What was Quincy Jones Thinking?!

This was the question I was acheing to know  when I heard the new “We Are the World”, redone for the Haitian relief. When I heard about this, I was happy until  they announced Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber and other C-listers were doing the song, my hopes automatically sank. Which made me think if they are the world then i should probably move to Mars. Seriously, if I was one of the Haitians affected by the quake and I heard that song I would think my people deserve a better song than that. One of the problems off the bat is that there was a lack of talent and starpower, I’m not saying that everyone on the song was aweful. There were people who deserve to be on the song like Wyclef, Kayne, Mary J. Blige, and people with talent. But they should’ve had artists like Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Rihanna, Jay-Z and other neglected heavyweights. Maybe the reason such artists wern’t picked because Jay-Z was openly against the remake and advised his wife (Beyonce) and acts that he discovered (Rihanna, Kayne) not to participate. The next problem I have with this song is the singing wasnt as good, mainly caused by the mediocre choice of artists, which causes the 10 artists with talent to carry the whole song (which failed, but good effort). Which comes to the conclusion that the original was better, eventhough we may have superior recording equipment, it doesn’t beat pure talent (which this song obviously lacks).  And will people stop complaining about Wyclef’s part, it is the way they sing in Haiti and it brings a deeper cultural perspective to the country the song is supposed to help. So people who are complaining about Wyclef’s part, BRODEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS AND STOP BEING UGLY AMERICANS FOR CRISSAKES! I could rant about that more ,but I wouldve gone horribly off-topic. I’ll save that for another post. Furthermore the new “We Are the World” was a COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE FAIL! Quincy Jones needs to a) take Jay-Z’s advise and make another song b) use the same song but pick a different combination of artists. For the time being I, like other people are going to listen to the original and not waste y money on this musical crap, I’ll find other ways to show Haiti my support.