Will.i.am’s Obama Victory Song: It’s A New Day
Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am is commemorating Barack Obama’s historic win in the U.S. presidential election over John McCain by releasing a new song and video, called “It’s A New Day“, which premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show last Friday.
Barack Obama Victory Song by will.i.am ‘It’s A New Day’
The new song about Barack Obama is to follow up the Emmy award-winning viral hit “Yes We Can” and “We Are The Ones Song“, his previous ode songs to the Illinois senator who on Tuesday became the 44th president of the United States.
Yes We Can
Will.i.am’s first Obama video “Yes We Can”, was composed mostly of excerpts from Obama’s speech on January 8, 2008, following the New Hampshire presidential primary election and featured numerous Hollywood celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Tatyana Ali, John Legend, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Adam Rodriquez, Kelly Hu, Adam Rodriquez, Amber Valetta, Eric Balfour, Aisha Tyler, Nicole Scherzinger and Nick Cannon.
Viewed over 45+ million times: “Yes We Can”
The “Yes We Can” music video, released in February 2008, has been viewed 45+ million times since on Dipdive, BarackObama.com and various videoportals such as YouTube, MySpace, MetaCafe and others.
We Are the Ones
On February 29, 2008, will.i.am released another song on DipDive supporting Obama entitled “We Are the Ones“. Backed by a simple vocal refrain of “O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!,” stars such as Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, Kerry Washington, George Lopez and others explain why they support Obama while others such as Macy Gray croon the candidates’ last name to the will.i.am-penned melody. The music video has been 2.7 million times.
Will.i.am’s second pro-Obama song ‘We Are the Ones’
It’s A New Day
His latest Obama Song “It’s A New Day” is inspired by America and features bandmate Stacy Ferguson aka Fergie, Kanye West, Kerry Washington, Olivia Wilde, and Jonathan Schaech among others. “It’s about Obama winning, and really paying tribute to those people who are responsible for that happening, and that’s the American people.” the Black Eyed Peas rapper told The Associated Press.
Will.i.am spent part of election night editing his new song, to schedule its release on Dipdive.com on Wednesday in celebration of Barack Obama’s win in the US presidential election. But will.i.am decided to debut his new song on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ with a live appearance on November 7, 2008. He explained in the show to Oprah that words couldn’t even describe the emotions he felt when Obama was named the next president of the United States.
Seal’s cover of 1964 soul classic ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’
Other Obama or Obama-victory inspired songs: Seal’s cover of 1964 soul classic, ‘A Change Is Gonna Come‘, originally written and performed by R&B legend Sam Cooke and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke free downloadable remix of his solo song “Harrowdown Hill”.
Sources: AP, Wikipedia, The Guardian, The Celebrity Cafe
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