Comments on: Journey Confuses Two Million More People About Detroit’s Geography

By: Todd Todson

Todd Todson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:05:37 +0000

My point is this, it bothers me a little that the song lyrics are clearly fictitious. It really bothers me that all these suburbanites act as if the song relates to them because it mentions the City they grew up in the suburbs of. So when the song comes on at the Joe or elsewhere, people sing “born and raised in south Detroit” having absolutely no idea there is no south Detroit, because they are from Bloomfield Hills.

By: Hoopla Jones

Hoopla Jones — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:57:12 +0000

The song was written while Journey was touring and were in the Detroit “AREA”. They were staying at a hotel in Southfield, Michigan, the word Southfield did not work as it was not as lyrical as the word Detroit with Steve Perry’s voice.

There you have as told to me by the band.

By: Mr. Michigan

Mr. Michigan — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:57:26 +0000

The heart of Detroit is called Highland Park. It is the core, center of Detroit and is in the middle of the city, South of the northern borders of Detroit.

The Delray area which was very popular and densely inhabited in the Detroit auto hey days” is also considered part of “South Detroit”. Actually, I think it is a universal lyric and great because it means different sentiments to different geographical Detroiters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delray,_Detroit

By: Bradley Greene

Bradley Greene — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:18:08 +0000

South Detroit IS Windsor Ontario… I live in Detroit and am astonished as to how many people do not know this (and sing it at hockey games)

By: app

app — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:31:28 +0000

city boy, south detroit, windsor is the only city south of detroit, therefore south detroit is windsor, he meant southfield, but the lyrics and geography would disagree

By: lemons

lemons — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:01:38 +0000

the lyric is definitely not talking about downriver because it refers to the guy from south detroit as a “city boy.” downriver is made up of 18 small towns. nobody from there is a city boy. the “small town girl livin in a lonely world” might be from downriver, though.

By: Yankee Sierra

Yankee Sierra — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:03:41 +0000

South Detroit is in South Dakota.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=south+detroit,+sd&sll=42.331427,-83.045754&sspn=0.469034,0.883026&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=South+Detroit,+Brown,+South+Dakota&z=12

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:15:01 +0000

Steve already answered this in an interview. He isn’t that ignorant. He tried East and West and they just didn’t sound right lyrically so they used South to make it sound good. That’s it – nothing more to it.

By: CHawt

CHawt — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:44:45 +0000

I too am a native Detroiter and “South Detroit” in this song is referring to Southwest Detroit. They probably shortened it to just “South Detroit” to put it in a song. No one outside of metro Detroit has any clue of “down river” or its relationship to the city. Southfield is north of Detroit so it obviously is not referring to that town.

By: Marc-Andre Fleury

Marc-Andre Fleury — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:03:34 +0000

Oooooh, they said the town where i was born in a song! woopty freakin' do! why would anyone take pride in that? especially from a douche like steve perry.