As people we have all experienced how music can change emotions. Music is emotion in a tangible form. Music can bring you to tears or have you grinning like the Cheshire Cat in all of two minutes. Nothing else can reach so many people and touch so many hearts across a country, a nation, a world.
This is what makes Band Aid 30 a beautiful project.
Band Aid 30 is a regrouping of a charity group. Singers like One Direction, Sam Smith, Bastille, Ellie Goulding, and many more came together to cover the 1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with a slight lyric change to talk about the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. But this project is more than an awareness project or publicity stunt, all proceeds from the song are going to help battle Ebola and all participants volunteered their time for free. Creator of the modernized group, Bob Geldof, calls Ebola a "particularly pernicious illness because it renders humans untouchable and that is sickening."
The entire track was recorded on one day, November 15. The organizer of the project, Geldof, spoke to the participants before recording telling them about the project, what they were trying to do, and explained the situation in West Africa. Video feed of the recording was streamed live, the footage becoming the base of the songs music video.
The song quickly became #1 in the UK and sold 312, 000 copies. The songs also topped charts in France and 61 other countries. It has reached a lot of hearts but I can't help but feel it needs to reach more. So I encourage all of you to really hear this song and reach out to those in need. But people of West Africa aren't the only ones in need. Reach out to all of those people that could use a friendly face. Reach out, don't be afraid.
This is what makes Band Aid 30 a beautiful project.
Band Aid 30 is a regrouping of a charity group. Singers like One Direction, Sam Smith, Bastille, Ellie Goulding, and many more came together to cover the 1984 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with a slight lyric change to talk about the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. But this project is more than an awareness project or publicity stunt, all proceeds from the song are going to help battle Ebola and all participants volunteered their time for free. Creator of the modernized group, Bob Geldof, calls Ebola a "particularly pernicious illness because it renders humans untouchable and that is sickening."
The entire track was recorded on one day, November 15. The organizer of the project, Geldof, spoke to the participants before recording telling them about the project, what they were trying to do, and explained the situation in West Africa. Video feed of the recording was streamed live, the footage becoming the base of the songs music video.
The song quickly became #1 in the UK and sold 312, 000 copies. The songs also topped charts in France and 61 other countries. It has reached a lot of hearts but I can't help but feel it needs to reach more. So I encourage all of you to really hear this song and reach out to those in need. But people of West Africa aren't the only ones in need. Reach out to all of those people that could use a friendly face. Reach out, don't be afraid.