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Simon Cowell to do a charidy single for Haiti
Posted by BigJimBob on 21 January 2010 - 4:39pm.
as predicted by this massive. SC will be on tonight's R4 PM programme discussing his latest charity release. Does the good cause justify the blatant bandwagoning? Or does the fact that singles sell sod all nowerdays mean that this is just more grist for the Cowell publicity mill?
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Not even I can be cynical about this venture...
I hope he makes lots of money and it does some good.
Likewise.
Maybe Simon Cowell would do better by sitting on his arse complaining to strangers on the Internet? Or maybe not.
That he's in the perfect position to mobilise the worlds of music and telly to raise a shitload of cash is not to be sniffed at.
Live 8 declared it was going to
'end world poverty'. As far as I can see it didn't so are we allowed to be cynical about that?
I think he does it because he can and he's bothered enough
He should be credited with doing some good with his power.
Isn't every charity single 'blatent bandwagoning'?
The public wouldn't buy it if it didn't come on the back of a wave of publicity and charitable effort for the cause in question.
Whatever his reasons...
and whatever you might think of him - you can't knock him for doing some good with his money or using his fame to promote something that will raise money for a good cause.
Nah, no good being cynical about this at all - good luck to him and however shite the record will be (musically) I hope it makes a lot of money.
You never know...
...the record might be good!
I think there is a good chance we might know
but I still hope it sells.
It'll be a cover, of course...
...care to guess of what? Something Saccharine and syrupy, no doubt.
Haitian Divorce?
It would be if he made it with...
Haitian musicians.
Ah, yes...
The Band Aid gambit.
I enjoyed the contribution of all those African musicians to Band / Live Aid.
Fabulous work.
Sorry...
...but Haiti need cash not gestures. The musicians are largely irrelevant on Simon Cowell projects anyway; I hope it's a lowest common denominator smaltzy big seller.
Vanilla Ice to feature on Jedward's debut single
Has-been joins Never-should've-beens
okay so why is it needed?
I think most people will agree that it won't be the best single - even those that buy it. If the cash was directly donated to the charities, tax could be wavered. Also the money spent on producing the product could go straight to Haiti. So why do people require a piece of plastic, or a file that they will never play, to get off their backside and donate?
Because motivation is a factor?
.
Susan Boyle to record
'I Put A Spell On You' in full voodoo regalia?
brilliant
take an up arrow for that
Tonton Macoute to reform
and record a cover of 'I Feel The Earth Move'?
Possibly bad taste
Actually, DEFINITELY in bad taste
I hope its not a cover of the Unit 4+2 song Concrete and Clay
"The concrete and the clay
beneath my feet
Begins to crumble"
Sorry, but it might raise a giggle somewhere
(Britishness: Laughing in the face of adversity)
Do They Know It's Just A Bit
After Christmas?
"The Prime Minister asked me to do it. Then The Sun called." Decision made.
According to Andy Kershaw,
According to Andy Kershaw, Cowell might be better off giving charitable organisations the famously sharpe side of his tongue rather than his money:
"An unbelievable 10,000 charities were already working in Haiti when the earthquake rocked the island, most of them tiny independent organisations. Humanitarian aid is, almost by definition, never where it is needed when natural disasters strike. But, in Haiti, what's needed has been flown in with impressive speed. Yet the combined concern of all those organisations – many of them regarding fellow charities as professional rivals – has so far been unable to get that assistance a ride from the airport. Too much energy in the last week has been expended on bickering about procedure and the fetish about "security"."
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andy-kershaw-stop-trea...
It'll sell shedloads
Cowell's a master populist, and vast sales will equal vast sums donated to the relief effort. That's got to be a good thing, even if we of The Massive will be avoiding it like the plague.
Being really tasteless, "Concrete & Clay" by
The X-Factor finalists, Sinitta, Zig & Zag and Robson & Jerome.
Could Be Worse
Apparently it's gonna be REM's "Everybody Hurts" featuring Leona Lewis and (god help us) Cherrull Coal.
Yes, everybody hurts...
but I would suggest one hurts more keenly if there's a huge fucking earthquake that tears your life apart.
Ah well, if this is the case...
... then this is the exact point at which we can become jaded and cynical - why ask a huge number of stars who might sell to the fans of a multiple demographic, when you can focus on 2 singers in whom you have a vested interest, an X-Factor winner and an X-Factor judge? Sigh.
All power to them, lots of money yada yada, but poor show.
(EDIT - turns out it's going to have a huge line-up, spoke too soon, good luck to it)
Another
beautiful, intimate, personal, special song bites the dust.
(I know the song has already been inescapably world-straddling, but for me it is still the track that stood out on the first play of REM's best album... in those few special weeks before everybody else caught on I loved it to death & still do.)
Churlish to complain, but then, I'm a champion churl.
Of course it's cynical
He's aware of the recent backlash and thinks if he does something magnanimous like this he'll be beyond criticism. Then again, he might be doing it out of the goodness of his heart...
Good luck to him. Rod Stewart and JLS are on it. Together at last.
Will they
be doing the old Carol King song, "I Feel The Earth Move"?
He's stood up and done something that will raise more money and keep up awareness, so well done Simon.
Forget Cowell - I'm sending
Forget Cowell - I'm sending my money in the direction of Wyclef Jean's "Hope for Haiti' concert
EVERYBODY HURTS
Even nightclub toilet attendants.....
(or ironically as Cole allegedly referred to her, a 'Caribbean jigaboo'.
Does Cherrull know where Haiti is?)
The 'allegedly' is a big one though
the jury found her guilty of 'assault occasioning actual bodily harm', but cleared her of 'racially aggravated assault'.
Sorry
I guess I have a bit too much knowledge of Cherrull and her family, but that's another can of worms.