New Band Aid single slated as ‘tuneless monstrosity’ after Bob Geldof debuts remix

The caller Band Aid 40 remix of Do They Know It’s Christmas? has been unveiled and it’s not precisely getting radical successful the festive spirit.

On Monday morning, 4 decades aft a charity supergroup founded by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure came unneurotic to rise wealth to conflict famine successful Ethiopia, a caller new instrumentality the way has dropped.

The AI accumulation lone uses artists who featured connected the 1984, 2004 and 2014 editions, including Bono singing with his younger self.

It’s harmless to accidental euphony fans aren’t impressed aft proceeding the caller version, which has plentifulness of structural changes bringing each the eras together.

‘Bad capable driving to enactment connected a Monday without the Christmas songs, nevertheless the monstrosity that is Band Aid 40 could beryllium capable to extremity you implicit the edge,’ wrote @BrendonJnr connected X successful a savage assessment.

And @MrBlitzed ranted: ‘Just heard the caller Band Aid “Do They Know It’s Christmas” single. What an implicit load of cobbled unneurotic tuneless bollocks! Never bushed the original!’

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‘I admit what they did with Band Aid 40 and it is special… But I’m atrocious thing volition bushed the archetypal 1984 version,’ said @ImCalledAmyyy, giving a somewhat kinder take.

‘Band Aid 40 is terrible. Just bask the archetypal for the bully enactment it did and the artists who sang,’ argued @Sharks771, portion @Powersboy31 insisted the opus volition ‘always beryllium utter canine meat’.

And @darlosworld wrote: ‘Just heard the caller Band Aid Do They Know It’s Christmas connected @jdandroisin, and this is possibly arguable but it’s awful, conscionable terrible. Sorry.’

‘Jeeeeeesus Christ the caller ‘do they cognize it’s Christmas’ is abysmal,’ tweeted @WallmanStevo, arsenic @vaughan_col said: ‘BAND AID 40 IS TRENDING No, it’s not ok. Its been slaughtered.’

But @PaulaMorgan46 insisted: ‘Band assistance raised hundreds of millions of pounds for Ethiopia 40 years ago. Wtf is incorrect with that! Honestly what is incorrect with people!’

However, Bob has hailed the caller mentation arsenic ‘one of the top [pieces of] production’ successful British stone euphony history.

‘I deliberation it’s a enactment of art,’ helium told Zoe Ball connected BBC Radio 2 arsenic they some fought backmost tears aft having a outcry off-air portion the opus arsenic playing.

‘It’s specified an astonishing record,’ helium said. ‘It is the past of British stone and rotation implicit 40 years.’

Bob insisted the really prime of the way was ne'er the absorption of the 1984 original, with the wide extremity of the foundation azygous outweighing idiosyncratic taste.

‘We weren’t truly bothered the prime of the opus arsenic such,’ helium explained. ‘It doesn’t substance if you don’t similar George Michael, Boy George, oregon immoderate – conscionable bargain it, due to the fact that things volition change!’

He besides reflected connected having late vocalist Liam Payne on the track, aft helium sang connected the 2014 mentation with his One Direction bandmates.

Bob added: ‘I was reasoning of it astatine the funeral, he’s present with his mates, and he’s doing it for others.’

As good arsenic streaming, the caller mentation volition besides beryllium released physically connected CD and vinyl connected 29 November.

The archetypal opus was a immense deed selling implicit 2 cardinal copies astir the globe and raised much than $24 million (£18.8 million). 

The 2004 mentation spent 4 weeks successful the fig 1 presumption connected the charts and became the biggest-selling azygous of 2004, portion a decennary later, the 2014 azygous was little palmy and went consecutive to fig 1 successful the UK Official Singles Chart, selling 312,000 copies.

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