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POPSCritique: 'We Are the World 25' Panned by US Mag
Even celebrities with high and nobel motives can't escape the critic's barbs as amplified by this account. The most remarkable accomplishment of this production (other than the funds raised for Haiti) is the fact that this many top-flight artists came together for the production in record time, but ... ___ "... The new version features second-by-second unexplainable absurdities, including Justin Bieber being given the opening verse, Nicole Scherzinger and other Z-listers assigned more than one prime slot, Auto-Tune chants by Lil Wayne, Akon and T-Pain, Wyclef Jean's incomprenhensible yodeling, a horrific rap interlude led by LL Cool J, watching Lionel Richie painfully "directing" Celine Dion to try and recreate Cyndi Lauper's perfectly-improvised standout part, to even Jamie Foxx himself not being able to control his own laughing at being forced to whip out that same stale Ray Charles impression that he should have locked away with his Oscar. You just know Streisand was thinking, "
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POPSAmerica in 1825: the poor are simply sold If you lived in the rural North, and you died, your children, your spouse, your Grandma were auctioned to whomever thought they could get enough work out of them to justify their expense. We had auctions for slaves in the South, and for paupers in the North. Small government is brutal government.
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