California Dreem

(Note: Sorry everyone! I accidentally posted these on the wrong blog somehow. I signed in with my Gmail account, which last i checked didn't have a blog, so... here's what I wrote. I'm copying it directly from what i posted last week)

If I were to pick a song to represent the California Dream, it would probably be "I love LA" by Randy Newman. I feel like a lot of the song brags about, or at least praises, California, for all that it has.

It seems like a lot of lines are geared not towards a dream per se, but more of the promoting that LA is amazing. "Everybody's very happy, cuz the sun is shining all the time, It's like another perfect day..." It promotes that the city is very much his preference and that he would really want to be there. The idea of "perfection" is brought up, and is much the stereotypical idea of good.

I'm not sure what to think of a california dream, though, because although most of the "high profile" girls (At least, a lot of the popular ones) from back home always praised california, saying they wanted to live there; that or they were jealous of those who got to live there or were born there. Maybe it's because they dislike seattle, or maybe it's because they want LA. It's sunny, it's hot, there are movie stars everywhere... I can sort of see the appeal, but I know that it's definitely not a dream I share, so from that perspective I have a hard time understanding it.