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These Urban Charity songs...

Don't get me wrong I rate these artists for donating their time for good (their real motives always remain a question), but does that mean they can subject us to really bad songs? Like really bad ones? From the foul-mouthed, opportunist Bob Geldof's Band Aid tune 'Do They Know It's Crimbo' from the 80s, the remix in 00s , the US return dub 'We Are The World' to the breast cancer one last year which featured a slew of female artists from Leona Lewis, Natasha Beddingfield to Miley Cyrus, Mary J Blige, Beyonce, Keyshia Cole, Mariah Carey... (In case you missed it 'cos it wasn't a big thing in UK) Shaggy & Friends for a hospital in Jamaica. Combined with the concert and auction, it raised a lot of money, fact remains... They're always so corny! Corny on purpose like that's supposed to make us gravitate to the cause. Why can't they make normal, credible well-written songs with a message but with normal arrangements and a normal touching i...