If there is one song that deserves that honor, though, I would say it's " American Pie" by Don McLean, released in 1971. It's quite surprising then that there have been no attempts to define a Great American Song, even though America has been a global center for the music industry since the '50s. From there, people have attempt to apply the label to other media: The Great American Painting, The Great American Movie, and so on. The idea initially came from the Great American Novel, a hotly debated idea that there is a single novel that can completely encompass the American experience. Here in America, we have a tendency to call ascribe the word "great" to a lot of things we do.
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