Acting in His Official Capacity as a Cultural Voice of Reason, Jay-Z Rips the New “We Are the World”
Jay-Z is down on a lot of things: auto-tune, Nas, humility…and, it turns out, the re-make of “We Are the World” that was recently released to help with Haiti relief. According to Jay-Z – and when Jay-Z talks you’d better listen – the original “We Are the World,” which was made in the ’80s to aid some cause we’ve all forgotten about by now, is sacred and should never have been messed with. “‘We Are the World’ is like [Michael Jackson's] ‘Thriller’ to me,” Jay explained. “I don’t ever wanna see it touched.” Basically, Jay-Z feels the same way about “We Are the World” that a father feels about his innocent daughter. And the musicians who remade “We Are the World” are like the guy who comes around who seems nice until you catch him stroking your little princess’s butt while he’s saying goodnight. Unfortunately, you can’t just lock her in her room for the rest of her life. At some point you have to let her go free and find her own way in the world. I’ve lost control of this analogy completely.
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