LeAnn Rimes - One Way Ticket (Because I Can)
California isn’t named, but it is implied, and the video was filmed in San “Frisco”.
Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land”
*Workin’ on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the Golden State;
The pilot told me in thirteen minutes
We’d be headin’ in the terminal gate.
Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone;
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.
Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia,
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin’
And the poor boy’s on the line. *
Well, opposite of what you’re looking for (to get away from a chick, definitely not soft rock), but Wax’s California. Possibly the second best video ever (behind Sabotage, of course)
Estimated Prophet by the Grateful Dead about a crazy zealot who thinks California is the promised land.
California Here I Come by Sophie B, Hawkins (a different song than the one with the same title mentioned previously).