Don’t think of “You Are So Nashville If …” — the Scene’s annual competition to find the most telling, cutting and amusing phrase to complete that sentence — as a contest. Think of this quarter-century tradition as … any of you folks remember the old Seinfeld holiday of Festivus? Think of YASNI as the yearly airing of grievances. If you want an accurate reading of what’s on everyone’s minds this election season, this school-search season, this hey-look-Nashville-got-picked-up-for-a-fourth-season season, within these pages you’ll find the city on the couch.
And this year, evidently, y’all could use a little tender loving therapeutic care. For if the 2015 YASNIs have any dominant theme, it’s identity crisis. You don’t see the old familiar spots. You don’t recognize (or like) what’s sprung up to replace them. Either we’re so Atlanta, we’re so in danger of becoming Atlanta, or we’re so in denial about already being Atlanta. If rednecks were the easy target of 25 years ago, today it’s the hipster. To that increasingly loathed “It City” tag, you were more than happy to add a preliminary (continue reading at NashvilleScene)