https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNuL72dXkjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHlRORHtb0
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.
Yes, it was (is) quite lame.
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.
My top 5 worst if anyone cares:
Asia - The Final Countdown
Peter Cetera - Glory of Love
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Starship - We Built this City (my list is from 10 years ago)
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park
I can’t say it’s my favorite song of Starship from the 80’s—that was Sarah—but it’s not awful.
It’s fun to sing along with it nowadays, as it brings back a happier time and sweet, sad nostalgia.
1985: Ronald Reagan was President, Gorbachev put in charge of USSR, Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior sunk, Mexico City earthquake, new Coke, starving Ethiopians....
We Built This City is just a lame song. There’s no way to spin it.
Is it the worst song ever? No. There are increasingly more and more songs everyday that are worse than this one, but it’s still not good.
MTV killed music, not because of bad videos and formulaic pop, but because it steered the industry toward a different audience and then kept steering into it.
I remember when it came out. I did not care for it, but I can’t see why it is singled out as “most detested”. It’s better than ghetto hip-hop.
I believe the problem with We Build this City that it was played all too often on radio, as in over and over again in the rotation. It’s not a great song. It’s not a terrible song. It was just a worn out song. There are plenty more like it. If they just received appropriate air time, people would not feel so negative. With that said, I can go without listening to it for another decade or two. Just the mention of the song title, has it playing in my head. I will now listen to something else in attempt to turn it off.
From White Rabbit to THAT?!?!?!?!
Starship was actually pretty good before Grace rejoined them. “Jane” is a good song.
It’s a bouncy tune that they played over and over again on the radio until everybody was sick of the song. Plus, the actual concept of building a city on rock and roll comes across as smug and offensive and self-glorifying and just silly and wrong. But because it’s such a bouncy, driving tune with such an energetic performance, it’s hard to get out of one’s head.
We Built This City is not a bad song in any way shape or form. It’s fun. Music is allowed to be fun. It takes nothing away from anything else Jefferson Airplane ever did.
Drop a quarter in the jukebox and play it. Everyone at the bar will be singing like they’re on stage.
That song has a lot of competition:
“Having my Baby”
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
“Ebony and Ivory”
My local radio station had a marathon of these songs - I had to turn it off it was so bad..