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

I have a lot of friends who love girl talk but personally idgi. I wanted to like him.

Girl Talk basically just does the DJ Z-Trip thing, right? Does it go any deeper than that? Fun enough stuff. I don't know if I would check out him or Zedd though. Definitely not the Replacements.

festivals of its ilk have "music" maybe eighth or ninth on its list of priorities, just under sunscreen vendors and ahead of mist tents

^^^this

Girl Talk is horrible

Yes

z trip >>>>

legendary Minneapolis post-punk collective

Are the Replacements post-punk or a collective?

maybe they should be replaced by a good band like staind

they usually all chipped in for beer, is that a collective?

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.

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*