作者joyride (快乐骑)
看板Beyonce
标题Re: [影音] Beyonce on Entertainment Tonight
时间Sat Jun 18 14:11:51 2011
Beyonce ET online interview (Behind the scenes of "4")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esw0zHEYb3A
ET网站上有不同的片段。
跟昨天内容完全不一样的访谈,
也多了一开头穿红色衣服在唱歌的造型与场景。
访谈中说她一直都在当一个榜样,
因为她有个妹妹。
然後提到新专辑为什麽要叫做《4》,
这是我们第一次听到她亲口谈新专辑喔~
也提到Target特别版,
她说她把一些很喜欢的歌放到特别版里。
另外Bee的录音师Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young也在Billboard的访谈里说,
他最喜欢的歌是收录在特别版里的〈Schoolin' Life〉。
好期待特别版的另外三首新歌!
My favorite song is actually going to be on the deluxe [Target] edition of
"4." It's a song called "School & Life." It has a Prince vibe. The-Dream
wrote and produced it, and it's basically a song about life and growing up.
We recorded that toward the end of the project. As soon as I heard it I told
B, "That's the one . . . I love that song." I actually got the chance to mix
that record. It was incredible that she allowed me to do that.
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Beyonce Experimented 'With Everything' On '4,' Says Engineer
The go-to recording engineer for Beyoncé is Toronto native Jordan "DJ
Swivel" Young. He's sitting in a spacious studio at New York's new $3.5
million Jungle City Studios, talking about his unlikely road to working on
one of the most anticipated albums of 2011, Beyoncé's "4" (due June 28).
"I was cleaning toilets, ordering food, doing maintenance around the studio
when I first started," Young says, recalling his internship days. "But it
never felt like a day of work. That's when I knew I'd found my calling." An
ambitious kid who once DJ'd all-ages clubs, Young moved to New York two days
after graduating from Full Sail's sound engineering program in 2005. Soon,
Island Def Jam recording artist Fabolous recruited him to engineer his
recording sessions.
Young dishes on 120-hour work weeks, technology and recording studios. He
notes with enthusiasm that it's an honor to record "the greatest singer of
our generation."
When did you find out you were going to work with Beyoncé?
Young: A friend of mine, [BET "106 & Park" associate producer] Omar Grant,
who was working at Epic Records at the time, worked with Destiny's Child
years ago. And I guess Beyoncé needed a fill-in engineer for the day. This
was April 2010. She'd finished her last album and . . . was ready to get back
in. Beyoncé wanted to cut a new song . . . I came in and she told me, at the
end of the day, that I did a great job. A few months later, I got a callback
to do more sessions.
We pretty much worked every day nonstop. B's a machine. We recorded more than
70 songs. It was by far the greatest experience I've had in the studio. I
spent more time with Beyoncé in the last year than I have with my own family
in six years [laughs].
Some of "4" was recorded overseas, wasn't it?
We rented a mansion in Australia. In one room Kanye West and Jay-Z were doing
their "Watch the Throne," and we were in another room [recording "4"]. It was
incredible. Jay and Kanye recorded in a living room . . . so we shipped all
the gear in, rented what we needed to and built two studios. Beyoncé and I
recorded in the theater room.
But the first studio we went to overseas was in [England] . . . a place
called Bath. Peter Gabriel has a studio in a village that looks like "The
Lord of the Rings" called Real World Studios. Beyoncé and I were in
Gabriel's private room . . . It has every musical instrument that he ever
collected hanging on the walls. It looks like a madhouse for music . . . a
really creative space.
Is Beyoncé a studio tyrant?
[Laughs] She is, but not in an authoritative way. She's a sweetheart to work
with . . . when you are on your shit. I pride myself on being really fast and
able to execute all the ideas that she wants. Because she's on her shit, if
you're not, then she's going to find somebody that is.
One of the songs that leaked, "Party" [produced by Kanye West and featuring
André 3000], has a very early-'90s R&B sound. How did you achieve that?
That was the first record I ever cut with her, before we even started the
album. Kanye sent it to her . . . that early-'90s inspiration was already
there. Beyoncé was experimenting . . . with everything. "Party" . . . sounds
like you're at a summer cookout. She got that point across in the vocals.
One of the pressures of being Beyoncé is that she has to set the trends . .
. everyone looks to her to create what's next. There's nothing on the radio
that sounds like [first single] "Run the World."
My favorite song is actually going to be on the deluxe [Target] edition of
"4." It's a song called "School & Life." It has a Prince vibe. The-Dream
wrote and produced it, and it's basically a song about life and growing up.
We recorded that toward the end of the project. As soon as I heard it I told
B, "That's the one . . . I love that song." I actually got the chance to mix
that record. It was incredible that she allowed me to do that.
It seems like recording engineers have become an endangered species, given
that anyone can purchase Pro Tools.
It's easy for people to do their own setup at home . . . and get a decent
sound. But the problem is, a lot of people don't know how to record. You may
have the greatest mic and all the greatest gear, but then your vocals are
distorted. One of the problems is, kids are trained to just hear MP3s . . .
very loud. They don't care about the sonic qualities of the song. But you
can't fight technology [laughs].
Do you think to yourself, "I'm 26 years old and working with a global
superstar. Can it get any better than this"?
Yeah [laughs]. It's been such a ride. But the important thing is, I never
stopped. I've never taken a vacation. When you're not around you miss
opportunities. That's why I have no problem being in a studio 120 hours in a
week. That work ethic is what helped me get to where I am so quickly-I'm now
mixing Beyoncé records. No other 26-year-old can say that.
http://tinyurl.com/5wnzsz2 (billboard.com)
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