Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Cream / Whatevs From the Department of Please Stop Saying That: Nashville Is Not the New Los Angeles
Posted by Tracy Moore on Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM
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Don't be surprised if I write a song called "glomming onto glamatropolis" in the immediate future.
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the first time i heard someone utter that phrase it was some POS radio jockey doing the intro for one of the latter day 'dancing in the district' shows. i thought i was gonna throw up. who the hell thinks it's desirable to be compared to LA?
You're right. I'm tired of hearing all the talk about folks from LA moving to Nashville as well and I moved here from LA a few months ago :)
One thing that I disagree with is your statement Nashville will "never have the celebrity feeding frenzy". LA wasn't a celeb feeding frenzy until checkout counter magazines, celeb based television and celeb based blogs came about. About 6 years ago LA was a safe haven for celebs...the only place in the world they could go out to eat, bowl or see a movie and not be bothered (kind of like Nashville is now!) That's why so many celebs lived there. Wait until you have more Nicole Kidmans living here. The photographers and TMZ will follow.
Wait a second...didn't Tracy abandon Nashville for LA just a couple of years ago? I wonder how that worked out...
I have little input...I'm from California. All I can say is Nashville won't be the new LA until (a) we get better Mexican food and (b) people tailgate you on the freeway doing 85 mph (when the freeway isn't a parking lot, that is).
Is that a *net* 462 from LA to Nashville, or did 784 go in the other direction?
Last time I checked, Nashville wasn't an enormous climate-controlled mall, and the people here weren't a bunch of phonies, pricks, sluts, slimeballs, and greedy fat-headed fatcats. Oh, and lest we need reminding, it rains just about every damn day here...
Come to think of it, there are about a million reasons Nashville is nothing AT ALL like L.A., and only one similarity: there are idiots in both places who put really ignorant things on T-shirts and sell them to other idiots.
Man, I'm really angry today. Or maybe it's just that everything is extremely irritating. Then it's righteous anger. Zeal. I'm also very narcissistic, btw.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go punch my neighbor in the face because her dog is barking.
When we've become a city of transplants always importing coastal and other regional cues, what makes us authentically us anymore?
I wouldn't know, I'm a transplant.
Ron Asheton of the Stooges found dead today. Maybe don't discuss, but instead give the records a spin?
Andrew J, rains here every day? Really? Just a year ago we were in a drought. Did you forget that part where we had two months of no rain.
Similarities between Nashville and LA: many of the transplants in each city moved there/here to "make it." Both have abysmal public transit and unchecked suburban sprawl. The air quality of both ain't too good.
But as much as I don't care for LA, the Mexican food is amazing.
That'd be cool if Nashville were the new Memphis, because then we'd be Soulsville, U.S.A. And it would be easier for me to get heroin. LOL, j/k.
I said "rains" didn't I? Not "rained"? Yes. It seems I did. And that's an awfully nit-picky sort of thing to call me out on, especially when you clearly feel the same about LA as I do.
If I didn't know better, Matt S., I'd think that you have some sort of personal problem with me. Good luck with that.
[+] the bars stay open longer here
[+] you can find drink specials here every night of the week in Nashville
[+] subpar mexican food, but good luck finding decent hot chicken in l.a.
[+] the girls are prettier in l.a., but the ones here
are much more likely to go out with me
[+] you'd never in a million years pay the rent you're paying now for the apartment/house you're living in if you were in l.a.
[+] wannabe musicians are still considerably much less delusional than wannabe actors
[+] you won't have to pay $40 for a vintage t shirt at local honey
[+] i prefer not to be surrounded by immense and morbidly obesely wealthy people at all times
on the minus...
[-] more video/film production job opportunities in la.
[-] better movies play much sooner in l.a. than here
[-] if you like the beach, they have those there and not here
[-] if you, like me, hate shitty weather like that which we are experiencing now, you'd be much happier in california
[-] bicycle transportation is much safer and easier with the widespread use of sidewalks
[-] more bands playing more shows and all that.
i think the +'s still won out here. at least until i think of more and better minuses.
not to mention that unless those icebergs start melting a lot faster, there's still not any oceanfront property nearby... i've got my fingers crossed but i doubt i'll see it in my lifetime.
Andrew J, I don't believe we've ever met, but that was amazing. Did someone hit your dog with a car today?
I'm feeling kind of mad, too! Andrew J., I hear ya. Maybe we should have a separate comments thread for complaining about the rain.
Emily, did you know cocaine used to be sold in Beale Street drugstores to keep the stevedores peppy? I read it on the internet so I know it's true!
i wanna throw the first "i hate people who say nashvegas" too in the ring here...
i agree with most of the sentiment here but hey... whatevs... we gotta fill up those condos somehow, eh?
When I was renewing my out of state drivers license the other day, the lady at the counter looked at my New York license and asked if I moved here to "make it" in the music business. So maybe Nashville is the next New York as well? Might as well be. I just heard Williamsburg hipster are still wearing those head band thingies I still see here and thought died out two years ago.
loney, i second the "nashvegas" hatred. and vote it be added to the desk of "stop saying that" as well.
seems like an extension of the CMT mentality. just co-opt whatever is popular and shit out a nashville version. kindof like christian music, but greasier.
apparently, to these types of unoriginals, being a version of something cool is always better than being anything on your own.
How can I get the copyrights info for that photo of los Angeles Skyline of the buildings? Im trying to find out who owns the copyrights.... I need to use it for my website.
How can I get the copyrights info for that photo of los Angeles Skyline of the buildings? Im trying to find out who owns the copyrights.... I need to use it for my website.
WELL, SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE NASHVILLE, TN. FOR SOME ODD REASON!!! A LITTLE BITTER MAYBE?! WELL, I'VE BEEN THERE AND IT IS FANTABULOUS!!! THINKING ABOUT MOVING THERE, ACTUALLY... I'M FROM TAMPA, FL... DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT TAMPA?! GET A LIFE!!!
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