You can’t go anywhere in New York afterwards audience Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” with Alicia Keys scream-singing at the top of her lungs in the background. Neeew Yoorrrrrrkkk!! Wherever you go, the song is there. I’ve heard it blast out of Cadillac Escalade’s with 22-inch rims, I’ve heard it in bodegas, at sports games, through people’s ear buds on the subway, even at Top Shop. “Empire” is a New York canticle if there anytime was one, not that the city-limits actually needs the publicity.
So it was acutely abandoned a bulk of time afore some added pop absinthian took a bend abut all this New York airs and was like, “Okay, people, there are other cities in the U.S. besides New York!”
Oh there are?
So who bigger than aloft lesbian Katy Perry to crop on New York? Her new song “California Gurls” – the hottest iTunes download on the block – is Cali’s acceptance to “Empire.” The song is affluence colorful, fun, and it’s all about California as a paradise. Who would altercate with that?
Katy sings:
California Gurls we’re unforgettable
Daisy Dukes
Bikini’s on top
Sun-kissed bark so hot we’ll baker your popsicle.
So you’d bigger accrue your popsicles together, people. “Gurls” is basically about California as that adapted abstract awning where, no bulk breadth away you go in the world, if you arise ashamed it’ll still be 70 degrees and fabulous, its Botox accretion in tact.
I just saw the video for “Gurls” for the ancient time the added day and it actually drives home the absorption of a California Paradise. “Gurls” is set in “Candyfornia,” an attainable moniker band California and Candyland, everybody’s admired boyhood game. In the video, a bonbon coated KP releases the girls from Jello, out of applique cookies, and these bonbon bunnies all aeon about on candied sidewalks, float on clouds, shoot aerated chrism out of breasts.
I ahead the video is a actually aces breadth of work, but it’s not actually the a lot of womanist action out there. Yeah, it’s adored and positive, but prefers to actualization women as sexualized play toys, candied, enjoyed, possessed. And you apperceive what else? As ambrosial and ambrosial and ambrosial as “California Gurls” is, all the video does is reconfirm the stereotypes everybody already has about L.A. Katy basically says, Hey Look, You Guys! California is a abounding big party, so get off your ass and arise over achievement and blemish this aerated chrism out of my tits. That’s what I got out of it, anyway.
Trouble is, the bonbon looks actually candied and abounding and everything, but if you eat too abounding of it, it’ll rot your teeth. The above goes for L.A.: beaches are actually authentic if you don’t apperception animation in smog, alive everywhere or alive in the adumbration of a behemothic attack that could blast any day now.
Nobody would say that New York is complete either – what, with terrorism and everything. But “Empire State of Mind” is not just about a aces New York: it’s added about ambition.
New York
Concrete boscage breadth dreams are bogus of
There’s abolishment you can’t do.
See how bookish it is? In the “Empire” video, all those bird’s eye bend of aerial skyscrapers are declared to accordance you a adroitness of awe; the apogee of the barrio mimics your ambition. If you can achieve it in New York, you can achieve it everywhere.
“Gurls” doesn’t actually accordance me any affectionate of aboveboard message, added than sex, which I do like a lot.
L.A. has consistently captivated me. I’m a New Yorker, okay? But I’m still fatigued to the vapidity, the sun, and the babes and beaches of L.A. Something about that is actually enduring. The ancient time I went to L.A. I was at this breach accretion for a boutique, and as afresh as I pulled up the Model Hot Breach Dude was DTF. That never happens in New York. And gotta be honest – it was affectionate of exciting, and if that’s a day in the action of an L.A. getting then, um, I acceptance I get the appeal.
I like “California Gurls,” and I like California. But I don’t ahead I could anytime abide there. I’m cynical, so all that corruption approbation would get on my abide nerves. I’m the guy who’d be on the coffer in a atramentous Rick Owens cool one piece, atramentous block boots, sitting on a marble coffer towel. If you put “Gurls” and “Empire” next breach to ceremony other, you get the age-old stereotypes about the East coffer adjoin the West coast. Everybody thinks New Yorkers are arrogant, fast, impatient, elitist, chafe black, acceptance L.A. bodies are about busting at the seams with Botox, candy, implants, and sex. Pick your poison!
Any added cities acquire anthems they ambition to put out there? How about “Alabama Racists” or “Fire Island Bottoms”?
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