My latest post over at Care2 is up.  It’s all about this lovely little mess of a music video:

Here’s a taste:

[The video] is but the latest example of what I like to call activist narcissism, the impossibly naive belief that getting a bunch of beautiful people together to preen and act outraged is an adequate substitute for real change.  If these musicians (and impossibly hot actresses) really want to effect change, perhaps they can stop flying around the world on private jets and living in 10,000 sq. ft mansions.

I blame Will.I.Am, the patron saint of the inspiring-multiple-trendy-musicians-and-impossibly-hot-actresses-who-think-they can-sing-mash-up.  And as inspiring as “Yes We Can” may have been, can we agree to an immediate United Nations-brokered moratorium on such nonsense?

You can read the whole thing here.

What I don’t write about is the fact that they’ve trashed an awesomely cool song:

The best review of the new version is the one by Sam Roggeveen over at The Interpreter:

Not since the ‘Yes we can’ song recorded by Barack Obama’s celebrity chorus has there been such a sickening display of superiority and completely unmerited self-regard. They’ve even done away with the driving rock cred of Midnight Oil’s original and replaced it with a pop melange that’s as bland as milky tea, so there’s nothing to disguise the fatuous lyrics. Absolutely wretched.

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