“欢乐”唱响格莱美
2013-05-21byAugustBrown
by August Brown
过去了的2012年,“神曲”辈出。其中就有美国新生代独立摇滚乐队Fun.(“欢乐乐团”,又译“奋”乐队)的《我们正年轻》。话说此曲如同乐队一样,原本籍籍无名,但后来被当红美剧《欢乐合唱团》选中翻唱,于是一夜爆红,风光无限。
按理说,在光怪陆离的娱乐圈,天上突然掉馅饼,一夜之间丑小鸭变天鹅的“神曲”效应不是什么新鲜事——前有凭“骑马舞”风靡全球的“鸟叔”,后有经“B宝”对嘴型传唱爆红的卡莉·杰帕森,但Fun.的神奇之处在于:谁能像他们那样一路高歌唱进奥巴马的总统就职舞会,并且以超级黑马之势领跑格莱美提名,最终斩获年度最佳歌曲、年度最佳新人?
若说Fun.的成名靠的只是运气,那也实在有失公允。三个小伙子在独立摇滚的圈子中摸爬滚打多年,那些睡地板、受冷落,辗转夜店谋生的日子又有谁记得起?是不是“昙花一现”,“欢乐三人组”能否一直“奋”发下去,那就唯有等时间来说话了。
Considering the powerful audience that New York trio Fun. performed for the presidents 1)inaugural ball, its set during the 2013 Grammys telecast must feel like a 2)house party gig.
“When President Obama asks you to play, theres no way you can say no,”said Nate Ruess, the groups singer, “Just before we met him I had to keep reminding myself, ‘Dont call him Obama! I wound up going with ‘Mr. President instead.”
Those are the kinds of welcome new 3)quandaries now facing Ruess and his band. After years of 4)slogging it out on the indie rock club circuit, Ruess formed Fun. in 2008 with multi-instrumentalists Andrew Dost and Jack Antonoff, and four years later the trio 5)vaulted to the top of American pop. Its second album, 2012s Some Nights, paired classic-pop melodies with modern hip-hop production styles and earned the group six Grammy nominations, including nods in all four major categories: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and new artist.
对比起“纽约三人组”乐队“欢乐乐团”在总统就职舞会上那些权贵冠盖云集的场面,其在2013年格莱美颁奖典礼转播节目中的表演自然感觉像家庭聚会般轻松随意。
“当奥巴马总统邀请你演唱,你找不到说‘不的理由,”乐队主唱奈特·罗伊斯说道,“就在我们见面之前,我还一直提醒自己:‘别叫他奥巴马!,而是要用‘总统先生作为代称。”
这些都是罗伊斯和乐队对于成名所要面对的新烦恼。在独立摇滚圈熬了几年之后,2008年,罗伊斯与乐器多面手安德鲁·多斯特、杰克·安东诺夫组成了“欢乐乐团”。……
