"we are the world" 's worst compilation of singers to promote a worthy cause

believe you me, i know how much in need haiti is in. my eighth graders and i have been donating money to them for two years (before it was cool, i say). but when the likes of quincy jones and lionel richie announced they would be remaking "we are the world" with today's "hottest" singers, i was quite skeptical. sure, it was going to a good cause... but is it the right way to go about it?

uhm. no.

let's just start out by saying the remake is warbly (sp?), strained, and oversung. it is, in one word, pathetic. here you have some of the most talented music producers in the country, nay the world, and they can't even direct some of the biggest egos to tune it down a bit? to quit making sounds a cat in heat would make? and why in god's name was it played at the olympics, which represents the WORLD, which are in CANADA, and the majority of the singers are american? doesn't that say "hey we want to help... the american way?" idiocy doesnt even begin to describe it.

and let's just take a look at who they chose to warble out this song. Justin "the chipmunks have a deeper voice than me" Beiber... seriously? that kid was just BORN and they put him into a song like this? or nicole sdskgfsdlgh from the slutty cat dolls, who looks like shes constipated when she sings, or tries to sing. j-hud and josh groban, i FULLY support. but miley cyrus? LIL WAYNE!? that guy cant/ doesnt even sing!! neither does akon!

for the first time in my life, i can say that jay z and i are on the same page. that song should not have been touched. the intentions behind it were good, but the execution was bad. bad bad bad.

another thing. where was the "we are the world" when the huge earthquake hit china? do we not care about china? or how about the massive genocide going on in africa, or the child soilders in africa, or the AIDS in africa? where is the "we are the world" song for them? are they just such hopeless causes that 80 singers can't come together and support? or are their schedules only flexible for things that other people are actively (and quite publicly) supporting right now?

i am glad money is going to haiti; i am in no way saying that isn't a good thing. but what is bothering me the most is the way it has been brought about, in a very unoriginal, poorly sung way. i really think michael jackson would have said "write a new song, that one was for famine"... that and "justin beiber, get the hell out. (with love, with l-o-v-e)"