid ~ we all hit different walls at different times ~

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kathyk1024
PostPosted: 02/14/10 6:15 am • # 8 
It's a little chaotic, but I'm really glad they asked the great vocalists to participate.  Streisand, Celine, Josh Grogan, Jennifer Hudson, and others who didn't appear on that sad greatest singers list.  We really need a complimentary list.  Saw Jeff Bridges back there too.

Really sad part is I didn't know who half the singers were.

I enjoyed it.
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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 6:26 am • # 9 
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Tony Bennett was in there, too, Kath ~

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kathyk1024
PostPosted: 02/14/10 6:31 am • # 10 
Oops, forgot to mention him.  LOL!!!
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 Offline sooz06
PostPosted: 02/14/10 6:36 am • # 11 
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kathy1024 wrote:
... others who didn't appear on that sad greatest singers list.  We really need a complimentary list.

That's a GREAT idea, Kath ~ we CAN and SHOULD create our own "complimentary list" ~ I'd love for you to post a challenge to all VoC members to come up with their own 20 or 50 or whatever number favorite singers ~

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glitterypickles539
PostPosted: 02/14/10 7:26 am • # 12 
I thought the song was insipid the first time around and I haven't changed my opinion in spite of the updated version.  Sorry...
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the monster
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:37 pm • # 13 
glitterypickles539 wrote:
I thought the song was insipid the first time around and I haven't changed my opinion in spite of the updated version.  Sorry...


How can you say that? I mean I can understand your thinking it wasn't that great of a song, but 'insipid' goes a bit over top. Don't you think?

Awarded numerous honors — including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award and a People's Choice Award — the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a home video, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters and shirts. The promotion and merchandise aided the success of "We Are the World", which was eventually named the biggest-selling single of all time. As of 2009, it has sold more than 20 million units and raised over $63 million for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US
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FeatheredFish
PostPosted: 02/14/10 5:45 pm • # 14 
I would have to agree with GP.
The song is designer cheese.
It was the same with The Band Aid - Feed The World single. Folks went along with the cause and the global event, (quite rightly so imo) but the music was sing-a-long-a-blandness.
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 02/14/10 7:05 pm • # 15 
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Sidartha
PostPosted: 02/15/10 4:01 am • # 16 
Mac... That's what I'm talkin' about. There's a fundamental flaw to this model. Here we have a collection of very wealthy celebrities encouraging the masses to buy copies of their cheesey song so they can look good giving our money away. I'd rather just donate that money to the charity of my choice and not bother listening to that hokey crap or watch their fake tears flow. This latest one is worse than the original.
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glitterypickles539
PostPosted: 02/15/10 4:44 am • # 17 
the monster wrote:
glitterypickles539 wrote:
I thought the song was insipid the first time around and I haven't changed my opinion in spite of the updated version.  Sorry...


How can you say that? I mean I can understand your thinking it wasn't that great of a song, but 'insipid' goes a bit over top. Don't you think?

Awarded numerous honors — including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award and a People's Choice Award — the song was promoted with a critically received music video, a home video, a special edition magazine, a simulcast, and several books, posters and shirts. The promotion and merchandise aided the success of "We Are the World", which was eventually named the biggest-selling single of all time. As of 2009, it has sold more than 20 million units and raised over $63 million for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US
Monster, I'm sorry but it was and is an insipid song, in spite of all the awards and success.  I'm glad that it raised tons of money for humanitarian aid but it still is a blah song.
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FeatheredFish
PostPosted: 02/15/10 4:50 am • # 18 
I read Bob Geldof's biography and he spoke of when he attended the original recording of "We are the world."
The performers took a break from recording and in rolled the extravagant caterers trolleys.
He looked up to see Paul Simon across the room looking at him and shaking his head as if to say "they just don't get it, do they?".
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 02/15/10 6:08 am • # 19 
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FeatheredFish wrote:
I read Bob Geldof's biography and he spoke of when he attended the original recording of "We are the world."
The performers took a break from recording and in rolled the extravagant caterers trolleys.
He looked up to see Paul Simon across the room looking at him and shaking his head as if to say "they just don't get it, do they?".

FF- that video in post 14 was for you.
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 Offline macroscopic
PostPosted: 02/15/10 6:09 am • # 20 
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Sid- culturcide is a national treasure.
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