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Secret Diary

album by Girl Talk

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ10369199 ↗
Source-derived summary

Secret Diary is the debut studio album by American musician Girl Talk, released in 2002 on Illegal Art. The album was later made available for purchase through a "pay what you want" pricing system on Illegal Art's website.

Track listing

"Let's Start This Party Right" – 2:26

"I Want You Back" – 3:27

"Ffun Haave To" – 5:12

"What If..." – 4:22

"Time to Get Glamorous" – 4:51

"Unicorn vs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Secret Diary” is album by Girl Talk. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Secret, Diary and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002. For this dossier, Secret, Diary and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Girl Talk” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10369199. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Secret Diary”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Secret Diary primary sources, Secret Diary archive and Secret research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Secret Diary”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Secret Diary” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.