//五版首Po// 睡不着，无聊来翻译～ 先说好我不是英语相关科系学生，英文也没特别好， 大部分句子都是简单翻译， 其中有些句子极度不通顺与怪异， 在烦请大家帮忙修正， 还有一部分的句子都是从pt大的翻译照打的， （如果pt大介意我立刻删除） 总之我随便翻翻，大家也随便看看，不要太认真嘿！ 此翻译只分享在ptt五月天版，请勿转到其他地方，感谢 原文网址(感谢goldlipe大帮缩） https://goo.gl/JDdRCA -------------------------------------------------- Taiwanese Band Mayday Talks 20-Year Career 台湾乐团五月天畅谈20年的职涯 7/31/2017 by Tamar Herman Twenty years in, Taiwanese band Mayday is a phenomenon on par with the rock acts of bygone eras. 20年来，台湾乐团五月天和过去时代的摇滚乐并驾齐驱 Multiple generations of music listeners have bonded with the five men: lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ashin (Chen Shin Hung), band leader and guitarist Monster (Wen Shang Yi), bassist Masa (Tsai Shen Yen), guitarist Stone (Shi Chin Hang) and drummer Guan You (Liu Yen Ming). Five former high school friends, they became emblematic of Taiwan’s youth culture in their early days and have a career propelled on intense concert experiences and inspirational rock music that blurs the lines of alternative and pop. 不同世代的乐迷被此五人所连结—阿信(陈信宏)，主唱兼主要的作曲人；怪兽(温尚翊)团 长;玛莎（蔡昇晏 )，bass手；石头(石锦航)，吉他手；冠佑(刘彦明)，鼓手。 五位前高中朋友，在早期成为台湾青年文化的象徵，後来致力於演唱会演出与音乐创作， 五月天的创作模糊了另类摇滚和流行音乐的界线。 Though their fame is limited in scope primarily to the East Asian music market, Mayday is one of the world’s best-selling bands: According to Alibaba ’s Ali Music Group, their latest album, last July’s History of Tomorrow, saw more than 200 million digital sales in Taiwan and China alone, proving that time is doing nothing to minimize the band’s success. (For reference, 2016's top-selling album in the U.S, Drake’s Views, racked up 4.14 million equivalent album units that year, according to Nielsen Music.) 虽然他们的知名度局限於东亚音乐市场，然而五月天是世界上畅销乐团之一：跟据阿里巴 巴集团的阿里音乐，他们的最新专辑，去年七月所发行的《自传》，单在台湾和中国，便 有超过两亿的数位销售量。(以供参考，2016年美国最佳专辑销售量为 Drake的《Views》 ，根据尼尔森音乐的统计，今年共累积了414万张等效专辑) The same album took home the best Mandarin album of the year award at this year’s Golden Melody Awards in June, the most prestigious music awards ceremony in the Chinese-speaking world. 此专辑在今年六月份的金曲奖(华语地区最有声望的音乐颁奖典礼)得到了最佳国语专辑奖 While they’re on the cusp of middle age, the band members have a boyish charm to them that attracts both new and old listeners to their music two decades in. Sitting on a ledge with his feet dangling behind him, Masa, the youngest member at 40, radiated enthusiasm as he took in the view of the lower Manhattan skyline. In the States to prep for the upcoming U.S. stops of their Life tour, and to see U2’s Joshua Tree tour, Ashin, Masa and Monster spoke to Billboard about their extensive career. 虽然步入中年，团员所拥有的孩子气，20年来吸引着老歌迷和新歌迷。团中最年轻的 成员玛莎，在他看到了曼哈顿下城天际线景色，兴奋不已。阿信、玛莎和怪兽对 Billboard(告示牌)表示，将在美国准备即将到来的巡回演唱会及去欣赏U2的The Joshua Tree tour巡演 With the casual air of friends who have spent far too much time together -- and admit to knowing every one of each other’s little secrets -- the three admit that all five share a bond of familial kinship. “We were friends from high school so the last 20 years has been more like, ‘Oh, I spent 20 years with these family members,’” said Masa. According to Monster, Mayday’s existence in their lives isn’t even a question anymore. “If it’s not Mayday, we don’t know what we would do.” 在长时间相处下，他们知道彼此的小秘密，就像是家人般的关系。玛莎:「我们从高中就 是朋友，过去20年像是–喔！我花了20年和这几个家人相处。」怪兽:「五月天的存在是 无庸置疑的，如果不是五月天，我们不知道我们还能做什麽。」 Their longstanding friendship has ensured that Mayday’s members never fight, the members insisted. “We debate. We don’t argue,” said Masa. “The biggest obstacles we face are during the creative process while making music, ” added Monster. “We just have to work through those issues and work them out.” 美好的友谊使团员间从不争执。玛莎:「我们争论，但不争吵。」怪兽:「最大的阻碍都是 在创作音乐的过程。我们会一起解决。」 Mayday’s fans are young and old, long-term and new listeners who look to the band’s anthemic songs for inspiration. Epic concerts are the backbone of the band’s career, and Mayday’s relationship with their fans, with each show becoming a major event; their 20th anniversary concert in Taipei in March drew tens of thousands of listeners and caused major security concerns in the Taiwanese capital city. 歌迷不分年龄、旧雨新知都能在音乐里得到启发。演唱会是五月天的支柱，也是五月天和 歌迷间重要的桥梁，每次演唱会都成为了重要事件。三月在台北的20周年演唱会，吸引了 上万的人潮并造成了台湾首都安全疑虑。 “Going to a Mayday show is like entering a different dimension, but everybody is there together,” said the band’s manager, Julia Hsieh. “You experience the laughter, the touching moments, you xcry at the same time, you experience the same thing. Afterwards you just feel warm, you feel strength, you feel the energy that you got. That’s why I think people love to see them every time, regardless of age and who you are.” With such a wide-reach, concert attendees span generations, and often Mayday will see parents bringing their children. “Every time there are new people joining the Mayday experience,” said Ashin. “We make fun of our younger crowds sometimes, saying, ‘This is a song from when you weren’t even born yet.’” 艾姐:「参加五月天的演唱会就像是进入到一个不同的维度，但在那里的每个人都是一起 的；一起笑、一起哭、一起感动、一起经历相同的事，演唱会结束後感到温暖，并充满了 力量。 这就是为甚麽不分年龄与身分，大家都爱看五月天。」因此五月天的演唱会是跨越世代的 ，经常看到父母带着小孩来参加。阿信：「每当有新朋友加入五月天，都会对年轻观众开 玩笑地说『在写这首歌的时候，你们还没出生勒！』。」 Though they started out as a garage rock band and became known as representatives of Taiwan’s students in their early years, Mayday’s known nowadays for expressive pop rock that appeals across a spectrum of listeners. History of Tomorrow, or Autobiography as it’s called in Mandarin, is a sonic repository of the band’s career featuring songs that detail the passage of time, love, and life based on the experiences of the five members. 五月天是从地下乐团出身，并被誉为台湾学生乐团的代表，现今以流行摇滚显为人知。《 自传》是由五月天团员的自身经历所交织而成，述说着时间、爱与生命。 All 15 tracks on the album are single-ready, each drawing on what it means to be Mayday and putting the band's story front and center on tracks like “ Almost Famous,” a dramatic progressive rock track that paces itself to their career, emulating their early days with a slow, angst-driven melody before eventually building to an upbeat rhythm reflecting more recent days. There are love songs, like “What If We Had Never Met” and "Here, After Us," while others reflect on the band’s longevity, with the pump-up track “Party Anthem ” (原文误植，应是Party Animal)paired with a music video that shows Mayday as elderly friends revisiting the crazy times of their youth. 全专辑15首歌都是各自形成，每首对五月天都有不同的意义，并把乐团的故事呈现在众人 眼前。〈成名在望〉一首戏剧性的前卫摇滚歌曲，循着自身的步伐，用缓满、焦虑的旋律 去临摹在未成名前心境，专辑当中也有关於爱情的歌曲，像是〈如果我们不曾相遇〉和〈 後来的我们〉，而其他歌曲则反映了乐团的长寿(我知道很怪，但我真的不知道要怎麽翻 了阿～)， 有着强烈旋律的〈派对动物〉，其音乐录影带则演绎了年老的五月天重温年轻时疯狂的岁 月。 “Each song represents a different story [and place differently] so depending on where you are, how you’re feeling, who you’re with, everywhere you encounter, it’ll be a different feeling every time,” said Masa. 玛莎:「每首歌都是不同故事，而根据不同时间、地点、情境，聆听者每次听的感受也有 所不同。」 Ashin wrote all of their early music single handedly, but by the time the band came out with their fourth album, Time Machine in 2003, all five men were involved in steering the creative direction of Mayday. “I changed,” said Ashin, who urged the rest of the band members to get involved, which they were happy to do. “We became competitive in a good way,” said Masa with a grin. “‘You wrote one song? I’ll write two. You wrote a good song? I ’ll write a better one.’” Ashin remains the primary lyricist and won the top award in that category at this year’s Golden Melody Awards for the expressiveness of “Almost Famous.” 阿信为早期的创作主力，但从第四张专辑《时光机》渐渐变为五个人，阿信：「我促使的 。」并表示团里的每个人都很乐於创作。玛莎:「这形成一个良性的竞争，你写一首？我 就写两首；你写了一首不错的，我就写一首比你更好的。」阿信仍是主要的作词者，并且 以〈成名在望〉获得了今年金曲奖的最佳作词人奖。 The emotional relationship between the musicians and their audience is a focal point of many of Mayday’s songs and music videos, with the band infusing their career into the lives of their listeners and vice versa, both lyrically and visually. The connection is based on shared realities, with the music reflecting the lives of both the creators and the crowd; as they age, as the world changes around them, Mayday’s members infuse their brand of rock with what they see and experience. 与观众之间的情感连结是五月天许多歌与音乐录影带的焦点，五月天将其歌曲融入了歌迷 的生活，此连结是基於共同的现实，用音乐去反映创作者和群众的生活；随着年龄的增长 ，世界的不断改变，五月天将他们所见、所体验与摇滚融为一体。 “As a band, when we do our work it truly reflects our mindset at the time, how we feel about our environment and the world,” said Masa. “As we got older, our thoughts definitely have become different than what they were in the ‘90s, but that truly is reflected in our work. You can see how we grew up and how our point of view has changed, not towards life necessarily but just how we interact and reflect on the world around us.” 玛莎:「作为一个乐团，我们的创作真实的反应当下的心态，对所处的环境、世界的感觉 、随着年纪渐长，想法肯定和90年代时期不同，但也实实确确地在我们作品呈现。你能看 到的我们成长、观念的改变，不一定是对生活，而是如何和世界的互动与反思。」 Rising to fame before the Internet’s heyday, Mayday’s seen the way the music industry has changed thanks to social media and how they’re able to see instantaneous reactions to new releases. But it hasn’t really changed their dedication to relatable rock, or their creative process at all: it’s just made them even bigger and more accessible. In 2014, Mayday became the first band from the Chinese-speaking music industry to ever perform at Madison Square Garden. Earlier this year, the five men sold out 10 nights of concerts in Hong Kong, and their Life tour will have 50 stops throughout Asia and North America before a final New Year’s concert series in Taiwan. 在互联网崛起前成名，五月天见证了社群媒体对音乐产业的改变，让他们能看到新作品释 出时的即时回馈。但这点并没有改变致力於创作引发共鸣的摇滚乐及其过程，反而让他们 更庞大，更容易亲近。 2014年，五月天成为第一个登上麦迪逊花园广场的华语乐团；今年，他们更完售了10场在 香港的演唱会，而在台湾跨年演唱会之前，他们的巡演将会於亚洲和北美有50站。 Mayday uses lengthy concerts as a way to connect with fans, and changes things up each show to ensure that every fan enjoys a once-in-a-lifetime May Date. “We pretty much remake each song we perform, adding new elements,” said Ashin. “We do that because our fans are tough. They expect us to have new stuff every time. So we always remake our songs and throw in a bunch of surprises, mixing songs together.” “‘Tough’ is very mild,” added Masa. “ Sometimes they’re very critical.” 五月天用长时间的演唱会作为和歌迷联系的一种方式，他们会改变节目内容去确保每个歌 迷都能享受到一期一会的演唱会。阿信：「我们几乎重制了每首歌曲，添加新元素，因为 我们的歌迷很严格，期待我们每次都会有新东西，所以我们会改编、加点惊喜、mix一些 歌 曲。」玛莎:。「严格是很温和的形容，有时他们非常的批判又挑剔。」 Mayday will descend on North America later this year. In November, they’ll hold two shows in Canada and five shows in the U.S. For non-Mandarin speakers, Mayday plans on having subtitles for the song lyrics to create a better concert experience, though Ashin is pretty confident that the emotive nature of their songs exceeds language boundaries. “Even if you don’t understand Mandarin you can still be touched by our music. But because the tour is based on History of Tomorrow, it would be great if everyone had a listen and get a basic idea of its content.” 五月天将於今年的巡演场次降临北美洲。11月，他们将在加拿大举行2场演唱会，美国举 行5场演唱会，对於非华语的观众，五月天计画添加歌词字幕，以创造更好的演唱会体验 ，虽然阿信有自信的认为歌曲的情绪性将会超越语言的隔阂。阿信：「尽管你不懂中文， 你仍旧会被音乐所打动。不过这次演唱会是根据《自传》，如果能先听过专辑，有一些基 本概念将会更棒。」 Mayday's first U.S show this year will take place in San Jose on Nov. 10, after which they'll perform in Anaheim on Nov. 11, Houston on Nov. 15, New York City on Nov. 18, and hold one final show in Chicago on Nov. 21. 五月天今年於美国的第一场演唱会将於11月10日在圣荷西举行，之後他们将於11月11日於 阿纳海姆演出、11月15日在休斯敦、11月18在纽约，而在11月21日芝加哥将举行美加巡回 尾场的演出。 ---------------------------------------------------------------END------------

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