February 02, 2010
"Inevitable" is the word that keeps coming up in reports of the forthcoming "We Are the World" remake. This year is the song's 25th anniversary and, as we've witnessed, stars love singing for charity. There's no doubt Haiti could use the proceeds from the redone single and music video, scheduled to drop in 10 days, but the endless cast assembled skews a bit toward "why?" and more often toward "who?!" The most popular guests are only as impressive as your familiarity with pop radio, including Jordin Sparks, Usher, Pink, and Miley Cyrus, while the surprising or impressive participants pretty much begin and end with Gladys Knight and Raphael Saadiq. But it is being reported that Lil Wayne will sing the Bob Dylan solo from the original, in what might be the most accurate, if counter-intuitive, 1985 to 2010 conversion imaginable. And it got us thinking: how do today's contributors match up to the first crew, including Lionel Richie, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Bruce Springsteen, besides that they're all less famous? We've selected some celebrity doppelgangers, abstractly at least, after the jump.

