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...about the name "Girl Talk." I was coming from the more avant garde world and when I chose it, I clearly wasn't trying to figure out a game plan for a 10-year project that I would eventually live off of. Back then, I was almost using pop music as an act of rebellion, especially being part of the experimental-music community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because...
...used to work as a bioengineer, how has your scientific background influenced your music? I think, if anything, just the meticulous nature of engineering goes hand-in-hand with what I do. I use a calculator to make sure things fall on a rhythmic pattern that is informed by math. My work has always involved sitting down at a computer and focusing on the smallest detail and working on tiny little things for hours at a time that eventually go toward a bigger picture. And that's kind of how I approach my music...
...your earliest and more surprising supporters is Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle, who cited your music during a hearing on copyright law. What did you think when you first heard about that? One of his advisors e-mailed me a YouTube link of him speaking before Congress and I thought it was a spoof at first. I think he went out on a limb there with this relatively progressive idea, probably to a room of people who had no idea what he was even talking about. Sometimes people seem to think me or my record label don't understand...
...permission and pay artists for the samples you use? I feel a certain way about the laws, but I don't necessarily want to wear that on my sleeve. I don't want to go play a show and then preach to the audience about sampling rights. If my music generates thoughts on those issues, that's fantastic, but it's not goal number...
...funny once, surely it'll be funny a second time. That's the idea behind Jeff Foxworthy jokes, Mike Myers movies and Carrot Top's entire existence. And now the philosophy has spread to the folks over at Funny or Die, who have posted the second literal music video with a version of the 1985 Tears for Fears song Head over Heels...