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Originally Posted by Strangelet
What I find interesting is that you've been arguing its not on the level of "full art" and that its an exaggeration of the dj process rather than a breakthrough of the process and yet insist on criticizing it on that level, instead of conceeding the possibility that it wasn't ever meant to be anything more than that.
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Right... I'm arguing in these terms because those were the ones presented in the interview article that was posted in this thread, and then supported afterwards (although I realize the main argument in quoting that article was to "prove" that Girl Talk is not ironic). As my point has been that I don't think those terms really work, I would actually prefer to talk about Girl Talk as "just" more pop music that "just" isn't very good, but the immediate impulse in praising him and other marginal artists who work with pop is to suggest that he transcends pop! A lot of tricky layers to navigate, always.
EDIT: However, I think it is quite valid to consider pop and dance music with "conceptual rigor", as it were. Good music inspires thought, no matter its first intent. But that brings me back to why I'd rather not think too hard about Girl Talk....
Sorry....