Let me sit on the fence and say that majority see music as a universal language capable of soothing and comforting if not distorted. So one understands when musicians unite in an attempt to unify people after a particular disaster, then what if they also "gain" from their "good deeds"? Who should be shot? Take for example in the Not in our lifetime song after xenophobic attacks, call me ignorant but there were a couple of musos that for some reason i didn't recognize, and this is a great opportunity for them to get their stuff out there, right?

Maybe we should just accept that there always has to be someone who gains whenever something goes down, now as far as whether this is beneficial... Do you remember the song performed by various South African artist during the 1994 transition? The one that went..."South Africa, we love you. Our beautiful land. Let's show the whole world we can bring peace in our land".

Well, did it achieve it's purpose? Answer me and you are answered!