Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk, used to be an engineer, but quit a few years ago to focus solely on his music. Good choice. He is a mash-up artist, not a DJ, and he creates unique tracks by combining tracks from various different artists. So, you might get some sweet bass from Boston's Foreplay/Long Time and it gets combined with some rapping from Ludacris and then they seamlessly transition and become Elton John's Tiny Dancer plus Notorious BIG's Juicy....or something like that. And yes, those combinations have actually been used by Girl Talk on past albums. And yes, they were both as amazing as they sound.
Many of you have probably heard of Girl Talk, yet you'd be surprised how many students I remember giving tours to at JMU and when I asked if they had heard of the recent artists to perform at JMU, less than half of them had heard of Girl Talk. I was consistently surprised at how few potential students knew of Girl Talk and his magical music. So, for those of you, whether you have or have not heard his stuff, for you I would now like to briefly review his new release.
All Day by Girl Talk, released on Illegal Art, came out November 15 of this year. It is 12 tracks of amazing music, all put together in his usual amazing way. Yet, this album doesn't have the same feel to me as his past ones. I remember first listening to Night Ripper and Feed the Animals, and thinking that all I wanted to do was throw a loud, sweaty, strobe-light-filled, glow-stick-twirling, crazy dance party...immediately. Well, on this album I didn't exactly get the same feel. While there are still some tracks that make me want to do that, this time I feel more like just rocking out. You know...just road trip, blasting these tunes, or while going on a run maybe? Maybe that's just me being used to Girl Talk's stuff and Night Ripper was so new and inventive and creative to me that it just blew me away and melted my face. Maybe All Day is just as good, but I don't realize it. Correction: it is just as good, but in a different way. This album was practically flawless. I felt like I had been listening to songs for 2 minutes then next thing you know I look down and I'm on track 8. Time flew as I listened. I was just sucked into it all and didn't want it to end. In my opinion, Girl Talk is the best at mash-up music in the game right now (but he best watch his back for artists like Cocaine Mortgage!). He puts together incredible combinations and makes it flow and mix together so smoothly and perfectly that you're surprised that your parents are enjoying the music almost as much as you are. All Day does just that, it takes beautiful music, puts it together with music that you'd never imagine it could fit with...but he does it. The album is meant to be listened to as one giant track, and it's a beautiful 1 track album if I do say so.
Personally, who thought that Simon & Garfunkel would be able to party with Lil John? Not this guy. Yet Girl Talk did it. Personally, that's my favorite mash-up from this album. I had no clue that Cecilia could really Get Low like that. I replayed that song, This is the Remix, dozens of times, the first time I listened to the album. And so far All Day has received good reviews from multiple music critics, and I will have to agree with them. I'd say...overall...I give Girl Talk's All Day album...
8.5 out of 10
(...with the only large deduction coming from the fact that I was rocking out to a song that had Miley Cyrus music as the bass. As I thought about that, I realized that the people at the stop light that could hear my music, didn't hear Girl Talk, they just heard Party in the USA's bass vibrating from my car. Darn you Girl Talk for making people think I was partying with Miley!)
Click HERE to download All Day by Girl Talk
Thanks for reading, I hope you appreciated it, and I hope you enjoy Girl Talk's new album!
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