Does Bob Geldof know it's 2014?
I'm not a big fan of Adele's music, but this week I'm a huge fan of her as a human being.
Bob Geldof was assembling a bunch of celebrities to relive that "Do They Know It's Christmas?" glory 30 years later, but for Ebola this time. Never mind that a lot of people in Europe and North America have gotten a little more self critical in recent decades about things like paternalism, white-savior complexes, and the fact that Africa isn't one big country of backward horribleness. Geldof crudely tweaked some old lyrics, made his big PR plans, and started giving other famous people the hard sell to participate. Do it for the poor Ebola-stricken Africans who have never heard of Christmas! Despite the fact that Christianity has been in various (Ebola-free) African countries since the first and second centuries.
Adele didn't participate. Geldof, class act that he is, responded by taunting her for being too busy raising a family. I can't improve on Bryony Gordon's response to that:
