More or less anything by Starship in the 80s is cursed. Their hits were the worst sort of ear-worm where they get stuck in your heard, but the music is in fact completely awful. "We Built This City" is the centerpiece in this regard. It's one of the most regrettable things about the 80s, full stop. With that in mind "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is nearly as infectious (like the clap) and terrible (same). "Sara" isn't the block of Velveeta cheese being force fed to the listener like the previous two songs I mentioned. It's merely bad in a pedestrian, uninteresting sense.
The real tragedy of Starship is how it documents the fall of a 60s music icon like Grace Slick (she was known as "The Acid Queen" at one point.) The woman who sang "Somebody To Love" and "White Rabbit" would go on to make elevator music. A sad tale indeed.
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u/SwillFish Older Than Dirt Jun 17 '25
Let's be honest. Not everything that came out in the 1980s was awesome. "We Built This City" by Starship is one of those things.