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

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.

By: Max Talbot

Max Talbot — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:01:38 +0000

who cares? that song blows.

By: sidney crosby

sidney crosby — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:59:46 +0000

the pittsburgh penguins are stanley cup champs! in your face!

By: morgan

morgan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:35:52 +0000

i know this is old as hell but, from what ive heard hes talkin about the cities south of detroit.. which my town along with about 10 other cities & townships are slumped into what we call “down river”.

i didnt bother to read all the comments cause there is just too many, so sorry if this has already been answered.

By: DownRiver Kid

DownRiver Kid — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:44:27 +0000

Alright folks…here you go! I am from Downriver, The great area south of Detroit. Although I do not know about the history of Southfield (which is north of Detroit), I used to be involved with the WRIF and never heard about the Journey Southfield, SOuth Detroit connection. SOUTH DETROIT IS DOWNRIVER. We are taking it! Downriver is a weird area. Some is nice, some is hood, some is great, some parts are straight trash. However, it is an area that is always put down by the rest of the state, so whether you are from the nice subs, or the grime of RR, Ecorse, LP, or Melvindale….we get no respect so we take it. Just Like We are Taking “SOUTH DETROIT” from JOURNEY. I love Downriver. And so does Journey…so show respect!!! Shout out to the DRiv…Melvinhole, Stinkin Park, AP Faguars , Taylortucky, Sgate, Trent-town, The Dotte, The Woo, Ecorse, River RUDGE (pronouncition check) The Isle, R View. If you didn’t make the list…its cuz you aren’t Downriver…. Greg C….Downriver Kid

By: atanos

atanos — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:04:10 +0000

By the way, I looked this up on the Internet because I was just watching a Red Wings game and they played this song in Joe Louis Arena, and the whole crowd was singing along and got really loud at the “South Detroit” part, even though they know it makes no sense. Of course, since the Joe is in Downtown Detroit, you could say it is in “South Detroit.”

By: atanos

atanos — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:01:31 +0000

Of course there is a North, South, East and West part of every city, but the point is no one in Detroit uses the term “South Detroit”, just like I’m sure no one in Chicago says “I’m from West Chicago,” they’d say “Downtown Chicago”, or something like that. The Detroit area is split along the main corridor of Woodward into the “West Side” and “East Side.” This even extends to the Northern Suburbs, where cities like Livonia and Southfield are on the West Side of Woodward and cities like Warren and St. Clair Shores are on the East Side. Of course there is also “Downriver” which would include Southwest Detroit and the Southern suburbs like Wyandotte. But, no, there is no “South Detroit.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:27:26 +0000

Is anyone really this stupid? Every city, unless they are laid out in a straight line from east to west, MUST HAVE A SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. It’s impossible otherwise.

By: h0h0h0

h0h0h0 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:48:48 +0000

Hey Detroiter here, living in Brooklyn.

South Detroit refers to Downriver. It's not a white ghetto by any stretch of the imagination but it is a middle working class suburban neighborhood.

South Detroit might also refer to "Southwest detroit" which would be much more gang and crime ridden.

South of Detroit is windsor, sure. But it's not South Detroit at all.

By: chaircrusher

chaircrusher — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:30:54 +0000

Glad some real Detroit people spoke up. Maybe it’s stating the obvious but Journey songs are not the New Yorker — there is no fact checking department. While calling it poetic license is a stretch, it just points out how rock lyrics have more emotional than factual meaning.

If you’re going to talk about lyrical foobars how about Bryan Adams ‘Summer of ‘69′ — a song about being in a band when he was 10 years old, apparently, though one of his bandmates was old enough to get married…

Besides, ‘South Detroit’ is Windsor — the place Michiganders go to gamble and get their Gentleman’s Latte’ on. Or used to — the border guards treat everyone like they’re Osama Bin Laden’s bomb throwing nephew.