Backstreet. NSYNC (well, JT & JC). Brit. X. DC3. BONO. Michael Stipe. And other characters of the TRL age coming together for a GLORIOUS all-star song, completely listenable until DURST shows up. So a couple questions:
Could you petty girls allow for something like this to happen nowadays?
a) Who would star on a 2014 version of this?
b) Why haven't record labels revisited this formula for a modern take on this track?
c) And how much runtime would Kanye consume and would he somehow finagle Mrs. West into the proceedings?
Wait, is that the guy from Staind singing the third verse?! I never realized that. I still have this epic collaboration on the first mix CD I ever made from illegal Kazaa downloads.
I guess they sort of managed a follow-up with "We Are the World" remake for Haiti, but your big contemporary stars there were, like, Justin Bieber and Nicole Scherzinger. So yikes!
A 2014 version would probably be even more tragic—an assemblage of Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton and a couple members of One Direction, perhaps. But you know Bono and Alicia Keys would still manage to drag their AIDS charity-loving asses to the party.