Listeners who tuned in to hear Band Aid 40’s revamped charity single branded it a “hot mess” and claimed the song was “absolutely ruined.”
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic charity song, a new version was released: Do They Know It’s Christmas? 2024 Ultimate Mix, along with a special video, was released on Monday.
Do you know it’s Christmas? It has been recorded on three separate occasions, Band Aid (1984), Band Aid 20 (2004) and Band Aid 30 (2014), and offers snapshots of some of music’s biggest stars and how they have changed over the years. the decades.
To celebrate the occasion, producer Trevor Horn took all three recordings and, using extraordinary music production techniques, merged all the voices of those different generations into a single track.
However, the latest offering has not gone down well with listeners who caught the first glimpse of the song on BBC Radio 2, with many taking to X to criticize the song.
Meanwhile, the song’s creator Bob Geldof broke down in tears when he joined host Zoe Ball on her morning show to listen to the song, calling it a “work of art.”.
Listeners who tuned in to hear Band Aid 40’s revamped charity single called it a “hot mess” and claimed the song had been “absolutely ruined” (the song’s creators, Midge Ure and Bob Gelfof, in 2004).
Band Aid have returned with a new version to mark the 40th anniversary of the iconic charity song (pictured are the stars of the original 1984 song).
Sharing their thoughts on the platform, formerly known as Twitter, listeners made their thoughts on the revamped single very clear.
They wrote: ‘What the fuck have they done to #BandAid?’
‘Oh God. It’s so bad’; ‘Well, this is a load of shit. Absolutely ruined it’
‘Just listened to the new version… Totally rubbish; “I’m sorry, but that’s a disaster.”
‘I’m not feeling the new Band Aid single’; ‘What new hell is this?’
‘#BandAid40 has set hunger relief back forty-one years.’
Sharing their thoughts on the platform, formerly known as Twitter, listeners made their thoughts on the revamped single very clear.