Axl Rose Assures Interviewer that "Paradise City" is about Bloomingdale

NEW YORK CITY - In a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine, rock star Axl Rose claimed that his 1988 hit song Paradise City is actually about Bloomingdale, Ohio. Rose told Rolling Stone writer Andy Greene that he and Slash were big fans of the small town along U.S. Route 22.

"Slash and I were kicking it in the back of the van when he started humming the tune," said Rose. "And I just started singing the words. It all just came naturally."

Rose says that the original lyrics to the song were drastically changed in the final product. He blames the record label for attempting to make the song more marketable.

"It originally went: 'Take me down to the paradise city where the girls are fat and they have big titties," he continued. "The label didn't think that mainstream culture would like that too much."