OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

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

Ugh, I fucking hate girl talk. Are they really even still um like a thing anymore?

He's not even a girl!

It doesn't matter. It's popular as long as popular songs remain popular.

and dancing remains popular as well

As long as girls and talking remain popular.

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

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.

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

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)

So what is everyone struggling with then?

Again, the crowd he is attracting aren't analyzing the act in the slightest they're just all "OMFG I LOVE THIS SONG TOO"

Almost like what a DJ does.

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.

Almost like what a DJ does.

― 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

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

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

link wouldn't work for me

oh you kind of said that

it's... otm

XP YES I KNOW

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.

if the url is any indication i can't argue

that link doesnt work

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

as a child of the bloggy mashup culture i agree with that but the "wedding party" dynamic is anathema to me

*jizzes on belly*

nb: i did not agree with *jizzes on belly*

http://www.tattoostime.com/images/17/jesus-tattoo-on-chest-belly.jpg
Jesus on belly.

Milk out my nastralls

@ whiney's post

this is some all-american stuff right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZHeosB0rI

its the american version of that verve video.

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

i'm actually surprised you're not hating on him

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

herbs...
kid fuckers..
curbs...
herb fuckers!
herb fuckers on the bench!
/arlo guthrie

http://www.sonofnostalgiazone.com/prodimages/InsideBaseball03xx.jpg

*rolls eyes, dies*

my dislike of girltalk came more from a vahid/"dahnce" POV than whatever ethan-phobic projection yr going on abt

chewbacca tea cozies

*jizzes on belly*

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, April 14, 2014 5:15 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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, April 14, 2014 5:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are starting to overheat. I just don't like girl talk.

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

it's funny how that post is like the mirror image of what he's accusing *the entire rest of ILM* of doing

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

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?

ok, in retrospect, that ethan post was cray on my part hahaha

it is just close enough to actual pop music to feel uncanny

I think there is something to this

i haven't heard much girl talk stuff but i know i didn't hate it. it felt more rap-oriented or hip-hop than indie/hipster stuff usually does. i can totally believe people lose their shit to it live. i mean i am an olde-tyme sampling/remix/megamix/edit fan, and i think he's got something. dunno if i could listen to a whole album of it, but in the 80's he might have been a cool freestyle edit/remix dude. maybe. i wouldn't mind hearing some of his good rap remixes. he must have some. or production for other people like that freeway thing.

i mostly just remember the girl talk black sabbath thing and i was into that. but then i loved rick rubin's we will rock you remix, so, you know...

yeah whiney i know you didn't start posting til like 2005 or whatever but i can assure you ethan was not the hip-hop consensus in early days. i liked that first really big girl talk mix (the one w/ the neutral milk hotel mashup), i kinda enjoyed it as similar to soulwax mixes etc only coming from an american perspective so there was this rooting in hip-hop and altrock and classic rock and amerindie instead of like betty boo and gary numan, reminded me of danger mouse's parties in the late 90s (he'd always get the crowd going to 'holland 1945' also). felt a little hilarious and really? to see ppl putting it on their year end lists but it was a good workout mix. the later ones didn't do as much for me and i was kinda surprised ppl were still enthusiastic about the guy, like whiney treating him like he's an unparalleled dj god is kinda amazing, but i don't doubt this guy could get a crowd ecstatic, as long as he didn't play any outkast i guess.