Nate的个人新专《Grand Romantic》即将发行……各位也听过新专的试听版……现在我们来说说每首歌背后的故事……
来源：Rolling Stone

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这专辑名逼格太低 我们需要一个更高的翻译

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3. "Nothing Without Love"
I wanted "AhHa" to knock you off your socks then for you to feel like you're catching a breath before "Nothing Without Love." So it starts out with just piano and voice, and then it beats you over the head. Whether it was going to be a fun. album or not, "AhHa" was going to be the song that put the Some Nights era to bed, and I thought that for an album called Grand Romantic, the song "Nothing Without Love" would be this grand launching board for what feels like the rest of the album. "AhHa" feels the most foreign to me, but I wanted "Nothing Without Love" to feel like this big, grand statement. The few songs that happen after that touch on a similar subject of falling in love, but I really wanted it to be this thing that kicks off Grand Romantic.
我想先让《AhHa》颠覆你们的三观，然后你们就会绷紧神经去听《Nothing Without Love》。这首歌开头的钢琴声和我的嗓音，相信会直抵你们的内心，萦绕脑际挥之不去。无论我的下部作品是我的个人专辑还是Fun.的新专，《AhHa》已经意味着《Some Nights》时代结束了。我将我的下一张专辑命名为《Grand Romantic》，《Nothing Without Love》是新专的首打，你们听完这首歌就能估摸出新专的整体风格了。对于我来说，《AhHa》很有异域风情，但我想让《Nothing Without Love》来渲染宏伟的气氛，呈现我的内心。接下来的歌曲灵感都来自于我和Charlotte Ronson的相恋故事，《Nothing Without Love》作为我们爱情的揭幕曲，实在最合适不过了。

为什么觉得这专封面有点少女心

坐等更新

brightside好像哄小孩入睡的摇篮曲Orz
And look at you And look at you...

坐等

5. "You Light My Fire"
That song is a very specific style. It makes me think of Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" or even Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark." There are so many reference points. I figured we needed a song with pace, and so I just randomly came up with that song. I don't know why I sang "You light my fire"; it was kind of funny. Jeff's first thought was "We can't do this! That's the Doors' lyric." I had never really listened to the Doors before, so I was like "Ah, sure we can! People have lit a fire before. I'm sure it's not big deal." I made sure to reference the Doors in the lyrics. I thought it'd be nice to give a little shout out and acknowledge their lyric.
这首歌的风格很特别，我听出了Prince的《Let‘s Go Crazy》和Bruce Springsteen《Dancing in the Dark》的影子。我创作这首歌时参考了很多资料。我认为专辑需要一首欢快的歌，所以我灵机一动，开始构思这首歌。我不知道为什么我能想出“You Light My Fire”这种歌词，但这的确挺好玩的。Jeff第一反应是拒绝的，他觉得这句是The Doors乐队的歌词，我们不能用。但我认为并没有什么不妥，我还真没听过The Doors的歌呢。而且点火（Light a Fire）又不是什么稀奇事，所以我觉得这句歌词并不会有太大的问题。但以防万一，我还是认真研究了the Doors的歌词。这首歌能顺利出炉，在此对The Doors乐队致以致敬和感谢！
（注：The Doors乐队有首歌叫《Light My Fire》）

好棒啊！楼主的翻译也棒棒哒～买新专都会送那些卡片吗？？

7. "Great Big Storm"
Jeff Lynne [of ELO] has always been a massive inspiration for me. [The comparison] makes sense because of the structure and strings and stuff like that. I'll take any comparison to ELO, even it wasn't intentional.
我的创作很大程度上受到Electric Light Orchestra（英国摇滚乐队）的Jeff Lynne的影响。《Great Big Storm》跟他的作品来比较是合理的，因为这首歌的结构、弦乐等因素都跟ELO的作品很像。无论有意还是无意，我都乐意和ELO进行比较。

想问哪里可以买到签名版QAQ！！

8. "Moment"
I really wanted to make a song like "One More Try" by George Michael, and as I started writing it, I just went into the studio by myself and recorded the vocals on ProTools and then sent it off to [producer] Jeff Bhasker. He was writing with Shania Twain or something like that, but he got really, really inspired to make it.
The production is pretty phenomenal in that song because it feels almost like karaoke music behind this big, huge vocal ballad. I've always been slightly obsessed with country music and have always wanted to do something that sounded a little bit country, so I threw a country harmony on it. I can't help but think that some of it was inspired by Jeff being in the studio with Shania Twain, which I think is awesome. I mean we've got these big like Mutt Lange types of drums, and its really great.
[The perspective is from] two different characters. When I sing in a high voice I'm singing from the other person in the relationship.
我挺想做出一首像George Michael的《One More Try》这种风格的歌。我开始写歌时，我独自到录音室，用ProTools录下demo发给Jeff Bhasker听。当时，他正在参与Shania Twain（还是其他人）的新专制作，他鼓励我把这首歌做出来。
这首歌制作得很棒，宏伟的抒情民谣风格，像在卡拉OK里放声歌唱那种感觉。我一直痴迷乡村音乐，所以我在这首歌里融入了乡村音乐的元素。我认为，在当时跟Shania Twain录歌的Jeff的鼓励下，我才能把这首歌做得如此出色。我觉得这首歌最出色的地方就是Mutt Lange风格的鼓点。
这首歌分成低音段和高音段，分别从情侣双方的两个角度写的。当我唱高音部分时，我代表的是这段关系的另一人。

10. "Grand Romantic"
I had an older demo of a song called "Grand Romantic" that had the "I wanted you so bad" part going into the "Grand Romantic" part, which was much more circus-y. And that was supposed to end the album. This was supposed to end the album, but I didn't like the verses that I had wrote, and I didn't like the style that the song was going in. So we were just going to cut up that whole "Grand Romantic" song and turn it into just interludes throughout the album.
Jeff just did an amazing string arrangement, and to me it had a Van Morrison vibe to it. That part where I say, "I just wanted you so bad" was supposed to be much shorter and was a bridge in the original "Grand Romantic," and then Jeff had stretched it out and turned it into this beautiful piece of music so I just freestyled over it with my best Van Morrison impression.
This song is probably my favorite on the album because I talk about Van Morrison so much and how much he means to me, and none of my songs ever sound like Van Morrison songs, but he's always the person I listen to and then want to turn around and write music. I just felt like that's a very Van Morrison moment. [The album] does kind of end with the "Grand Romantic." I think the song puts that thing to bed. I wanted to wrap up the "Grand Romantic" aspect. I think it starts with "AhHa" putting Some Nights to bed and "Nothing Without Love" launching the Grand Romantic thing. The album to an extent ends with the "Grand Romantic," but then it then goes into "Harsh Lights" and "Brightside," which I think are two songs that actually wrap up the overall feeling, opposed to a general feeling.
我曾经写过一首歌的demo，也叫《Grand Romantic》，“I wanted you so bad”这一段是马戏团配乐的风格，也在该demo里。本来我想以这首歌作为新专的结尾，不过这首歌的副歌糟透了，而且马戏团配乐风格听起来效果不怎么好。所以，我们决定重新开始创作《Grand Romantic》，并决定把这首歌作为连接整专的插曲。
Jeff制作了非常美妙的伴奏，并告诉我他在制作中融入了Van Morrison的风格。在新版的《Grand Romantic》中，“I just wanted you so bad”这一部分比旧版的同一桥段更短。Jeff将这一段音乐制作得非常好听，我则根据Van Morrision的风格自由创作。
这首歌也许是我新专的最爱，因为我经常在谈话提及Van Morrison和他对我的音乐生涯的意义有多么重大。在我的作品中，没有一首听起来像Van Morrison的，不过我一直听他的歌。当我听着他的歌时，我会转身开始写歌，我把这种情况称为“Van Morrison时刻”。在叙事层面来看，专辑的确以《Grand Romantic》结尾，听到这首歌意味着“伟大的爱情故事”（Grand Romantic）要结束了。专辑以《AhHa》宣布“Some Nights”时代的终结，以《Nothing Without Love》作为“伟大的爱情故事”（Grand Romantic）的开篇，以《Grand Romantic》作为该故事的结局。我认为专辑之后的两首歌《Harsh Light》和《Brightside》，曲风有很大的改变，用来颠覆听众的听感，使专辑的整体感觉更饱满。

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翻译完了,统计:
风格影响
Van Morrison
The Doors - Light My Fire
Prince - Let's Go Crazy
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
Beck - Midnite Vultures, Morning Phase, Sea Change
Jeff Lynne (ELO / Electric Light Orchestra)
George Michael - One More Try
Mutt Lange
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes
Mercury Rev
贵人相助:
James Gadson
Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
Beck
Roger Manning Jr. (Jellyfish)
Sloane Crosley (writer)