<p>…there was once a time when this was just a fun stupid and much beloved song. </p>
<p>Who knew?</p>
<p>Having now been subjected to hermeneutical, exegetical, structuralist, deconstructive, Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist and queer analysis, it turns out that “California Girls” was about everything --one could insist-- but fun.</p>
<p>To me, of course, it is the Frankfurt School that always has and always will have the last emphatic word on the Beach Boys. And believe me, the Frankfurt school has no use for fun!</p>