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The idea of a worst song of all time is silly, but I want to use this as an excuse to juxtapose We Built this City with another Starship hit: Nothing's Gonna S
by throw4847285 2y ago
The idea of a worst song of all time is silly, but I want to use this as an excuse to juxtapose We Built this City with another Starship hit: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. The latter is just as fluffy and corny, but instead of generic corporate rock it's a soaring silly power ballad duet.
I think the secret sauce is Diane Warren. It's the same reason I love belting out I Don't Want to Miss a Thing at karaoke, or listening to If I Could Turn Back Time on a loop while working.
This post has been sponsored by the Committee to Get Diane Warren into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (CGDWRRHF).
- superfrank 2y agoI agree that a "worst song of all time" is a bit silly, but if someone was trying to make the worst song of all time that would still get regular radio play and you asked me for ideas, "put a traffic report in the middle of the song" would be pretty high on my ideas list. I say that with love as I absolutely love the We Built This City (and Starship for that matter)
- endgame 2y agoI know your description includes "still get regular radio play", but one of my favourite pieces of troll music is "The Most Unwanted Song". They surveyed people to find the things they liked least in music and put it all together. I don't want to spoil just how creatively awful it is or what's in there, so I'll just drop the link and go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
- fzzzy 2y agoI unironically enjoy this, along with The Most Wanted Song.
- iggldiggl 2y agoPersonally I find The Most Wanted Song rather bland, though. Whereas the Most Unwanted Song has some genuinely annoying bits, but other bits are quite listenable and interesting, so all in all I much prefer it over the "Wanted" song.
- fzzzy 2y agoIt's definitely bland, but it's hilarious.
- throw4847285 2y agoThe Black Eyed Peas just name days of the week in the middle of I Gotta Feeling. That song is similarly stupid and also kind of sublime.
- jafo1989 2y agoI mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe idea that "We Built This City" is somehow worse than all the garbage pop music hits that have come out in the past 20 years is absurd. Sure, "We Built This City" is pretty cheesy, and certainly not the best example of 80s rock, but at least it's listenable, unlike the overly-compressed and Autotuned crap that modern pop is.
- EasyMark 2y agoI could easily go find 10 on Apple Music without even trying. “… of all time” indeed lol