Anche per Time le canzoni per beneficenza non sono più quelle di una volta

After the 1980s, charity tunes hit mostly false notes (Anyone remember 2008’s “Just Stand Up”?) except for Elton John’s 1997 reworking of “Candle in the Wind,” which benefited Princess Diana’s foundation following her death. The song’s outsize success–it is the best-selling single ever–spawned a wave of imitators too lazy to even think up new lyrics. “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was rerecorded and released in 2004 to benefit Darfur. And the new “We Are the World,” featuring an Auto-Tuned Lil Wayne in place of Bob Dylan, may be raising money atop the iTunes charts, but it does so at the expense of botching a sentimental classic.

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