Unless you live under a rock somewhere deep in the heart of the rainforest, you’ve heard [lastfm]Jay-Z[/lastfm] and [lastfm]Alicia Keys[/lastfm]’ “Empire State Of Mind” and regardless of whether or not you like “that kind” of music, you know you love this song. It’s the kind of song that gives you goose bumps and makes you proud to be a New Yorker, even if you’re not.
“In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Lets here it for New York, New York, New York”
Personally, the song itself makes me wanna head east, but why would I ever leave the greatest place in the United States…L.A. baby! So if New York has an anthem that the ENTIRE world is singing and celebrating, well then where is the anthem Angelenos deserve, one that gets NATIONAL radio airplay?
Yes, we have many many songs that profess their eternal and undying love for L.A. We have a ton of songs about getting drunk, getting high and getting laid in Cali. We have songs about surfing, rocking and dying in the City Of Angels. The list goes on and on and on. From The Doors to Tupac to Phantom Planet, we have songs for every season, but we don’t have THE song. The one quintessential song about Los Angeles that captures all that this place is: eclectic, free-spirited, liberated… A song that gives props to Wahoos and In-N-Out, surfing in the morning and snowboarding in the afternoon, Dodger dogs and Disneyland.
Where is our anthem and who’s gonna write it? LA owns some of the most talented rappers and rockers in the world. Surely someone can put into words how we all feel about our home. Our California.
No offense to any of the following talented musicians and their beloved songs, but where’s our theme for today’s Los Angeles?
Is there a song out there that we don’t know about? Is there a somewhere in SoCal that’s already written “our” modern day LA Anthem? Let us know.
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