You knew it was coming.
I wrote a whole long thing about this video, so I’ll merely note that the creation of this song–which necessitated the drafting of a Star Trek actor to punch up the bridge–was not covered in John Perry Barlow’s new posthumous book.
This is a complete piece of shit.
You know how everyone says “We built this city” is the worst song of all time?
Well, this is worse than that.
There is no amount of cocaine that can be blamed for this bad decision.
You cannot compare this to We Built This City. WBTC was cheesy, but it was catchy as fuck; it was gloriously lousy. America is boring-bad.
There is a Steppenwolf album called “Skullduggery” that has no John Kay compositions on it, because That Other Bobby took over the band from the boss . . .
That Other Bobby could fuck shit up, but good.
YOU HAD TO BRING THAT UP, DIDN’T YOU? Ye Gods.
Good to see Funky and his bounce move again
Little known fact that he later served as the U.S. Solicitor General
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