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A valley girl is a socioeconomic, linguistic, and youth subcultural stereotype and stock character originating during the 1980s: any materialistic upper-middle-class young woman, associated with unique vocal and California dialect features, from the Los Angeles commuter communities of the San Fernando Valley. [1] In subsequent years, the term was broadly applied to any American woman who ...
Before the 1980s, "airhead" was general American slang for a ditzy, clumsy or stupid person. [10] With the rise of the valley girl [11] and preppy subculture however, the term was applied to cheerleaders [12] and nouveau riche or middle class hangers-on who imitated the uptalk speech [13] and clothing of the upper class popular girls. These airheads, material girls or gold diggers were ...
A distinctive chain shift of vowel sounds, the California Vowel Shift, was first noted by linguists in the 1980s in southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. [4] This helped to define an accent emerging primarily among youthful, white, urban, coastal speakers, and popularly associated with the valley girl and surfer dude youth subcultures. [5][3] The ...
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s SoCal anthem “Valley Girl,” Moon Zappa talks to Yahoo Entertainment about how she ended up collaborating on the song with her famous father ...
Moon Zappa's complicated relationship with 'Valley Girl,' 40 years later: 'I just was trying to make my dad laugh' Lyndsey Parker September 30, 2022 at 4:36 PM Moon Zappa looks back at "Valley ...
"Valley Girl" is a song by American musician Frank Zappa, released as the sole single from his 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and featuring his then-14-year-old daughter Moon. Though Zappa intended it to mockingly satirize San Fernando Valley teen culture, the song's success inadvertently popularized the "valley girl" stereotype and its associated mannerisms. The ...
Essex girl, as a pejorative stereotype in the United Kingdom, applies to a woman viewed as promiscuous and unintelligent, characteristics jocularly attributed to women from the county of Essex.
The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Ease of communication with the Internet facilitated the rapid proliferation of Gen Z slang. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ]