解释一切（2018）

Explained S03E13

Part 4 Feb. 6, 2024, 6:01 p.m.

‪有些可能是真的有些可能是假的 ‪但它在传达信息
Some may be true, some may be false. But it's getting the message across.
‪这对我来说更为重要
That's the bigger take on it for me.
‪说唱和乡村音乐 ‪确实有不少相同的主题
[Britton] Rap and country do share a lot of the same themes.
‪比如对自己出身的自豪感
Like pride in where you come from.
‪来自康普顿
♪ Where you from ♪ -♪ Straight outta Compton ♪
‪（乔治亚）
♪ We on the grind in Georgia All the time ♪
‪我自是因为来自
♪ Tell by my attitude That I'm most definitely from ♪
‪纽约
♪ New York ♪
‪家庭价值观
[Britton] Family values.
‪为我有女儿的兄弟们
♪ For my brothers with daughters ♪
‪在这世上没有一个女人 ‪能够取代我妈妈的位置
♪ Ain't a woman alive That can take my mama's place ♪
‪奶奶再给我一个拥抱
♪ What I wouldn't give for One more hug from Grandma ♪
‪还有艰难时世
[Britton] And hard times.
‪我厌倦了贫穷 ‪更糟的是我是个黑人
♪ I'm tired of being poor And even worse, I'm Black ♪
‪时世比地窖的地板还要冷硬
♪ Was on my grind 'cause times was harder Than the cellar floor ♪
♪ The only thing on my mind ♪
‪我试着让灯一直亮着
♪ I'm trying to keep on the lights ♪
‪乡村音乐和节奏布鲁斯
Country and R&B
‪真的是密切相关对吧？
are really closely related, right?
‪它们在音乐上密不可分
They're very closely related musically.
‪北方城市的贫困催生了说唱…
[Britton] Rap was born out of the poverty of northern cities…
-[rapping] -[beatboxing]
‪以祖先几十年的节奏和蓝调为基础
[Britton] …building on decades of their ancestors' rhythm and blues,
‪一开始用班卓琴弹拨
which was first plucked on banjos,
‪班卓琴是随西非运奴船带进美国的
an instrument that had come to America on slave ships from West Africa.
‪在奴隶解放前
And before emancipation,
‪说唱作为灵歌♥和劳动号♥子
sung as spirituals and work songs
‪在美国南部的种植园传唱
on plantations across the American South.
‪那些乡村哀歌♥演变成了蓝调
Those rural laments evolved into the blues.
‪这些声音与阿巴拉契亚 ‪小提琴手的民谣混合在一起
And these sounds mixed with the ballads of those Appalachian fiddlers,
‪形成了之后被分割开来
forming the roots of what would later be segmented and sold
‪作为乡巴佬音乐 ‪以及种族唱片销♥售♥的根源
as hillbilly music and race records.
‪它们变成了具备象征意义的对立体
And they become these sort of symbolic opposites.
‪分♥裂♥却又盘根错节
[Britton] Springing off and tangling together
‪形成了几乎全部美国流行音乐
to form almost all American popular music.
‪因此说唱与乡村音乐 ‪根本就不是对立的关系
So rap and country aren't opposites at all.
‪它们是失散颇久的亲缘
They're really long-lost cousins.
一位拒绝藏在幕后的歌♥手‪是雷查尔斯
One artist who refused to stay inside the lines was Ray Charles.
‪在1962年
Back in 1962,
‪他发行了《乡村与西部音乐的 ‪现代之音》第一卷和第二卷
he released Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 and 2,
‪在流行乡村歌♥曲 ‪比如《你是我的阳光》中
with an entirely new bluesier take
‪加入了全新的布鲁斯风格
on popular country songs, like "You Are My Sunshine."
‪当我的天空是灰色时
♪ Girl you make me happy sometimes ♪
‪女孩有时你会让我开心
♪ When my skies are gray ♪
‪一旦雷查尔斯掌握了精髓就会唱出最悸动的旋律
Once Ray Charles gets ahold of it, and he makes it start to swing,
‪让歌♥曲成为有灵魂的布鲁斯音乐
it makes it kind of bluesy, soulful.
‪《乡村与西部音乐的现代之音》
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
‪有点像当时的《老城旧路》
was kind of the "Old Town Road" of its day.
‪乡村音乐产业并不接受
[Britton] The country industry
雷查尔斯作为一名乡村音乐家
didn't accept Ray Charles as a country musician.
‪但那些唱片不亚于任何一张
But those records may have changed country music
‪改变了乡村音乐的专辑
as much as any album.
‪雷查尔斯是名伟大的乡村音乐歌♥手
Ray Charles was a great country singer.
‪是有史以来最好的之一
One of the best of all time.
‪我们今天仍能听到他的回响
[Britton] And you can hear his echoes today,
‪比如在克里斯斯泰普尔顿
like when Chris Stapleton performed for the first time
‪首次出席乡村音乐颁奖典礼 ‪并带来蓝调的表演里
at the Country Music Awards and brought the blues.
‪我以前常在酒吧里捱过长夜
♪ Used to spend my nights out In a barroom ♪
[crowd cheering]
‪烈酒是我唯一认识的挚爱
♪ Liquor was the only love I've known ♪
‪又或是米奇盖顿 ‪在2021年的格莱美颁奖典礼上表演
[Britton] Or when Mickey Guyton performed at the Grammys in 2021
‪并娓娓道来一个故事时
and told a story.
‪如果你认为我们活着
♪ If you think we live ♪
‪在自♥由♥之地
♪ In the land of the free ♪
‪你应该试着成为
♪ You should try to be ♪
‪像我一样的黑人
♪ Black like me ♪
‪《像我一样的黑人》 ‪对我来说是首绝妙好歌♥
"Black Like Me" is such an incredible song to me
‪因为她唱出了自己真实的经历
because she's singing her truth.
‪就像世界上任何东西一样 ‪我们都需要演变进化
Like anything in this world, we all must evolve.
‪所以如果我们在演变 ‪那么音乐最终也会演变
So, if we're evolving, then the music will evolve eventually.
‪我希望年轻的歌♥手能够逐渐成长
I'm hoping that young artists will grow up
‪唱出似乎从未有人说出过的真心话
and tell the truth like it's never been told.
‪无论去到哪里都尽情发挥 ‪“哇！”
Bring it home in a way where you go, "Whoa!"
‪“就是这样”
"There it is."
‪乡村音乐就像是没有尽头的畅通之路
Country music, it feels like an open road with no dead end,
‪而我觉得音乐就该是这样
and I feel like that's what music is supposed to do.
‪与你的心灵对话
Speak to your heart.
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