Holiday Helpings: Far and 'Feed The World'
Far and Chino Moreno team up for a cover of 'Feed The World.'
I very much dislike the original version of this song. It's treacly, overplayed even by Christmas song standards and doesn't even have the novelty value of "We Are The World." I'm not saying I hate this song because Eddie Murphy isn't a part of it, I'm just saying that it would've helped. Plus, if you go through the lyrics, it's kind of really condescending. I never thought I could dislike U2 anymore, and then I realized it was Bono singing, "Tonight thank God it's them instead of you!"
I like this version a lot better because it reinvents the song not as rich people trying to feel guilty for poor people, but a really angry song about a part of the world suffering. As ambivalent as I've always felt about Moreno's work in Deftones (he gets shrieky REALLY easily), he's great here as he works with his trembling middle register that's so great on tracks like "Minerva." The song as a whole maintains the pop sensibility of the original but without the "look how forward-thinking we are" novelty.
Posted by Dominick Mayer on Dec 11, 2009 @ 11:00 am
