We Built This City
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"We Built This City" is a song by the group Starship, released in 1985.
Though it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, it was awarded "worst song ever" by Blender magazine in 2003, in conjunction with a VH1 Special of The 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever. In order to qualify for the distinction, the songs on the list had to be a popular hit at some point, thus disqualifying many songs that would by general consensus be considered much worse.
Trivia
- The city that the band is singing about in the album version of this song is San Francisco, California, but the song was released in different versions in different cities around the county. The version that played on the radio in New York City, for example, included a traffic report describing conditions on the George Washington Bridge.
- The title of the song is used as a slogan by Australia's construction union.
- The lyrics were used to the tune of "Jimmy Crack Corn" in an episode of The Simpsons. Homer also sings the original song multiple times during the episode.
- The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. Best known for his longtime collaboration with Elton John.
- The song appears in a second season episode of Comedy Central's Drawn Together during a lesbian oral sex scene
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