'We Built This City' by Starship

Punch Up The Jam

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Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This song was slandered as “The Worst Song of the 80s”. Why?? It rocks! But as Andrew and Evan get way way into, it also sucks in unique and exciting and dumb ways. An absolutely devastating ep, with crucial insights into: what is hoopla; pre-boomer boomer attitudes, why you always go back to the mamba, calling in favors at MTV, and what is the difference between the professional French farter Le Petomaine and Marcel Proust.

Walk-in music: 'Kites Are Fun' by The Free Design; 'Nocturne Opus 9 No. 2 (Eb)' by Chopin.

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0:00.0	This is a head gamma region.
0:06.4	Need deep in the hoopla.
0:11.0	What does it mean?
0:13.6	What does need deep in the hoopla mean?
0:17.0	What does that phrase mean? Is that a phrase we're gonna hear in the song?
0:19.5	Need deep in the hoopla.
0:22.0	This is not just a lyric in the song, but this is a lyric in the song
0:28.2	that someone decided was so good and so important that when they were choosing the name of the album
0:36.0	they said you know what?
0:38.6	We could title this album. We built the city
0:43.0	but no, we're titling this album.
0:45.9	Need deep in the hoopla.
0:48.5	Because they surely were. They really were a need deep in all that hoopla of marketing and distribution
0:54.6	putting out an album, choosing album cover design.
0:58.6	Yeah, so many aspersions have been cast upon this song and I feel like so many the defenses put up against those aspersions
1:08.2	are like look it was the 1980s.
1:12.2	There's a lot of cocaine. Grace slick was sober. Grace slick is on the record is having a sober 1980s.
1:18.0	So you're saying that those defenses of the album, which that's not even really a defense. That's a disclaimer.
1:25.5	Just everybody's high. The 80s is chaos. The 80s is pure chaos. Therefore you have to accept it.
1:32.0	You have to like the really tall hair. The poofs made with hairspray. You have to like the day glow outfits.
1:38.0	You have to like this music because people were nuts. Yeah. I mean, yeah, people say music like this just had to happen because it cocaine
1:46.3	but really it's just because Grace slick wanted to have a number one hit and she did it. Let's punch it.
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