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Well, no, Fly. What we have is a lot of people agreeing that the song isn't a good one, and that the new arrangement/performance isn't an improvement on either the original or the SAW version. We also have a lot of people advising that the motivations for everyone doing it are incredibly suspect, that they can't imagine why Dizzee Rascal/Thom Yorke are involved (because they have musical credibility, do you see? Not like that hobbit out of Keane and weepy Chris Martin!), and that it's all quite cynical an nasty really, isn't it?
I think actually, what's cynical and nasty is assuming the motivations of the people involved with tiny amounts of evidence. Look who's getting the most publicity out of this - U2 (who're going to sell millions of their new album and get a shitting shedload of publicity irrespective of Bon's involvement in Band aid 20), Robbie Williams (greatest hits selling like you'd expect the greatest hits of one of the biggest selling artists of his generation to sell), Coldplay, Keane and the Darkness, (none of whom need publicity for anything as they've had a fantastic 2004 in terms of sales, etc), Dizzee Rascal (just won the Mercury music prize and released a crtically acclaimed second album, which may possibly have gotten him more attention that providing a rap for 'Feed The World III')... we've also got a few hangers on, most of whom aren't really promoting anything right now, and who aren't mentioned by name in the song or in the video, just in the accompanying media articles, which lasted for, what, three days? Any publicist worth the name could get the same number of media mentions for a lot less than two days of effort on the part of the star, and ze'd probably save it for when there was a product to hawk...
'Feed The World III' is no more or less cheesy and smug than any other celebrity charity record or TV show. Celebrities are involved in this kind of stuff twice a year all over UK TV in the Children In Need and Comic Relief telethons and accompanying media blitzs, but you don't get this level of contempt with them, and the level of writing craft/performance quality on CIN or CR is just as wobbly as it is on this single.
Spatula: ...It felt like a steaming pile of pompous, self-righteous mullets shedding crocodile tears while dollar signs lit up in their agents' eyes and made 'kerching!' noises. Blue Peter ran a middle class guiltometer and lots and lots of white people joined up to the "sponsor a poor, homeless, orphan black child" scheme in order to demonstrate that they understood. Oh, hang on. I seem to be talking about this time around, too.
See, this post is why I assumed you, for example, weren't paying Band Aid the blindest bit of attention. Not an unreasonable assumption, really, considering your contribution to the thread was to spit a load of unconsidered invective at anyone associated with Band Aid past, present and probably future. |
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