Artists Involved with the Making of the Song

What’s Going On

September 20, 2001 "WHAT'S GOING ON," SPECIALLY RECORDED ALL-STAR CD, TO BENEFIT THE UNITED WAY'S SEPTEMBER 11TH FUND & ARTISTS AGAINST AIDS WORLDWIDE. CHRISTINA AGUILERA * AMIR * BACKSTREET BOYS * MARY J. BLIGE * BONO * DESTINY'S CHILD * JERMAINE DUPRI * FRED DURST * EVE * NELLY FURTADO * NONA GAYE * DARREN HAYES * JA RULE * WYCLEF JEAN * ALICIA KEYS * AARON LEWIS * LIL' KIM * JENNIFER LOPEZ * NAS * NELLY * *NSYNC * P DIDDY * BRITNEY SPEARS * GWEN STEFANI * & MICHAEL STIPE BAND TOGETHER ON NEW RECORDING OF MARVIN GAYE CLASSIC Clear Channel Radio & MTV To Premiere "What's Going On" Across The Country On Friday, September 21, On September 5 and 7, 2001, an ensemble of superstar artists gathered in New York City to record a new version of "What's Going On," Marvin Gaye's classic call for compassion, healing and love, in order to raise awareness and funds to fight against the scourge of AIDS in Africa. In the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, Artists Against AIDS Worldwide, realizing the recording's powerful healing message extended beyond the scope of the project's original aim, decided to donate 50% of its proceeds to the United Way's September 11th Fund and 50% to the AIDS relief effort which includes the Global AIDS Alliance, among others.” (Blake, Leigh)

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Problems I Ran Into Timing: This was probably one of my biggest problems. I had to view the whole slide show over and over again when I wanted to look at one slide and how it sounded. I will never use power point for a slide show like the one that I did. I am way too picky about music and pictures lining up. Computer breaking down: Worked on the project for about 20 plus hrs. and lost my hard drive. I learned that maybe I should back everything up even when I’m working on something for a long period of time. Finding the right pictures: I had a really hard time deciting what kind of a mood I wanted to have in this slide show. This also made it really hard to find the right pictures that I wanted. Music: I don’ t know why but my music would stop at a slide I didn’t want it to over and over, like I didn’t have the whole song on my computer. Other than those problems things went well. The buttons with the links were very easy to make.