Not everybody loves California or believes in the California Dream. This is a list of songs with lyrics that mention some negative features of the Golden State. They're all taken from the main list of songs that mention California.
In the same way we like to watch the many films that show the Golden State, and especially Los Angeles, destroyed by fires, earthquakes, tidal waves, and other natural disasters, or by aliens, crime, by war, and other calamities, we sometimes like to hear songs that show the state as less than golden. Sometimes the singer of one of these songs is unhappy because their love moved to California leaving them behind. Sometimes the singer misses someone they left behind when they moved. Other songs criticize the state for its traffic jams, the lack of four distinct seasons and a snowy winter, the too-sunny weather, the smog, the high cost of living, Hollywood phoniness and plastic surgery, or simply because someone's California dream turned out to be a nightmare. Sometimes a singer is just tired of being in California and needs a change. A few of these songs were made by conservative hit squads trying to ruin the reputation of California for political reasons, but they're still California songs, so I begrudgingly put them on the list. (There are a few more that are too offensive to add.)
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