The top ten songs on the local hit radio stations are littered with bass, drugs, sex, and partying. Charts are dominated by club music about a free lifestyle of money, sex, and entertainment. We locals live vicariously through our music: do we feel like we have to live up to some standrds because we live in Miami?
I hate this genre of music but at night I roll down the windows of my 2000 BMW and blast songs like Party Rock Anthem and Young Wild and Free. Clubs aren't my scene but each weekend I find myself standing half-drunk in an hour-long line to pay twenty bucks to pretend to enjoy myself for the night. Why do I do these things? I feel more at home when I live up to the ideal Miami lifestyle but that means that I feel the closest to Miami, the city in which I've lived my entire life, in the places where I'm the least comfortable.
An eighteen year old spending his Saturday night studying in his room after a trip to the local movie theater with his parents. Who would want to see that? That's not Miami. The sad thing is taht I'm beginning to enjoy the "Miami Lifestyle." Through succumbing to the accepted idea of how Miamians live, I've become the false image of the local Miamian. If my identity is based off of some fake representation, ten who the hell am I?
I hate this genre of music but at night I roll down the windows of my 2000 BMW and blast songs like Party Rock Anthem and Young Wild and Free. Clubs aren't my scene but each weekend I find myself standing half-drunk in an hour-long line to pay twenty bucks to pretend to enjoy myself for the night. Why do I do these things? I feel more at home when I live up to the ideal Miami lifestyle but that means that I feel the closest to Miami, the city in which I've lived my entire life, in the places where I'm the least comfortable.
An eighteen year old spending his Saturday night studying in his room after a trip to the local movie theater with his parents. Who would want to see that? That's not Miami. The sad thing is taht I'm beginning to enjoy the "Miami Lifestyle." Through succumbing to the accepted idea of how Miamians live, I've become the false image of the local Miamian. If my identity is based off of some fake representation, ten who the hell am I?
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