Music to me: we are the world

The song is a song that was made to raise money for charity in the year 1985. I can’t really say that I felt a certain way when the song was released (I wasn’t born yet) but I  remember I listened to it when I was younger and it was the first time I realized that there were and there are problems in the world that are far worse than the small problems that could bother me, like forgetting to do my homework. I think it effected me in a good way because now I want to help and I want to give what I can even though it’s hard when I’m this young. It also got me thinking about other problems like discrimination and how I maybe want to work with it in the future. 

The song gives me hope and faith in humanity, maybe it will get better after all. The text is about how there are a lot of things that are unfair in the world and that things we don’t even choose like, where we’re born, how we look and who we love, can make it harder for us through life and can change our opportunities. It’s also about how we have to make a choice, to help or not.  

The song was inspired by the song that was recorded in the 1984, Do they even know it’s christmas. The point with both songs is that they were recorded by famous singers and sold as a singel so that all the money that was raised went to the famines that was going on at the time. There were many artists singing this song, among them: Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. It was the two artists who wrote the big hit that was recorded and kids recognize and like even today.