Posted on 04/26/2021 4:50:28 AM PDT by mylife
Everybody says they hate “We Built This City.”
But… everybody doesn’t — even if it really seems like they do.
In 2004, Blender magazine and VH1 ganged up on “We Built This City” and placed it at No. 1 on their list of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever. In 2011, Rolling Stone’s readers named the Starship tune the worst song of the ’80s, and did so by a huge margin. GQ called it “the most detested song in human history.” In The New York Times, Stephen Holden called the album that spawned the song, Knee Deep in the Hoopla, “A compendium of strutting pop-rock clichés” and that it “represents the '80s equivalent of almost everything the original Jefferson Airplane stood against — conformity, conservatism, and a slavish adherence to formula.”
Even many of the people who wrote it and sung it have thrown the song under the bus. Singer Grace Slick referred to "We Built This City" as “the worst song ever” during a 2012 conversation with Vanity Fair.
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But I love “We Built This City.” And deep down, a lot of other people love “We Built This City” as well.
In 1985, Jefferson Starship crashed and took off again as Starship with singers Slick and Mickey Thomas, guitarist Craig Chaquico, bassist Pete Sears and drummer Donny Baldwin. What started with Slick writing and singing “White Rabbit” in Jefferson Airplane - shouting “And you've just had some kind of mushroom/And your mind is moving low” and screaming “Feed your head!” over gloriously trippy and relentless-driving music - had become something very different in ’85.
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Bubblegum pop replaces drud-driven sounds.
No one cares.
:)
Never heard of it; glad I missed it.
All this tells me is Rolling Stone’s subscriber base is a bunch of morons. It’s not my favorite song, but it’s definitely not the worst song of the 80s.
No. I hate that song.
I hate it too
Compared to the dreck that’s played today, “We Built This City On Rock-N-Roll” is a masterpiece.
you sick little monkey!
Yes, it was (is) quite lame.
I saw Grace later in life in the 90s in a steakhouse mauling a porkchop, it was not a pretty sight.
Still a better song than “Don’t Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin and “Do the Dinosaur” by Was not Was.
I have to be careful not to be in a tall building when this song plays. Easily one of the worst songs ever done.
worst elevator music evah!
I'm not a really a fan of that song, but, wow, that is a terrific cover.
Incidentally, I take my son skiing in Utah every year and we stay in South Jordan. We always go to that little pizza joint at least once while there.
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