On this day in 1985

RedRocket

A collection of world's greatest performing artist came together to fight hate, oppression and global poverty. One of the only singles to be certified double platinum. The fastest selling American pop single in history. An unprecedented commercial success but more importantly a historic act of courage, raising more than $63 M in humanitarian aid for Africa. We are the World is the greatest song ever written. Period.

It was released March 7 1985. This board needs it now more than ever. T & P s everyone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0RpNSELas

doogie

they tried

RaceBannon

The world is still poor, hungry, and filled with hate

Fail

RedRocket

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

PurpleThrobber

RedRocket said:

A collection of world's greatest performing artist came together to fight hate, oppression and global poverty. One of the only singles to be certified double platinum. The fastest selling American pop single in history. An unprecedented commercial success but more importantly a historic act of courage, raising more than $63 M in humanitarian aid for Africa. We are the World is the greatest song ever written. Period.

It was released March 7 1985. This board needs it now more than ever. T & P s everyone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0RpNSELas

Is that @GrandpaSankey next to the dude in the AmeriTrade commercial?

RaceBannon

The world is still poor, hungry, and filled with hate

Fail

RedRocket said:

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

I was there

doogie

#metoo

Sledog

I was there too. It sucked. Africa sucks worse than it did then.

PurpleThrobber

RedRocket said:

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

As a song, We Are the World was aight. Just aight. Nothing special (c) Bears Wiin.

It was the first guilt trip, give money deal besides Jerry Lewis' guilt trip telethon. So it was cool because it was first.

But I don't run around with a lighter up yelling "WE ARE THE WORLD!" like I do with a fucking awesome song like Freebird or Party All the Time.

Wood smash Kim Carnes, btw.

And let's not forget LaToya Jackson and Dan Ackroyd sang on it....so we are not talking Pavarotti quality here.

Do They Know Its Christmas is a far better tune.

LebamDawg

RaceBannon said:

The world is still poor, hungry, and filled with hate

Fail

but there were a bunch of promoters etc that made millions. Maybe they were in Africa. and hungry (for money)

Swaye

I prefer Willie talking shit and smoking weed at Farm Aid.

Mosster47

White people and Asians are never going to allow Africa to succeed.

Complete waste of time.

GrandpaSankey

PurpleThrobber said:

RedRocket said:

A collection of world's greatest performing artist came together to fight hate, oppression and global poverty. One of the only singles to be certified double platinum. The fastest selling American pop single in history. An unprecedented commercial success but more importantly a historic act of courage, raising more than $63 M in humanitarian aid for Africa. We are the World is the greatest song ever written. Period.

It was released March 7 1985. This board needs it now more than ever. T & P s everyone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0RpNSELas

Is that @GrandpaSankey next to the dude in the AmeriTrade commercial?

LebamDawg

Mosster47 said:

White people and Asians are never going to allow Africa to succeed.

Complete waste of time.

Africans are never gonna let Africa succeed

Dennis_DeYoung

Didn't they give all this money to the DERG, basically?

lol liberals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1YfPTKVLI

RedRocket

PurpleThrobber said:

RedRocket said:

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

As a song, We Are the World was aight. Just aight. Nothing special (c) Bears Wiin.

It was the first guilt trip, give money deal besides Jerry Lewis' guilt trip telethon. So it was cool because it was first.

But I don't run around with a lighter up yelling "WE ARE THE WORLD!" like I do with a fucking awesome song like Freebird or Party All the Time.

Wood smash Kim Carnes, btw.

And let's not forget LaToya Jackson and Dan Ackroyd sang on it....so we are not talking Pavarotti quality here.

Do They Know Its Christmas is a far better tune.

You would prefer Do They Known It's XMas. It's the all white, male UK version. We are the World is better because it has more diversity, more cameos, more inspiring lyrics AND was made in the USA. We are the World also saved somewhere between 5-10x the starving Africans that Do They Know It's Xmas did. It really isn't even a competition throbs. We are the World wins hands down but I applaud both for their courage.

RaceBannon

RedRocket said:

PurpleThrobber said:

RedRocket said:

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

As a song, We Are the World was aight. Just aight. Nothing special (c) Bears Wiin.

It was the first guilt trip, give money deal besides Jerry Lewis' guilt trip telethon. So it was cool because it was first.

But I don't run around with a lighter up yelling "WE ARE THE WORLD!" like I do with a fucking awesome song like Freebird or Party All the Time.

Wood smash Kim Carnes, btw.

And let's not forget LaToya Jackson and Dan Ackroyd sang on it....so we are not talking Pavarotti quality here.

Do They Know Its Christmas is a far better tune.

You would prefer Do They Known It's XMas. It's the all white, male UK version. We are the World is better because it has more diversity, more cameos, more inspiring lyrics AND was made in the USA. We are the World also saved somewhere between 5-10x the starving Africans that Do They Know It's Xmas did. It really isn't even a competition throbs. We are the World wins hands down but I applaud both for their courage.

He prefers it for one reason

George Michael

RaceBannon

Swaye said:

I prefer Willie talking shit and smoking weed at Farm Aid.

Farm Aid is way under rated. Neil Young, John Cougar Husky Mellocamp and many others

RedRocket

Swaye said:

I prefer Willie talking shit and smoking weed at Farm Aid.

That's what's so great about We are the World. Willie made a cameo. There was something for everyone.

RaceBannon

MTV was really coming into its own in 84 as well. Gave a huge boost to the whole project

You know, kids, MTV once upon a time played music videos most of the day and night

TurdBomber

RedRocket said:

PurpleThrobber said:

RedRocket said:

Did you guys even listen to it? The legacy section of its Wikipedia will give you chills.

As a song, We Are the World was aight. Just aight. Nothing special (c) Bears Wiin.

It was the first guilt trip, give money deal besides Jerry Lewis' guilt trip telethon. So it was cool because it was first.

But I don't run around with a lighter up yelling "WE ARE THE WORLD!" like I do with a fucking awesome song like Freebird or Party All the Time.

Wood smash Kim Carnes, btw.

And let's not forget LaToya Jackson and Dan Ackroyd sang on it....so we are not talking Pavarotti quality here.

Do They Know Its Christmas is a far better tune.

You would prefer Do They Known It's XMas. It's the all white, male UK version. We are the World is better because it has more diversity, more cameos, more inspiring lyrics AND was made in the USA. We are the World also saved somewhere between 5-10x the starving Africans that Do They Know It's Xmas did. It really isn't even a competition throbs. We are the World wins hands down but I applaud both for their courage.

Ah, yes. The plagiarising my shit fucko copycat is always better than the original. Indeed.