As to whether that argument would hold up, no one ever took him to court and most of his records are available on streaming services and YouTube.)Īfter All Day, Gillis stepped back from mashups, but not from music. (For those wondering, Girl Talk never cleared samples for his mashup albums, because he claimed the short snippets he used to essentially create a new work were protected under the “fair use” principle of copyright law. Drama’s 1999 Dirty South hit “Left, Right, Left” doing a call-and-response with Roy Orbison’s “You Got It” the guitar riff of Stars’ “Hum” skronking beneath M.I.A.’s “Galang” the list of examples goes on and on. Over three albums - 2006’s Night Ripper, 2008’s Feed the Animals, and 2010’s All Day - and during his famously rowdy live shows, Gillis detonated pop’s spacetime continuum in astoundingly clever ways. How 'Dickinson' Creator and Music Supervisors Collaborated on a Soundtrack That Subverts Expectationsīetween 20, Gillis carved out one of the most unique careers in music with Girl Talk, a project that embodied the promise of the internet’s infinite jukebox. Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti Headline Return of the Smoker's Club Fest Mash-Up King Girl Talk Teams With Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Smoke DZA for New Song 'Put You On' “Can anyone afford to put it out? I’m not used to dealing with actual labels with a sample clearance team, so it was educational going through that process.” “When we were done, I was thinking, I don’t even know if this can come out!” Girl Talk - real name Gregg Gillis - tells Rolling Stone.
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No, the challenge Full Court Press presented was a hurdle that none of those years of mashups prepared him for: clearing samples.
out April 8 via Asylum/Taylor Gang - is a marked departure from the producer/DJ’s wildly popular mashup albums. Not just from a creative standpoint, though Full Court Press - a collaborative album with Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA, and Big K.R.I.T.
To finish his first album in 12 years, Girl Talk had to do something he’d never done before.
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