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July 17, 2008

Appropriating Girl Talk's Appropriations [language NSFW]




Girl Talk is Greg Gillis, whose second album is "Feed the Animals." He's an epic practitioner of the mashup: every song is comprised of what he considers "fair use" samples from other recording artists. Enter "Bunny Greenhouse," who's compiling videos with snippets from videos by those musicians. Jeeeeez..... Then again, BG did re-edit Magnolia to Gameboy music.








This is the composition I'm looking forward to BG's remake:



Posted by Ray Pride at July 17, 2008 07:44 PM

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