About "We Built This City"
"We Built This City" is the debut single by American rock band Starship, from their 1985 debut album Knee Deep in the Hoopla. It was written by English musicians Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, who were both living in Los Angeles at the time, and was originally intended as a lament against the closure of many of that city's live music clubs.
The song peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, "We Built This City" topped the charts in Australia and Canada, peaked inside the Top 10 of the charts in Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland, the Top 20 on the charts in Belgium, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and the Top 30 of the charts in Austria and the Netherlands.
The song has gained significant scorn, both for the inscrutability of its lyrics (notably the line "Marconi plays the mamba"), and for the contrast between the song's anti-corporate message and its polished, "corporate rock" sound. It topped a 2011 Rolling Stone poll of worst songs of the 1980s by a wide margin, and the magazines Blender and GQ both called it the worst song of all time.
Top songs by Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now- We Built This City
- Stranger
- Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
- Send A Message
- Love Rusts
- Love Among The Cannibals
- I Will Stay
- I Don't Know Why
- Transatlantic
- I Didn't Mean To Stay All Night
- Private Room
- Modern Times
- All Nite Long
- It's Not Over ('til It's Over)
- Be Young You
- We Dream In Color
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