Look, I know it's not the solution. I don't know WHAT the solution is.
But I just turned on VH1 15 minutes ago and I've been sobbing ever since. With joy AND sorrow.
Madonna is doing her thing right now. I don't care what you think of these artists on a day-to-day basis, or IF you think of them at all. I don't, usually.
But, GOD, I'm just so overcome right now -- look at all those people. They watched that video of the starving, dying children. Even if they only came because it's an EVENT, because they could see U2 and Madonna and all the rest of them -- CHRIST, they SAW that video. They SAW that beautiful girl, and the picture of what she looked like 20 years ago.
I am moved beyond expression.
Coldplay... all of them -- yeah, it's publicity. But these people care -- just like you and I do.
UPDATE
Okay, I am SO sick of fucking VH1 and MTV and their crap coverage. People have posted links to the AOL thing. I have a MacOSX, and for some reason I cannot get the streaming thing -- no Safari, no Firefox -- what the FUCK do I have to do to get the goddamned stream to play on my supposedly state-of-the-art G5???
Piiiiiiink! PIIIIIIINK!
The Piiiiiiig!