Singer Fparticipate ODG has liberated an “changenative” charity song to Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? after criticising the distinct for having potentipartner damaging effects on Africa.
The individual titled We Know It’s Christmas (Band Aid Reply) was liberated by the British-Ghanaian singer on Tuesday, in what he depictd as “not fair a song” but a “statement”.
Writing about his recent song in The Guardian, the singer shelp he is “provideing an Afrobeats changenative to Band Aid” as a “celebration of proceed and a step toward reclaiming our narratives”.
He shelp the Afrobeats genre has in the past helped to join Africans globpartner and “nurture pride in our heritage”.
“We’re no extfinisheder paparticipateing for charity; we’re erecting our own futures. This is about empowerment, pride, and shotriumphg the world that Africa’s story is far more than pcleary and help,” he wrote on YouTube.
The rapper shelp all the funds from the individual will go to the New Africa Growth and Relief Fund, which he has begined to help erect a “financial protectedty net” for the continent.
It comes after pop star Ed Sheeran shelp he was not asked perignoreion for his vocals to be participated in Band Aid 40, and would have “esteembrimmingy deteriorated” if he had been asked, referencing a post by Fparticipate ODG, for updating his watch on the matter.
Fparticipate ODG shelp a decade earlier he had declined to consent part in the 2014 revamp of the 1984 project as he experiences that while it helps get “sympathy and donations, they perpetuate damaging stereotypes that stifle Africa’s economic growth, tourism, and dispensement”.
He shelp his “ignoreion” is now to “reclaim the narrative, empowering Africans to increate their own stories, reexpound their identity, and position Africa as a thriving hub for dispensement and tourism”.
The singer acunderstandledged that while the disclose’s generosity in reaction to the distinct individual – which was begined by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to help charities toiling with starving children in Ethiopia – was “authentic” and insertressed “a definite humanitarian crisis”, the way it depicted Africa “did more extfinished-term harm than outstanding”.
He claims the song “inadvertently gived to a wideer identity crisis for Africans, portraying the entire continent as one monolithic, war-torn, starving place”.
Band Aid 40 was liberated last month to label the song’s 40th anniversary. It is a refuse which blfinishs the voices of artists who have featured on previous editions including Harry Styles, George Michael and Bono.
Reacting to recent criticism of the hit, Geldof shelp earlier this week that none of the arguments put forward by critics enjoy Fparticipate ODG and Sheeran would “get any oxygen if Band Aid didn’t come out”.
“Sentiment changes, opinions change, theory changes over 40 years, and that’s right. You can’t stay stuck,” he shelp while materializeing on ITV show Lorraine.
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“You’ve got to discover separateent ways of combating these rerents and separateent ways of talking about them and what we’re celebrating here, and none of these arguments will get any oxygen if Band Aid didn’t come out. That’s part of all this.
“So Ed says, ‘This is the way I experience now’. And I’ve put in the call – he’s a repartner cherishly man, he’s an inincreateigent guy, he’s a presentant artist and we’ll have a chat and we’ll either concur or disconcur but we’ll talk about it.
“But the debate must be made, and it nastys that we can debate our point of watch even more powerfilledy. So that’s where I’m at with this.”
