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Girl Talk at the Fillmore Miami Beach, May 19 and 20

A A A Comments (0) By S. Pajot Thursday, May 19 2011
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But even as a hard-core party scientist, Gillis isn't all hung up on notions of analytical accuracy and absolute truth. "There's no correct way to understand [the music]," he insists. "You know, I understand it on a certain level, and I like it on a certain level. But if someone has a very different reason for liking it, I don't think that's wrong or incorrect. I get that they have a different background in music.

"When I started this project, it was more of an underground sorta thing. Back then, I was really interested in pushing people's buttons. I was a fan of pop music and everything I sampled. But I knew it was sometimes challenging for these underground-style shows to embrace pop music."

Girl Talk: Risen from the underground.
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Girl Talk: Risen from the underground.

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The Fillmore Miami Beach

1700 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

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Region: Out of Town

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Girl Talk, with Max Tundra. 9 p.m. Thursday, May 19, and Friday, May 20, at Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Tickets cost $20 plus fees via livenation.com. Call 305-673-7300, or click here.

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Over these past ten twisting years, though, the Girl Talk experience has shifted from a bratty Negativland- and John Oswald-inspired stab at pop-culture pranksterism to a far broader, all-inclusive initiative that's exploded beyond the cool-kid rock bars, landing on stages at midsized theaters, mini-arenas, and major music festivals in a hyperactive frenzy of high-tech LED screens, toilet-paper cannons, and random props — not to mention hipsters, ravers, frat boys, club kids, and radio junkies.

"The audience now is very exciting to me," Gillis enthuses. "There are some people who are very indie-music-minded and might hate pop music, but they like hearing it manipulated. And then there are other people who are just straight-up music fans, and they like knowing all the references.

"It's an appropriation-based project. Some people think about it. And other people don't. People can deconstruct it on many serious levels. Or people can just go party, watch a ton of confetti fly in the air, and sweat with their friends."

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