Well as someone who grew up but a mere river's width from downtown Detroit I'll offer my take on this song: modern Detroit is kinda a tragic place in that it doesn't have much life in it and all attempts to revive it have failed because they were misguided.
For example, "From the Renaissance, it's a great idea!" Is an example of sarcasm. The Renaissance Center in DT Detroit is a huge multiplex that was built with the idea that it would draw people to downtown Detroit and breathe some life back into it (hence "Renessaince"), but it failed because the people who go to the Renaissance centre drive in from suburbia, fulfill their days work and head home without even walking a block into the actual city.
I think the whole song is sacrcastic...not "great ideas!", bad ideas. Bad ideas that lead Detroit even further astray.
Well as someone who grew up but a mere river's width from downtown Detroit I'll offer my take on this song: modern Detroit is kinda a tragic place in that it doesn't have much life in it and all attempts to revive it have failed because they were misguided.
For example, "From the Renaissance, it's a great idea!" Is an example of sarcasm. The Renaissance Center in DT Detroit is a huge multiplex that was built with the idea that it would draw people to downtown Detroit and breathe some life back into it (hence "Renessaince"), but it failed because the people who go to the Renaissance centre drive in from suburbia, fulfill their days work and head home without even walking a block into the actual city.
I think the whole song is sacrcastic...not "great ideas!", bad ideas. Bad ideas that lead Detroit even further astray.