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Completely agree. L.A wins the popularity contest, but Chicago is more powerful and important than L.A on the global scale.
Also, despite having less international visitors than a few other cities , Chicago's always consistently ranked among the top 3 U.S cities (New York & San Francisco are the other two) based on survey results from domestic and international visitors.
Since Los Angeles became "L.A." it has been as culturally influential as any city on Earth. Heady stuff for a city that was little more than a pueblo surrounded by orange groves at the start of the 20th century.
LA has not been very influential outside of pop-culture, and even in that field they are rarely innovative. I don't know of any popular music form/style that has come out of LA for example.
LA has not been very influential outside of pop-culture, and even in that field they are rarely innovative. I don't know of any popular music form/style that has come out of LA for example.
Well LA is pretty big in the design world too. Believe it or not, while it's overall architecture is ugly, it is a significant place for the architecture industry.
Well LA is pretty big in the design world too. Believe it or not, while it's overall architecture is ugly, it is a significant place for the architecture industry.
I believe you. But it's hard to compare LA with Chicago when it comes to architecture though, the talent and legacy there is unmatched in the entire USA. Your city even got NYC beat in that category. I'm sure that's why you're bringing up architecture in the first place, I think you're trying to make LA look even worse here.
LA has not been very influential outside of pop-culture, and even in that field they are rarely innovative. I don't know of any popular music form/style that has come out of LA for example.
Hardcore punk, gangsta rap, paisley underground, thrash metal, chicano rock, banda rap... arguably reinventing the wheel, but not insignificant.
Hardcore punk, gangsta rap, paisley underground, thrash metal, chicano rock, banda rap... arguably reinventing the wheel, but not insignificant.
Most of those genres exist in the major cities across the country. Los Angeles may produce slightly more because of its sheer size and number of record labels that are stationed there, but the city is certainly not unique in being the only one that has or created these genres of music.
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