Who Bodied Their Verse On "We Are The World"??

Kim Carnes wuz robbed! You show me a more emotional "when we" in pop music history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATz8ZVTALo

that 'Making Of' VHS mentioned upthread is here by the way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGFcYLO0jg

Dylan looks hilariously uncomfortable throughout.

No problem with the results on this, except for Springsteen getting any votes whatsoever - he's so bad! He sounds like a parody act of Bruce Springsteen, and looks like Belushi doing Joe Cocker. And they keep cutting back to him! Whereas, like, Paul Simon's part is actually kind of convincing...undermined only by Kenny Rogers's bizarre facial expressions while they're overlapping each other.

Daryl Hall is the most disappointing - anybody could have done that - and Billy Joel is the most surprisingly okay, and I say that as a fan of his. Huey Lewis also sounding way better than I'd have expected, though yeah, uh, a little OTT. Ingram probably most underrated in the results here. Sort of by the numbers, but sounds great.

These things are such great windows into how, briefly, it can seem like Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable charity-driving star than Bette Midler, Harry Belafonte, or Smokey fucking Robinson.

Would be into animated gifs of each performer's "greatest" moments. Just saying.

Carnes (and Kenny Rogers) were clients of co-pseudo-organizer/agent Ken Kragen, hence their presence.

Ha, there you go then!

Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable

for years I've wanted to write about Carnes' post-"Bette Davis Eyes" career. She didn't even have a ride-along second top ten -- she collapsed, completely, not even visiting the top twenty again until 1985, no doubt greased by payola.

apparently moroder had a road to damascus moment over 'bette davis eyes'

epitomizes El Lay New Wave though

wonder if there's enough good stuff to make an el lay synth pop playlist - 'bette davis eyes', 'stand back', 'boys of summer'. there's probably some dave stewart stuff i'm forgetting though that's cheating kinda.

Motels!

At this point, I'm more likely to think of Kim Carnes via Tori Amos's "clone myself like that blonde chick who sings / Bette Davis Eyes," than via "Bette Davis Eyes" itself.

This thread title makes me thing it would be tight if world poverty had its own comeback diss track

My user name agrees with the Kim Carnes bashing.
Please continue.

Just watched the video for the first time in 20 years. Amazing how Cyndi Lauper's "oww wow ow ow" just defines the whole song. The only solo I could remember.

For the record, I prefer Canada's b-side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/27/we-are-the-world-30th-anniversary/22395455/

My favorite thing about this is from Huey Lewis on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:

SALIE: I have to ask you about something that I loved when I was a teenager, "We are the World."

LEWIS: Right.

SALIE: Can you talk about that day? I mean were you really like - were you guys standing at craft services with, you know, like Bruce Springsteen is on your right and Diana Ross is on your left.

LEWIS: Exactly.

SALIE: What was it like?

LEWIS: It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean, I'm talking to Willie Nelson about golf and Bob Dylan over here says are you guys talking about golf?

He said yeah. And Willie said, yeah, we put the clubs on the bus. And Bob says, man, that's outrageous. He says that's outrageous. I said no, Bob, "Nashville Skyline" was outrageous. This is just golf.

SALIE: In that room, were there like cool kids and not cool kids?

LEWIS: No, but Paul Simon said - it's probably not nice to say. I don't know. Paul Simon said if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.

lol

i legit enjoy this record, and feel a strong need to listen/watch from time to time

the more i do so, the more i appreciate michael jackson's solo chorus

Bruce really does bomb this, doesn't he? Kenny Loggins sounds great by comparison.

Michael Jackson	0

Wait, what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tZUg8onNg

How in the ever loving fuck did Ray Charles not walk this?????

He etc

idk if this is a poll u wanna "win" necessarily

"we are the world" is something that sounds like a generic anthem until you realize how profoundly fucking weird it is

i think i must have heard it a hundred times before the bizarreness of the line "as god has shown us, by turning stones to bread" finally sunk in

also

"when you're down and out, and there seems no hope at all/BUT IF YOU JUST BELIEVE, THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN FALL"

which, in the context of what the song is meant to be about and who it's meant to be addressing, is just incredibly funny and insane

clap your hands if you believe you're not starving!

I like Greil Marcus' response "When you're done and out" ("The Ethiopians are 'down and out'?").

what does it mean to body a verse?

“If you just believe, there’s no way we can fall.” Yep, that’s all it takes to end famine in Ethiopia, just believing.

In one of the "making of" videos IIRC, there's a moment with A. Jarreau recording his part and he's so not ale to follow the rhythm you have to wonder how that's possible for a "professional" singer (especially after such a long career) !

He was a jazz guy, it was him being avant garde

I like Greil Marcus' response "When you're done and out" ("The Ethiopians are 'down and out'?").

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 16, 2019 4:52 AM (two days ago)

marcus also pointed out how weird it is that a song written by two guys who'd done pepsi commercials centers on the line "there's a choice we're making," which sounds like an unconscious echo of pepsi's then-current slogan "the choice of a new generation"

xpost

killed their verse in outdated rap slang

It's time: Who Bodied Their Verse On "Tears Are Not Enough"??