Bob Geldof Defends ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ After Ed Sheeran Complaint: ‘This Little Pop Song Has Kept Millions of People Alive’

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1. PC nonsense run amok. Like a starving person gives a crap about the song that’s feeding him.

2. Sheeran is a twat

3. “Do They Know Its Christmas?” is a much better song than “We Are the World.”

4. The song is absolutely out of pocket at times in its lyrics, but I can’t deny that it was made to genuinely help and not to shame. I have some sentiment attached to the song also being British and being made to sing it every year at Christmas by my primary school.

5. I saw some guy on TikTok explaining that while the song raised tens of millions for Africa it actually cost the country billions of dollars. He said something about the countries being downgraded in some economic sense where it made it harder to get loans, made companies much less likely to move or invest in African countries etc.

   Not sure how much validly there is but was an interesting topic if I knew more about economics.

6. I can’t not think of [South Park.](https://youtu.be/K40epl0r-Fg?si=o9Wwgswj4rmXuFaq)

7. Fuckin’ Geldof, Man

8. I’ve heard people don’t like this song for whatever reason and I’ve never cared enough to look anyone. Can someone ELi-5?

9. “Tonight thank God it’s them instead of you!”
   -Bono, philanthropist/twat

10. you could not pay me to give a shit about this, and i cannot believe other people do.

11. Is he insinuating that millions of people would have killed themselves if they hadn’t heard this song?

12. American here can someone TLDR the significance of this song and what the beef is

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