You can't stop him!

Who's going to? Honestly????

Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk really hit it big with his latest album, "Feed The Animals" released in the fall of 2008. His work consists of mashup style remixes featuring incredible amounts of samples. Gillis' work has been cited as "a lawsuit waiting to happen," by New York Times Magazine.

While I'm sure there are a ton of artists who are just dying to sue him for "stealing" their work, I don't think any of them will go through with it. None of them want to tarnish their names for suing the guy who was just trying to promote their work and make everybody dance. As an avid Girl Talk fan, I know I'd be disappointed to see someone take him to court. As far as I'm concerned his album only helps promote other musics. I think Gillis' style and mashup technique is fair use and he shouldn't be brought to court for it. If listeners hear the album and notice a particularly interesting sample they are likely to figure out who it is and then download the music. How does that hurt the artist?

I think the inudstry and certain artists need to take a step back and look at where we are today with music. You can go on about Girl Talk breaking copyright regulations, but I think it's foolish. While Gillis isn't completely creating his "own" music he still has to be creative and expressive in the way he mixes up the samples and finds different ways for the music to work with each other. He is a talented individual and I don't see him fading out anytime soon.

Beat-by-beat breakdown of "What It's All About" off "Feed The Animals".....

Check it out!