Can't we just leave a good thing alone? I don't ever wanna see it touched. Stereogum's Scott has even harsher words for the remake:.
It's ok, but Entertainment Weekly praised Lil Wayne but panned the song as a whole. Simon Vozick-Levinson writes , " Lil Wayne Auto-Tune wheezed his way through Bob Dylan's lines from the original, something I've been waiting to hear since I read that it was coming. All in all, I can't say this new "We Are the World" measured up to the version.
The song is a "good look," and whoa—did you know Miley Cyrus could sing? If anything, they brought it to a new audience You could have anybody sing on that. But it was a good look. It was for a good cause. However, because of the devastation caused in Haiti, these plans were postponed. Why don't we take over the process, call our friends, and actually do this?
I want this song to be the battle cry again. Every once in a while, you have to wake the world up. We slept right through Katrina. If we are not a socially aware culture, we're going to fail. The new version of the song was recorded on February 1, , in a session lasting 14 hours.
It takes a serious army and serious emotional architecture. I've never seen such a diverse group of people, and they came for the right reasons. The new version features updated lyrics and music, such as a rap segment pertaining to Haiti, described as a "Greek chorus extension", which was written by will. In the official video, there is archive footage of Michael Jackson from the original recording. We definitely felt a void. He's the other parent [to the song]. Haitian-American musician Wyclef Jean also serves as a producer.
Richie said new artists were selected for the song so the song could be aimed at a new audience, commenting, "We have a familiar song that kids learn in school. Why not bring in Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers and let them address the issues? At the time of the recording, numerous artists commented on the process, the version of the song and co-writer Michael Jackson. Janet Jackson pictured sang alongside with her brother,Michael Jackson, via footages.
The version of "We Are the World", released under the name Artists for Haiti, debuted on the NBC television network on February 12 during their coverage of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Similar to marketing of "We Are the World", a music video of the song was filmed and released. The music video was directed by Academy award-winning film director Paul Haggis. The video was intercut with clips showing people in Haiti following the earthquake.
Chris Richards, a writer for The Washington Post , described the song as being "horribly oversung". US Magazine mentioned that "this version features second-by-second unexplainable absurdities, including Justin Bieber being given the opening verse, Nicole Scherzinger and other Z-listers assigned more than one prime slot, and Wyclef Jean's incomprehensible yodeling".
Eight days after the Artists for Haiti celebrity remake was released, a "video response" to the song's official YouTube video was posted by Internet personality and singer-songwriter Lisa Lavie, and was "favorited" on the YouTube channel of the We Are The World Foundation.
Lavie's video, an Internet collaboration of 57 unsigned or independent YouTube musicians geographically distributed around the world, received positive reception from media, including CNN "certainly is a sign of the times" [31] and ABC World News with Diane Sawyer "Persons of the Week" Rolling Stone said its readers "mostly agreed" with the assessment of a February 27, Saturday Night Live parody: "Recently, the music world came together to record 'We Are the World 2,' a song to raise awareness of the Haiti earthquake disaster; sadly, the song itself was a disaster," with several impersonators dubbing the parody "We Are the World 3: Raising Awareness of the 'We Are the World 2' Disaster.
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