Todd's Pop Song Reviews2009

Todd in the Shadows:
So, how do you take a band like this... [Clip of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love"]... and then eventually led them to make this? [Clip of Starship's "We Built This City"] I don't have any answers for this one either. "We Built This City" is the song everyone thinks of when they pick on Starship. But their big hit in '87 was "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" off the "Mannequin" soundtrack, if you can believe that, and that song is really, honestly, and truly one of my favorite songs of the decade. No, I'm not kidding. Let's see what else we got on this list. We got..."Mandolin Rain", that's a good song; "Always" by Atlantic Starr, also good; "Didn't We Almost Have It All" by Whitney Houston, all good songs. So I've made my point, right? It's not like I hate everything out of the soft-rock genre. I do like some of it; it's just... I have a line. So going back to the original question: who turned this into this? [Clips of Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and "You're the Inspiration"] This guy! Peter Cetera is one of the true real-life villains of the 80s, right up there with Ayatollah Khomeini, Pablo Escobar, the guy who shot the Pope. Peter Cetera is a war criminal, Peter Cetera made the stock market crash, Peter Cetera killed my dog, and apparently Peter Cetera was also worried that he might not be able to suck as hard without Chicago, so he actually recruited a contemporary Christian singer to duet with him - a move so evil, I cannot believe James Bond never showed up to assassinate him.