They Were The World

The difference between the "We Are The World 25" and the original? Big names. The original really did have the biggest stars of early 1985 singing on it. Okay, there was Kim Carnes, but most of the names were either legends or Top of the Charts at that time.
The remake? We get Enrique Iglesias. The singer of the Pussycat Dolls. BeBe Winans and Toni Braxton. But no Beyonce, Timberlake, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift. Couldn't they have phoned in their parts the way Mary J Blige and Kanye did?
The only part of the remake I like are Orianthi's guitar solo, Michael Jackson's rebirth and the Streisand/Celine Dion lines.
And then there's the Wyclef parts which are pure torture. The rap section is awful.
Let me make this clear. I loved the original "We Are The World". Getting past the trite lyrics was easy when you had dynamic vocal turns by Ray Charles, James Ingram, Stevie Wonder. And the one-liners from Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, Kenny Loggins, Cyndi Lauper and even Huey Lewis were pretty great.
Here, on this remake? You won't remember much.
It's a good cause. Buy it for that. But like the British remake of "Do They Know It's Christmas" a few years back, you'll long for the original.