GIRLTALK
Fast forward to 2007 - the mashup has evolved.
Girltalk (Gregg Gillis) is a sample based artist. He has an album out on a label called Illegal Art. His songs combine bits of hundreds of song. His live show is a riot - he gets naked and flails around on stage and the crowd loves it.
Gregg also leads a double life - by day he works as a bio-medical engineer - creating products that depend on intellectual property. Each weekend he flies somewhere in America to perform a mashup show where he violates the intellectual property of the record industry.
Gregg is a positive example: the Creative process in action. It is a visceral example that creativity builds on the past - that art NEEDS to be re-invigorated, and that copyright can restrict this process. Gregg is remixing our culture, bringing it forward, revitalizing it. This should not be a crime.
In honor of Girl Talk's
In honor of Girl Talk's soldout show at the 9:30 Club tonight, I'm reprinting this interview with him from last September. Enjoy.
A google image search for Gregg Gillis, the given name of Pittsburgh mash-up artist Girl Talk, could leave the searcher unsure if they were looking at a DJ, a stripper, or an American Apparel model. There is a picture of Gillis on stage behind a laptop, Gillis from the neck up showing off bright green eyes and a bright blue trucker cap, and Gillis doing pushups on a hardwood floor with his butt-crack hanging out.
Actually, a google image search reveals very little at all about Greg Gillis. So I, the casual fan, decided it would just be easier to ask him.
It turns out that Girl Talk, who is best known for his shirts-and-skins live shows and ability to patchwork top-40 samples into stand-alone songs, is just a really nice 25 year-old with good phone presence, some cool ideas about music and, unfortunately, a girlfriend.
Girl Talk is playing at the Black Cat tomorrow with Dan Deacon and White Williams. Before I get into the interview, I have to get three essential facts out of the way. Gillis chose the name Girl Talk from a passage of Jim Morrison poetry. He prefers the new Kanye album to 50 Cent’s latest release, but just a little. And, most endearingly, he pronounces both “J’s” in “Peter, Bjorn and John.”
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