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

it's not that I'm baffled that girl talk is popular, more that I forget they exist roughly every other year

girls keep talking, girls always...work it out

MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS

oh for fuck's sake

apologies for not properly following the writing guidelines from a 10-year-old thread

o but you did!

don't sweat it -- you're in good company.

(ironically i forgot about that thread)

it's just a funny affectation, everybody does it

i did mit mystery hunt this year and one of the puzzles was based off girl talk's discography:

http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2014/puzzle/monster_potatoes/

oh and here's the solution:
http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2014/puzzle-solution/monster_potatoes/

and guess who figured out the conceit of the puzzle

that's right

freelance hellraiser?

Whiney otm

I saw Girl Talk play to 120 ppl above a pub in 2006, it was great

would not go anywhere near the 1600-cap theatre shows he's played since

check my awesome two-bladed snobbishness!

saw Girl Talk play to 120 ppl above a pub in 2006, it was great

yet how many of these attendees went on to form bands?

you don't start a band after seeing Girl Talk, you put you iPod in shuffle mode and find yourself unable to stop skipping to the next track every 30 seconds

I had no idea ILM hated Girl Talk and kinda wish this thread gave me a better idea of why, tbh. Scott otm too, I'm still loving his ep w Freeeway a lot so far as him doing hiphop stuff goes

i just lump him in with the likes of matt & kim at this point, which is probably more the fault of me seeing him at bamboozle '09 than anything else

haha i have no idea what matt and kim sound like but had this vague assumption in my head that you have just completely overturned

and yeah echoing girl talk's kinda lineage in plunderphonics if you listen to the mix before night ripper you get more of a sense of that. as much eye rolling and tiresomeness eventually (well, pretty quickly i guess actually) came out of that mashup moment there's still alot there i remember fondly. also, for ppl who don't know, jason forrest aka donna summer became some kind of motivational sales coach guy, his motivational album (?) is on spotify. this, sadly, isn't but is still awesome - http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Jason+Forrest+10+Amazing+Years

wait wait wait that's not really the same jason forrest is it?! the motivational guy???

oh i mean girl talk and matt & kim at this point serve the 'festival music' function of being made for partying/glowsticking/dancing along with. girl talk just has more recognizable hooks than his compadres (although the time i saw axwell and he dropped songs by rhcp, the fray, and coldplay into his set probably dovetails with gt's sustaining appeal).

actually this (terrible) piece on outkast's place in the edm-heavy festival land kind of sums up gt's appeal at this point

http://edm.com/blog/why-its-EDMs-fault-Outkast-flopped-coachella-2014

haha i actually have no idea - i've looked at pics of both and been like 'maaaybe?', i might have prosopagnosia though, i have my doubts about my temporal lobes.

I did the same thing.

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1534276_697687620264711_26413011_n.jpg
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/nl/files/2010/01/j_forrest_05_cut_web.jpg

aaargh I need answers

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1.0-9/1656012_715049978528475_1406772524_n.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPiMTtobWVE9cN7stmCTfYR78VH9f0Z3xUfugyqZXo9YMlvtcL

Yes, I'm absolutely trying to kill the thread.

Maura that piece makes a lot of sense, unpleasantly written tho it may be, think hipster crowds've been heading in this direction since early 00s/electroclash rly

Donna summer is fuckin awesome btw

Oh yeah that doesn't seem to be the same guy (Donna Summer/motivational speaker), too bad

Fwiw i don't hate Girl Talk, it's just kind of amazing. I saw him around a decade and the crowd for the show was really small and not really dancing or even really all that into it, just there because he was Girl Talk and he had some buzz. And yeah at the time it felt like last gasps from electroclash not the start of some big-name festival guy. I mean, if I knew how music worked, maybe I would be in Girl Talk's place.

I don't listen to Girl Talk but I get it. Also, in interviews Gillis is surprisingly thoughtful about the process.

dude was a doctor of some sort doing this shit on the weekend if i remember correctly
and yes, I can't help but appreciate his no samples cleared freebie mixes distributed on the internet back when that was a fairly novel conceit.
plus i liked night ripper as much as the next kid with a limewire account
but much like no one coulda assumed cee-lo would be the darling of the reality show set, I don't remember anyone saying "this girl talk guy, he's a definite draw on the festival circuit for the next ten years, that's bankable money there"

Not everyone's as abreast of the musical zeitgeist as your average ILMer, not least festival audiences. That's not meant to be snobby, in fact I'm often surprised at how quickly Ilxors are ready to reject a style as being old hat when to the rest of the world it's only just kicking off. Thinking about dubstep -> EDM; minimal techno -> deep house etc... If the mashup scene feels a bit ten-years ago to us, it's bound to appeal to a broad range of people who just want to dance around to pop songs in a tent.

Hey, I never would have guessed the guy behind the low hanging fruit that was The Grey Album would quickly go on to be a principal collaborator with Cee-Lo, the dude from the Shins, Beck, U2, Black Keys, Damon Albarn and others.

in a world where this guy i've never heard of is worth 42 mil anything is possible:

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/richest-djs/judge-jules-net-worth/

I've never heard or heard of Judge Jules, but I suspect I would rather listen to Girl Talk.

UK trance/Ibiza stalwart. NB. not a qualified judge.

Judge Jules is still a going concern eh? That's a blast from 1999.

judge jules >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> girl talk

perpetually dumb. should have called it How Big Of A Jerk Are You?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/how-much-of-a-music-nerd-are-you

not music writing really...just took over my facebook...

should have called it How Big Of A Jerk Are You

the title and URL already mix'n'matches 'nerd' and 'snob' so maybe they already do on the front page or something

just say no to quizzes

ugh I couldn't even get through five tickboxes of that, def should just be called "are you a dick"

And fuck all of these buzzfeed quizzes.

Failure to support our clickbait, page view, slideshow economy could spell disaster for the recovery.

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/enlightened/episodes/season-01/10/burn-it-down-1024.jpg

that guy man

Jesus http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/04/15/301440765/why-we-fight-about-pop-music?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140415#partthree

how is that bad