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So folks, Africa is still in trouble and Sir Bob has (another) plan.
But is the lineup of the Live8 concerts so 'hideously white' as to make the whole exercise some sort of neo-colonialist, patronising rescue mission?
Or is the fact that the stadium-filling likes of U2, Coldplay and Madonna just a cold, hard necessity. Most of the world's bankable stars are white, ergo to get attention they need to be on board.
Or are the Live8 concerts themselves just a distraction and a throwback? If Sir Bob really wants to get law-abiding bleeding hearts out and breaking ASBOs on the streets during the G8 summit, is getting them waving their lighters in the air the right way about it?
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There's a fair few darkies playing in America and blow me the French stage has a load of frogs playing and Youssou N'Dour who is also a darkie !!
Perhaps though it's mostly white because a concert to help get rid of world poverty is best not fronted by rappers and J-Lo's singing about bling-bling and being well off.
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I think it's more likely to be because negros simply don't make very good music. I mean the aim is to get people to give money, right, and who's going to do that if the music's rubbish. To get good music you need to go to the white population: the Sir Elton Johns; the Coldplays; and to a lesser extent the U2s. I mean, Will Smith? Come on!
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: The plural of negro is negroes.
No, I meant Negros. It's a place in Greece. Haven't you heard of it? The music is dreadful. Sorry I didn't capitalise the n but, you know, I was trying to be cool with the lower-case letters.
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quote:Originally posted by statist: No, I meant Negros. It's a place in Greece. Haven't you heard of it? The music is dreadful. Sorry I didn't capitalise the n but, you know, I was trying to be cool with the lower-case letters.
lol. I remember now - that awful resort somewhere in the Dodecanese where they play that dreadful din called blacke music. It's in a cave, donchaknow.
Among the newer folk on here statist, I think you are right up there in the 'interesting' stakes.
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I will only go to this if U2 play a version of "Everybody Has AIDS" from Team America.
You should have seen little Thorn's face when they rhymed AIDS with spades in the song; it was like Santa had given him a trio of Japanese teen sluts wrapped in candy floss.
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quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: You should have seen little Thorn's face when they rhymed AIDS with spades in the song; it was like Santa had given him a trio of Japanese teen sluts wrapped in candy floss.
J-LOL
I take it Team America doesn't stray too far from South Park humour then?
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quote: Everyone has AIDS! AIDS AIDS AIDS! AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS! Everyone has AIDS!
And so this is the end of our story And everyone is dead from AIDS It took from me my best friend My only true pal My only bright star (he died of AIDS)
Well I'm gonna march on Washington Lead the fight and charge the brigades There's a hero inside of all of us I'll make them see everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS!) My sister (AIDS!) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS! My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS) The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS) C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS) We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has AIDS! x 20
The only thing that made me laugh more is the puppet being sick for what seems like 20 minutes. Normally I don't really like high brow humour, but this was pretty good.
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"America..fuck yeah!!" made me lol every time, as did the puppets performing the sort of kinky sex most contortionists would fear to attempt. Top film.
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quote:Originally posted by statist: ...I mean the aim is to get people to give money, right, and who's going to do that if the music's rubbish.
Err, not this time, actually. The aim this time is to get the politicians to notice we all care about poverty, to get the politicians themselves to give a shit (this is the biggest challenge, I think) and then to get them to do something to make poverty history during the G8 meeting.
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You'd expect them all to say 'hooray, hooray, we don't need to do the concert now that the woooorld has been saved' (carefully calculating how many additional sales they made off of the free publicity)
That is one astute move by Geldof. Half the audience may be going, "Who are the grandads doing Scissor Sisters covers?" but it there's one band that will get the G8 world leaders to stop yacking for a minute and watch the telly the it's gotta be the Floyd.
Just hope they learn from Led Zep's disasterous Live Aid reunion and get plenty of rehearsal time booked up.
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