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Van Halen and Spring Break dictates that everyone knows Panama city.
Population of under 36,000.
"Panama isn't about a city, it's the stage name of a stripper from Albuquerque!"
It doesn't matter that it isn't actually about the city. That doesn't change that people think of and know Panama the city due to the song. They either know it because they think it's about the city, or they know it because they're like you with their "actually", which shows that you and anyone else who knows it's about a stripper still knows of the city.
I thought it was about the country