Songs of the City: I *heart* NY
Posted: July 20th, 2009 | Author: Araceli Cruz | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: araceli, frank sinatra, new york |As a little intro, we thought it’d be cool for the three of us to talk about what song we feel best fits our little towns. Read Brian’s here and Lille’s here.
In the coldest of days, here in New York, walking through slush, trying not to slip and fall, I can easily transport my brainwaves to a warm and sunny place: specifically, Los Angeles.
By scrolling the tunes on my iPod to The Cure, or Morrissey or Depeche Mode, I’m instantly back, driving down the 101 in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and listening to KROQ, because in 1996 that’s all you had, and that was quite great, actually.
I haven’t been in New York long enough for me to acquire a taste of a particular scene like I did with New Wave in L.A. All I have to get me in a New York state of mind is a handful of songs by bands that were “in” when I moved here a couple of years ago on my iTunes rotation like Peter Bjorn and John, Kings of Leon, and MGMT.
There is one song, however, that made me feeling like a New Yorker long before I arrived here on a one-way ticket and suitcase in hand. Frank Sinatra’s timeless song “New York, New York” had me, at the age of 13, daydreaming of walking the streets of Manhattan with a million aspirations inside of me, and a smile on my face. This song gets me every time.
You MADE IT!!!
Honestly, I never found Sinatra to be all that great. I’ve been to multiple weddings where they play it as background music during dinner… I guess it’s classy. He always sounded kind of sleazy to me.
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[...] for the three of us to talk about what song we feel best fits our little towns. Araceli, for NY, has chosen the illustrious rat packer himself, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” as a befitting jewel of a song for the [...]