Britney Spears: It’s all LA’s fault
Alas, my City of Angels, does no one respect or love you? Britney Spears is the latest to diss “Sodom by the Sea” (or insert your own pejorative here). “I HATE L.A., I’m so sick of that town. I don’t want anyone to know I’m here in Atlanta,” she revealed to a shop clerk and a few million people on a shopping trip to the mall there.
She is of course a victim of the town, not of herself. But blaming “the dream factory”, “would you really want to raise your kids in LA” (as if Britney might do a better job elsewhere), etc. has a long tradition. As the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen put it, “Knock San Francisco to a San Franciscan and you’re starting a fight. Knock LA to someone from there and you’re starting a conversation.”
