« I’m a valley girl, » Mikey replies when asked about her upbringing. Having never set foot in L.A., we ask her to describe the social type that is suppose to represent: « It’s a pejorative expression, you know, a cliché, partly false, partly true, like all clichés. People make fun of our accent, our excessive consumerism, accuse us of being too superficial and egocentric ». Growing up in the green valleys of California’s upper middle class, Mikey spent her childhood riding horses, like her psychoanalyst mother and grandmother.