![]() ![]() ![]() "According to the World Development Movement: 'The song perpetuates the myth that Africa's problems can somehow be blamed on lack of rainfall and failed harvests,'" say the Behind the Lyrics cards, apparently adapted from contributor Vesuvius' Genius annotation. The music streaming service shared a few fun facts about the song though their Behind the Lyrics feature, which shows lyrics and information about the song playing on info cards in the app, provided in partnership with lyrics annotation site Genius. On Sunday, writer Joanna Mang noted on Twitter that even Spotify has gotten sassy about the song’s message. The song has received significant criticism for its patronising, demeaning attitude toward Africa and its people, including from Africans themselves. ![]() ![]() Thirty-five years and several re-recordings later, "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" continues to be maligned for perpetuating plain untruths about the continent. They’re inescapable, and the only real solution is to give in and enjoy the ridiculousness of the season, like hate-watching B-grade films for an entire month.īut some tunes are so bad that no amount of irony can save them, and arguably the worst of these is Band Aid’s "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" Written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the incredibly paternalistic 1984 charity single gathered together artists such as Bono, George Michael, and Sting to ask, "What if we set the white savior complex to music?" Every year, December’s airwaves fill with terrible seasonal songs, from the trite, to the dirge-like, to the inexplicably horny. ![]()
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