Review of USA for Africa: We Are the World

Here we have the music video for "USA for Africa: We Are the World". I runs for seven minutes, so slightly longer than most other music videos and it really should not have gone on for much longer or it would have gotten repetitive. The director was Tom Trbovich and I must admit I have never heard of him I think. But it is not really my fault because despite having a fairly prolific career this one here is probably his biggest success, in terms of both popularity and awards recognition. It's a great quantity of singers uniting and everybody sings basically one line before they all sing together at the end. The motivation was honorable and the tune is actually really catchy, so no surprise people are still humming it these days over 30 years later. The music video is as simple as it gets and nothing special, but I guess it was difficult already to everybody together to shoot in one room, so it's fine. There was definitely some individual talent lost here for most artists, but it is all about the teach achievement. This one gets a thumbs-up of course. Definitely worth listening to.