GIRL TALK: How I Actually Create The Musical Mashups That Make Crowds Go Insane en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:26:43 -0400 Julie Zeveloff juandtres Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:21:06 -0400 Gosh! It might be good stuff if the video was working... Bobert Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:09:18 -0400 Hahahaha! Thank you for that! Kel Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:28:52 -0400 I don't have a blog and I don't listen to a lot of new music. I like Washed Out, thats about the newest thing I like. And if you really think that what Girltalk is doing is new and original check these artists from well over 20 years ago out: The KLF, The Timelord aka The Jams, Cabaret Voltaire. Or a little more recently The Avalanches. Sample based music is nothing new... MICHAEL Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:22:26 -0400 You need a hobby and a life. JD Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:57:56 -0400 By your standards music nazi, anything that is not original is not worth a pot to p!ss in. Essentially, it all comes down to your perception and opinion on what is good or what is "crap." Now can you show me any music coming out these days that is original? In regards to composition, what Mr. Gillis is doing by mashing up song IS just that. But feel free to live in your box and cast judgement on music that you deem unworthy because it does not satisfy your tastes. I was once like you as well, then I grew up and appreciated all forms of music. Now go run to your blog and trash everything you dislike, it will surely make yourself feel relevant . Graham J Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:55:58 -0400 I saw GT at Bluesfest here in Ottawa recently as was pretty disappointed by the show. The music was alright (though a bit commercial for my taste) but all he did was stand in front of a computer with a mouse in his hand jumping up and down. That is not a performance. Pro tip: Get a MIDI controller and do something other than stare at a screen the whole time. Kel Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:50:25 -0400 I care about how you do it...if all you do is fart on a snare drum, it's going to sound like crap, thats why I care how you do it. I care about craft, about composition, about originality. Thats what I care about. You moron. frankit Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:00:28 -0400 I cannot but help agree with the previous posters. Having heard something called 'Jazz' for the first time recently, I was shocked by the depths to which we have sunk. Appalling muck. An offence against musicality and everything honest, true, upstanding and decent. To think these 'musicians' are actually PAID to churn out this trash is a disgrace. Their degeneracy appalls and sickens me. It simply isn't music. But worse, so much worse was to befall my ears in the days to follow. Someone played me a 'recording' from someone called 'Mahler'. Dear Lord! Such discordant filth! It came as no surprise to me to learn that over half the audience stormed out of the premiere of his 'Ring Cycle'. Far worse though, is that dangerous subversive 'Beethoven'. As one critic was heard to note following a performance of 'ode to joy': "'I'll pay all over again just to make him STOP!". When I was a young man, I listened exclusively to Mozart and Chopin who made PROPER MUSIC without even so much as occasional resort to RANDOM CAPITLISATION (or caplitalization if you prefer 'American English' spelling, an oxymoron in and of itself). And 'lo, I didst feel righteous and just. Nothing written by 'popular' 'musicians' at any time since 1864 can possibly have an artistic merit if it doesn't involve the decorous progression of melodic chords played exclusively on instruments invented before 1625. JD Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:40:57 -0400 Wow...a lot of jealous boneheads on this comment thread. I love people who get on their soap box how hip hop, DJ music, etc. is not "real music." Something tells me they have never played music in front of an audience and have never created music. Who cares how you do it? Can I be old school enough to say that using an electric guitar and bass is not music because it harnesses electricity to make sound; that's cheating right? Grown up and accept the fact that GirlTalk IS music and this guy has major talent. I am sure if he started a group and they played Eagles and Beatles songs most of you would eat it up. Better yet, go boot, scoot and boogie down to your local watering hole and b!tch about these "d@mn kid and their music." Carol Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:07:51 -0400 He had better be paying the licensing fees and reporting which cuts he's destroying. Why doesn't he learn an acoustic piano and go to school? Two years for this kind of destruction? The two prior comments expressed my thinking as well. In four years, he could actually finish school and have a faster output, maybe, of music. Kel Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:52:32 -0400 I'm less disgusted by this joker than I am the legions that flock to see him (they don't buy his records because modern youth are too ungrateful to actually buy records). "I don't want to challenge my mind with different musical discoveries. Why evolve? That is scary. Please give me the same comfortable songs by the same 20 or so artists over and over. Yay! Music is a product, a boring catch phrase!" sharn cedar Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:29:08 -0400 First there were musicians. Thn there were people so talentless and amusical that they decided just to shout and not even sing. To back them up, they were so unoriginal and primitive that they just ripped musical accompaniament off of existing recorded music. so they would shout mostly obscene and self-promoting "rhymes" consisting quite often of just repeating the artist's name, like a graffiti tagger repeats his name, and do it to ripped music from olther times. But that wasn't enough. it wasn't degenerate enough. It didn't scream "degenerate civilization feeding on itself with no creativity left" enough. We need Girl Talk. We need an artist that doesn't even bother shout filthy obscenities at us,that doesn't even have that much creativity. This artist just rips other people's music and fools around with it on his computer, modifying it. He doesn't even have the energy to shout dirty words and his own name and threats against people in a microphone. He can't even manage that. His creative contribution is to "mash up" existing music. Perhaps a modern Italian painter could paint his own day-glo color scheme over the Last Supper. That would be MORE CREATIVE and more of a contribution to art than Girl Talk. At least such a vandal would be adding some color. The vandal known as Girl Talk is actually a very funny guy, it is the epitome of degenerate art. I don't think its possible to become less of a musician than that. What could possibly be next, people who listen to music for you and then summarize it and you never listen? Even that would require creating sentences with unique words in them. That is far MORE CREATIVE than this guy. Really funny stuff, BI is addictive with this crazy news. Good article, it reminds me of the horrible derivative art that the Etruscan's made just before they disappeared from history. Or the horrible Greek art after the golden age had ended. Derivative, self-referential, lacking new energy. A fool diddling himself with music of the past. amerzedoon Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:17:20 -0400 Thank Yoy Very Much