Thoughts on "We Are The World 25 for Haiti"

It's finally here. The remake of the 1985 classic "We Are The World" has been unveiled. It features 81 of the music industry's biggest names, including hip-hoppers Kanye West, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, will.i.am, and Nipsey Hussle (how did he manage to sneak in?). The video kicks off with Justin Bieber and concludes with a collaborative hip-hop bit.

Here are my thoughts on "We Are The World 25"

• The only reason to kick off a collaboration of this magnitude with Justin Beiber is if you're going according to size.
• Jennifer Hudson and Pink owned it.
• I like how they sequenced the auto-tuned triumvirate of Lil Wayne, Akon, and T-Pain to follow one another, so you can conveniently skip them all at once.
• Overall, the ladies (Pink, J-Hud, MJB, etc) were vocally superior to the fellas (Enrique, T-Pain, Wyclef, etc) in this one.
• The hip-hop chorus (written by will.i.am) was surprisingly impressive.
• The only thing more embarrassing than having Miley Cyrus follow Barbra Streisand was having Lil Wayne belt out Bob Dylan's part.
• Their heart was in the right place. Their voice? Not so much. Qunicy Jones and friends should have written an entirely new song for Haiti.

'We Are the World,' I love it, and I understand the point and think it's great. But I think 'We Are the World' is like [Michael Jackson's] 'Thriller' to me. I don't ever wanna see it touched."