Really Bad Lyrics

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4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 

TIL WBTC was written by Bernie Taupin.

A guy called Peter Wolf (among others) is also to blame.

Song co-writers Martin Page and Bernie Taupin have stated that the song is about the decline of live-performance clubs in Los Angeles during the 1980s.In 2013, Taupin told Rolling Stone that the "original song was a very dark kind of mid-tempo song ... about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go ... A guy called Peter Wolf [the album's producer] ... got ahold of the demo and totally changed it. He jerry-rigged it into the pop hit it was". In an interview with Songfacts, Page added that the "demo was quite high-energy techno, because that was the sound of the band I was in ... it was a little more edgy. And I'm very pleased with what Starship did with it, because they made it a universally appealing song".

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4 TS songs!

no we built this city? 

TIL WBTC was written by Bernie Taupin.

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Well, one of four songwriters for the song. I think Peter Wolf (not THE Wolf) had a lot to do with the horribly cheesy music. Taupin more so on the lyrics…. I would be interested in reading more about the genesis of the song. Apparently there is a 2016 GQ article about it.

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I see space beat me to it.

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“Marconi plays the mamba”


That has always seemed laughably bad to me.

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I take issue with this statement

And I'm very pleased with what Starship did with it, because they made it a universally appealing song".

[Mobius]

Martin Page and Bernie Taupin also wrote Heart’s ‘These Dreams’ around the same time. I assume that was also intended to be a cool dark techno song.

[sweetcell]

"guilty feet have got no rhythm"

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"guilty feet have got no rhythm"

You shut your mouth!!!!!

[sweetcell]

i love the song - it's one of my karaoke go-to's - but c'mon, that line is just cringe.

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No way Jose. That line is deep! Ok I will discuss with my partner and revert back

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She understands why some might find it cringe but she don’t cringe and she never has cringed when she heard it. She adds that if he committed the infidelity then it’s a perfect line.

So I stand by my statement. Please post a retraction or face disciplinary action.

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My son contributes “Coast to coast LA to Chicago “

[Justin Tonation]

My son contributes “Coast to coast LA to Chicago “

Kinda like Kim Wilde's "Kids In American" New York to East California. If you exclude the western half of CA, 95% of the state's population is counted out.

HOWEVER, musically, the line needed a syllable before California, and "east" sounded better than "west". Extending "to" to "to-oo" would have sounded clumsy.

I'm okay with most weird lyrics when they work better musically than proper grammar would.

Cf. "Live And Let Die": But if this ever changin' world / In which we live in

[kosmo vinyl]

my go to "cringe" lyric is from Durand Jones and the Indication from Morning in American

Congressmen in Washington
Receive their brief n' brew
While lead it fills the pipe lines
In a Detroit county school

I guess Wayne county doesn't have the same ring to it and I just realized this likely a reference to Flint which is in Genesee County

it's should be well established by now that South Detroit is actually Windsor, Ontario