learningtofly said:

Sampling still involves work, i don't get how it's lame.

it isn't like they are using an exact copy of someone else's song and replacing the vocals.

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Shroomism said:

I don't even know who GirlTalk is.

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Gillis began making music while a student at Chartiers Valley High School in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville. After a few collaborative efforts, he started the solo "Girl Talk" project. He continued making music under the Girl Talk alias while studying biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University  in Cleveland, Ohio. He produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song. The New York Times Magazine has called his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen,"[2]  a criticism that Gillis has attributed to mainstream media that want "to create controversy where it doesn't really exist," citing fair use  as a legal backbone for his sampling practices.[3]

He has given different explanations for the origin of his stage name, once saying that it alluded to a Jim Morrison poem[4] and once saying that it alluded to an early Merzbow side project.[5] Most recently, he attributed the name to a grunge band called TAD, based in Seattle.[6] In a 2009 interview with FMLY, Gillis stated:

    [T]he name Girl Talk is a reference to many things, products, magazines, books. It’s a pop culture phrase. The whole point of choosing the name early on was basically to just stir things up a little within the small scene I was operating from. I came from a more experimental background and there were some very overly serious, borderline academic type electronic musicians. I wanted to pick a name that they would be embarrassed to play with. You know Girl Talk sounded exactly the opposite of a man playing a laptop, so that’s what I chose.[7]

In school, Gillis focused on tissue engineering. He later worked as an engineer, but quit in May 2007 to focus solely on music.

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Mr. Cypher said:

I'd argue that creatively using samples certainly counts as making original music; after all if you're making electronic music you're technically using a "sample" of each note to compose the piece.

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SprewellSleeve said:

still use samples for beats and stuff so much?It's pretty pathetic.

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learningtofly said:

SprewellSleeve said:

still use samples for beats and stuff so much?It's pretty pathetic.

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so this is no good because the beat is comprised of samples?

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