Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk) began making music while studying at Chartiers Valley High School in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville. After a few collaborative efforts Gillis started the solo Girl Talk project and continued making music while studying biomedical engineering.
Girl Talk produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses unauthorized samples from different songs to create a new song. The New York Times Magazine has called his music "a lawsuit waiting to happen". Gillis also featured in the 2008 open source documentary RiP!: A Remix Manifesto.
This week, Girl Talk made his latest album All Day available as a free download and subsequently became one of the most searched names on Google, crashing his hosting site in the process.
All Day features snippets of songs from Neil Diamond, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beyoncé and INXS, while Get It Get It samples 19 different tracks. It opens with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance over Aphex Twin's Windowlicker before moving on to Missy Elliott rapping over Daft Punk's Digital Love.
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Source: Guardian, Wikipedia
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