Frank Zappa: You Are What You Is

"You Are What You Is" put Frank Zappa in 1981 in a stylistic stylistic line with earlier studio albums such as "Over-Nite Sensation" and "Over-Nite Sensation" and "Zoot Allures": The 20 Songs on the double LP of that time are tightly arranged - unlike the improvised sound excursions of other Zappa albums. Frank Zappa, the songwriter, is in top form here to top form. Lyrically the social critic and satirist Satirist Zappa takes the USA of the beginning Reagan era, the era of the yuppies. A video of the title song with a Reagan lookalike was censored by the US authorities On "You Are What You Is," Zappa featured his then 13-year-old daughter Moon Unit as a singer for the first time - the following year, the two would release Zappa's biggest single hit, "Valley Girls."