"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Like, oh my God! (Valley Girl)
Like, totally (Valley Girl)
Enchino is like so bitchin' (Valley Girl)
There's like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stuff
It's like so bitchin' 'cause like everybody's like
Super-super nice
It's like so bitchin'
On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchin' clothes
Tosses her head 'n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin' in there
Anyway, he goes are you into S and M?
I go, oh right
Could you like just picture me in like a leather teddy
Yeah right, hurt me, hurt me
I'm sure, no way
He was like freaking me out
He called me a beastie
That's 'cause like he was totally blitzed
He goes like bag your face
I'm sure!
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
It's really sad (Valley Girl)
Like my English teacher
He's like (Valley Girl)
He's like Mr. Bu-Fu (Valley Girl)
We're talking Lord God King Bu-Fu(Valley Girl)
I am so sure
He's like so gross
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
It's like totally disgusting
I'm like so sure
It's like barf me out
Gag me with a spoon!
Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A pair of jeans to fit her butt
And where to get her toenails cut
So like I go into this like salon place, you know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done
And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails
Are like so grody
It was like really embarrassing
She's like oh my God, like bag those toenails
I'm like sure
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, you know.
I was like really embarrassed
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Like my mother is like a total space cadet (Valley Girl)
She like makes me do the dishes and (Valley Girl)
Clean the cat box (Valley Girl)
I am sure
That's like GROSS (Valley Girl)
Barf out (Valley Girl)
Oh my God (Valley Girl
Hi!
Uh-huh (Valley Girl)
My name?
My name is Ondrya Wolfson (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Ondrya (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
I know (Valley Girl)
It's like
I do not talk funny
I'm sure (Valley Girl)
What's the matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)
I am a Val, I know
But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl)
So like, I don't know
I'm like freaking out totally
Oh my God!
Hi, I have to go to the orthodontist
I'm getting my braces off, you know
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
I'm freaking out
I'm sure
Like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool, youknow
So you can see my smile
It'll be like really cool
Except my like my teeth are like too small
But no biggie
It's so awesome
It's like tubular, you know
Well, I'm not like really ugly or anything
It's just like
I don't know
You know me, I'm like into like the clean stuff
Like a man and like, I don't know
Like my mother like makes me do the dishes
It's like so gross
Like all the stuff like sticks to the plates
And it's like, it's like somebody sees food, you know
It's like grody
Grody to the max
I'm sure
It's like really nauseating
Like barf out
Gag me with a spoon
Gross
I am sure
Totally
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Like, oh my God! (Valley Girl)
Like, totally (Valley Girl)
Enchino is like so bitchin' (Valley Girl)
There's like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stuff
It's like so bitchin' 'cause like everybody's like
Super-super nice
It's like so bitchin'
On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchin' clothes
Tosses her head 'n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin' in there
Anyway, he goes are you into S and M?
I go, oh right
Could you like just picture me in like a leather teddy
Yeah right, hurt me, hurt me
I'm sure, no way
He was like freaking me out
He called me a beastie
That's 'cause like he was totally blitzed
He goes like bag your face
I'm sure!
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
It's really sad (Valley Girl)
Like my English teacher
He's like (Valley Girl)
He's like Mr. Bu-Fu (Valley Girl)
We're talking Lord God King Bu-Fu(Valley Girl)
I am so sure
He's like so gross
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
It's like totally disgusting
I'm like so sure
It's like barf me out
Gag me with a spoon!
Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A pair of jeans to fit her butt
And where to get her toenails cut
So like I go into this like salon place, you know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done
And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails
Are like so grody
It was like really embarrassing
She's like oh my God, like bag those toenails
I'm like sure
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, you know.
I was like really embarrassed
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Like my mother is like a total space cadet (Valley Girl)
She like makes me do the dishes and (Valley Girl)
Clean the cat box (Valley Girl)
I am sure
That's like GROSS (Valley Girl)
Barf out (Valley Girl)
Oh my God (Valley Girl
Hi!
Uh-huh (Valley Girl)
My name?
My name is Ondrya Wolfson (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Ondrya (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
I know (Valley Girl)
It's like
I do not talk funny
I'm sure (Valley Girl)
What's the matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)
I am a Val, I know
But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl)
So like, I don't know
I'm like freaking out totally
Oh my God!
Hi, I have to go to the orthodontist
I'm getting my braces off, you know
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
I'm freaking out
I'm sure
Like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool, youknow
So you can see my smile
It'll be like really cool
Except my like my teeth are like too small
But no biggie
It's so awesome
It's like tubular, you know
Well, I'm not like really ugly or anything
It's just like
I don't know
You know me, I'm like into like the clean stuff
Like a man and like, I don't know
Like my mother like makes me do the dishes
It's like so gross
Like all the stuff like sticks to the plates
And it's like, it's like somebody sees food, you know
It's like grody
Grody to the max
I'm sure
It's like really nauseating
Like barf out
Gag me with a spoon
Gross
I am sure
Totally
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Frank Zappa wrote the song and woke up his daughter Moon Unit in the middle of the night to be a part of the recording. She add libbed all her lines but zappa still wrote the rest of the song.
The point of the song was to make fun of the shallowness and stupidy of the whole valley girl culture and everyone involved in it. Whern the song was released to the public it was incredibaly misunderstood (much like Zappa was for his entire career.)
Frank Zappa is a musical genious and one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
Frank's daughter Moon Unit does vocals on it - but she obviously didn't ACTUALLY speak like that... he'd probably disown her or something. :P
The whole point was to parody "Valspeak", but ironically the song actually popularized it even more...
I LOVE this song. But I want to know what some of this translates to. Like, does bu-fu mean what I think it means?
I definitely dig the "He's like, bag your face, I'm sure!" part.
I heard the girl in this song is the dude's daughter and the song was inspired by the way his daughter actually spoke. I like to think they just taped her talking, without her knowing, so I can imagine her actually using some of this in conversation.
bufu = buttfucker.
@kaleidoscopeeyes8 <br /> Bu-Fu is short for "butt fuck". That's why the teacher is ogling all the boys in his class.
Moon Unit wrote the song. He wasn't inspired by her. She wrote it to make fun of the Valley Girls. And Kaleidoscopeeyes8 or whatever..."Dude" is not a good way to refer to THE FRANK ZAPPA.
I love this song, Moon Unit conveys a universal caricature of all spoilt teenage girls across the globe...Not just the ones that come from the San Fernando valley.
I was like going to totally say this was so bogus and nobody talks like that but then I like heard my friend talk and she totally talks like this! Like so grody. Anyways as I type this my friend is pointing out that I talk like this too. And again rereading this I realise I do totally talk like that. Is this self hatred valley girl edition? I have no clue.