"[1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
[1][2] However, there are many exceptions, for example: Lady Antebellum's song "This City" and Danielle Bradbery's "Young in America".
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.
Davis also says that songs with titles concerning cities and other specific places often have enduring popularity.
[3] Memphis holds the distinction of being the most mentioned city in the world when it comes to commercially recorded songs.