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	<title>PJ Loughran - Number3 - The Making of A New Album &#187; We Are The World</title>
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		<title>&#8220;We Are The World&#8221; &#8217;09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, during the last session, Shirk and I ended up online watching &#8220;We Are The World&#8221; videos.  The actual video (which I must have seen a zillion times as a kid), making of stuff, quincy jones documentary stuff, the works. Don&#8217;t as me why.  I don&#8217;t even remember how we ended up there. But DAMN [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somehow, during the last session, Shirk and I ended up online watching &#8220;We Are The World&#8221; videos.  The actual video (which I must have seen a zillion times as a kid), making of stuff, quincy jones documentary stuff, the works.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t as me why.  I don&#8217;t even remember how we ended up there.</p>
<p>But DAMN is it catchy.  Yes, it&#8217;s totally 80&#8242;s cheesy, and some of the lyrics actually make no sense at all, but it&#8217;s been stuck in my head since.  In fact, I found myself doing the different voices while I was singing in the shower the other day (Lionel/Stevie/Paul Simon/Kenny Rogers&#8230; go ahead, I know you wanna try it.)</p>
<p>Regarding WATW, some thoughts:</p>
<p>- The Globe intro is AWESOMELY terrible.</p>
<p>- Stevie Wonder kicked ass on it.  holy crap.</p>
<p>- When MJ sings &#8220;When you&#8217;re down and out, there seems no hope at all&#8221; in the bridge&#8230; Awesome. Best part fo the song.</p>
<p>- Who the fuck is Kim Carnes??? I didn&#8217;t know then and I don&#8217;t know now.</p>
<p>- Huey ruins his solo with the fist pump thing.  He looks silly.</p>
<p>- I felt bad for Lindsay Buckingham.  He doesn&#8217;t get a solo and shows up in the video for a milisecond, and in the group chorus no less. Yet, Al Jarreau and James Ingram get solos. And where&#8217;s Stevie Nicks&#8230; was she even in there?</p>
<p>- I love when Bob Dylan comes in.  great placement of his solo.  same with Ray Charles.  Great that they save those two for later in the song.  nice work Q.</p>
<p>- Why is Quincy Jones so insanely famous?  &#8220;Thriller&#8221;, Off The Wall&#8221;, &#8220;We are the World&#8221;, I get it&#8230; but what other huge shit?</p>
<p>OK, so here&#8217;s the question I pose to the viewing audience, if &#8220;We Are The World&#8221; were done today, who would be on it?  There are so many timeless artists on that tune that were very current then and are still pretty relevant&#8230; so who do we got now?  Shirk and I were at a bit of a loss.</p>
<p>Feel free to make suggestions.  Maybe we can get them to make another one.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the original:<br />
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- PJ </p>
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