Am I the only person who's sick to death of Hollywood doing benefit concerts to raise money for aid to victims of tragedies?
Stars, Singers Stage Tsunami Benefit on TV
This evening, the kids were watching some DVD or other, and it was over, so I was turning it off. The cable channel that came on when I turned off the player was showing the tsunami aid benefit. My stomach retched when I heard the plaintive strains of John Lennon's Imagine (is there a more nihilistic and bleak song out there anywhere? why has that song become required-singing at these kinds of things? good grief -- don't get me wrong, you won't find a person who loves the Beatles like I do, and I will freely attest to the sheer musical genius of those dudes, but John-boy really got his head messed up and his lyrics belie his confusion and desperation, especially later on). Worse, the ghastly lyrics were being sung in the most amateur, flat vocal style of none other than Esther-Kabbalah-Madonna. Not only was she singing a terrible song, she was singing it terribly. My ears! My ears! They bleed! The agony!
The other thing that bothers me about these benefit concerts, besides their substandard performances, is that the amount of money they raise could be matched by just about any one of these people out of their own salaries. No, we Hollywood-types can't be bothered to actually give MONEY... no, we want to get even more exposure and give something away that doesn't really cost us anything -- a stinko performance. It's a complete scam. I certainly wouldn't advocate obligating anyone to give anything... but I resent when people make a big show out of "giving" when all they're really doing is "getting".
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