Do They Know It's Haiti?

Wagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FEDNAqmmI

Is anyone else tired of these poxy songs? I was never a fan but the more of them a hear the less and less i care for the artists who partake, not least for ruining already good songs (remember the cover of Perfect Day?) So does anyone buy them? Do you think much of the money even gets there? And if you do buy them, do you like the song?

mikom

Hate music from the Haties

digme

your white you need to feel the guilt.

WindSock

Youtube link fail.

Delete the gobbledigook up to the first = sign so you're left with letters & numbers.

WindSock

Oh dear God. I just heard the first few seconds. I didn't think I could dislike that song any more than I already did. Now I Haiti it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Worse than the earth quake ffs.

But to answer the question, do I buy the recording.

I bought the original 'Do they know its Christmas', and I bought 'Crazy World' (Aslan) for the victims of Beslan but that was actually Aslan and not a reworked recording of it.

If Ronan Keating sang on this present song (and I can't listen to it incase he does) I'll wish for an earthquake in Malahide.

Minstrel27

Horse****e. Warbling nonsense.

WindSock

Celebrity Wankfest.

bluto63

Oh god... What a painful cover version. Why does Simon Cowell continue to destroy music?

RoadKillTs

Total bollox. Thanks Simon :rolleyes:

WindSock

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Horse****e. Warbling nonsense.

Warbling. That indeed is the correct term. It sounds exactly how I expected it to sound.

When the daaayyy is Loohuuoonnnuoonnng.....:rolleyes:

SV

I like it.

Bob_Harris

Oh lets all do something for Haiti...

**** off, I don't give a ****, didn't affect me.

Wagon

WindSock wrote: »

Youtube link fail.

Delete the gobbledigook up to the first = sign so you're left with letters & numbers.

The Zohan fixed it. Now, don't you wish he hadn't?

bluto63

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Oh lets all do something for Haiti...

**** off, I don't give a ****, didn't affect me.

Pretty horrible attitude to have tbh. Dislike the song, not the cause. It's a very worthy cause

SV

Bob_Harris wrote: »

**** off, I don't give a ****, didn't affect me.

You're a nice chap aren't you.

Hope you never have to rely on anyone if your life is turned upside down.

Kintarō Hattori

Perhaps worse still is REM or their label giving permission for a great song to be ruined.

Overheal

Where were you when they built the ladder to heaven?

Ri_Nollaig

shíte quaility, but still works

speedboatchase

Why is there a krogan singing in the youtube preview

Columbia

Dreadful song, but if it raises money for the cause then I'm willing to live with it.

We should be more critical of society as a whole to be honest, if everyone could just donate to charity without demanding that celebrities dance around like puppets first then we wouldn't have songs like this.

DigiGal

You know I feel really sorry for the Haitians
After 10 aftershocks....I have trouble finding my house too













*too soon?

Dravokivich

1 thing i wonder about on this... sure the money will be for funding the work in Haiti... but once that's taken care of, with the bill settled...

...Where does the extra money go that's going to come from this?



Governments world wide have pledged Aid and Money for projects to help rebuild Haiti already... there is no public outcry about them not doing enough...

I don't really see the point on this being done at all in the first place now that i think about it...

- Drav!

bluto63

Dravokivich wrote: »

1 thing i wonder about on this... sure the money will be for funding the work in Haiti... but once that's taken care of, with the bill settled...

...Where does the extra money go that's going to come from this?



Governments world wide have pledged Aid and Money for projects to help rebuild Haiti already... there is no public outcry about them not doing enough...

I don't really see the point on this being done at all in the first place now that i think about it...

- Drav!

They're pledging medical supplies and things such as that that can deal with the immediate consequences. There's still going to be the long task of rebuilding which is going to cost large amounts of money

Killinator

Its becasue 'singers' and 'celebs' have to be seen to do something, and God forbid instead of handing over some of their vast wealth(perish the thought), its much easier to slap a 'song' together and expect the people who might be struggling as it is to pay instead,
Insert pictures/footage of these 'celebs' looking mournfully at the poor/tragedy stricken and its proof that they feel bad and need our support to help 'their' fellow man and such in (insert poor/disaster stricken area here)
I would never buy any of these singles purely on the basis of gaul of these people to expect us to pay our money when they would do alot more if they donated instead of commiting crimes against the hearing enabled with this trash,
If your unfortunate enough to have bought the cd single, put it in the microwave, its much better and more entertaining than listening to the 'song'.
/rant

What a godforsaken piece of ****e that is. My ears are bleeding a little bit.

This has also just been released as a benefit single, worth checking out, its a really beautiful cover of The Boss's song "City of Ruins" by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, recorded live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2NiUuAYBtI

SV

[quote=[Deleted User];64315993]What a godforsaken piece of ****e that is. My ears are bleeding a little bit.

[/QUOTE]

a load of talented singers singing a very good song makes your ears bleed?

SV

SV wrote: »

a load of talented singers singing a very good song makes your ears bleed?

ha!
most have them have some sort of auto tuning running through their voices,
The song, imo, is empty, bereft of talent. Granted there may be lots of talented people involed in the song, thats not to say their talent is utilised in the song.

Its trash.

SV

[quote=[Deleted User];64316088]ha!
most have them have some sort of auto tuning running through their voices,
The song, imo, is empty, bereft of talent. Granted there may be lots of talented people involed in the song, thats not to say their talent is utilised in the song.

Its trash.[/QUOTE]

lol, yes, of course they do. That's the music industry.

It's trash, really? What part? or..all of it?
just don't see how tbh.

SV

SV wrote: »

lol, yes, of course they do. That's the music industry.

It's trash, really? What part? or..all of it?
just don't see how tbh.

oh no wait...

sorry i was wrong
..i love this song

its brillant. :rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

Ah cmon people the song isn't that bad. Some good singing there, nothing exceptional but it's definitley not "trash".

BTW I'm fairly certain there isn't any pitch correction going on, Autotune would be very noticeable especially in a slow song like this.


It's a way of raising money, so long as the money goes to Haiti, I don't care who made it.

SV

[quote=[Deleted User];64316190]oh no wait...

sorry i was wrong
..i love this song

its brillant. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]

So you can't say which part of it it 'terrible' then.. could have just said that

It's ok, we all like to jump on the bandwagon from time to time.

SV

SV wrote: »

So you can't say which part of it it 'terrible' then.. could have just said that :)QUOTE]

Which part?

Its all pretty good, except the beginning, middle and end bits

actuallylike

bluto63 wrote: »

Oh god... What a painful cover version. Why does Simon Cowell continue to destroy music?

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SV wrote: »

I like it.

troll!

SV

actuallylike wrote: »

troll!

oh yes, how dare I not jump on this stupid bandwagon..

actuallylike

SV wrote: »

oh yes, how dare I not jump on this stupid bandwagon..

Do you need some humour, I've got like plenty!

barakus

Haiti's new boy band 'new blocks on the Kids' should have sung the song:D

ibarelycare

Hawt

overexcitedaj

My anger with this is that they havent put the effort into getting a proper group of musicians together and writing a song especially for this like the band aid song. Why is everything covers now?

Wagon

overexcitedaj wrote: »

My anger with this is that they havent put the effort into getting a proper group of musicians together and writing a song especially for this like the band aid song. Why is everything covers now?

I'm sad to see Rod Stewart in it. A man who made his name singing for Jeff Beck and then taking the lead in the Faces goes to this horsecrap. It's almost as bad as Iggy Pop flogging car insurance. So the general concesus is that its a crap song except for SV who is deaf.

SV

Wagon wrote: »

I'm sad to see Rod Stewart in it. A man who made his name singing for Jeff Beck and then taking the lead in the Faces goes to this horsecrap. It's almost as bad as Iggy Pop flogging car insurance. So the general concesus is that its a crap song except for SV who refuses to get on the bandwagon of hating every popular celeb in the world.

fyp.

Wagon

SV wrote: »

fyp.

No you didn't. All you did was change words, like a bad cover version of my post.

SV

Wagon wrote: »

No you didn't. All you did was change words, like a bad cover version of my post.

Yes, I fixed it.
Obviously enough I'm not deaf as I was able to form the opinion that I liked it.
Also, strangely enough, It's obvious enough that Boards is full of people who hate popular celebs and will hate anything they do.
It's probably because it's majority is Irish and the whole begrudgery thing.

Owenw

SV wrote: »

Yes, I fixed it.
Obviously enough I'm tone deaf as I was able to form the wrong opinion that I liked it.
Also, irrelevantly enough, It's obvious enough that Boards is full of people who hate talentless celebs and will hate anything they regurgitate.
It's probably because it's majority like quality music and the whole good taste thing.

fyp

LionelNashe

I think the worst part is that they don't see the irony in the fact that a load of rich celebrities are telling third world earthquake victims, "You know, everybody hurts, sometimes".