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Digital Music: How Girl Talk Re-Invents a Genre

Girl talk is an artist that mixes songs from different generations and genres and transforms them by layering them with other tracks. Girl Talk’s music is a form of musical collage, because he takes certain samples, whether it be lyrics or instrumentals, and appropriates them into a hybrid, which in the end, becomes a new song entirely. By doing so, Girl Talk takes away the aura of the original samples he uses and creates a new unique aura, by remediating the original tracks. In every composition, Girl Talk manages to incorporate many layers of music by always including at least two samples at the same time; songs that usually exist within different realms sound musically cohesive. Girl Talk was one of the first DJs to experiment with this type of layering, and has become quite well-known for it. Do you think Girl Talk has created a new genre entirely through his interpretations, or is he the ultimate plagiarist?