General Chat

Wow, just seen the new video put together by Simon Cowell for the Haiti fund. The song, Everybody Hurts, which is one of my all time favourites anyway, sung by various stars. Put the words with the powerful images from the aftermath of the earthquake, and it blows your mind. I cried all the way through it.

Anyone else see it? If not, look out for it.

emotional wasnt it hun, i just seen it too xxxx

My OH heard which song it was this morning and thought it was the wrong one for this. I think Cowell got it spot on.

Not seen it and don't want to cos I'm really cross about it:)

Why Uggers?

I was just about to ask the same question Teresa

Hurry up, I want a bath before Dancing on Ice results lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2FEDNAqmmI

Oh sorry :) Well not properly cross obviously, just irritated. Why did they have to make such a bad cover (have you heard Robbie Williams' terrible singing in it??) of such a good song when they could have just given far more than they will ever raise between them? Publicity that's why.

I agree with you Uggers I cant stand the song and its been tagged on too almost every video ever made for charity.

All the ones Coldplay isn't used for anyway, Hayley lol

That's true Uggers, but ultimately, it will raise much needed funds, and we dont know they haven't given their money too.


It's a very emotive song Hayley, that's why.

Teresa but how much more powerful would it have been if SImon Cowell had said he was going to give x amount and was going to ask every overpaid footballer to do the same and every bod who got paid x amount to go in Celebrity Big Brother and so on and so on - that would have been a much more impressive act, raised much more revenue for Haiti and been a better message for the world at large instead of mullering an REM tune and drawing in gullible starstruck kids and guilty adults

*breathes out*

now now Uggers that wouldnt tug on Joe public heart strings now would it without a overplayed soppy song.

Glad you breathed out then you were going a peculiar shade of blue and I was having visions of having to do CPR on you.

Yes in an ideal world, it would have happened, but maybe this is a way of getting those starstruck kids to dip in their own pockets and buy, thus donating AND getting something for it.

AND...as I said earlier, we don't know which famous bod has given or not given, or how much, or how quickly, or under what prompting if any. Most of us would only need to see those images, without the song, to dip our hands in our pockets. Who are we to say that the rich and famous haven't been affected in the same way at the sight of those children and broken people? Just because they've volunteered to help make a record however badly, to help raise money, doesn't meant they haven't already given....

Apologies for any spellign mistakes, I can't see what I'm typing here...the screen's gone wrong.

Shall we do a grown up agree to differ, Teresa:))))

Grown up? Hmmm let me think about that. LOL

Of course, best course of action for any civilised human being in my book!

I still think the images with the words of the song make a pretty compelling appeal.

Orf for me shower now....

I sorry if I sound insensitive but I do thing the charity song has been done to dealth , dont forget to wash behind your ears now....lol

It sort of grows on you .....The more I hear it...... The more I like it...... You do have a choice ..... buy it or not.....Its up to you.....