![]() I’m sure! NO WAY! He was like freaking me out. Could you like just picture me in like a LEATHER TEDDY. Here was this spaced out Valley Girl (actually Frank’s daughter Moon) delivering these raps: “Anyway, he goes are you into S and M? I go oh RIGHT. Yet here was this weird song being beamed out to a healthy chunk of Northern California radio listeners. ![]() I was turned to KFRC, a very powerful, very popular Top 40 station in the San Francisco Bay Area, a station that generally plays hits like “Waiting For A Girl Like You” and “Keep The Fire Burning.” The first time I heard Frank Zappa’s “Valley Girl” on the radio, I turned up the volume, pulled my car off the road, and sat there slightly shocked. ![]() Like, you know, moms and dads may still face themselves and say "groovy," "hip" and "let's rap," but, I mean, like, you know, they're no space cadets.Frank And Moon Zappa Go AM By Michael Goldberg "My mom is starting to pick some of it up from me," Mindi says. She's not going to tell you to bag your face, I'm sure, like, no way.Īnd, like, Mindi says, all the rad kids talk this way to each other at school, and, like, when they drop a line (phone), and like, when they hang out at a bone-a-rama (big clothing store) and spend some, like, you know, billys (dollars), and, like, sometimes when they talk to adults. I mean, like, take off.īut, like, you know, if Camellia Adamson wants to say something really tubular about you, she can, like, say you're cold-blooded, you're live, you're gnarly, you're rad, you're unreal. Like, you know, if you've got only peanut butter between the ears, I mean, like totally, Doug Ramsay says, you're a hoser. Like, if Sherri Lewis wants to face you, she can call you a smof (a person who wants everything) a waunch or wanch (a complainer) or a doofus (a person who makes a dumb statement).Īnd, like, you gross Sherri out to the max when you are thuggen other people (stealing their things) or are totally raggen (in a bad mood), she says. Valley Girl talk is, like, you know, so tubular, so massive, because it has a word for, like, you know, just about any kind of beastie, fer sure. But something can be so grody, like, you know, a grody movie, so that it's really royal.Īnd "I'm sure," like, can mean "I'm not sure" or "I'm really sure."īut it's no biggie, she adds. Like "Grody," you know, means, like barf me out, to the max. Like, also, "to the max," which means, like, you know, totally, is from the Latin "maximus," she says.Īnd, Mindi says, some words can mean, like, totally different things. Like a "Joanie" is named after a character on TV's "Happy Days," a real quaker, real straight.Īnd, you know, "fer sure" is probably said that way because most Valley Girls wear braces, Mindi thinks. She has even figured out, like, where some of these words come from, really. Like, Mindi Higbie, is no airhead, no way. "So it's hard to use them in sentences to explain what they mean." If you do not understand Valley Girl talk, you have embarrassed yourself, are boring and make me feel weird.) "It's mostly just words you use by themselves, they're like, you know, sentences by themselves," says Tara Hardin. It has spread from San Fernando Valley, Calif., where it began last year, to Oklahoma City, including Hoover Middle School's eighth grade. (Translation: This slang, called Valley Girl talk, became popular from a good record by rock star Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit. I mean, like, gag me raw, gross me out the door, fer sure. ![]() And, like, you know, it's spread this fall to Oklahoma City, Hoover Middle School and the eighth grade.Īnd, I mean, like you're faced, you're beige, you're, like, freakin' me out, like totally, if you don't understand me. Speaking it helps you fit in well socially and shows you are not stupid or anachronistic, which are extremely undesirable qualities.) Like, you know, this rad way of talking began last year in San Fernando Valley, Calif., is called Valley Girl talk and was made famous by a tubular record by Frank Zappa and his daughter Moon Unit. (Translation: Young people today have a new slang. Like, you know, there's a totally awesome way of talking today that, like, you know, shows you're a real rad chick or gnarly guy, and, like, you know, shows you're not a airhead, a Joanie or a space cadet, I mean, gag me with a spoon, fer sure.
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