I can’t believe I am saying these words, but for the first time in my life I must say Jay Z speaks for me. He is very on point on his “We Are the World” critique. “A for effort, but come on son”! All I could think when I saw the video, after the endless hype on what was to come was- damn why did you have to do Michael & Haiti like that!? It is far from an upgrade. If this is what the new era sounds like then take me back in time! I will continue to support Haiti with my donations & spreading the word, but I am with Jay on taking a pass on downloading this worse than mediocre re-make of this song. I am not into S&M so I can’t handle certain parts of this re-make that are just way too torturous to my ears. I really think we should all just pause for a long minute on the musical tributes to Michael Jackson because they seem to be lackluster & getting worse & worse. I guess when you are the King, all else become mere lowly subjects. Let’s let the King of Pop rest in peace & enjoy the endless gifts of great music he left for us in their glorious memorable form!

Via BLOGXILLA-
“Well I guess Jay is still mad at the nonsense that is the “We Are The World Remake.” At first I had no problem with them remaking the song. When I saw the pictures from this epic event I was happy, I remembered the feeling when they first made the song 25 years ago. Then I heard my favorite rapper Lil Wayne on the track… In Auto-Tunes then Akon and Then T-Pain and I was through. How can you allow Autotunes on We Are The World? We are not robots, we aren’t machines, hell if that’s the case you might as well put Rudy from The Jetsons on the damn song. We are the world.

I thought autotunes was dead. I mean never mind that I actually paid for the T-Pain app, or that I have 14 autotunes versions of me making booty calls that I recorded with that app. You just don’t add autotunes to We Are The World! Why not make a new song. I understand we want to honor Michael Jackson and all but #ComeOnSon! The song gets an A for effort, but that’s about it. I’ll just text Yele to 501501 rather than purchase this song from Itunes to make a donation. ”

I guess we now know why Jay didn’t participate -no schedule conflict just didn’t want to get down with the wackness-LOL! But umm Jay Z -Pause- who are u making booty calls to ? Does calling your wife for a romp count as a booty call or did you just tell on yourself-LOL!

You decide?
Original

Remake