迈克尔·杰克逊的旅程：由摩城到《墙外》（2016）

制♥作♥人 / 作曲 合作对象:艾米怀恩豪斯 保罗麦卡特尼 布鲁诺马尔斯
在我看来 达到了高水准的管乐水平
That was just the high-water mark of horn lines, to me.
这些歌♥曲里有各种乐器的演绎
There’s all these instrumental stretches and breaks in these songs
让乐器音乐人也能展现自己
that give the musicians some shine, too.
-大卫让这种 -声音
-David had this… David Williams… -Certain sound.
让这种声音吃住了听众 敲击得如此有力
Had this certain sound that bites. He picked… He hit ’em so hard.
好 大卫你上
Okay, David! You got it!
大卫威廉姆斯 吉他手
兰迪杰克逊 打击乐手
马丽音乐 歌♥手 / 作曲 / 制♥作♥人
有时他会自己上 好达到自己想要的节奏
Sometimes he’d take it upon himself to bring the rhythm he wanted
这对我影响很大
and that really influenced me.
席依达盖瑞特 歌♥手 《镜中人》联合作曲
他脑海里总是很清楚每一种乐器的表演该是怎样的
He always had an idea of what he wanted every instrument to sound like.
并且知道该如何录音
And that’s how he recorded.
在录音棚里 他告诉吉他手…
You came in the studio and he told the guitar player…
-他会唱那一部分吗 -他每一部分都会唱
-He would sing the part? -He would sing every part.
他不弹奏 但是能唱出来
He didn’t play it, but he can sing it.
如果你没像他唱的那样弹奏出来
And if you didn’t play it like he sang it
他会一直唱下去 直到你弹奏出一样的
he would sing it till you played it like he sang it.
了不起
Goddamnit.
我深深地相信完美
I do believe deeply in perfection.
我从未满足过
I’m never satisfied.
我会停下来 不断往回放
I’ll cut a track, and go back and back, and
真是 我本该这么做的 我本该…
“Darn it! I should’ve done this! I should’ve…”
就算在排行榜上拔得头筹 我还是会愧悔什么没做好
It’s number one on the charts, you’re still screaming about what you should’ve done.
显然在你观察某人的工作时
It’s evident when you see somebody’s work.
能观察到细节 看出他们是否真心热爱自己所做的
You can see the details, and if they actually, truly love what they do
如果他们真的用了心
if they really do pay attention to the craft.
完美就是致胜关键
Perfection was the name of the game.
关键是你所做的内容 质量 心 灵魂和爱
It was about the content of what you do, the quality, the heart, the soul, the love.
我认为在这一代「完美」被扭曲了
I think this generation has just become… The perception’s become skewed.
对于工作本身的热爱 屈就于对名声的追求
The love for the craft becomes secondary to the love of fame and notoriety.
我这一代 乔丹那一代
My generation, the Jordan generation
伯德 魔术师还有迈克尔杰克逊
Bird, Magic, you know, Michael Jackson
都专注于自己热爱的事物
they focused on what they loved to do.
斯宾纳DJ 歌♥手
《踏入舞池》是一颗沧海遗珠
One of the hidden gems is Get On the Floor
是迈克尔和约翰森兄弟中的路易斯约翰森
which was co-penned by Louis Johnson from Brothers Johnson
合作写出的
and co-written with Michael.
鲍勃伯奇 录音乐师 合作对象：艾尔顿约翰布鲁斯霍恩斯比
不知道大家是不是都知道你也是个作曲家
I don’t know if everybody knows this, but you’re also a composer.
我最喜欢的歌♥曲之一是迈克尔杰克逊的《踏入舞池》
One of my favorites was Michael Jackson’s Get On the Floor and Dance.
一开始这首歌♥是由贝斯创作的 我把握住了那种节奏
Originally, that song was created by the bass, I just had that groove.
路易斯约翰森 约翰森兄弟 贝斯手
《布鲁克林的最后暄嚣》(1977年） 导演:斯派克李
他们就是操场上的青少年
There were teens in the playgrounds.
我装作很成熟的样子
And you know, like, I’m dating myself, okay.
但你会拿着小收音机
But, you know, you would bring the little radio
or sometimes, if you were really tacky, you would bring the little portable record player
有时还会俗气地拿着便携的小点唱机
咚的一声放在公园里 放上针
plop it down in the park, drop the needle
呦嘿
“Heck, yeah.”
你如果跟着这首歌♥跳起来
If you were dancing to that song
勒蒙安德森 演员 / 诗人 作品:《好诗》《国王之国》
很有可就会约到个对象
more than likely you were going home with somebody.
因为你不会独自跟着跳
Because that’s not a song you dance on your own to, you know.
不会独自跟着《踏入舞池》跳舞
You don’t dance to Get On The Floor by yourself.
《疯狂》是每个DJ梦寐以求的
Off the Wall is a DJ’s dream.
A面似乎是为了舞厅量身定做
The A-side seems to have been tailor-made for the dance floor.
有五首歌♥
You basically have five songs
前四首都在同一面
the first four songs on side one
另一面的第一首歌♥就是《疯狂》
and the first song on side two, Off the Wall.
《疯狂》中我最喜欢的一首
My favorite record on Off the Wall…
就是《疯狂》那是我的最爱之一
I like Off the Wall, that’s one of my favorite records.
我冒险用了一位作曲家 我一直都很喜欢他的作曲
I took a chance with a composer, I had loved his work for a long time.
我不知道他怎么会从英国格林斯比
And I could never figure out how he could be from Grimsby, England
搬到德国沃尔姆斯住 还懂小步舞
living in Worms, Germany, and understand Ain’t No Half Steppin’
他的各种创作
and, you know, all of those different terms that he was writing.
都是非常有天赋的
It was just incredible talent.
他去了德国 受到那边一帮黑人军人的影响
He ended up in Germany and being turned onto soul music
开始从事灵魂乐
by a bunch of the black army people that were there.
-美国黑人军人 -美国黑人军人
-Black American soldiers? -Black American soldiers.
他发现「哇 这比我做的有趣多了」
And going, “Wow, this is a lot more interesting than what I’m doing
女孩子们回来看这些表演
“and girls come to these shows.”
在早期「热浪」组合中 可以听出他给迈克尔写的歌♥的元素
ln early Heatwave, you can hear those influences in songs he wrote for Michael.
就是自然而然发展至此
I mean, it’s just a natural progression.
我们录《将这迪斯科燃尽》《疯狂》和《与你共舞》时
And we recorded Burn This Disco Out, Off the Wall and Rock With You.
洛德汤普顿做得非常好
Rod Temperton did good.
在《疯狂》中 他稍微融入了一些前卫摇滚
Off the Wall is an example of him bringing that slightly proggy-fusion aspect to it.
作为一张迪斯科专辑 这确实是个非传统式的开端
It’s a really unconventional start for a disco record
尤其还是专辑的同名主打歌♥
especially, like, the title track of an album.
从弱拍 二拍开始
It starts on the off-beat, it starts on the two
还有怪异的背景声乐 完全就是前卫摇滚乐
it has that weird vocal thing in the background, it’s totally proggy.
前奏有让人毛骨悚然的声音
That intro with that kind of ghoulish voices
之后在《颤栗》中也有 文森特普赖斯的叫声
you start to hear that again, of course, on Thriller, with Vincent Price.
《女友》是保罗麦卡特尼 收录在《伦敦城》专辑里的一首歌♥
Girlfriend was a song on the London Town album by Paul McCartney.
埃斯波兰萨斯伯丁 格莱美最佳新人奖
「女朋友 我要告诉你男朋友」我好喜欢
“girlfriend, i’m gonna tell your boyfriend.” i love it!
感觉迈克尔像是在对我唱的
I felt like Michael was singing to me on that one, I did.
约会游戏 1972年
如果我们一起出去玩 有一帮女孩子们跟着我
If we go out together, and a bunch of girls start following me
你会对她们说什么让她们走开
let’s hear what you’d say to them to make them go away.
离他远点 他是我的 不是你们的
Get away from him. He’s mine, not yours.
同样的问题 二号♥选手
Same question, number two.
哟 听好了 迈克尔杰克逊是我的
Yo, listen, okay? Michael Jackson is mine.
我唱的歌♥中我最喜欢的是民谣
Some of the songs that I sing, my favorite is ballads.
我听着歌♥词 感觉真正建立了某种联♥系♥
I kinda listen to the words, and it’s really relating something.
我写了《她离开了我的生活》
I wrote She’s Out of My Life
as a result of being very much in love with a wonderful young woman.
为我深爱上了一位美丽的年轻女孩
汤姆巴勒 《她离开了我的生活》作曲
你有没有出于特别懊恼 而大声地自言自语过
You ever get so upset that you’re speaking to yourself out loud?
我有过 我在帕萨迪纳高速公路上的车里 说着
Well, I was. I was in the car on the Pasadena Freeway, and I’m saying
她在等你 她爱你 她想嫁给你
“Man, she was there for you, she loved you, she wanted to marry you.
是你拒绝了 面对现实吧 她已经离开了你的生活
“You’re the one who said no. Face it, she’s out of your life.”
周六早晨电♥话♥响了是昆西打来的
Saturday morning, the phone rings and it’s Q
他说「伙计 你还写歌♥吗」
and he says, “Hey, man, you been writing?”
我对着电♥话♥弹了一遍那首歌♥ 然后他说「再弹一遍」
And I played the song, and it’s ringing out, and he said, “Play it again.”
汤姆巴勒 《她离开了我的生活》作曲 和比尔巴格斯一起度过正午 1979年6月7日
我又弹了一遍 连续弹了八遍
I played it again. Played it eight times in a row.
最后他说这首歌♥你要怎么处理
And at the end of it, he said, “What’re you gonna do with it?”
我说「我昨天和史纳菲说好了」
And I said, “Well, I made a deal with Snuffy yesterday.
他会拿去给辛纳屈唱
“He’s gonna do it with Sinatra.”
他就说了他常说的一句话「反正辛纳屈会唱的」
And he says this Q-ism, “Sinatra will do it anyway.”
我说「昆西 那你会怎么处理」他说「我还不知道」
And I said, “Okay, Q, who do you wanna do it with?” He said, “I haven’t got a clue.”
然后他说「如果你信任我」
Then he said, “Man, if you’ll trust me
我向你保证
“I promise you
会给这首歌♥一次难忘的录音
“an unforgettable recording of this song.”
然后我们就搁置了两年
And we sat on it for almost two years, Spike.
要写出好的民谣 首先其歌♥词需要能和听众连系起来
To write a great ballad, first of all, lyrically, the content has to connect.
对于我来说 要连系听众
And, to me, part of what makes a song connect
歌♥曲应该是私人的 同时也是共通的
is that it’s personal, but it’s also universal.
迈克尔杰克逊是位了不起的艺人 是个伟大的舞者
Michael Jackson, yes, he’s a great entertainer, he was a great dancer
可他也是一个伟大的歌♥手 不只是一个好歌♥声 而是伟大的歌♥手
but he was also a great singer. Not a good singer, but a great singer.
我喜欢他对于《她离开了我的生活》的演绎
I liked his performance on She’s Out of My Life.
富有情感
It was really emotional.
迈克尔的音质纯净至极
The quality of Michael’s voice was so incredibly pure.
《她离开了我的生活》 导演:布鲁斯高尔斯
他每次唱《她离开了我的生活》我都能听哭
I cried every time that he performed She’s Out of My Life
他也会哭
and he would cry, too.
大家都把《她离开了我的生活》和艾迪墨菲联♥系♥起来
Everyone relates She’s Out of My Life to Eddie Murphy, right?
所有在生长于80年代的人 我们首先看过《精神错乱》
Anyone who was growing up in the ’80s, we saw Delirious first.
艾迪墨菲 《艾迪墨菲：精神错乱》 导演：布鲁斯高尔斯
迈克尔的吸引人之处就在于他的敏感
That’s Michael’s hook, his sensitivity.
女人们都说「迈克尔好敏感」
That’s when women be saying, “Michael’s just so sensitive.”
她们很能受到感染 迈克尔也清楚 他在利用女人们
And they eat that shit up. Mike knows. He be using women.
在演唱会上 他会走到女孩子跟前 女孩子都在观众群里 他问…
ln concerts, I seen Mike walk up to girls, they’d be in the audience, and say…
我能下去吗
Can I come down there?
女人们都…
And women go…