sampling and mashups are standard in pop
but never more abundantly than in his
music oh what a feeling hi I’m Rebecca
Braden and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with Greg Gilles
otherwise known as girl talk to learn
what influences his music so what kind
of music do you generally enjoy
listening to when does any of it inspire
you more than others you know I went
through different phases i really liked
like hair metal when I was super young
before i could buy music then I was just
in the rap when I was a young kid and
then got really into nirvana
we’re in a bit
after Nirvana kind of deeper and deeper
into you know what I’d consider weird
music and trying to get more more
underground and my time I was in high
school I release into a lot of just
experimental electronic music and that’s
when I started actively attending lot of
shows and performing with friends and
things like that but the whole while
always kind of listening to a lot of pop
and hip-hop and things like that I feel
lucky for what I’ve heard and I feel
like everyone’s lucky for what they
heard you know your tastes are governed
by like what you happen here when you
were young or a teenager what seemed
cool I’m very much influenced black pop
radio top 40 I love songs that would be
played at a wedding and I love songs
that you hear and they were a number one
single in 1976
see you sample all sorts of different
eras in genres and your music what is
the common thread between them all that
brings them together for you the music I
like to sample from is top 40 and that’s
absolutely the thread defines its all
music it’s pop it’s all music that’s
been really some major labels when you
are releasing music on such a scale like
that whether you’re the Bee Gees or
little Wayne or Kelly Clarkson or Sonic
Youth I mean obviously have different
intentions behind your art but you’re
still making music and putting it out to
the public you’re not like making music
and keeping it to yourself and
especially when you become successful
like that you’re pushing it on a larger
audience everyone has different
intentions behind what they’re doing but
you kind of have to respect what they’re
going for and the characters are trying
to create lists a live show like I mean
it does it ever get difficult to bring
energy to it when you’re basically guys
standing behind a laptop I just kind of
grew up playing shows I never came from
a DJ community never played a dance club
ring that’s I always grew up playing
shows with live acts always with a rock
band or hip-hop act or whatever used to
play a lot of shows to 10 or 15 people
and it’s like you get up there the
laptop and you kind of learn how to
interact with the crowd it is me
triggering samples every five or ten
seconds so technically I have to stay
behind the computer do that but
simultaneous i use loop based software
so i have the advantage of it i do move
away from the computer you just hear the
same things play over and over if i have
that freedom to get in the audience and
i don’t have a band up there so i can
get people on stage so I kind of like to
break down those barriers I really do a
point to you know just get as rowdy as
possible and kind of get out there and
you know just get people fired up
is it ever your goal to try to change
someone’s opinion about a particular
song no I mean I love all the music a
sample my big fan I try sampling
sincerely but I’m not trying to push
anything on anyone and ideally the work
i’m going to do is transformative i like
to reference the song i like it to be
recognizable but simultaneously I don’t
ever want to play a song you know I
don’t want to take a song that people
hate and say well I like it you’re
supposed to like it I don’t want to do
that I want to take us on that some
people hate some people love some people
feeling different about and make it into
something new that some people can hate
some people can love with some people
can feel indifferent about
Oh
but never more abundantly than in his
music oh what a feeling hi I’m Rebecca
Braden and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re speaking with Greg Gilles
otherwise known as girl talk to learn
what influences his music so what kind
of music do you generally enjoy
listening to when does any of it inspire
you more than others you know I went
through different phases i really liked
like hair metal when I was super young
before i could buy music then I was just
in the rap when I was a young kid and
then got really into nirvana
we’re in a bit
after Nirvana kind of deeper and deeper
into you know what I’d consider weird
music and trying to get more more
underground and my time I was in high
school I release into a lot of just
experimental electronic music and that’s
when I started actively attending lot of
shows and performing with friends and
things like that but the whole while
always kind of listening to a lot of pop
and hip-hop and things like that I feel
lucky for what I’ve heard and I feel
like everyone’s lucky for what they
heard you know your tastes are governed
by like what you happen here when you
were young or a teenager what seemed
cool I’m very much influenced black pop
radio top 40 I love songs that would be
played at a wedding and I love songs
that you hear and they were a number one
single in 1976
see you sample all sorts of different
eras in genres and your music what is
the common thread between them all that
brings them together for you the music I
like to sample from is top 40 and that’s
absolutely the thread defines its all
music it’s pop it’s all music that’s
been really some major labels when you
are releasing music on such a scale like
that whether you’re the Bee Gees or
little Wayne or Kelly Clarkson or Sonic
Youth I mean obviously have different
intentions behind your art but you’re
still making music and putting it out to
the public you’re not like making music
and keeping it to yourself and
especially when you become successful
like that you’re pushing it on a larger
audience everyone has different
intentions behind what they’re doing but
you kind of have to respect what they’re
going for and the characters are trying
to create lists a live show like I mean
it does it ever get difficult to bring
energy to it when you’re basically guys
standing behind a laptop I just kind of
grew up playing shows I never came from
a DJ community never played a dance club
ring that’s I always grew up playing
shows with live acts always with a rock
band or hip-hop act or whatever used to
play a lot of shows to 10 or 15 people
and it’s like you get up there the
laptop and you kind of learn how to
interact with the crowd it is me
triggering samples every five or ten
seconds so technically I have to stay
behind the computer do that but
simultaneous i use loop based software
so i have the advantage of it i do move
away from the computer you just hear the
same things play over and over if i have
that freedom to get in the audience and
i don’t have a band up there so i can
get people on stage so I kind of like to
break down those barriers I really do a
point to you know just get as rowdy as
possible and kind of get out there and
you know just get people fired up
is it ever your goal to try to change
someone’s opinion about a particular
song no I mean I love all the music a
sample my big fan I try sampling
sincerely but I’m not trying to push
anything on anyone and ideally the work
i’m going to do is transformative i like
to reference the song i like it to be
recognizable but simultaneously I don’t
ever want to play a song you know I
don’t want to take a song that people
hate and say well I like it you’re
supposed to like it I don’t want to do
that I want to take us on that some
people hate some people love some people
feeling different about and make it into
something new that some people can hate
some people can love with some people
can feel indifferent about
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