美国国家公共电台 NPR Harry Styles: 'It Was Time For Me To Be Scared'
时间:2019-01-17 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
And, you know, there have been these musical acts over the years, like The Monkees, The Jackson 5, New Kids on The Block, 'NSync - all of them had one thing in common. They had individual members leave the group and try to find their own voice. And that is what is happening now with this band.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL")
ONE DIRECTION: (Singing) You don't know you're beautiful. If only you saw what I could see...
GREEN: That is One Direction, the wildly popular boy band. How popular? Well, just listen to this.
You got sick on the side of the highway, the freeway, in California and threw up. And someone was so...
GREEN: ...Obsessed 2 with you, they collected your vomit 3 and tried to sell it online...
STYLES: So I hear.
GREEN: ...Which - so you hear.
STYLES: I don't know if that's actually true. But yeah, my mom actually sent me, like, an eBay link to my own puke, which was very interesting to receive on a Tuesday morning.
GREEN: I can't believe that happened. So that is the voice of Harry Styles from One Direction. His first solo 4 album recently debuted 6 at No. 1 on the U.S. charts. Now, often when boy bands dissolve, former members will try to distance themselves from the adolescent pop music but not Harry Styles. He insists that at age 16, he had a lot to learn, and One Direction taught him how to be a musician. But his sound is changing. His new music is grittier than his work with One Direction. It's almost like he dug into his parents' record collection.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CAROLINA")
STYLES: (Singing) Feels so good. She's got a book for every situation, gets into parties without invitations.
GREEN: So Harry Styles was getting ready for a performance at the Roxy in West Hollywood, and I talked to him upstairs in his dressing 7 room. He was wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt, which is pretty fitting 8 because he's been compared to frontman Mick Jagger. He even played Mick Jagger on "Saturday Night Live." But when I asked him about that comparison, Styles made it clear that he is not trying to be anyone else. He's just trying to find his own voice as an artist. And he thinks he's started doing that with the first single on this new album, "Sign Of The Times."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SIGN OF THE TIMES")
STYLES: (Singing) Just stop your crying. It's a sign of the times. Welcome to the final show. Hope you're wearing your best clothes.
I think I've always written bits of songs alone. And then I usually take stuff in and try and finish it with someone. And "Sign Of The Times" was, like, one of those where I just kind of wrote it. We basically ended up in a place where the album had a bunch of, like, rock songs. We had a bunch of acoustic 9 ballad 10 songs. And I wrote "Sign Of The Times," and that's the one that kind of started bridging us to different places in terms of experimenting a little more.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SIGN OF THE TIMES")
STYLES: (Singing) We don't talk enough. We should open up.
GREEN: I read that "Sign Of The Times," the genesis was the idea of a mother being told that she wasn't going to make it and what message she wanted to give to her child. Is that the...
STYLES: Yeah, I mean, I think we were thinking about - you know, there's a lot of bad stuff going on in the world. And I think it's not the last time that we will be in a place like that. And I think the way that we receive information all the time now, it's really difficult to ignore that stuff. And...
GREEN: Being in the news business, I sort of know what you're talking about (laughter).
STYLES: Yeah. And I think it would have been weird 11 for me to kind of write an album and not acknowledge 12 that there's anything bad going on in the world. And I think we were just writing it from kind of a place of - all right, you have five minutes to kind of say it's going to be all right.
GREEN: But it's - there's a sense of comfort. Like, it's going to be OK.
STYLES: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I like to think of it that way, yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF HARRY STYLES SONG, "SIGN OF THE TIMES")
GREEN: Well, let me ask about your fans because I - when we were walking in here to get to the Roxy, I mean, there was legion of a few dozen young women peeking 13 around to see if maybe they would get a glimpse of you at some point. It's so easy, I think, to stereotype 14 that kind of fan base and say it's a bunch of young, teenage girls who are just Snapchatting when they spot you and not even paying attention, really, to the music. But what do you make of that fan base?
STYLES: I mean, I think the thing is is that people stereotype it as their attraction to the music is something other than the music. And I think that's unfair. And honestly, I think it's just writing people off. I think - I mean, it's kind of rude. Everyone's musical taste is different, and there's no right or wrong answer. So I don't - I don't really know who's the person in the world who has, like - oh, that guy has good music taste.
GREEN: Yeah because I wondered if, with such a loyal, obsessive 15 fan base, if you ever feared that they were just going to be with you no matter what music you made. So it'd almost make it less meaningful, what you were doing, because they would never say something bad about you because they love you so much.
STYLES: I actually think that the kind of fans that we've had are the most honest. And I think that's amazing.
GREEN: There's no, like, playing it cool or...
STYLES: There's no, like...
GREEN: ...Or overthinking it, you're saying.
STYLES: There's no, like - yeah. I mean, everyone meets those people where they like something and they'll never admit they like it.
GREEN: Hipster might be a word...
STYLES: Yeah. And...
GREEN: ...That we might bring up here.
STYLES: ...You know, I think they're honest. And I think I'd rather someone be honest with me. And I think I wanted to be honest with the album. And - yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ONLY ANGEL")
STYLES: (Singing) Broke a finger knocking on your bedroom door. I got splinters in my knuckles 16, crawling 'cross the floor.
GREEN: Let me finish with this. Is it scary to be out on your own?
STYLES: Yeah. I think I've never felt this vulnerable 17 putting out music because I just don't think it's a piece of myself that I've ever really put out there before. And just simple fact - when there's other people around you, you share the good stuff, but you also get to share the bad stuff and kind of hide behind everyone else a little bit. So with this, yeah, it is scary. But I think it was time for me to kind of be scared, I guess. And I'm still very much learning. And I'm having the time of my life kind of working it out, so it's been a lot of fun.
GREEN: Harry, thanks a lot.
STYLES: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
GREEN: Is there a song you want us to make sure we play when we go out here?
STYLES: My favorite from the album is the last song, "From The Dining Table." It's just personal. And I don't feel like I'd written a song like this before.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FROM THE DINING TABLE")
STYLES: (Singing) Comfortable silence is so overrated. Why won't you ever be the first one to break? Even my phone misses your call, by the way.
GREEN: Harry Styles - his debut 5 album, which is called "Harry Styles," is out right now.
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
- He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
- The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
- They gave her salty water to make her vomit.他们给她喝盐水好让她吐出来。
- She was stricken by pain and began to vomit.她感到一阵疼痛,开始呕吐起来。
- Tara is currently working on a solo album.塔拉眼下正忙着制作个人专辑。
- There's wonderfully lyrical flute solo in the middle of this symphony.在交响乐中间有一段奇妙的抒情长笛独奏。
- That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
- The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
- In late 2003 a full-size SUV, the Pathfinder Armada, debuted. 2003年末,全尺寸SUV的探路者无敌舰队,推出。
- The album debuted at number two and quickly went platinum. 专辑一亮相就荣登排行榜第二名,很快就取得了白金销量。
- Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
- The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
- I'm going to a fitting tomorrow.明天我要去试穿新衣。
- The President's address was a fitting end to a bitter campaign.总统的讲话为一场激烈的竞选运动适时画上了句号。
- The hall has a fine acoustic.这个大厅的传音效果很好。
- Animals use a whole rang of acoustic, visual,and chemical signals in their systems of communication.动物利用各种各样的听觉、视觉和化学信号来进行交流。
- This poem has the distinctive flavour of a ballad.这首诗有民歌风味。
- This is a romantic ballad that is pure corn.这是一首极为伤感的浪漫小曲。
- From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
- His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
- With so much evidence against him he had to acknowledge his error.在这么多的证据面前,他不得不承认错误。
- It is ungracious of me not to acknowledge your help.你大力帮助而我尚未表示谢意,十分失礼。
- I couldn't resist peeking in the drawer. 我不由得偷看了一下抽屉里面。
- They caught him peeking in through the keyhole. 他们发现他从钥匙孔里向里窥视。 来自辞典例句
- He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
- There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。
- Some people are obsessive about cleanliness.有些人有洁癖。
- He's becoming more and more obsessive about punctuality.他对守时要求越来越过分了。
- He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. 他紧紧握住方向盘,握得指关节都变白了。
- Her thin hands were twisted by swollen knuckles. 她那双纤手因肿大的指关节而变了形。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.她看上去很脆弱,他就主动去保护她。
- The company is in an economically vulnerable position.该公司目前经济状况不稳定。