Here Comes “We Are the World” for Haiti

Lisa Derrick Friday January 22, 2010 4:45 am

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Ohhhh, “We Are The World” reunion for Haiti, reports Roger Friedman. Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are calling on star talent for the 25th anniversary re-recording with, so far, Usher, Natalie Cole, and John Legend signed on.

And they’re planning a party as well for the night after the Grammys, to be held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, so expect Grammy winners, nominees and participants to join the celebration and sign on board for for the AEG-produced TV special, video and single.

Yeah, AEG, the same folks who produced Michael Jackson’s memorial service, the Michael Jackson “This is It” dirt nap tour, and the eponymous necromantic Michael Jackson movie. And who co-wrote “We Are the World” with Lionel Richie? Michael Jackson. Just keeping milking the corpse, boys.

Maybe it’s well-intentioned, but then again maybe the just half cost of staging this event, marketing it, and money everyone would have to spend on lawyers and agents for clearances and releases should just go directly to Haitian aid and relief instead. Quicker, faster, easier and less vig. Though it could be argued that the spectacle could provide some much needed employment all along the pipeline from catering that night to manufacturing the DVDs and CDs…Oh the agony of thinking.

DonWilliams | Friday January 22, 2010 11:50 am 1

They’re going to cover The Earthquake Song by The Little Girls back in the ’80s.

saralee | Saturday January 23, 2010 06:21 pm 2

I’m looking forward to buying both the single & the video if they’re half as good as MJ’s 1985 “We Are the World.” It was tremendously inspiring to me then, and it still is.

btw, before Lisa Derrick starts tossing around adjectives like “eponymous necromantic,” she’d better make certain they make sense in the context she uses them becuz they sure don’t make sense in her report. “Eponymous” means “giving one’s name to a tribe;” “necromatic” pertains to communication with the dead. If Derrick’s trying to impress readers with her vocabulary, etc. she’s fallen flat on her face becuz the phrase in no way describes or pertains to “This Is It.”