Maybe even if the song is titled "Los Angeles" and mentions a city called like that, it's not speaking about those cities in particular, but maybe it uses them to make a reference to something else.
There is, in fact, a small city in Chile named Los Angeles, but it is not located in the Patagonia, since Patagonia is a vast portion of plains located mailny in Argentina. Even though Patagonia includes some Chilean territory, Los Angeles lays more to the north. But I think Frank Black's idea was to make reference to this Chilean spot.
Perhaps this song deals with the Mexican/Spanish influence on California, and hence the questioning about the name of the city even though the hegemony of an English-speaking country over the U.S.A.
Maybe even if the song is titled "Los Angeles" and mentions a city called like that, it's not speaking about those cities in particular, but maybe it uses them to make a reference to something else. There is, in fact, a small city in Chile named Los Angeles, but it is not located in the Patagonia, since Patagonia is a vast portion of plains located mailny in Argentina. Even though Patagonia includes some Chilean territory, Los Angeles lays more to the north. But I think Frank Black's idea was to make reference to this Chilean spot.
Perhaps this song deals with the Mexican/Spanish influence on California, and hence the questioning about the name of the city even though the hegemony of an English-speaking country over the U.S.A.