Time for a new type of Valle girl?

She was a blond teenager who shopped with abandon at the Sherman Oaks Galleria and gossiped with her look-alike peers in a strange language called Valspeak.  She's a Valley Girl, of course, and it's been 25 years since the movie of the same name (which followed the song of the same name sung by Moon Unit Zappa) mocked and celebrated this vapid figure that came to define the San Fernando Valley for much of the nation.  But is time for the Val stereotype to visit a day spa for a makeover? 

The Daily News, in a story pegged to the movie's 25th anniversary, notes that the Valley is a far different place than it was in the early 1980s, when 75% of suburb's population was White.  That figure has now shrunk to 42%. Latinos now  account for another 42% of the Valley's 1.8 million residents, followed by Asians, 10%, and African Americans, 4%.

"The image of the Valley was that of a kind of a white-bread haven, where girls could grow up carefree and the only thing they had to worry about was chewing gum and shopping," said Jack Solomon, an English professor and pop-culture expert from California State University, Northridge. "But `Valley Girl' was really the last era in which popular culture would see the Valley in terms of middle-class whiteness."

How do you translate "grody to the max"?

-- Jesus Sanchez

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Looks like Jesus has nothing to talk about. Waste of time to read this.