Tuesday, July 19, 2005

This day in music history.

July 19, 1982, 'Valley Girl' by Frank and Moon Unit Zappa is at number 75 on the top 100, it would reach number 23 at its peak. The song is a parody of the wealthy, spoiled kids of the San Fernando Valley. The song made popular such terms as "grody to the max", "eat shit and die", "go fuck yourself" and "fer sure fer sure". There was Valley Girl clothes, jewerly, hatchets, dildos, toilet brushes, dog food and calendars. The best thing about it for me was the thought that all these teenage girls were going out and buying the album that Valley Girl was on (Ship Arriving Late To Save A Drowning Witch), I wonder what they thought of the other songs on the album such as 'No Not Now', 'I Come From Nowhere' and 'Teenage Prostitute'.
Teen-age Prostitute by Frank Zappa
she's only seventeen
she's really sort of cute
she's working in the street
she's a teen-age prostitute
She ran away from home
Her mom was destitute
Her daddy doesn't care

She's a teen-age prostitute
"i have got a pimp He treats me like a dog..."
(all the stuff she's shooting Keeps her in a fog)
"I would really like to try and get away..."
(but if she gets caught he'll cause her some dismay)
Tiny little pants
Chain around my boot
Shakin in the dark
Im a teen-age prostitute