Nathan De Villa

Song Artist - History The original - Renaldo “Obie”, Al Cleveland and Marvin

Gaye. The original was released on January 20, 1971. The title

track of Gaye's groundbreaking 1971 Motown album What’s Going On, and it became a crossover hit single that reached #2 on the pop charts and #1 on the R&B charts.

In October 2001, a group of popular recording artists under the name "Artists Against AIDS Worldwide" released an album containing multiple versions of "What's Going On" to benefit AIDS programs in Africa . Jermaine Dupri and Bono produced the radio single version, and performers included Britney Spears, Ja Rule, Nas, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Nelly Furtado,Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Destiny's Child, Wyclef Jean, Backstreet Boys, Monica, Gaye's own daughter Nona, and many other popular artists. 

The song was recorded before the September 11, 2001 attacks, and it was decided afterwards that a portion of the song's would help the American Red Cross' September 11 fund as well.

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1c5b3jB1FY

Lyrics• “Mother, motherThere's too many of you cryingBrother, brother, brother…”

• “…Father, fatherWe don't need to escalateYou see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate You know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today…”

• “…Don't punish me with brutalityTalk to meSo you can seeWhat's going on…”

“What’s Going On” is quite convincing because the song talks about how people always fight, so much that it causes wars between countries nowadays. For example this song was also dedicated to the 911 victims, and speaking of 911 the mastermind of the attack was Osama Bin Laden, and from that point people think wrong about the middle east just because of Osama. The song mentions how we brutalize other people and that there are too many people judging, fighting, dying, so to stop this we should make peace. Peace is so called “lovin” in the song.

Powerful Line

I chose this song because…

All Stars – What’s Going On Cover had a great meaning AIDS situation in Africa 911 incident in New York Tribute (All stars) which included the top artist back in 2001 Was recommended

Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

What's_Going_On_(song) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Going_On http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebigchill/

whatsgoingon.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1c5b3jB1FY