A State of Mind, a state of mine

Whatever your state of mind or current location, there is probably a remix of the Jay-Z/Alicia Keys ode to New York City "Empire State of Mind" available for your listening pleasure and localized for your hometown.

Simply type in the keywords "empire" and "state of mind," paired with the name of your city, into Google or the search function on YouTube to see if some enterprising rapper and mezzo-soprano have tailored the blockbuster single to your city, town or borough.

Whether the surge in remixes is from people trying to refute the notion that New York City is the center of the universe, or because the song is a prototypical anthemic beat that every city wants to claim as its own, it doesn't seem to matter. Nearly 100 city-specific remixes have already popped up around the Internet.

"It had been a while since a song filled New Yorkers with as much pride as this one does," said M. Tye Comer, the executive editor of Billboard.com. "I think people from other cities are seeing this, and there is an envy of that. They want to take a piece of that and bring it to their city."

Versions of the song catering to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; San Diego, California; Toronto, Ontario, in Canada; Minnesota; Louisville, Kentucky; Miami, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; and Boston, Massachusetts, are posted, with more being added frequently.

There is even an ode to the 6,000-person farm town of New Holland in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

"I thought it would be really cool to make a song about my hometown, which is the exact opposite of New York City," said college student Matthew Besson, who wrote "New Holland State of Mind."

"There are still Amish driving around in their horse-drawn carriages. And unlike New York, there is nothing to do in New Holland," he said.

Besson also wrote the song to celebrate his town and show that there isn't anything wrong with living in small towns like his. "I was just inspired by my hometown, and I wanted to give the small town of New Holland its own anthem," Besson said.

While Besson's anthem came from a place of love, other remixes came from a place of rivalry, as is the case with various odes to the city of Boston, created because denizens of the rival sports city couldn't enjoy a song that praised the Empire State.

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