Is the California King Bed the Sexiest Kind of Bed?

 "In her hit ballad “California King Bed,” Barbadian chanteuse Rihanna uses the titular piece of bedroom furniture as a symbol of the emotional distance between her and her lover. While once they slept “eye to eye, cheek to cheek,” she croons, it now feels as if there are “10,000 miles” between them.

To underscore the central metaphor, the song’s music video stars a truly massive custom-made bed. (At 18 feet wide, it’s 7 feet wider than the Great Bed of Ware—another giant sleeping structure immortalized by a poet.) The video bed is so big, it came rigged with special machinery to move the singer from one side to the other.
“California king bed,” with its steady progression of big, open vowels, is a better phrase for singing than “Eastern king bed,” which has a potentially nasal long e and crabbed, ugly er. But the Eastern king—also known as a regular old king—would have been the more appropriate thematic choice, as it’s six inches wider than its West Coast sibling. The Eastern king also has a greater surface area, by nearly 200 square inches—thus allowing even more room for the couple’s feelings of estrangement. (It is, however, four inches shorter than the Cal king.)

Why does California even need its own king bed in the first place?"
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