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It seems like this entire thread is a counterargument to your claim.

NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
It's not a counterargument at all. It's just someone who assumes that there is this great counterargument they haven't bothered to make while whining "there are other bad songs too". Your comment here indicates that you're just too young to have heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood as it inexplicably got constant airtime. The long ride to and from school on the schoolbus, my first experience with torture. At least on sundays you could turn Solid Gold off. This is like saying "Vietnam wasn't that bad" because you watched a war movie once.
- bongodongobob 2y ago
  I'm in my 40s and loved it as a kid.
  - NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
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- jmyeet 2y ago
  > ... heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood If it was so terrible, why did it get played so often? When I think "terrible", I think of the movie "The Room", which has been called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. It is truly awful. The dialog is awful. The acting is awful. There are all sorts of logical inconsistencies where things inextricably appear and disappear. By any metric it's bad. It's so bad that it has a cult following because it's so bad. "We Built This City" just isn't anything like that. Compare it to My Humps [1] or What Does the Fox Say [2] or Friday, just to name a few? These are a few random songs that are all miles worse than We Built This City. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
  - cholantesh 2y ago
    And they are still not even as bad as a lot of basically redundant modern pop with the deliberately atonal robovox, trap beats, and flat production.
- PhasmaFelis 2y ago
  I think you're conflating "overplayed" with "just plain bad."
- snozolli 2y ago
  Your comment here indicates that you're just too young to have heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood as it inexplicably got constant airtime. So your argument is basically just a no true Scotsman. I grew up listening to it. I still enjoy it. I also still enjoy Rock Me Amadeus, and Kashagoogoo's Never Ending Story theme, too. I was ten. How old were you? I ask because your recollection has strong "seething teen" energy.

It's not a counterargument at all. It's just someone who assumes that there is this great counterargument they haven't bothered to make while whining "there are other bad songs too". Your comment here indicates that you're just too young to have heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood as it inexplicably got constant airtime. The long ride to and from school on the schoolbus, my first experience with torture. At least on sundays you could turn Solid Gold off. This is like saying "Vietnam wasn't that bad" because you watched a war movie once.

bongodongobob 2y ago
I'm in my 40s and loved it as a kid.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 2y ago
  [flagged]
jmyeet 2y ago
> ... heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood If it was so terrible, why did it get played so often? When I think "terrible", I think of the movie "The Room", which has been called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. It is truly awful. The dialog is awful. The acting is awful. There are all sorts of logical inconsistencies where things inextricably appear and disappear. By any metric it's bad. It's so bad that it has a cult following because it's so bad. "We Built This City" just isn't anything like that. Compare it to My Humps [1] or What Does the Fox Say [2] or Friday, just to name a few? These are a few random songs that are all miles worse than We Built This City. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
- cholantesh 2y ago
  And they are still not even as bad as a lot of basically redundant modern pop with the deliberately atonal robovox, trap beats, and flat production.
PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I think you're conflating "overplayed" with "just plain bad."
snozolli 2y ago
Your comment here indicates that you're just too young to have heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood as it inexplicably got constant airtime. So your argument is basically just a no true Scotsman. I grew up listening to it. I still enjoy it. I also still enjoy Rock Me Amadeus, and Kashagoogoo's Never Ending Story theme, too. I was ten. How old were you? I ask because your recollection has strong "seething teen" energy.