Will.i.am is a Terrible Person

Wow.   Poe's Law strikes again.

This plays like a rejected pitch at the Onion offices:  "What's THE most insipid thing anyone might do in response to Sandy Hook?"

"Uh... this?"

For the sake of my sanity and ongoing happiness, I'm just going to forget this exists.

Despicable.

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise..."

The same thing happened when our president (and 95 other people) died in a plane crash in 2010. Some people will use any opportunity for shameless self-promotion. We've had our fair share of that for the last 3 years... I'm sorry to see that now it's America's turn.

These were old, religious nutjobs (mostly). This is mainsteam music. Unless there was a 'the president is dead' song in the charts it's a whole different thing.

Last edited by Lamer (2013-02-06 23:27:11)

I guess both cases illustrate that there is an overabundance of dickheads in the world.

Also: wtf is a 'baby kaely'? I think I'm gonna start censoring my own internet if things keep going in this direction.

See, and here I thought we could all agree that it wasn't cool for famous musicians to use horrific tragedies to promote their latest up-and-coming child star. There goes all hope of that.

I think it's the fact that it's a kid singing it, a kid old enough to have been in one of those classrooms, that really pisses me off. If will.i.am himself wanted to sing a tribute song to the victims of Sandy Hook, that would be one thing. But this is just so shamelessly manipulative. And because it's from the perspective of a kid, it comes across as so flippant. Who's the target audience for this song? What were they thinking? I'm sick to my stomach that someone could be so crass.

I genuinely can't remember the last time that something offended me so much. Sandy Hook is less than an hour from my house, and my family knows families who attended school there, so stuff like this really gets my blood boiling. If one of my sisters had been killed in a school shooting, the last thing I'd want to hear is some kid rapper clumsily rhyme her name with a lyric about how sad this all makes her. I want to vomit.

Well said, Doc Sub. You get it.

And no one said anything was off limits; though I'll happily correct anyone who found the above video tasteful or appropriate. No. What I said was that will.i.am is a terrible scumbag.

Because good people don't use tragedy to grab at cash or self-promotion.