Girl Talk on How His ‘Night Ripper’ Album “Changed My Life”: Interview
Mash-ups existed 10 years ago, but in 2006, no one was releasing mash-ups with the same exuberant finesse as Gregg Gillis, better known as the producer Girl Talk. When his third album, Night Ripper, was released in the summer of 2006, Gillis, then working a lab job in Pittsburgh, introduced a new form of DJ set.
The full-length was based around splicing dozens of rap, rock, pop and R&B songs into single entities, hooks stacked upon disproportionate hooks in a way that made both sound better. Wait, was that a Van Halen riff tossed in behind a Big Boi verse, leading up to a Britney Spears-led bridge? Yes, yes it was. Night Ripper was hailed as groundbreaking, garnered rave reviews and a few (threatened) lawsuits, and turned Girl Talk from a bedroom project into a festival headliner.
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