What comes to mind when you think of Starship’ s eternal 1985 hit “We Built This City?” For most it’ll be that bright, synth-heavy chorus, which is sung with such gusto by Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas that you can practically picture them fist-pumping in the vocal booth when they recorded it. Some people may hear “We Built This City” and just generally think about the mid ’80s, where this brand of so-called “corporate rock” had reached a dominant apex in Reagan’s America and everything, including rock music, had to be shopping mall-shiny.

Some think of “We Built This City” and consider it to be the worst song ever. As in, the worst song ever written and made , a debate that recently captured some light discourse regarding a very different song from a very different era . Even after

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