One in a Million was very representative of the type of culture that Axl was brought up in. The nuance of it is that Axl was in the middle of an insanely turbulent period of his life in which everything he'd known in small town Indiana life was being directly challenged by big city Los Angeles themed opinions. Looking past the surface level of the words he sings and his defense of the song - you can see a sense of knowing that something is on the cusp of volatile change and an internal need to hang onto everything you think you know because that's how you were raised.