Detroit Stories is the twenty-first solo and twenty-eighth overall studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper.

The album features themes consistent with the rest of Alice Cooper's discography, with the grandeur and exaggerated shock-rock narratives that he has exhibited in previous work.

[4] "Rock & Roll", a cover of the Velvet Underground song, was released as the first single on November 13, 2020 and is essentially a remake of the 1971 version by Detroit with Mitch Ryder, some of producer Bob Ezrin's first work.

For example, Cooper covers Michigan band Outrageous Cherry's song "Our Love will Change the World," infusing it with his own, more aggressive style.

[11] The song "Go Man Go" includes a guitar part written by Detroit hard rock band MC5's guitarist Wayne Kramer.

In his cover of The Velvet Underground's "Rock 'n' Roll," Cooper changes lyrics that originally reminisced on New York to that of Detroit, and in "Despite all the Amputations," Cooper takes an opportunity to lend credit to a plethora of famous Detroit rockers who inspired him and came from the same hard rock scene, such as Iggy Pop, Ted Nugent and Suzi Quattro[12].

The album furthermore features a number of contributions and credits from many Detroit/Michigan musicians such as Wayne Kramer from MC5 and Mark Farner from the influential Flint, Grand Funk Railroad, a Michigan group, as well as the surviving members of the Alice Cooper group and blues musician Joe Bonamassa.

[14] The band's hard rock, infused with psychedelic influences in their early records did not sell well in Los Angeles, but rather found itself more at home in Detroit.

The cult status that his band gathered in this time remains an important part of his musical success and writing to this day.

[9] While the cult status and heavily 'Detroit' sound defined Alice Cooper's music, his appeal managed to surpass similar Detroit bands of the time, such as the MC5 and The Stooges and reach much higher success.

However, Grow does criticize Cooper for falling flat in some of the record's humor, and not being able to smoothly integrate attempts at serious songs.

Aspects such as the shocking and heavy content and presence of his music, as well as the tongue-in-cheek and often dark sense of humor are the focus of most positive receptions of Detroit Stories.

[9] He draws heavily on the aesthetic of the 'motor city' that he grew up in and became renowned in, attempting to return to the hard rock 'roots' that he found there.

[9] Stylistically the album is very gritty, and follows the same punk, metal and shock-rock inspired sound of the earlier days of the Alice Cooper Group and the Detroit music scene[5] (Grow, 2021).

Inspired by the grandeur of his earlier days in rock and roll, Detroit Stories is full of exaggerated narratives and symbols.