Do you want to work in radio?

[Jono]

It's not a bad attempt I guess... And remember it's all for charity.

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[Hammer]

They couldn't have picked a more patronising song. The 'chin up, everyone has troubles' message is hardly appropriate when your country has been devestated by an earthquake.

[yorkieboy]

They couldn't have picked a more patronising song. The 'chin up, everyone has troubles' message is hardly appropriate when your country has been devestated by an earthquake.

Thats what I thought when I heard it but it's been done mainly for the people here rather than in Haiti. Obviously rushed together I don't think they thought too much about the song choice.

[roxanne]

I read a good piece on bbc news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8481221.stm about it. Its something that is associated with bad times being ahead but will get better and its one of the songs that a band were happy to give away to charity. Would many artists give up their work for free normally? I dunno.

[E*F*4L]

they are only doing it to make themselves look good :|

if it means that much to them they could easily afford to send £100mill between them much more that what will be raised by the record (it's a patronising song anyway, always has been).

i have already sent £25 to the Red Cross a few weeks ago, thats £25 more than Simon Cowell has sent of his own money!

[hobbs]

they are only doing it to make themselves look good :|

if it means that much to them they could easily afford to send £100mill between them much more that what will be raised by the record (it's a patronising song anyway, always has been).

i have already sent £25 to the Red Cross a few weeks ago, thats £25 more than Simon Cowell has sent of his own money!

how do you know? He might have donated loads.

[E*F*4L]

how do you know? He might have donated loads.

if he had it would be in the papers, all the stars do it as it's a promotion thing.

[Bexprincess]

They could have chosen a better song to cover.

[Jugalug]

if he had it would be in the papers, all the stars do it as it's a promotion thing.

What a idiotic generalisation.

[Jono]

if he had it would be in the papers, all the stars do it as it's a promotion thing.

It seems you've promoted yours too

I don't think Simon Cowell giving a donation would have raised awareness. It'd have been in a small bit of the music pages and, whether you like him getting promotion or not, the CD will convince people to donate whether they like the song or not.

[Chippy]

if he had it would be in the papers, all the stars do it as it's a promotion thing.

Well, whether he meant for this to happen or now, on the 26th of January Simon Cowell donated £5000 to a school boy's cycling campaign. Not much compared to the £1,000,000 some celebrities have donated. Charlie Simpson was aiming to raise £500 by cycling around his park or something. People have seen in the news (yes publicity) that Simon donated £5000 to this boy and people chosen this small cycle ride as a place to donate. So with the help of Simon Cowell donating and making headlines, Charlie Simpson has raised 39611% more than what he aimed to £198,054.34.

http://www.justgiving.com/CharlieSimpson-HAITI?pid=2205791&dtpn=1&ShortUrl=CharlieSimpson-HAITI#DonationTable