We Built This City

I wonder if Metallica covered this song, would it sound more like rock and roll? Part of the problem is you built this city on rock and roll, and it feels like you're at a musical.

Uh, maybe if it was a little harder edge there, then maybe We Built This City on Rock and Roll wouldn't be viewed as, according to ChatGPT, one of the worst songs of all time.

Yes, Marvin.

Yeah, the irony is they built the city with a bunch of synths.

Starship Enterprise? Yes, Dylan.

Yeah, if they just cut out the intro, the song would make a little more...

Like, the We Built This City-

Yeah

Starship, 80s Cheese.

I'll even defend We Built This City.

I think that song has been totally thrown under the bus.

I

used to really dislike We Built This City.

I've started to turn on We Built This City against my will.

It's not that bad.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, one of the best songs of the 80s.

That is the worst song ever penned in the history of the world.

We Built This City.

They went from White Rabbit...

To that.

He's one of the soundtracks of our lives.

You know his voice with big hits like Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, We Built This City, Fooled Around and Fell in Love.

Sarah, of course, the iconic voice of Starship and Jefferson Starship.

Mickey Thomas, welcome to Music Drives Us.

And the Starship was born.

And as I mentioned right before we started, nothing's going to stop us now.

We built this city.

I'm on three big radio stations each day.

Red.

No, what band sings We Built This City?

Pass.

Who won the All Blacks vs Springboks match? No.

Love it or hate it is what brand's slogan?

Pass.

What band sings We Built This City? Oh, toughie.

It's tough.

And after that, they became Starship.

And what do you think is worse? Their performance on the Star Wars Variety Show, the Star Wars Holiday Special, or We Built This City? I think We Built This City gets too much crap.

I think it's a fun song.

I remember it as a kid in the 80s loving it.

...

some of it was okay, but, uh, yeah, as far as, you know, We Built This City just seems a little bit insipid to me, and it's, uh, it's like, you know, the band that did White Rabbit just kind of fell very, very far.

[laughs] And it's, it's, it's, I think it's Jorma Ka- Kakonen on guitar too, if I'm not mistaken.

Mickey Thomas was the vocalist on, on, on, uh, We Built This City.

But, you know, but yeah, you can, you can hear, I, I, you know, now that that comes up and what you were hearing and-

Sort of the muddy vocals that I was picking up on, it, you know, it definitely feels like a band who is not all on the same page, you know?