On this jazzy old-school classic, he lets doubt creep into the hook, ending every other line with “I don’t think so.”This one’s not a full-on California song, as the state only gets a quick mention in the first verse. Impressed with the fabulous weath and celebrity and wanting a piece of it for themselves. )According to Weezer leader Rivers Cuomo, there’s nothing sarcastic about this shout-out to money, power, and celebrity. How you feel about that depends on your level of cynicism.In his most iconic song, Cash caps a guy, goes to jail, and drives himself nuts listening to passenger trains off in the distance. wasn’t actually inspired by “California,” which served as its theme song, but it benefits from the same global fascination with SoCal living that made the teen drama such a phenomenon.Dre and Pac didn’t have much love for the police, but they were bursting with state pride in 1995. All these girls showing up in Hollywood seeking to be discovered. It’s still like that, only now, there’s smog, gangs, paparazzi, and the constant fear of earthquakes. He may have been less serious about the music, which recalls the Steve Miller Band’s 1973 hit “The Joker.” It all adds up to a frothy novelty that ends with Cuomo realizing he’s a “no-class beat-down fool” who’ll never have a housekeepers or a swimming pool. While the California Office of Tourism might quibble with the lines about weed and pimps, this Hot 100 chart-topper paints a pretty intoxicating picture of the modern-day “wild, wild west.”Recorded in Chicago by an Indiana band, “California Sun” is 1961 a surf-rock fantasy about life on the West Coast. He’s found in California not the glorious culmination of westward expansion, or manifest destiny realized, but rather a miserable dead end. At the time I said, “If there’s anything on this cassette you like you want to work on, call me and let me know.”And so Henley said, “I like that song that sounds like a Mexican reggae.” That was his description of what it drew in his mind.
Even before the advent of popular music, California wasn’t just a place. As for songwriter John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas, he reportedly wrote it in 20 minutes. When I first wrote all the music for it, I put it on a cassette with about 16 or 17 other song ideas, another one was what later became “Victim of Love,” and gave copies of the cassette to Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Randy Meisner. She got the Mercedes Bendz… ( she will bend over and do whatever is required to get her “ big shot at fame” She got a lot of pretty pretty boys she calls friends! California is the main subject of some of these songs, but others simply refer to either a place in the state, such as a city or a highway, or to anything else about the state such as the weather, a "California Girl," or an attitude or lifestyle that the state embodies for the singer. Sometimes, it’s downright salty and sour. From L.A. up to San Francisco, Cali is a land of contradictions, and everyone knows it.
It looks really pretty – on the surface her thoughts and ideas may be attractive, but they are deeper and more twisted than anyone could imagine. “I wanna go home.”“It looks like another perfect day,” Newman muses, even though his leisurely drive through the City of Angels takes him past a “bum” who’s “down on his knees.” The song is sarcastic yet also not—a celebration of a place too ridiculous to really hate on. That’s reflected here in the 15 greatest songs about the Golden State. "California" is a song by American rock band Phantom Planet. The haunting harmonies create a dreamlike feel as this New York-born folk foursome fantasizes about the groovy weather 3,000 miles west of Gotham. The story centers on “Eddie,” a starry-eyed kid who moves to L.A. with dreams of rock stardom. It is really deep. It was an idea, an ethos, something worth risking everything to glimpse with your own eyes. “Heels: tall.” Right—the girlies out west have our man sprung, but they might be a little too fast for his liking. Checking out is a reference to death. “But those people keep a-movin’, and that’s what tortures me.” Even the lively rockabilly beat seems to taunt this guy. “Her bikini: small,” LL raps. His lack of anger suggests maybe he knows he’s better off. Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. It wasn’t really a title. Case in point: Jojo, who hightails it out of Tucson with high hopes for his new life.
And later we started talking about it, and he came up with the framework lyrically of the hotel being a physical structure called the Hotel California, which there is no real Hotel California other than the one that’s down on Sunset here, the Beverly Hills Hotel is the artwork on the front of the cover.someone should write a fiction book based on the discussion in this thread.The lyric is as follows – Her mind is Tiffany- twisted, She’s got the Mercedes-bendz, she got a lotta pretty pretty boys she calls friends! Her mind is Tiffany twisted ( she is perverted and corrupted by the fabulous weath…Tiffany’s in New York Ciry.)
The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. Not that any of those things are mutually exclusive.The Chili Peppers write a lot about their hometown of L.A., and on this 1991 smash, singer Anthony Kiedis opens up about his loneliness and struggles with drug addiction. But “Get Back” speaks to the state’s unique ability to lure dreamers away from their homes.