What the world needs most is a music video - duh! Maybe a few of them.

I'm going to just stay this... the song "Do They Know Its Christmas?" is pretty awful.  I don't get offended often, but this nearly pulled that string for me.  Band Aid's "Do They Know Its Christmas" song is abysmal, absurd, and prejudiced.  Some of the following lyrics were of specific distress to me:  

• "Do they know its Christmas?"  

Shoot me now.  Who do you think gets those crappy packages people in the West send over?  They know.  They may not have Christmas trees or mobs of people on Black Friday, but they know.  Stop thinking we know something they don't... as if Christmas is the key to our success.

• "Well tonight were reaching out and touching you, And bring peace and joy to Africa, Where nothing ever grows, No rain nor rivers flow"

I will admit that Africa as a continent isn't in the finest of positions now (Ebola in the West, extremists in the North, the newest nation has fallen into a civil war, CAR is in the midst of a genocide, and Malawi is now flooded to the hip), but that's not the entire country.  Zambia's peaceful.  We've got peace, and so do a lot of other nations.  

And then to say that there is no rain and that rivers don't flow - ignorant.  The continent is criss-crossed with some of the Earth's most powerful rivers and lots of things grow here... it's not a barren wasteland.  And last I checked, Christmas is synonymous with snow, not rainfall.  Does this mean when they bring Christmas that they'll bring snow too?  I hate it, I just hate it.

As much as I love Bono, I'm honestly disappointed and confused by his being apart of this latest edition (I'll give him a pass on the first).  Didn't he learn anything on those (RED) campaign trips?  Sure, Africa does have some issues with clean water and there are some darker parts to its current existence, but it's surprising that he'd align himself to such a biased view of a continent of over 50 sovereign nations and their more than one billion people.  And Sinead O'Connor too?  And Emeli Sande whose own father is Zambian?

And you know what else... those clowns from across the pond weren't even as good as the American attempt to solve Africa's problems in the 1980s.  Not only did USA for Africa have a better song than Band Aid, but they packed superior star power: Springsteen, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Kenny "Danger Zone" Loggins, and, of course, Michael Jackson.  We.  Are.  The.  Best.

 

During the 2015 holiday season I plan on releasing a video called, "Yes - sure enough - they knew it was Christmas."  Stay tuned for that.