Last night, a video emerged of University medical students singing along to Michael Jackson’s ‘We Are The World’ before the start of a body dissection class.
While many people were predictably outraged by the footage and accused the students of being disrespectful, Bis-Serjetà believes that the outrage should have been directed not at the fact the students were singing, but at the choice of song.
Just like all other songs written in aid of Africa over the years, ‘We Are The World’ is cringey and just downright terrible. What’s more, we’re struggling to see the link between the song and the context it was sung in, so we’ve come up with a list of tunes that would be more fitting to belt out before sticking your hands into a cadaver.
1. Drowning Pool – Bodies
A Remedy favourite back in the day, this song’s chorus is a handy reminder of what not to do in dissection class.
Mind you, compared to some of the other things that medical students have been known to do with the body parts of people who have kindly donated themselves to science, dropping a corpse on the floor is the least indecent option.
2. Children Of Bodom – Are You Dead Yet?
It’s always best to double-check someone is actually deceased before slicing them open.
3. The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
Alright, enough with the metal. It’s ironic disco time.
Apparently this song is a good guide to what tempo you should use when performing CPR on someone. It may be too late for that now, but at least you can still boogie.
4. The Cranberries – Zombie
What’s in your head? Nothing because you just took my brain out to poke and prod it.
5. Michael Jackson – Thriller
So let me get this straight, medical students. You decided to play a song written by Michael Jackson when there was a corpse in the room, close to Halloween, and you chose ‘We Are The World’ over ‘Thriller’? Shame, shame, shame.
