El Paso in popular culture

The city of El Paso, Texas, United States, has been featured in many films, as well as in TV shows and popular music.

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Video games

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  • In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, El Paso is depicted as the border city in one of the satellite images of the fictional city of Las Almas, Mexico in the campaign.
  • In Fallout 76, El Paso is mentioned, introduced in the Wastelanders update.
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El Paso has become a favored destination for many musicians.[2] Songs written about or mentioning El Paso include:

  • "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, a popular country ballad released in 1959. Robbins followed it in 1966 with a prequel, "Feleena (from El Paso)", and a sequel in 1976, "El Paso City".
  • "Take The Money and Run" – a 1976 hit song by the Steve Miller Band – tells the story of two bandits who "go down to old El Paso" and "ran into a great big hassle".
  • The 1976 Chinga Chavin song "Asshole From El Paso" (most famously recorded by Kinky Friedman the same year), a parody of Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee", mentions El Paso in both the lyrics and the title. The song lampoons various morality viewpoints attributed to residents of the city.
  • W.A.S.P.'s 1985 Blind In Texas song mentions "An El Paso hellhole, I couldn't get higher..." and "San Antonio, and the West Texas town El Paso...".
  • El Paso is the setting described in "Yawning or Snarling", a song by The Tragically Hip from their 1994 album Day for Night. The song alludes to both the days and the nightlife and tourism in El Paso.
  • American artist Tori Amos references El Paso in her song, "Mother Revolution", featured on her 2005 album, The Beekeeper.
  • Taking Back Sunday's first track of their 2011 eponymous album is named "El Paso", where the band started production of the album.
  • Khalid's songs "American Teen" and "Winter" (both from his 2017 debut album) and "Suncity" and "9.13" (from his 2018 EP Suncity songs) mention El Paso; the singer began his career while attending high school in El Paso.

Printed works about El Paso

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Television shows set in El Paso

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References

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  1. ^ "News on the March - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  2. ^ "The Best Little Music City in Texas". Vanity Fair. March 2009.