DFU SONG: We Built This City (Ray Nagin's chocolate city)

My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans
Chocolate city...my chocolate city...that's how it stays

I am warning whitey that things will never change
The makeup of my city...you can't rearrange
It's the way he wants it...I heard it from God
Why are you thinking that it is very odd?

So what, my buses flooded...everybody makes mistakes
Can't I catch a break?
My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans

My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans
Chocolate city...my chocolate city...that's how it stays

Sure, I shot my big mouth off...tried to pass the blame
Isn't that all part of...political games?
We will be rebuilding...better than before
New office and limousine...hey, who could ask for more

So what, my buses flooded...everybody makes mistakes
Can't I catch a break?
My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans

My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans
Chocolate city...my chocolate city...that's how it stays

Bring me that federal money...bring it here right now
Bring me that federal money...(la la la la la la)
I will spend it all, and how
It's Lotto time

I am Mr. Mayor...through me money flows
How much I will skim...you don't wanna know
Do not be accusing...I'll call you racist, you'll see-e
No one in this world can lay...a single glove on me

So what, buses flooded...we all make mistakes
Can't I catch a break?
We're chocolate in New Orleans

So what, my buses flooded...everybody makes mistakes
Can't I catch a break?
My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans

My chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans
Chocolate city...my chocolate city...that's how it stays

Chocolate city...my chocolate city, that's New Orleans
Chocolate city...my chocolate city...that's how it stays

Come on, let's see that money here...yeah, I want that money here
Now, bring federal money here...yeah, I want that money here

'We Built This City' ranks as the worst record ever
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
We Built This City is the single worst single ever constructed, according to Blender's ranking of reeking tunes.

Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby ranks as the fifth-worst song, according to Blender.
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The magazine's list of "The 50 Worst Songs Ever," which hits newsstands Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles and April 27 nationwide, distills the lamest popular rock-era records into one sonic landfill.

Starship's 1985 anthem, the runaway No. 1 stinker, "seems to inspire the most virulent feelings of outrage," editor Craig Marks says. "It purports to be anti-commercial but reeks of '80s corporate-rock commercialism. It's a real reflection of what practically killed rock music in the '80s."

Also sealing the song's fate were Starship's steep fall from grace as the admired Jefferson Airplane and "the sheer dumbness of the lyrics," Marks says.

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL

1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder 1982

The May issue, a sequel to the 2003 roundup of history's worst bands, coincides with a Blender/VH1 special, The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever, which airs May 12.

Harvesting clunkers that range from The Doors' The End to Aqua's Barbie Girl entailed more digging than expected.

Each dud had to be a hit to make the hit list. Though Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy got in, such novelties as Macarena and Who Let the Dogs Out, which by design are cheesy, were nixed. The jury also whittled down the bulk of "rotten, excruciatingly bad low-hanging fruit from the '70s," Marks says.

Blender had no qualms about riding herd on sacred cows, inducting The Beatles' Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People and John Mayer's Your Body Is a Wonderland. The entry most likely to peeve fans is Simon & Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence.

"It's the freshman-poetry meaningfulness that got our goat," Marks says. "With self-important lyrics like, 'Hear my words that I might teach you,' it's almost a parody of pretentious '60s folk-rock.

"If Frasier Crane wrote a song, this would be it."

To accommodate coming horrors, the list can't be considered definitive. Noting that Clay Aiken's Invisible landed at No. 11, Marks predicts that "as soon as the American Idol season is finished, there will be a new entry

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