Pop Songs are the Best Spot for Clandestine Affairs—Just Ask The Go-Go's

Tales from the Valley of the Go-Go's.

I dream to feel the same joy as The Go-Go’s towards the end of the “Our Lips Are Sealed” video. In the 2020 Showtime documentary about the band, lead guitarist Charlotte Caffey shared how they thought the video was “this was a big waste of time.” So eventually the gang started splashing in the “Oh my god, I love Josh!” fountain from Clueless. Apparently they were sick of filming and figured a romp in the water might get them arrested (🤞🏻) and end the whole damn thing. 

Whenever I see them twisting in the Electric Fountain, I think, “I want to be there. Take me to that place of sunny, neon euphoria.”

…so yeah, I left New York for LA. Not forever, it’s just an affair.

As a true New Yorker cliché, I have a complicated relationship with Los Angeles. If New York is the love of your life, then LA is like…the 4th worst person you’ve slept with whose dad has a boat. Sure, you don’t share a lot of the same values, and he always makes meeting up an ordeal. But he’s hot, he’s fun, he’s hedonistic, and there’s a lot of mutual friends between you. So when your mainstay lover becomes a frigid prison, LA is there to tempt you for a superficial, good-but-not-a-long time.

And babe, there’s a lot of bad memories in this sun-soaked town. Don’t get me wrong. But I’m determined to have fun and not get hurt again. I’ll save my East Coast facade of integrity for the Spring. For now, it’s time to return to the Valley of the Go-Go’s.