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Who here agrees with the Blender magazine editors about Starship's first #1 single as being the worst song ever?
The review:
Artist/group: Starship
Song: We Built This City
Year: 1985
Rap sheet: The lyrics of "We Built This City" appear to restate the importance of the band once known as Jefferson Airplane within San Francisco's '60s rock scene. Not so, says former leader Grace Slick, who by 1985 had handed her band to singer Mickey Thomas and a shadowy team of outside songwriters.
"Everybody thought we were talking about San Francisco. We weren't," said Slick. "It was written by an Englishman, Bernie Taupin, about Los Angeles in the early '70s. Nobody was telling the truth!"
Certainly not Starship, who spend the song carrying on as if they invented rock 'n roll rebellion, while churning out music that encapsulates all that was wrong with rock in the '80s. Sexless and corporate, it sounds less like a song than something built in a lab by a team of record company executives.
The result was so awful that years afterward, it seems to bring on a personality disorder in the woman who sang it. "This is not me," Slick remarks when reminded of the 1985 chart-topper. "Now you're an actor. It's the same as Meryl Streep playing Joan of Arc."
Worst moment: "Who cares, they're always changing corporation names," sneers Slick -- whose band had changed its name twice.
~Ben
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