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Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:21 am to BabyTac
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Those were some great times to be alive. Nothing even remotely close to this would go down successfully today.
I can’t think of five artists today that are of the caliber that sang on We Are the World. Plus most modern pop stars would never set aside their egos for a project like this.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:24 am to Saint Alfonzo
Ok, let’s fill out the roster for a new project like WATW. Nominate an artist or two. Go…
The Weeknd
Bruno Mars
The Weeknd
Bruno Mars
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:27 am to Saint Alfonzo
Taylor Swift
Nelly
Justin Bieber
Britney
Nelly
Justin Bieber
Britney
This post was edited on 1/31/24 at 11:01 am
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:43 am to nicholastiger
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Taylor Swift
Paired up with Kid Rock, for obvious reasons… LOL
Posted on 1/31/24 at 12:17 pm to wiltznucs
Lil Dicky's Earth was a charity song that had a ton of music people in it. It obviously wasn't anywhere near the realm of WAtW though. But it came to mind. (It's also a pretty shitty song, and I love me some LD)
Granted, I don't know who half those people are, but they are celebrities/singers/athletes/etc.
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The song features vocals from Dicky
Justin Bieber
Ariana Grande
Halsey
Zac Brown
Brendon Urie
Hailee Steinfeld
Wiz Khalifa
Snoop Dogg
Kevin Hart
Adam Levine
Shawn Mendes
Charlie Puth
Sia
Miley Cyrus
Lil Jon
Rita Ora
Miguel
Katy Perry
Lil Yachty
Ed Sheeran
Meghan Trainor
Joel Embiid
Tory Lanez
John Legend
Psy
Bad Bunny
Kris Wu
Backstreet Boys
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Granted, I don't know who half those people are, but they are celebrities/singers/athletes/etc.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:29 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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Ok, let’s fill out the roster for a new project like WATW. Nominate an artist or two. Go… The Weeknd Bruno Mars
You start with Adelle probably.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:36 pm to BOSCEAUX
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Adelle
A truly magnificent voice; but, WATW was USA for Africa. Only American artists included. She’s a Brit, she’s out.
This post was edited on 1/31/24 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:38 pm to BilJ
This could never happen today. Too many agents, publicists, handlers, & hangers on of these singers now to get all these people in one room to do something like this.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 2:39 pm to BOSCEAUX
Adelle
Taylor Swift
Justin Timberlake
Bruno Mars
Beyonce
Morgan Wallen
Megan Trainor
Charlie Puth
The Wknd
Ed Sheeran
Niki Minaj
Rihanna
Bieber
Chris Stapleton
Keith Urban
Usher
John Legend
Kelly Clarkson
Alicia Keys
I just got a good start.
Taylor Swift
Justin Timberlake
Bruno Mars
Beyonce
Morgan Wallen
Megan Trainor
Charlie Puth
The Wknd
Ed Sheeran
Niki Minaj
Rihanna
Bieber
Chris Stapleton
Keith Urban
Usher
John Legend
Kelly Clarkson
Alicia Keys
I just got a good start.
This post was edited on 1/31/24 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 1/31/24 at 3:36 pm to Hetfield
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This could never happen today. Too many agents, publicists, handlers, & hangers on of these singers now to get all these people in one room to do something like this.
I don’t think we have many truly great vocalists anymore. We live in the day and age of auto tune and where being able to understand the lyrics is considered a bonus.
Just look at the Motown era contribution in the WATW crowd alone. Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Smoky Robinson, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Tina Turner, the Pointer Sisters and the rest of the Jackson 5.
It blows my mind a bit to think of all of those iconic voices were in one place.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:44 pm to wiltznucs
It seems Dylan was somewhat intimidated by the vocal abilities of the other people there. Maybe even a little embarrassed. He was so reluctant to let his voice free. He thought he was expected to sing like them when they just wanted Dylan. It was really cool and uplifting to see him ask for a life line from Stevie Wonder and how Stevie was able to get him to sing his part Dylan style. He seemed really happy and relieved after his solo was completed.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:58 pm to BOSCEAUX
bruno mars and adele are the first two people i thought of if they were to do something similar today. adele thinks the world of bruno. but if it's just americans then sure she can be out. 
This post was edited on 2/1/24 at 12:00 am
Posted on 2/1/24 at 7:12 am to wiltznucs
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I don’t think we have many truly great vocalists anymore.
We do; they just aren't famous.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 7:20 am to Fewer Kilometers
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All of the work that he put in to put an end to world hunger (before it was fashionable) and when he asked if he could participate in the song they told him to frick off.
That never sat right with me. Same with freaking country music leaving even a small posthumous recording of him out of their Country Roads take me home mashup they did a few years ago. When it was his freaking song.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:13 am to wiltznucs
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WATW was USA for Africa. Only American artists included.
Honestly…I never realized that
Posted on 2/1/24 at 10:55 am to Hetfield
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This could never happen today.
On the contrary, we had this same scenario play out when Milton Greene needed a kidney and everyone came together perfectly.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:02 am to jlovel7
Nvm
This post was edited on 2/1/24 at 11:22 am
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:32 am to wiltznucs
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lus he was blind and could not read either anyway.
The blind leading the blind joke was great.
I seriously loved this show. It was just a fun piece of nostalgia. I thought I knew a lot about "We are the World", being in my mid 20s when it came out, but they had so much extra stuff on tape that we never saw or knew about.
Lionel Ritchie definitely made it happen. Even though the piece was a lot about him, you could still see what he did in the tapes. There were a lot of people in the chorus that I had no idea were there.
Dylan appeared as stoned as we all thought he sounded back when the record came out.
Posted on 2/1/24 at 11:38 am to CocomoLSU
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I was reading about WAtW on Wiki after watching the doc and it said that Waylon Jennings left for a short while and came back to participate in the recording. But that's not at all how it was portrayed in the doc. Weird.
But really they'd already recorded most of the chorus parts, so it didn't really matter anyway. He was in the chorus.
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