From the lyrics, What “scene” is this song trying to set?

What setting is this song trying to set. I really don’t understand it.

[b][quote]I'm a 45 spinning on an old Victrola.
I'm a two strike swinger, I'm a Pepsi Cola.
I'm a blue jean quarterback saying "I love you" to the prom queen, In a Chevy.
I'm John Wayne, Superman, California.
I'm a Kris Kristofferson Sunday morning.
I'm a mama and daddy singing along to Don McLean, At the levee.

I'm Mark Twain on the Mississippi.
I'm Hemingway with a shot of whiskey.
I'm a TV dinner on a tray trying to figure out the wheel, of fortune.
I'm a Texaco star, I'm a Gibson guitar.
I'm still a teenage kid trying to go too far.
I'm a jukebox waiting in a neon bar, for a quarter.[/quote][/b]

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LordShadowfire · M

It sounds like they're saying they are classic Americana.

XenonRush · M

I’m sorry, but what does that mean?
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LordShadowfire · M

@XenonRush I don't know how to explain it any better than that. It's a feeling.

XenonRush · M

I’m not American so I don’t really get it lol
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LordShadowfire · M

@XenonRush Basically, all those images are supposed to stir up feelings of patriotism. And I don't mean the bullshit people call patriotism in the news media.

MethDozer · M

@LordShadowfire @XenonRush American isn't really patriotism or about that it's more just the style and quirks kinda unique or indicative to he Average American way of life and experience. Often in a nostalgic sense

Baseball, route 66, blue jeans,. Blues music and rock and roll,. BBQ and apple pie, Thanksgiving football, That kind of stuff.

LordShadowfire · M

@MethDozer I always associated Americana with the good kind of patriotism. The kind that makes you kind of happy to live here, and be a part of the whole democratic experiment, Not the kind that makes you drive around in a stupidly large pickup truck with a huge American flag on one side and a huge Confederate flag on the other, lol.

MethDozer · M

@LordShadowfire I can see that and how it can invoke that but they aren't synonymous really.