The North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative.
Released last year, “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?” is a parody of the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, featuring an all-star cast such as, Beck, The Arcade Fire’s Win & Regine, R.E.M.’s Joey Waronker, David Cross, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Sum 41’s Stevo, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark among others calling themselves The North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative (NAHPI). I guess Banarama was unavailable. Shucks.
Like its inspiration, it is a charity song, with all proceeds being donated to UNICEF. According to the official press release, the song “stems from a frustration with other benefit songs’ misguided, somewhat patronizing attitude, and Western-centric worldview.(source)
The songs not bad, but the video is cool.
