Reading "I think we may be coming to the end of a period where being an artist was synonymous with being urban" the first thing I noticed was the unorthodox us

Reading "I think we may be coming to the end of a period where being an artist was synonymous with being urban" the first thing I noticed was the unorthodox use of the word "synonymous". Davis' use could be read as stating that everyone urban was an artist during the period in question, which is an absurd and pedantic reading, but it may reveal his preoccupations.