As everyone knows, Nashville is Music City. This name came about in a simpler time, when relatively few places were known for their musical output. Detroit had Motown, Memphis had the blues, New Orleans had jazz, but Nashville was simply where "music" came from. However, it has become painfully apparent that the days of Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff and Chet Atkins are gone. Nashville can't even claim its hipper transplants, like Jack White and David Berman (Silver Jews), as its own. However, Nashville has become something different, something new: Terrible Music City.

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So yeah, if you're a young female singer with major ego baggage, could you find another city's good name to tarnish? Stay out of Birmingham too. The American Idol connections are hard enough to live down.