Music Review
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By Rose Hoonan
Girl Talk is composed of a man, his laptop and a mash up of mainstream music. Artist Gregg Gillis remixes popular songs, creating a never-before-heard version of well-known tunes.
His latest album, "All Day," exemplifies his greatest music mixings. Because Girl Talk uses the music of others, I will use the ideas of my peers to talk about the album using only pre-existing sentences and phrases.
"All Day," a stew of samples lifted from 373 songs and recombined into a chaotic, propulsive mix1 will make you turn up the radio, turn up the tape machine.2 His latest collection is whiplash-inducing party jams.3 There is a reason to believe 4 this beat is sick.5
Samples such as Jackson 5, Bananarama, Ludacris and the Beastie Boys and his formula of mixing current hip-hop with '80s and '90s nostalgia 6 allow the samples to breathe, evolve and take on a life of their own without wearing out their welcome.7
He also unearths the hidden beauty in places you probably never would have looked – Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha.8 Girl Talk's latest album "All Day" is 9 a warm, luminous, timeless melody. 10
So next time you hear 11 "All Day," 12 Consider the wondrous works of 13 Gillis.14 A DJ is only as good as his taste, and Girl Talk is immaculate.15
Sources:
1. The New York Times
2. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
3. MTV
4. Paul Simon, Graceland
5. Lady Gaga
6. Paste Magazine
7. Pitchfork Media
8. Alternative Press
9. The Maine Campus (University of Maine)
10. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Harrison Bergeron"
11. Justin Bieber
12. IllegalArt.com
13. Job 37:14
14. PBS
15. Blender.com
