Moon Unit Zappa on Family Trauma, Neglect, and Building a Self

Depresh Mode with John Moe

Maximum Fun

Mental Health, Comedy, John Moe, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Health & Fitness

5 • 777 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The daughter of Frank Zappa has a new memoir that shares a tough life behind the scenes

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0:00.0	A note to listeners, this episode contains mention of self-harm.
0:04.3	Let's get this out of the way right off the bat.
0:06.7	Like, oh my God!
0:08.7	Valley Girl!
0:10.0	Like, totally!
0:12.0	Valley Girl!
0:13.3	And Cino's like so bitching.
0:16.7	There's like the Galleria.
0:18.8	Valley Girl!
0:20.2	I'm like all these like really great shoe stores. I like love going to just like the gallery. Valley Girl. I'm like all these really great shoe stores.
0:22.6	I like love going to use clothing stores and stuff.
0:25.6	That's Valley Girl, off the Frank Zappa album,
0:27.6	Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch,
0:30.6	1982.
0:31.6	And the voice that isn't Frank is his daughter, Moon Unit Zappa.
0:36.6	She's doing an impression of girls she went to school with,
0:39.1	a voice that made her dad laugh. This song was everywhere in 1982. Valley Girl was the
0:46.0	meme before there were memes. It was all over the radio. It hit the top 40, the highest charting
0:51.9	single of Frank Zappa's incredibly prolific rock and roll
0:55.3	Hall of Fame career. I'm old enough to remember when the Valley Girl phenomenon was
1:00.4	happening. I was a kid. And even though she was only 14 when the song came out, Valley Girl
1:06.2	wasn't the first time I had heard the name Moon Unit Zappa. She was famous since she was
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