Flip the Script on Creativity
Week Fourteen: Flip the Script on Creativity
Day Ninety-two
We believe that artists have a valuable function in every society since it is the artists who reveal society to itself. Just as the civil rights needed to be amplified, the conditions of poverty and Africa needed to be told. ~Harry Belafonte
I was watching a documentary on Netflix this week called The Greatest Night of Pop. It’s the story of how the song, “We are the World” was written and recorded in January 1985 to raise money to help people who were starving in Africa.
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let’s start giving.There’s a choice we’re making
We’re saving our own lives
It’s true we’ll make a better day, just you and me.
Harry Belafonte had the idea to raise money with a song. The song was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie and recorded in the middle of the night after the American Music Awards in Los Angeles with popular musical artists who were in town for the awards ceremony.
Watching the documentary, I was inspired by the hearts that came together to create and shared their gifts. I found myself just wanting to play and sing that song on repeat.
