I'd like to concentrate on one song for this section: Valley Girl.
This song was co-written by Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit, who alerted him to this new trend starting in California. Zappa normally made social commentary on concepts, ideas, and things that he felt strongly against. He didn't know much about this before he wrote the song, but on his daughter's suggestion made a song about this new phenomena.
What's most interesting about this is how popular valley girls got AFTER this song was released. Zappa's song definitely helped popularize this stereotype, and it became more widely known because of him.
In this one rare case, Zappa's social commentary actually helped to make something more popular and more well known than it was to begin with!
/m u s i n g s a n d r a m b l i n g s o f a n e w f o u n d z a p p a f a n/
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