Videos by American Songwriter
On Friday, during the Olympics, the new video for “We Are The World” was unveiled. The song, written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson, was first recorded in 1985 in an effort to help fight hunger in Ethiopia. The original featured a who’s who of 80s superstars, from Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan to Ray Charles and Willie Nelson.
The historic redo doesn’t bring back any of those old has-beens. Instead it features artists like Justin Bieber, Barbra Streisand, Rob Thomas, Pink, Jamie Foxx’s Ray Charles impression, and good ol’ Jeff Bridges (AKA Bad Blake from Crazy Heart.) Also, the ghost of Micheal Jackson.
The song at first hold true to it’s origins, then gets a makeover towards the end, with some auto-tuned vocals and an army of rappers rapping the same thing. T-Pain will truly live in infamy.
A few random observations:
– The singing voices of Janet Jackson and 1985 Michael Jackson sound exactly alike, apparently.
– We have a lot of respect for Wyclef, but is there a reason he has to sing like that? Dude’s been putting vibrato on his voice since The Carnival, but vibrato is like cayenne pepper: too much is way too much.
– So that’s what Justin Bieber sounds like.
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MICHAEL JACKSON & JANET JACKSON SOUNDS ALIKE ON MOST OF THEIR SONGS, SO YES THEY DO SOUND ALIKE AND THEY LOOK ALIKE ALSO. THIS WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR ME, BUT I LIKED IT. THIS SONG AND VIDEO IS ALREADY #1 ON I-TINES
Thank you for this post…I have been in debate about this song forever….
Even though the previous comment stated that both Jacksons sound alike, they could have changed the range of janet jackson to at least make it seem like they were two different people.
Also the new video is so poorly edited that it isn’t just the Jacksons who make it confusing. At certain parts, people are moving mouths but nothing coming out.
I understand why this song was done and I respect that, but at least edit it properly and not put it together randomly. Ugh…
justin bieber, usher, fergie, and the rest of the black eyed peas oh and of coures michael jackson did the best at singing we are the world. the rap and other stuff they put in the song was bad. they should of sang it like the way michael jackson sang it with no rap nothing.