Damon Albarn has criticised Bob Geldof's Band Aid 30 project, claiming that everyone's view of "charity" has been altered because of huge events that cause a media "frenzy," just like the Do They Know It's Christmas? remake.
Geldof premiered the new music video, that marks 30 years since the first version of the charity track was released, on Sunday night's X Factor and within just a few minutes of him making a speech and explaining what the project was about, Band Aid had managed to raise over £1 million. However, with the likes of One Direction, Sam Smith and Rita Ora among the huge list of names to get involved with the charity single, Albarn insists that the "media frenzy" surrounding the single alters people's view of what the track actually stands for.
Damon Albarn has criticised the Band Aid 30 single (WENN)
And does he have a point? There's a reason why Geldof has asked for help from some of the most well known artists out there, after all. However, credit where credit is due, because an incredible £150 million is thought to have been put into famine relief, with The Band Aid Trust still having an income of about £2 million a year, before this year's fourth remake of the track was released, in aid of the Ebola aid effort.
Insisting that all may not be as it seems with the project, though, Damon told Channel 4 news: “Having been to many countries and gotten to know many people, it always seems that we have only one view of it. There's also this assumption that in Africa everyone knows what's going on."
Bob Geldof has raised millions over the years (WENN)
He also said that our perspective of what is wrong and right and what helps people, is not necessarily shared by other cultures. “There are problems with our idea of charity, especially these things that suddenly balloon out of nothing and then create a media frenzy where some of that essential communication is lost and it starts to feel like it's a process where if you give money you solve the problem, and really sometimes giving money creates another problem," the singer continued.
Albarn's comments are released as Geldof addressed criticism of the track on Sky News yesterday, despite him not talking specifically about the above quotes. The Boomtown Rats frontman got so passionate in the interview, that he had to be cut off when he repeated that anyone who had any negative comments to make were talking "b******s." Read more about yesterday's interview here.
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