#Nashville growth in a nutshell:
"That spin has produced for us the opposite of world class: a city center that is principally a lucrative theme park of intoxication in which corporate operators profit off synthetic music celebrity branding, culinary mediocrity, and exploitation of talented musicians hustling for a subsistence living as country-rock human jukeboxes. "
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/11/nashville-is-a-city-on-the-move-but-running-in-place/