1. 곡 정보
"We Build This City"는 미국의 록 밴드 Starship의 1985년 데뷔 앨범 Knee Deep in the Hoopla에 수록된 데뷔 싱글입니다. 이 곡은 당시 로스앤젤레스에 살고 있던 영국 음악가 마틴 페이지(Martin Page)와 버니 토핀(Bernie Taupin)이 작곡했으며, 원래는 그 도시의 많은 라이브 음악 클럽이 폐쇄된 것에 대한 애도의 의도로 만들어졌습니다.
"We Built This City" is the debut single by American rock band Starship, from their 1985 debut album Knee Deep in the Hoopla. It was written by English musicians Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, who were both living in Los Angeles at the time, and was originally intended as a lament against the closure of many of that city's live music clubs.
Single by Starship from the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla
B-side : "Private Room" (Instrumental)
Released : August 1985 (US)[1]
Recorded : 1984−1985
Genre : Dance-rock synth-rock
Length : 4:53 (album version)
4:49 (single version)
Label : Grunt, RCA
Songwriter(s) : Bernie TaupinMartin PageDennis LambertPeter Wolf
Producer(s) : Peter Wolf, Jeremy Smith
The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, "We Built This City" topped the charts in Australia and Canada, peaked inside the top 10 of the charts in Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland, the top 20 on the charts in Belgium, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and the top 30 of the charts in Austria and the Netherlands.
이 노래는 빌보드 핫 100에서 1위에 올랐습니다. 미국 외 지역에서는 "We Build This City"가 호주와 캐나다 차트 1위를 차지했고, 독일, 아일랜드 공화국, 스웨덴, 스위스 차트 상위 10위 안에 들었습니다. , 벨기에, 뉴질랜드, 영국 차트 상위 20위, 오스트리아와 네덜란드 차트 상위 30위를 기록했습니다.
이 노래는 가사의 난해함(특히 "Marconi가 맘바를 연주합니다"라는 대사)과 노래의 반기업 메시지와 세련된 "기업 록" 사운드 사이의 대조로 인해 상당한 경멸을 받았습니다. 이 곡은 2011년 롤링 스톤이 실시한 1980년대 최악의 노래 여론 조사에서 큰 차이로 1위를 차지했으며, 잡지 Blender와 GQ에서는 이 곡을 역대 최악의 노래로 꼽았습니다.
The song has gained significant scorn, both for the inscrutability of its lyrics (notably the line "Marconi plays the mamba"), and for the contrast between the song's anti-corporate message and its polished, "corporate rock" sound. It topped a 2011 Rolling Stone poll of worst songs of the 1980s by a wide margin, and the magazines Blender and GQ both called it the worst song of all time.
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2. 가사 소개
[Chorus]
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Verse 1]
Say you don't know me
Or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes
To that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla
Sinking in your fight
Too many runaways
Eating up the night
rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Verse 2]
Someone always playing
Corporation games
Who cares they're always changing
Corporation names
We just want to dance here
Someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible
Write us off the page
[Pre-Chorus]
Marconi plays the mamba
Listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Chorus]
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Verse 3]
It's just another Sunday
In a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh
And we just lost the beat
Who counts the money
Underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball
Into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us
'Cause we're the ship of fools
Looking for America
Coming through your schools
[Bridge]
I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
On another gorgeous sunny Saturday
And I'm seeing that bumper to bumper traffic
Don't you remember? ('Member, 'member)
It's your favorite radio station
In your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks
The city that never sleeps
[Pre-Chorus]
Marconi plays the mamba
Listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Chorus]
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Chorus]
Built this city (ooh-hoo)
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
[Outro]
We built, we built this city, yeah
(Built this city) We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city, yeah
(Built this city) We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city, yeah
(Built this city) We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city, yeah
(Built this city) We built, we built this city
We built, we built this city, yeah
