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Are you the kind of person who likes to balance their intake of popular music by switching between hip hop, motown,  alternative, and 80's hits on the radio? Oh are you? Well you are in for a surprise.

Girl Talk is the hottest popular culture overload to date. Its just so meta. Girls love it. Boys love it. College kids love it. Hipsters love it. And I think its about time voxers get a taste too.  You may find it a bit overwhelming at first, your aural senses bombarded with switching beats and overlapping lyrics that visit your most expansive adventures in pop music.  Sometimes you'll get lost, and wonder where you started from.  But then, mixed beats like Ying Yang Twin's 'Whisper Song' pulse behind the sensitive melody of The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' and you'll notice that everything is in its place again.

Harold, just blogged about it, including the album Night Ripper's first track.  I'm going to go ahead and post the third track, 'Hold Up' for your listening pleasure.  If you want to map out my favorite moments, key into the track at 0:42, 1:45, and 2:28 for some delicious mix-up moments. 

I could approach this music at a different point, and go on about its existence as a cultural artifact of the media-saturated society that is our modern time.  But I won't.  Girl Talk is just too much a of a guilty pleasure to spoil. F'uh raaaals.

I feel as though it is my duty to share this video because of its caliiber, its probity, and especially because of its vision.  At times, it made me feel as though I wanted to cry.  Because of the artistry or because of the pain I felt while watching it, to this moment I am still unsure.  His state-of-the-art graphics and video effects are crafted with honorable effort for the late 80's. And come on, isn't there a little bit of the 'average homeboy' in all of us?

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