The Swarm

November 07, 2008

WATCH: Girl Talk's Microsoft 'I'm A PC' ad... Plus, new 'name your price' album promo...

Todd Roberts

Also… Girl Talk takes a page out of Radiohead’s book and promotes new album “Feed The Animals” with “name your price” model here.


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#1 lulz says:

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laptop sets still suck

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#2 Julio Inglesias says:

Nice yellow mock turtleneck there Greg.

#3 Girl Talk ( from one year in the future) says:

Check it out! I can combine two or three songs... together! This is the hotness here! Oh yeah!!!!!!!! Wait... what the... stupid piece of crap just crashed! Stupid Windows! Why did I ever do those ads for buggy software? Damn, how the hell do I finish my set? Oh well, guess I'll just ride an inflatable raft over the audience... that always works! Laterz, yo!

#4 Crack 5.0 says:

You could do all that shit on a Mac

#5 frank says:

Is advertising products also punk rock?

#6 dork says:

dork

#7 steph says:

wait a second... when i saw GT last year, he was on a mac.

hmmmmm

#8 dookiebrain says:

hate it or love it? its all pop music! so the chances of loving it- infinite!?

at least he admits to "paying his dues" by playing for ten people and them hating HIS music before mashing up other people's tunes.

rock and roll "experience" with laptops or actually rocking a laptop? if covering a laptop with saran wrap and playing other people's tunes is rock and roll so are lesbian DJs!!!

#9 duh says:

No, making music WITH REAL INSTRUMENTS is the most punk rock thing you can do...

#10 Jordan Catalano says:

Bless you, Greg Gillis. Bless you.

#11 G.B says:

Two words : "Jive" & "Bunny"

#12 djd says:

I have nothing but h8 for GT.

#13 JSYK says:

A few things to note...

He never actually says "Making music on a PC is the most punk rock thing you can do." That unfortunate misquote seems to only appear on the abstract.

He 100% does not use a Mac. I keep seeing people accusing him of that, and it's just not true.

As far as shilling for Microsoft...He uses a PC and Windows. They've clearly been quite useful for him and I imagine he is very fond of the software and OS that he uses. What's wrong with having pride in that or feeling compelled to participate in a campaign to promote it? I realize that there are Evil Empire implications with Microsoft, which are certainly problematic, but his all-inclusive perspective seems to jive perfectly with granting public approval of something he likes.

#14 sean says:

#3

Two or three songs? Try 8-16 songs, depending on the track.

#15 Steve says:

I agree. I dig some Girl Talk, but as someone who's devoted thousands of hours to their instrument, I still feel you can't "play" a laptop. Not that programming a good beat is cake, but there's very little that's engaging about a laptop "set." Might as well direct-in an iPod or something.

#16 P.M. says:

That's so software as they say...

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