Valley Girl - wikipedia Valley Girl For other uses, see Valley girl ( disambiguation ). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia 's quality standards. You can help. The discussion page may contain suggestions. ( January 2012 ) This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( April 2012 ) Valley girl is a socio - economic stereotype depicting a class of women characterized by the colloquial California English dialect Valleyspeak and materialism. Originally referring to upper - middle class girls from the Los Angeles commuter towns of San Fernando Valley during the 1980s, the term in later years became more broadly applied to any English - speaking female -- primarily in the United States and Canada -- who engendered the associated affects of ditziness, airheadedness, and / or greater interest in conspicuous consumption than intellectual or personal accomplishment. Contents 1 In popular culture 2 See also 3 References 4 External links In popular culture In 1982, composer Frank Zappa released the single `` Valley Girl '', with his 14 - year - old daughter Moon Unit speaking typical `` Valley Girl '' phrases. Zappa intended to lampoon the image, but after the song 's release there was a significant increase in the `` Valspeak '' slang usage, whether ironically spoken or not. The 1983 film Valley Girl starring Nicolas Cage centered on a group of `` Valley Girl '' characters and featured several characterizations associated with their lifestyle ( such as going shopping at the mall or `` Galleria, '' suntanning at the beach, and going to parties ). The protagonist of the 1995 film Clueless has been described as a caricature of 1990s Valley Girls, though she is actually from nearby Beverly Hills. In her 2015 memoir entitled Wildflower, actress Drew Barrymore says she talks `` like a valley girl '' because she lived in Sherman Oaks from the age of 7 to 14. See also Bimbo Dumb blonde Essex girl Julie Brown, among the performers from the era who personified and popularized the valley girl image Queen bee Hookup culture References Jump up ^ Demarest, Michael ; Stanley, Alessandra ( September 27, 1982 ). `` Living : How Toe - dully Max Is Their Valley :. Time magazine. Jump up ^ Watson, Ben ( 1994 ). Frank Zappa : The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play. Quartet Books. p. 396. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7033 - 7066 - 2. Jump up ^ `` Amy Irving ''. The Index - Journal. April 22, 1998. Retrieved 8 April 2015. Jump up ^ Alan Schwartz, Richard ( 2006 ). The 1990s. Infobase Publishing. Retrieved 8 April 2015. Jump up ^ Rothman, Lily ( 22 October 2012 ). `` No Rebuttals : The Top 10 Movie Debate Scenes ''. Time.com. Time. Retrieved 8 April 2015. Jump up ^ Hoffman, Jan ( 23 December 2013 ). `` Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak ''. NYTimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2015. Jump up ^ Barrymore, Drew ( 2015 ). Wildflower. New York : Dutton. pp. 2 ; 7. ISBN 9781101983799. OCLC 904421431. As if I had been lobotomized, we packed our things and moved into our new home, indeed in Sherman Oaks, in 1983. It 's why I still talk like a valley girl. That cadence snuck into my life at that spongelike age of eight and never left. External links Janelle Tassone. `` Buffy : The Evolution of a Valley Girl '' Refractory : A Journal of Entertainment Media 2 ( 2003 ) : Valley Girl - Television Tropes & Idioms Caricatures and Stereotypes in the United States Ethnic & national African and Black Americans Asian and Pacific Islander Americans East and Southeast Asians West and Central Asian Americans Arabs / Muslims Jews South Asian Americans Hispanics and Latino Americans Native Americans and Alaskan Natives European and White American Regional & social Appalachians Cowboys Poor Whites Redlegs Rednecks Mountain whites Ugly American Valley girl White Southerners Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valley_girl&oldid=782619170 '' Categories : Class - related slurs Slang terms for women Stock characters San Fernando Valley Culture of Los Angeles California culture Stereotypes of middle class women Stereotypes of upper class women Clichés Valleyspeak 1980s fads and trends Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from January 2012 All articles needing rewrite Articles that may contain original research from April 2012 All articles that may contain original research Talk Contents About Wikipedia Emiliàn e rumagnòl Français Português Svenska 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 28 May 2017, at 02 : 43. 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