I can honestly say that I'd rather listen to "We Built This City" than this noise:

This is what they're about.

These cats are just not my jam!

Like what you like, people. Music is its own language and if only you can hear what a particular song is saying, who cares?

Ray of Light by Madonna is a billion times worse.

Barry Sadler "The Green Berets"

I won't link to it, to spare your ears!

My cousin used to play it on his accordion and would cry all the way through it. Yes, really.

Not only are the lyrics obnoxious, but the melody is one of the worst I’ve ever heard

😂

MacArthur Park
Billy Don’t Be a Hero
Theme from The Titanic

To name a few……

There's nothing quite like it. (You have to listen for at least half a minute)

I first heard it when I was a little kid, & I remember thinking, "What a stupid song. Who would leave a cake out in the rain?"

It still pisses me off every time I hear it, which fortunately is very rarely.

by the Hallelujah Tabernacle Choir in Season one, Episode one of WKRP.

He didn't change his name until the classic format change. He was going by his reeal name, John Caravella.

I remembered it as the Cincinnati Tabernacle Choir, though, so we each got one wrong.

The one where he went back to an LA station, but got fired after a cup o' coffee because he found you can say "booger" on LA radio now, but you couldn't say "__________."

Anyway, he came back to KRP but they'd given his morning drive slot to a guy who was dealing coke (he told Mr Carlson it was foot powder) and they gave Johnny midnight-6.

and started following Venus' show. That was episode 14 of season One. I had to look that up to get the exact show.

…when I graduated from high school. The songs the years before and after were Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

WTH, class of ‘69?

it beat Aquarius? I always thought that signaled the end of the 60's

although that was mostly a case of terminal word play, a family affliction, rather than actually hating the song.

I can't read the article because I HAVE BEEN SELECTED for a big discount deal to subscribe to the Boston Globe! No way to get beyond that pop up unless I sign up for 26 weeks!

And what a horrible photo of the band... that's all I got to see.

And I HATE that song, always have.

From the 40s or 50s.

I first heard it on the radio in the 80s. Just heard it recently on a jazz program on Virginia Public Radio. The lyrics are the funniest I've ever heard, although they aren't meant to be.

heavy metal. Cats screeching on a backyard fence are more musical.

Thankfully, we are not required to all like the same thing.

I don't understand why so many people bag on this one when "Free Bird" still exists.

But the extended outro is superb!

The eight-bar B-3 intro (studio version) is rather nice, but for a long dual-guitar solo, gimme "Hotel California" every time. Even live, it's extremely clean. The "Free Bird" dual solo is so basic and rough, I want to stop it before it's half over.

There's no accounting for taste. Or opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one and they all stink.

My nominee for worst song is, "The Bird is the Word"
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She's a Lady sung by Tom Jones. "She's got style, she's got grace. She always KNOWS HER PLACE." WTAF? Oh, HELL no!

You're Having My Baby sucks too. Both written by the same man, Paul Anka. Imagine that.

Never was a Tom Jones fan.
Blargh

…to time, and I always hit mute immediately. Really antediluvian lyrics.

This is just my opinion, of course. But I was there. And I think it’s an “I didn’t read the room” situation. A corporate rock misfire. Wrong band. Wrong time. Wrong song.

Just a bad idea.

You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone?

Mr Moonlight - The Beatles
Miami - U2

As for the OP's song; it's a "eh" for me

Oh...wait.... I think I do have a song I hate:
Aqualung - Jethro Tull - GAK!

I used to like them but by that time I called them Jethro Dull. 😬

He’d sing it during string changes, or any other unplanned stage interruption. I only remember one verse. And it’s bad. In fact, it’s not even worth attempting to type out here…lol.

It's pretty bad, but there have been many hit songs that were worse.
The song got worse for my wife & I because of that horrible toilet paper commercial.
For me, a song would have to be worse than almost anything by the Beach Boys!
This ain't it.

It's not close to the worst. It's got a melody, chord changes, a bridge, and Grace Slick to boot. Sure, it reeks of the 80s, but so did every other pop song that came out at that time.

I don't know why it became such a hipster thing to hate on that one, but compare it to the current Spotify Top 10 in the USA. Seven of the ten songs are not even from real artists. They are from the "bands" in an animated movie called KPop Demon Hunters.

He sang lead on "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" when he was with the Elvin Bishop Band, some years before his gig with The Starship.

Starting off with "Hey, little girl..." and then instructs women to always wear full makeup and be cheerful when hubby comes home because there are "girls at the office" who may sway his attention if they don't.

"Wives should always be lovers too. Run to his arms when he comes home to you."

Ick.

not even close.

So no song surprises me

I have a special dislike for the song, We Built This City... I'm not sure why, and I wasn't able to access the article.

this song would be remembered as a catchy ‘80’s pop song about the joys of rock and roll, and how it can transport us out of mundane everyday life.

But when people listen to Grace Slick, they want to hear “White Rabbit” and game-changing psychedelia.

I always enjoy WBTC. I thought it was cool that radio stations around the country would insert their own station identification riff into the San Francisco-based interlude when playing the single on the air.

This actually hit number one in Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Greece, Mexico and Spain and got as high as #58 in the US. It apparently holds the record for youngest singer to ever hit #1 anywhere in the world.