Motels!
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 January 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
This thread title makes me thing it would be tight if world poverty had its own comeback diss track
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 January 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
My user name agrees with the Kim Carnes bashing.Please continue.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 20 January 2014 10:26 (ten years ago) link
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.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
For the record, I prefer Canada's b-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk
― Eric H., Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/27/we-are-the-world-30th-anniversary/22395455/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
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.
― joygoat, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
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
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Bruce really does bomb this, doesn't he? Kenny Loggins sounds great by comparison.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 13 April 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson 0
Wait, what?
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tZUg8onNg
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
How in the ever loving fuck did Ray Charles not walk this?????
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
He etc
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
idk if this is a poll u wanna "win" necessarily
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
"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
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
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
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
clap your hands if you believe you're not starving!
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I like Greil Marcus' response "When you're done and out" ("The Ethiopians are 'down and out'?").
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
what does it mean to body a verse?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 16 December 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
“If you just believe, there’s no way we can fall.” Yep, that’s all it takes to end famine in Ethiopia, just believing.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
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) !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 16 December 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
He was a jazz guy, it was him being avant garde
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
― 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"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
xpostkilled their verse in outdated rap slang
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
It's time: Who Bodied Their Verse On "Tears Are Not Enough"??
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link