maybe they should be replaced by a good band like staind
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
they usually all chipped in for beer, is that a collective?
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 April 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
i'm guessing you mean kid606 and not so much i guess?girl talk live is a bit baffling; he sorta has a party with a bunch of audience members on the stage with balloons and shit and then there are rings of subparties into the crowd and everyone else holds up their phones and tapes the entire proceeding? i wish that sort of thing was exciting to me.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
the success of this musician who routinely takes the most popular music in the world and then throws a big dance party with it is totally baffling
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, I fucking hate girl talk. Are they really even still um like a thing anymore?
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
He's not even a girl!
― how's life, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
It doesn't matter. It's popular as long as popular songs remain popular.
― Evan, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:14 (ten years ago) link
and dancing remains popular as well
― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
As long as girls and talking remain popular.
― how's life, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
i think it's fair to ponder the enduring popularity of a mash-up act considering the decline of mash-ups as an area of interest outside of that one act's career
― some dude, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
I don't know if the crowds into Girl Talk are the kind of people that can be concerned with how hip the concept of mash-ups are, the mash-ups will be popular (in festival type settings) as long as the mashed up songs remain current.
― Evan, Monday, 14 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
the success of this musician who routinely takes the most popular music in the world and then throws a big dance party with it is totally baffling― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 14, 2014 7:08 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
i've seen his show three times and each was worse and more eyeroll-inducing than the previous. and yes i am aware that people still like dancing and listening to top 40 radio (or even recurrent hits, which is what comprises the majority of gt's work)
― dyl, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
So what is everyone struggling with then?
― Evan, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
Again, the crowd he is attracting aren't analyzing the act in the slightest they're just all "OMFG I LOVE THIS SONG TOO"
― Evan, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
Almost like what a DJ does.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
yeah but a DJ is just like peanut butter, or jelly. Girl Talk mixed the peanut butter and the jelly in the same proprietary jar.
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, April 14, 2014 4:30 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l4nq-K82Kqo/Tz5OLnwW8hI/AAAAAAAAAyg/vVZ3SaAyIJc/s1600/wee-bey-gif.gif
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
bafflement is at his continued longevity as a top-tier artist and general amazement that his kinda not really somewhat unique schtick has managed so long, mostly untouched and unchanged, when (fer instance) andrew wk is third stage if that these days
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
this link is failing at the moment but i thought ilx knew this take as definitive?
http://www.vulture.com/2010/11/girl_talk_americas_coolest_wed.html
11/18/2010 at 2:45 PM
Girl Talk: America’s Coolest Wedding D.J.
By Nitsuh Abebe
― goole, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:34 (ten years ago) link
link wouldn't work for me
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
oh you kind of said that
it's... otm
XP YES I KNOW
― goole, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:36 (ten years ago) link
But Americans don’t dance to dance music — we party to rock and hip-hop. [...] And the dynamic of his mixes isn’t the slow, sweaty rise and fall of a club — it’s the amped-up blur of a house party. All Day represents countless hours of tricky editing, but Gillis can give it away for free, because his real product is the crazed mobile house party of his live show — and a lot of Americans will take that over a good D.J. any day. For better or worse, Girl Talk is built for this country in a way none of its predecessors were.
― goole, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
if the url is any indication i can't argue
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
that link doesnt work
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:37 (ten years ago) link
his kinda not really somewhat unique schtick
I think he has a skillset, musical ability, conceptual framework and links to both plunderphonic and DJ culture that the 50,000 LOOK IT IS NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL AND NAS NASTRAL MILK HOTELLMATIC HAR HAR IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE OOCHIE WACHIE *jizzes on belly* mash-up artists have lacked
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:38 (ten years ago) link
as a child of the bloggy mashup culture i agree with that but the "wedding party" dynamic is anathema to me
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
*jizzes on belly*
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
nb: i did not agree with *jizzes on belly*
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.tattoostime.com/images/17/jesus-tattoo-on-chest-belly.jpgJesus on belly.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Milk out my nastralls
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
@ whiney's post
this is some all-american stuff right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZHeosB0rI
― scott seward, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
its the american version of that verve video.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
ILX's Girl Talk hatred is one of the most misguided things ever on this site. "Only WE can be music geeks! Everyone's OTAKU now! Ugh!" Seriously reeks of Star Wars fans complaining about chewbacca tea cozies or something
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
i'm actually surprised you're not hating on him
― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
i've always rode for Girl Talk
this is just the aftertaste of the goon-culture days when everyone besides me and xhuxk was too shook to have any opinion on rap different than ethan's at risk of being called a herb or a kid-fucker
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
herbs...kid fuckers..curbs...herb fuckers!herb fuckers on the bench!/arlo guthrie
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sonofnostalgiazone.com/prodimages/InsideBaseball03xx.jpg
― waterbabies (waterface), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
*rolls eyes, dies*
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
my dislike of girltalk came more from a vahid/"dahnce" POV than whatever ethan-phobic projection yr going on abt
chewbacca tea cozies
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 14, 2014 5:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, April 14, 2014 5:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You are starting to overheat. I just don't like girl talk.
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
goon-culture days when everyone besides me and xhuxk was too shook to have any opinion on rap different than ethan's
dude fuck you
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
it's funny how that post is like the mirror image of what he's accusing *the entire rest of ILM* of doing
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
i understand why ilx doesn't like girl talk but my guess is that it boils more down to politics than snobbery. white suburban dude remixing popular radio for hipster listeners is never going to get broad acceptance here. it is just close enough to actual pop music to feel uncanny
― Mordy , Monday, 14 April 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
i just can't believe girl talk doesn't play his own instruments and write his own songs. can't we all agree that's what's really wrong with music nowadays?
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
ok, in retrospect, that ethan post was cray on my part hahaha
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
it is just close enough to actual pop music to feel uncanny
I think there is something to this
― ביטקוין (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link