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  • In Defense Of: Starship’s ‘We Built This City’

    04/26/2021 5:52:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 58 replies
    UltimateClassicRock ^ | April 25, 2021 | Jed Gottlieb
    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,...