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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a far better choice for 'worst' as the song is the perfect example of a commercial effort that doesn't have any songcraft to it. For the record the Knee Deep in the Hoopla album was by and large the only really good thing that Jefferson Starship and Starship put out, which was a real pity really considering the talent on offer there.
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Come to think of it, at lest there was a fake rebellion in "We Built..." (co-composed via Bernie Taupin) which was a 100 score in the annoying 80's Pop sweepstakes.
Out of that Post-Kantner era, Love Among the Cannibals (I think that was actually Post-Slick!) certainly screamed Cut Out from day one of it's release.
To those with the morbid curiosity wanting to find out what we're discussing here, this is the video in all of it's anti-glory - the band looking like an anonymous 80's musicians dancing around sets made up to look perfect for the Mannequin film it was hyping and Grace and Mickey jumping around synching to the song - better dress sense, but not as amusing to look at. There's no soul to be found here, and I even wonder of Grace was hiding her real feelings during the video shoot. It's more like a corporate anthem that sounds like any "we will succeed" presentation of the day instead of being an actual song. This was co-written by 80's songwriter star Dianne Warren just to give you a warning.
To think that a decade before this, the name Jefferson was connected to the word Airplane and without any fears of any future line up of them turning out songs more befitting of Jem and the Holograms.