Talk:We Built This City

message: Please Provide References, NOT PERSONAL OPINIONS!!!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.20.179.169 (talk) 23:09, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: u must have rly dumb friends -- everyone on the PLANET knows this was during their "starship" phase.  209.172.25.31 (talk) 17:24, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Needed!! NO SLANDER ALLOWED IF IT IS UNSUPPORTED OPINIONS INSTEAD OF FACTS!!!!! 

message: Obviously from a hindsight perspective, the song is loathed and criticized, but what was the critical reception to the song back in 1985?  It would be interesting to post any positive reviews to highlight the irony of musical taste and perception throughout time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.253.202 (talk) 08:36, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: About the Reception

message: "...The song references radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi playing the "mamba". While "mamba" has no musical connotations, there is a dance known as the mambo..."
What?!
That's because the correct lyrics are:
"...Marconi plays La Bamba..."
Watch the video. You can even see them singing the syllables. 
Are you really this stupid? Seriously?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.171.129.68 (talk) 03:22, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is actually true, it IS indeed "La Bamba", therefore the whole thing with the Blender quote referencing some miss-heard lyrics is pretty ridiculous, like including a quote based on miss-heard lyrics of Manfred Mann's "blinded by the light", it should probably be removed.OzoneO (talk) 19:16, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

text: i'm not so sure it's "intended" as purely mambo either -- why not a PORTMANTEAU of mambo and SAMBA?  if this snake didn't just HAPPEN to exist, there'd be a zillion sites positing they coined it with this in mind.  209.172.25.31 (talk) 17:27, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

text: The spoken interludes were by Les Garland. - SummerPhDv2.0 23:10, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

text: The isolated vocals are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhulAG-iyM. Certainly sounds like "Ma Coley plays the mamba" to me MarkRae (talk) 18:49, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: We have the lyricist and the vocalist agreeing it's "Marconi" and "mamba" (and that the lyrics are nonsense). That it sounds like some other nonsense to you is irrelevant. - SummerPhDv2.0 19:36, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

text: This article talk page is for discussing improvements to the article, not for general discussion of the articles topic. Your personal interpretations of the lyrics cannot be used to improve the article. - SummerPhDv2.0 01:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics? 

message: Should mention the video (the Lincoln Memorial statue standing up and Abe lip-synching, people running away from the giant dice rolling down the street, etc.).  Also, the genre might be Arena rock... AnonMoos (talk) 13:47, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Video

message: When the article says this song topped the Rolling Stone's list of the worst songs of the 1980s by a wide margin, an inline citation is needed. Vorbee (talk) 19:07, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Typically, we omit citations in the lead section as the section is meant to be a summary of the rest of the article and everything in it should be both discussed elsewhere in the article and cited there (as is the case with that sentence). - SummerPhDv2.0 03:22, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Inline citation needed

message: Wasn't Grace Slick the oldest female (at the time) to have hit a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100? If that's true, this should be included. 2600:8804:1080:1700:5056:9E86:69C7:6A6C (talk) 16:03, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Add a "Chart Performace" section, and age milestone?