Girl Talk is an extraordinarily popular electronic group that takes samples of other people's music to create new songs. While Girl Talk is massively popular and the group's principal song organizer (I don't dare say song writer) Gregg Gillis has received a lot of publicity, both negative and positive.
I have lots of negative things to say. First off, I care about the artists that you sample from (The Beach Boys, The Emotions, Hall and Oates, Chicago, Paul McCartney, George Michael and hundreds of others). By not paying these people, who essentially wrote your music and made you successful, you are robbing and insulting every artist you have ever sampled from. They are real musicians, who crafted real songs and reached into their souls to share something with us. You are not doing that.
You are basically the same as a painter who cuts up masterpieces (like the Mona Lisa, the Scream and the Warhol Marilyn Monroe print) then tapes them to a canvas and calls it your own. It isn't yours. You just cut it up. Anyone can do that. The worst part is, now if some other kid cuts up pop songs and tries to share that music, people will label him as a Girl Talk poseur (which is like saying one tribute band is ripping off another tribute band).
I get it. People like your music, but how long will hipster kids be able to stand the same schtick?
I have lots of negative things to say. First off, I care about the artists that you sample from (The Beach Boys, The Emotions, Hall and Oates, Chicago, Paul McCartney, George Michael and hundreds of others). By not paying these people, who essentially wrote your music and made you successful, you are robbing and insulting every artist you have ever sampled from. They are real musicians, who crafted real songs and reached into their souls to share something with us. You are not doing that.
You are basically the same as a painter who cuts up masterpieces (like the Mona Lisa, the Scream and the Warhol Marilyn Monroe print) then tapes them to a canvas and calls it your own. It isn't yours. You just cut it up. Anyone can do that. The worst part is, now if some other kid cuts up pop songs and tries to share that music, people will label him as a Girl Talk poseur (which is like saying one tribute band is ripping off another tribute band).
I get it. People like your music, but how long will hipster kids be able to stand the same schtick?
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