USA for Africa: We Are the World (1985 Music Video) User Reviews

Touching and moving song and video that was for a good cause.

[blanbrn · 9/10 · 25 July 2020]

Remember growing up as a kid in the early to mid 80's and this song was touching such a huge hit. As the most famous music and rock stars got together to unite and sing for a good cause to raise funds to Africa for the needy to feed them! The words of the song are touching as it is about helping and giving and saving. The video is uplifting watching the smooth beautiful voices of Tina Turner, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and Willie Nelson and Huey Lewis and many others rock out for a good cause. This song and video still rings true all these years later as it's a hope for love, freedom, and the noble cause for helping and caring!

breath of freedom

[Kirpianuscus · 3 January 2020]

I saw it in the late years of Nicolae Ceausescu regime. As a sort of window to freedom. Sure, a noble cause, great artists, the fascination of a kid front to big names and voices from the west but the solidarity , expressed in easy and simplistic manner sounds in special manner under a rotten dictatorship . So, the voices of Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder are more than vehicles for a sort of manifesto for Africa but, in that time, a slice of hope. This impression, after the passing 35 years , remains .

Timeless

[safenoe · 10/10 · 14 June 2022]

It's hard to believe We Are the World is nearly 40 years old. Released after the L. A. Olympics, the songs just shows how much we can really help the world and Ethiopia in particular and other vulnerable people.

It's a shame Prince wasn't in this video.

Simple, but effective

[Horst_In_Translation · 6/10 · 18 August 2017]

Here we have the music video for "USA for Africa: We Are the World". I runs for seven minutes, so slightly longer than most other music videos and it really should not have gone on for much longer or it would have gotten repetitive. The director was Tom Trbovich and I must admit I have never heard of him I think. But it is not really my fault because despite having a fairly prolific career this one here is probably his biggest success, in terms of both popularity and awards recognition. It's a great quantity of singers uniting and everybody sings basically one line before they all sing together at the end. The motivation was honorable and the tune is actually really catchy, so no surprise people are still humming it these days over 30 years later. The music video is as simple as it gets and nothing special, but I guess it was difficult already to everybody together to shoot in one room, so it's fine. There was definitely some individual talent lost here for most artists, but it is all about the teach achievement. This one gets a thumbs-up of course. Definitely worth listening to.