英国版ELLE 4月刊上Taylor撰写的文章：音乐的力量和终极的流行音乐

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“My favorite kinds of books to read are the ones that do more than just tell you a story. They do more than just set the scene or paint the picture. The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character’s does. It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment.”

我最喜欢看的是那些不仅是单纯叙事的书，它们不仅仅是设置故事情景或者描述画面。我最爱的那些文字能够令你融入到故事当中、身临其境、经历雨中亲吻。你能嗅到空气中的味道，听到声音，心跳跟随着故事人物加速。而弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德[注：美国作家，作品包括《了不起的盖茨比》、《夜色温柔》]则很擅长这样的描写，能将情景与丰富的情感流露完美地交织在一起，令你在这一瞬间逃离自己的生活。

“I’m highly biased, but I think that the way music can transport you back to a long-forgotten memory is the closest sensation we have to traveling in time. To this day, when I hear ‘Cowboy Take Me Away’ by the Dixie Chicks, I instantly recall the feeling of being twelve years old, sitting in a little wood paneled room in my family home in Pennsylvania. I’m clutching a guitar and learning to play the chords and sing the words at the same time, rehearsing for a gig at a coffee house. When I hear ‘I Write Sins Not Tragedies’ by Panic! At The Disco, I’m transported back to being sixteen and driving down the streets of Hendersonville, Tennessee, with my best friend Abigail, euphorically screaming the lyrics. When I hear ‘How to Save a Life’ by The Fray, ‘Breathe (2AM)’ by Anna Nalick, or ‘The Story’ by Brandi Carlile, I immediately flashback to being seventeen and on tour for months on end. When I’d get a day at home in between long stretches on the road sharing a van with my band and crew, I would spend my rare nights off painting alone with candles lit in my room – just being alone with those songs (Those are all from the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack. My commitment to that show truly knows no bounds). I’m convinced that ‘You Learn’ by Alanis Morissette, ‘Put Your Records On’ by Corinne Bailey Raeand ‘Why’ by Annie Lennox have actually healed my heart after bad breakups or let downs.”

我的看法有极强的偏向性，但我还是认为，音乐能够带你回到你遗忘已久的记忆，而这过程正是一种最亲近的感觉，我们必须得回忆。直到现在，当我听到南方小鸡（Dixie Chicks）的”Cowboy Take Me Away”，我依然会立马回忆起12岁时，我住在宾州的家，坐在木地板房间里的感觉，同时我拿着吉他，学习弹奏和弦，唱着歌，为在咖啡店的小型演出做彩排。当我听到Panic! At the Disco乐队的”I Write Sins Not Tragedies”，我一下子被带回到16岁的时光，和我闺蜜Abigail在田纳西亨德森维尔的大街上开着车，欣喜若狂地大声唱出歌词。当我听The Fray乐队的”How to Save a Life” 、Anna Nalick的”The Breathe (2AM)”或者Brandi Carlile的”The Story”，我立马回忆起17岁时连续数月进行巡演的时光。当我长时间和我的乐队还有工作人员一起到处巡演，难得有一天在家，我就会在这难得的休息时间当中，在我点满蜡烛的房间里，独自画画，独自听着那些歌曲（那些来自《实习医生格蕾》电视剧原声带的歌，我对这部电视剧的爱真的是永无止境）。我确信Alanis Morissette的”You Learn”、Corinne Bailey Rae的”Put Your Records On”以及Annie Lennox的”Why”，在我经历糟糕的分手和失望后，治愈了我的心。

“I love writing songs because I love preserving memories, like putting a picture frame around a feeling you once had. I like to use nostalgia as inspiration when I’m writing songs for the same reason I like to take photographs. I like to be able to remember the extremely good and extremely bad times. I want to remember the color of the sweater, the temperature of the air, the creak of the floorboards, the time on the clock when your heart was stolen or shattered or healed or claimed forever.”

我爱写歌，因为我喜欢将记忆永存，这仿佛是将你曾经的那份感觉，放到相框里。当我写歌时，我喜欢用怀旧作为创作灵感，这同样也是我喜欢拍照的原因。我想要能够记住那些极好或者极坏的时光，我想要永远记住毛衣的颜色、空气的温度、地板嘎吱的声响、你的心被偷走被打击被治愈或者被占据的时刻。

“The fun challenge of writing a pop song is squeezing those evocative details into the catchiest melodic cadence you can possibly think of. I thrive on the challenge of sprinkling personal mementos and shreds of reality into a genre of music that is universally known for being, well, universal. You’d think that as pop writers, we’re supposed to be writing songs that everyone can sing along to, so you’d assume they would have to be pretty lyrically generic… AND YET the ones I think cut through the most are actually the most detailed, and I don’t mean in a Shakespearean sonnet type of way, although I love Shakespeare as much as the next girl. Obviously. (See ‘Love Story,’ 2009).”

创作流行音乐一个很有趣的挑战就是，要将那些能唤起记忆的细节，塞进你能想到的抓耳旋律当中。我将个人的记忆碎片和零碎的现实生活融入到这种类型的音乐，被公认为很大众的音乐，我从这样的挑战中进步了不少。你会觉得，我们作为流行音乐创作者，应该要写一些人人都能唱的歌，所以你会认为这些歌的歌词一定要非常通俗。然而，我认为最能扣人心弦的歌，其实是那些细节详尽的歌。我并不是说要做到莎士比亚十四行诗的那种程度，虽然我很喜欢莎士比亚。这点很明显了。（参见2009年的”Love Story”）

“In modern pop, songs/bops/chunes including extremely personal details like ‘Kiki, do you love me’ and ‘Baby pull me closer in the backseat of your rover’ have been breaking through on the most global cultural level. This year on tour, I got to hear stadium crowds passionately sing along to a young woman from Cuba singing about ‘Havana.’”

在现代流行音乐，那些包含了极私人细节的歌曲，如“Kiki你爱我吗”[注：Drake – “In My feelings”]、“亲爱的，在这路虎车的后座上，拉近你我的距离吧”[注：The Chainsmokers & Halsey - Closer]，都在最广泛的文化层面上一直突破。今年巡演时，我能听到体育场的观众们，热情地跟着一位来自古巴的年轻女性唱着关于“哈瓦那”的歌[注：Camila Cabello – Havana]。

“I think these days, people are reaching out for connection and comfort in the music they listen to. We like being confided in and hearing someone say, ‘this is what I went through’ as proof to us that we can get through our own struggles. We actually do NOT want our pop music to be generic. I think a lot of music lovers want some biographical glimpse into the world of our narrator, a hole in the emotional walls people put up around themselves to survive. This glimpse into the artist’s story invites us to connect it to our own, and in the best case scenario, allows us the ability to assign that song to our memories. It’s this alliance between a song and our memories of the times it helped us heal, or made us cry, dance, or escape that truly stands the test of time. Just like a great book.”

我觉得现在，人们正通过自己听的音乐，寻找联系与抚慰，我们都喜欢听他人的倾诉，听他人说“这就是我经历的事”，以此来证明我们能够熬过自己的痛苦。我们其实不喜欢我们的流行音乐变得通俗。我觉得很多音乐爱好者，都希望能够看一眼叙述者的生平世界，能通过他们为保护自己而建起的情感高墙上的洞一窥他们的内心情感。了解音乐人的故事能让我们联系到自己的经历，而最好的情况就是我们可以将这首歌载入我们的回忆。真正能经得起时间考验的结合，正是音乐和回忆的结合，那些音乐帮助我们愈合、让我们流泪、起舞、逃离的日子所创造的回忆。而一本好书也有同样作用。

原文链接：http://www.justjared.com/2019/02/27/taylor-swift-pens-essay-on-power-of-music-writing-the-ultimate-pop-song/?=morehere

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