MTV All Stars- What’s Going On
Both the original and the contemporary version both apply to the times of the song, being the 60s and modern day respectively. Although the problems of social unrest are different, there are many common trends and new ones as well. Where the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War were primarily the reason Marvin Gaye wrote this song, the effort against AIDS and the terrorist attacks are the primary reason that the group of artists came together to give the song a modern twist.
John Mayer- Waiting on the World to Change
John Mayer gives us a song that makes us question our current societal situations as a whole, and why people who feel for or against it are not making an effort to make changes towards it.