试着翻译一部份 没有很详细的逐句翻 也还没翻完 欢迎各位高手板友不吝指教修正 在此感谢 (希望不要跟洪兰一样超译太多 呜呜) 也希望有热心板友能接力完成 谢谢 p.s.括弧()内为译者所加 非原文翻译 ※ 引述《gigaer (小宝)》之铭言： : 之前在网路上只有一些片段的样子 : 最近突然有了完整曲子，不过听起来离完成还很远很远啊 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElzaexzU3XE : 关於这首我是鲁蛇(喂) : 有些说法说是万夫莫敌未收录曲，但其实是在2003年做的 : 在tumblr上面看到的相关解析，好长看不完 : 全文 http://ppt.cc/NC~h : "The mystique that surrounded Michael Jackson’s unreleased song “I Am A : Loser” was finally put to rest today after a fan leaked the full track : online. However, although fans can now enjoy the track in all its glory, : there is still much confusion regarding the true origins of the song. 在有人将这首歌全取放上网路後，这首歌的真正来源仍有些不清楚之处 : Michael Jackson fans have long speculated that the track was written and : recorded in the late 90s – prior to the release of Jackson’s 2001 ‘ : Invincible’ album. However, this information has proven to be inaccurate. : “I Am A Loser” was first conceived more than a year after the release of ‘ : Invincible’, in January of 2003, shortly after wrapping up the last of a : series of interviews for Martin Bashir’s ill-fated “Living With Michael : Jackson” documentary. 粉丝长期认为这首歌是在90年後期, Invincible专辑发行前写作及录音的 但其实是在2003年1月被创作 就在巴屎尔的(抹黑扭曲)纪录片Living With Michael Jackson之後 (抹黑扭曲为译者所加 原文形容为ill-fated不幸的) : Jackson and his long-time collaborator Brad Buxer, who is responsible for : contributions towards a plethora of tracks including “Who Is It” and “ : Stranger In Moscow”, were staying in adjoining Las Vegas hotel rooms at the : time while working on music together. MJ和他的长期合作者Brad Buxer 合作相当多首包括Who is it, Stranger In Moscow 当时和MJ住在拉斯维加斯饭店的隔邻房间一同做音乐上的工作 : Buxer, who was going through a breakup at the time, was awake late one night. : Upset about the breakup, he was pacing around his room repeating, “I’m a : loser! I’m just a loser!” Buxer当时正经历分手，在房间里踱步并重复着 I’m a loser 我是个失败者 : Before long Jackson, who could hear Buxer through the wall, knocked on his : door and came in and asked, “What’s the problem?” MJ隔着墙壁听到，敲Buxer的门问: 怎麽了? : “Oh I’m a loser…” answered Buxer, before explaining his situation. : “Let’s write a song about it,” suggested Jackson. Buxer还没回答他的处境，MJ建议: 我们写首关於这情形的歌 : And so Jackson and Buxer got to work, co-writing and composing the track “I : Am A Loser” into the early hours of the morning. 因此MJ和Buxer一起写词谱曲 : “We had our typical recording setup,” explains the pair’s : engineer/producer, Michael Prince. “ProTools, keyboards, a microphone set up : with headphones – the whole thing. So it’s basically a mini recording : studio.” : “Brad was playing keys and Michael was doing a scratch vocal. It happened : very fast,” recalls Prince, who began working on the song soon after the : first scratch vocal had been laid down. "Brad(Buxer的名字)弹奏keyboard，麦可唱scratch vocal" (有没有高人可以指点一下 scratch vocal是甚麽意思?) 制作人Michael Prince随後加入这首歌的制作，他回忆道。 : “Michael did multiple performances to get a good demo down,” tells Prince. : “We worked on it further at the ranch (Neverland) and at other times in : other places, too. Michael likes to keep polishing things. He was always : asking for a new sound here or a new hi-hat there.” "MJ做了很多次的演唱来得到一个好的demo" "我们在Neverland和其他地方进一步制作它。MJ喜欢不断使作品完美， 他总是要求在这里加一个新的声音或在那里加一个新的钹声" : The song is built around trademark Jackson/Buxer drum loops and beatbox : sounds in the vein of “Stranger in Moscow” and “Beautiful Girl”, and : backed by soothing synths and an angelic harp. Jackson tells Buxer’s true : story of a love lost with poignant lyrics; “I say hello/You say goodbye. I : reach to you/You don’t even try. I am a loser. I am a loser.” : Upon reviewing what was leaked today, Prince can confirm it is not the most : recent version of the track. : “I mean the leaked version is vocally complete, but you can tell it’s the : demo because after the second or third chorus you hear Michael go ‘Ahh’ : like that, because he was getting ready to sing a part and then he stopped,” : explains Prince. ”Nobody has edited that. He didn’t mean for that to be : left on the record. Just like on [the unreleased track] “Gloucestershire” – : Michael starts doing a little horn part with his voice, just so he wouldn’t : forget it – because it’s a scratch vocal track.” "流出的版本在vocal上已经完成，但可以分辨出是demo 因为在第二次获第三次合唱後MJ唱‘Ahh’之类的 因为他准备好唱一个部分，然後他停顿了 : “The version that leaked is pretty much the finished demo from before it : became ‘I Was The Loser’.” : “What you’re hearing is Michael singing and Brad playing. That truly is the : demo. Those vocals are untouched, un-tuned and unedited,” says Prince. : “He was happy with the original ‘I Am A Loser’ demo,” adds Prince. “But : before we played it for anybody else we had a long talk and Michael said, ‘I : don’t want be a loser. I don’t mind if I was the loser but I don’t want to : say I’m still a loser.’ So we changed that.” : “I Was The Loser” is the final version of the track. : Jackson did not record the whole song again when it changed from “I Am A : Loser” to “I Was The Loser”. He simply re-recorded that particular line, : while the musical composition remained exactly the same. : The recording of the “I was the loser” line took place in a makeshift : studio set up by Prince at Jackson’s Bel Air Hotel room in late 2008 – the : same period of time in which the King of Pop laid down additional vocals for : other pre-existing tracks including “Best of Joy” and “Hollywood Tonight”. : These, among many others, were tracks Jackson had on “to do” list at the : time of his death on June 25, 2009. A handwritten note detailing the titles : of 28 tracks Jackson had hoped to completed, including “The Loser” as : Jackson called it, was found beside his bed following his passing. See below: : JACKSON’S 2009 “TO DO” MUSIC LIST : http://ppt.cc/u-hF : “There are things that just stuck in his mind,” says Prince. “Sometimes he : writes new songs, and sometimes he wants to bring up something from the past : that he knows is an unpolished gem.” : “I remember we did a little work on ‘Scared Of The Moon’ for the ‘ : Invincible’ album, actually. And I remember Steve Porcaro joking, ‘Oh that : song again?’ It’s so funny because I’d never heard it before. But that’s : Michael’s way of doing things – he always revisited some of his favourite : stuff. He’d say, ‘Why didn’t we put this on our last album? Let’s listen : again. Can we make it any better?’ Sometimes it makes it on the album and : sometimes it doesn’t.” : Both “I Am A Loser” and “I Was The Loser” remain unreleased in an : official capacity to this day. ” --

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