为毛选这张图。。一副好像看到啥么好吃的表情。。

Prior to my phone Q&A with this year's
American Idol
champion,
Phillip Phillips, I studied his previous interviews in and out. I wanted to ask him something different - something that no one has asked him yet, or at least something we haven't "seen" asked. Phillips is a direct byproduct of a truly unique phenomenon that is sweeping through the pop music universe. Some writers have dubbed it as the "Mumford-ization" of pop music, which references the success of folk-rock's most popular bros with banjos, Mumford and Sons. I wanted to know what he thought about this musical movement and its popularity, as well as its shelf life.
在给美偶十一季冠军Phillip打电话进行采访之前，我特意去研究了他的资料。因为我想问他一些比较新鲜之前木有人问过的话题。现在的音乐圈以Mumford&Sons为首，民谣摇滚风格正在兴起。我想要了解Phillip对于这中音乐运动和流行性的感想，以及他认为民谣摇滚风会兴盛多久。
It was nice to talk to Phillip. He was very friendly. He was also, and not surprisingly so, very tired. We spoke early one evening a week after the release of his debut album

The World From The Side Of The Moon, so he was basically running on fumes, and I was the final obstruction blocking the light at the end of the press-filled tunnel. I should have known that no matter what Phillip was asked, he was going to respond with the quickest answers - the answers that were repeatedly droned into his memory since his first day in front of theAmerican Idol
lens. Crash Davis said it best in his famous
Bull Durham
lecture: "You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: 'We gotta play it one day at a time.'"
Phillip很友好，但是也不出意外得听起来很疲惫。各种忙着宣传首专——TWFTSOTM, 我应该明白无论我问啥，Phillip都会给以最简洁的回答。


Phillips was well known during his time on
Idol
for brazenly standing up to the
judges claiming he would win just by being himself, which is a great message to
the millions of viewers, but how much of "himself" did it take to make the hit single, "
Home," which sounded eerily similar to other songs of the folk-rock revolution that were released well before his launch into superstardom? Is it really that scandalous to think this "I'm gonna be me, man" image was fabricated by the execs? We may never know, but at this point, it's certainly becoming cliche.
美偶历程中Phillip以坚持自我风格而闻名，
【这一段略有贬义窝作为脑残粉懒得看了】
There definitely is musical talent within
Phillip Phillips, and perhaps his sophomore album will allow him to sincerely reflect.

Phillip的音乐天分和才华不容置疑，但是或许他的第二张专辑会能更能反映出他自己的风格。


Did you intend to change
the image and perception of the "American Idol?"
你是有意要改变美偶的形象和大家对其的认知么？
Honestly man, I didn't know what the heck I was doing. I just wanted to play music and show people what I had to offer. I just feel really blessed that all this has happened, and that people seem to enjoy what I do in music, you know?
说实话，我那时候根本就不知道我在做啥。我只是想唱歌给大家听，我很感激现在的一切，很感激大家喜欢我的音乐。

Not many

American Idol

winners have experienced the success
that you have. What did you do that was different? What was the winning
formula?
能像你一样取得这样成功的美偶冠军并不多，你觉得你有什么是和别人不一样的？你的成功法则是啥？
Ah, I dunno man. I would just be myself. I tried not to conform to what people were telling me to do - not saying that anyone else has, but I wore what I wanted to wear. I took suggestions, you know, I would try it out, but most of the time I went with what I felt was right. I would much rather go home for something I decided to do than for something someone told me to do.
我也不知道哇。我就是做我自己。我尽力不屈从别人想要我做的改变，我就穿我想穿的衣服。当然，我是接受建议的。我会听取别人的建议，会去试一试，最终我会采取我认为是对的做法。我宁愿因为我自己做出的决定被淘汰而不是因为别人为我决定的被淘汰。

Your album
The World From The Side Of The Moon
was released on November 19. How has
the first week been?
你的首专11月19日发行了，那一周感觉如何？
It's been great man. I've been doing a lot of promoting and people seem to be really enjoying the music. It's cool that people are really interested in the music and really like it.
感觉很赞。我一直在做宣传，大家都还挺喜欢我的音乐，感觉很不错。
You're pretty seasoned with handling judges.
How does that affect the way you read reviews of your album?
你对于如何处理评委的评价是有很经验的，你如何对待那些对你专辑的评价？
Honestly I haven't really read any of them. I've seen like one or two that my girlfriend sent me, but I don't like to read into what people are saying, or numbers, or anything like that. I don't want to get my hopes up and get bummed out if it's not what I expected. If it's more than I expected I wouldn't want to feel like I can slack off; so I keep pushing.
说实话，我木有读很多。我看了一两篇我女朋友寄给我的，但是我并不喜欢看别人说的话或者数字啊之类的。我不想满怀希望地去读然后读完后希望落空的感觉。如果结果比我预期的要好，我也不想放松啥的，所以我就一直不去看之类的评论。


Was that something that got
you through the competition?
你就是这样通过美偶比赛的？
Yeah. It was top-60 and I looked on the internet and somebody had said something about me that wasn't uh, it wasn't too good (laughs). So from then on out I stopped looking. There's always gonna be people that don't like you, so I didn't really pay attention to it. I just looked to live until the next week.

是的。美偶60强的时候我上网看到有人写了对我不好的评论（笑），然后那之后我就不看了。总是会有人不喜欢你，所以我就不在意了。我只是专心整每周的直播表演。
When putting the album together, did you hit
any roadblocks?
整专辑的时候，你有木有遇到啥么障碍？
I had all the songs written before
Idol
and during
Idol. There was just an amount
of time to get in the studio and get it done. We had three weeks to do it. It
was tough.
所有的歌都是我在美偶之前或者美偶期间写的，就是需要时间去录音室录下来。我们只有三个周，挺艰难的。

You're often compared to
other popular folk-rock artists, why do you think this type of music has become
so appealing to the American public?
你总是被拿来和其他很受欢迎的民谣-摇滚歌手比较，你觉得为啥这种类型的音乐现在在美帝这么火？
It's good to see people enjoying other musicians actually playing instruments and it's sort of this raw sound that they like. Most of the time, they have deep meanings and great lyrics. And I think people are really enjoying that kind of style.

看到大家很喜欢弹乐器的音乐人和比较原声的音乐。通常这种音乐都有深刻的含义和超赞的歌词。我觉得大家很喜欢这样的风格。
Do you think this will last?
你觉得这种音乐热潮会持续很久么？
I don't know. I mean everything has its time. And we'll see what happens. I'm sure something new will come in and take its place, but right now it see***ike people are really enjoying the folk slash rock.
我不知道。我是说任何东西都有其期限，我们可以静待其结果。我相信会有新东西出现取代其位置，但是现在看上去大家都很喜欢民谣/摇滚风格的音乐。


Is there a line in another
song by another artist - maybe from when you were growing up - that spoke to
you?
有木有那么一句歌词，别的歌手的别的歌，也许是你小时候听过的，让你感触特别深的？
Oh man. There's a lot. I can't tell you any right now, I'd probably have to think about it. Submersed had great albums; and Dave Matthews; Eric Clapton; Lynard Skynard - I don't know there's so many I can't even tell - Tool.

那太多了。我现在不能立马回答你。我得想想。
【然后又把他喜欢的那些个歌手给列了一遍】
Have you set tour dates yet?
你巡演日期定了么？
It's still in the works, man. Hoping for the end of January or February, next year to start a tour. But we've got some stuff in the works that's hopefully gonna be pretty cool.

还在研究中，大致是能希望在明年的1月底2月初。但是我们现在正在商讨一些很赞的事情。【是指和Rob一起的巡演么 好吧 给火柴盒暖场】


We've been
asking artists what their five favorite albums from this year are. Are there
any that come to mind that you really enjoyed this year?
你今年最爱的五张专辑？
(Laughs) Honestly I haven't had the time to listen to as many albums as I'd like to. I just got the Mumford & Sons yesterday. I listened to a few songs off that and it sounds good. It sounds maybe a bit darker. Let's see. I listened to Dave Matthews' new album not too long ago, it's pretty good. I haven't gotten to listen to too many. Mostly just songs here and there.
其实我都木有啥么时间去听专辑。昨天我买了Mumford&Sons的新专，听了几首感觉不错。之前我还听过Dave Mattews的专辑，也灰常好啊。我不太有时间听很多专辑，主要是东听一首西听一首那样子。