How Starship's 'We Built This City' Went from No. 1 Hit to 'Worst Song Ever'

Throughout music history, there have been numerous songs to chart as hits despite being mediocre. In 1985, a song from ...

1985 No. 1 Starship Hit, Ranked Worst Song Ever, Is Making an Unexpected Comeback 41 Years Later

On the one hand, it's not uncommon for a #1 song to experience a steep decline in popularity after topping the charts...but ...
AV Club

"We Built This City" is a good song, actually

40 years ago this week, Starship’s debut single bagged the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 when “We Built This City” usurped Jan Hammer’s “Miami Vice Theme,” because it was 1985 and popular TV show ...
collider

1985 Classic Hit Became a Massive Success Despite Being Voted the Worst Song of the 1980s by Rolling Stone

Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed ...

How the hell did Jefferson Airplane get to Starship?

In a fantastic transformation across 20 years, we look at how West Coast titans Jefferson Airplane evolved to the 1980s soft ...
The Gazette

Starship continues to fly

Mickey Thomas remarkably still possesses a clarion call for a voice. The Starship frontman has crossed the three-quarter century mark but still belts out such hits as the infectious "Jane" and the ...