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Don't listen to We Are The
World by African all stars
unless you're trying to get a bone out of your
throat-Etcetera

This is another article by Etcetera where he
thinks listening to 'We Are The World by African
all stars' is a waste of time and thinks the song is
rubbish.

Well, I think I'm finally safe to write this article,
since I've set up my e-mail software to
automatically filter out any messages containing
swear words.

Sincerely, I don't know if there's any song that
made me change the TV station faster than this
one. If I didn't, I'd have been doomed to have a
group of adults with hideous and unsync voices
chanting,"we are the children" over and over in
my head for the next six months. And that
certainly isn't all that's wrong with the song.
Michael Jackson would probably be spitting and
cursing in his grave right now, like a pregnant
woman with whitlow on her ten fingers and toes.

What the heck were they thinking changing his
beautifully composed piece of art to the most
insipid crap ever written?


I'm going to tell you this for free; don't listen to
We Are The World by African all stars unless
you're trying to get a bone out of your throat.
That is only when the song would be useful.

We know that African music isn't made up of the
best singers anymore, but honestly, how did they
think that they could fill up a seven-minute song
with nothing but monotonous chanting of the
same feeble chorus over and over again?

The humorous highlight of the song is Kcee's
ridiculous line "There's a choice we making, we
saving our own lives." Never has the word (saving
our own lives) meant so opposite. And the only
choice that could have been made by the
organisers was not to have included Kcee in the
song. He was even off key for Christ sake. Kcee,
your hilarious accent is to be commended.

Luckily I could warn the rest of you who haven't
listened. Kcee is the first reason this is the most
repulsive rendition of this song ever.

There were other worse vocals like Sean Tizzle's,
but Tiwa Savage sounded like a two- year- old
being dragged out of a toy store. She should
know when to keep the vibrato off her voice.

And
For a minute I thought Banky W was going to
faint. Whoever chose the key to this song should
have been reminded that most Nigerian singers
are all about auto-tune and can't hold their
notes.

Jesus Christ, what is happening to music? This is
easily the worst combination of voices in human
history. Only the most despicable revisionist
historian could possibly claim that this song is
anything close to good. It's nothing more than a
hideous irritation festival from the individual
who sold the idea to the sponsors.

While writing this article, someone suggested
that maybe vocals wasn't the criterion for
selecting the artistes. REALLY? Are you kidding
me? Then they should have gone for the kill.
Artquake should have been in there somewhere,
Or perhaps even Daddy Showkey. A number of
you are probably thinking "hey, come on, I kinda
like that song." Of course, every lover of today's
Nigerian music will surely like the song.

This is
the musical equivalent of Agege bread: it's meant
to be packed with so much artificial crap that it's
bound to appeal in some way to Nigerians.

No matter how musically credible you are, no
matter how much cutting-edge indigenous songs
you listen to, whether you snore in baritone in
your sleep or not, this song is a shame.

It is the
kind of rendition that makes today's Nigerian
music uncool. If you have listened to it, the fact
that the singers were trying too hard to sound
like the original version should have made you
turn off your TV in disgust. If you haven't,
download it right now. I dare you to try to make
it through the first 10 seconds. It is the ultimate
endurance test.

If you'd care to suggest another song for me to
review, you can always feel free to do so by e-
mailing me at mail@etceteralive.com. If you're
the guy who e-mailed me about being a Wizkid
fan, for the love of God, get some help.

LOL. This guy though!

etcetera kwa??etcetera making sense after his dead career...
lord please don't make us give opinion as a failure...

Wad a hell....oh God my Lord....lol