La La Land
Oblivious mental state
La La Land is a dismissive name for Los Angeles, suggesting the city is full of dreamers detached from reality.
The phrase also describes any state of being out of touch or lost in fantasy: He's off in la la land if he thinks that'll work.
The 2016 film of the same name plays on both meanings.
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- silver screenFilm industry metonym
- golden agePeriod of peak prosperity
- dreamersThose with ambitious visions
- dream bigAspire to greatness
musical · Emma Stone · star-crossed lovers · jazz · jazz club · Los Angeles · starlet · fantasy · audition · audition tape · Griffith Observatory · freeway · traffic jam · romance · tap dance · aspiration · sunset · piano
- City FilmsCasablanca, Manhattan, Chicago, Midnight in Paris, Rome
- Lionsgate FilmsHunger Games, Twilight, John Wick, Divergent, Knives Out
- moviesblockbuster, film, Titanic, films, Jurassic Park
- Place NicknamesBig Apple, Windy City, Chi-Town, Motown, Hotlanta
- 2016Brexit, Trump election, US election, Pokemon Go, Harambe
- Stage MoviesA Chorus Line, All That Jazz, Cabaret, Chicago, West Side Story
La La Landreality
What actually exists
terra firma · groundedness · down to earth · harsh reality · grounded
La La LandDetroit
Michigan automotive hub
Scranton · Cleveland · Gary Indiana · flyover country · Wall Street
La La Landnose to the grindstone
Devoted to hard work
boots on the ground · meat and potatoes · bread and butter · nine to five · salt of the earth
land, lands, landed, landing, landings, landless, landlord, landlady, inland