Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring popularity. Lyricist and author Sheila Davis writes that including a city in a song's title helps focus the song on the concrete and specific, which is both more appealing and more likely to lead to universal truth than abstract generalizations. However, there are many exceptions, for example: Lady Antebellum's song "This City" and Danielle Bradbery's " Young in America". Not all genres share the tendency to be positive about cities in Country music cities are often portrayed as unfriendly and dehumanizing, or seductive but full of sin.
In many cases, songs celebrate individual cities, presenting them as exciting and liberating. Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation. Music journalist and author Nick Coleman has gone as far as to say that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." ( January 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭities are a major topic for popular songs. Please help improve this article if you can. The specific problem is: The page should only contain songs which have been specifically written about a city, per Articles for Deletion. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
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