{"id":259,"date":"2005-01-26T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-01-26T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T23:45:12","slug":"recording-shows-its-chariy-but-lack-of-new-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Recording industry shows its charity, but lack of new creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable show of its lack of inspiration, the recording industry is set to release a track to aid tsunami victims.  The track?  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthe80s.com\/weworld.shtml\">We Are the World<\/a>,&#8221; which incidentally, celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the recording industry has so little working creativity these days that it had to trout out an old horse to get good, charitable PR.<\/p>\n<p>And for what it&#8217;s worth, the recording session of &#8220;We Are the World&#8221; wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/01\/25\/quake.anthem.reut\/index.html\">without its lack of altruism, either<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While participants were all admonished to &#8220;check their egos at the door,&#8221; the recording session at A&#038;M Studios in Hollywood was not without its tensions.<\/p>\n<p>A manager for one of the artists complained that &#8220;the rockers don&#8217;t care for the song that much and they don&#8217;t want to stand next to the non-rockers,&#8221; co-organizer Kragen recounted. &#8220;They felt it was going to hurt their credibility.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable show of its lack of inspiration, the recording industry is set to release a track to aid tsunami victims.  The track?  &#8220;We Are the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}