来源 http://goo.gl/iZ6jfQ 其实我本来翻译就喜欢附原文的，但PTT没办法贴上韩文XD 英文可以贴上我就直接贴了。 有一些比较废话的部份我懒得翻(欸) [访谈] Laura Brain, Oh My Girl "Closer" 的作曲/编曲家 - Asian Junkie 独家 [Interview] Laura Brian, the composer/songwriter of Oh My Girl’s “Closer” 撰文采访 Boobsy 发表时间 03/23/2016 Today we have something special for all the readers, which is an interview with Laura Brian, the composer and songwriter of Oh My Girl‘s “Closer“. ===== 可以请你先和Asian Junkie的读者们自我介绍一下吗? Hi, could you please introduce yourself to the Asian Junkie readers? 大家好，我是Laura Brian。我成长於美国加州中部海滨的一座小城市，并且现在仍然居 住在此。我的老公是我的高中同学Matthew，并且最近有了个小孩Daxton。 Hi there! My name is Laura Brian. I grew up in a small town on the Central Coast of California, where I currently still reside. I’m married to my high-school sweetheart, Matthew, and I’m a new and very proud mommy to Daxton. 你是因为什麽样的原因帮 Oh My Girl 写歌的? How did you come across writing a song for Oh My Girl? 我曾经计画成为一个歌手，所以我向一间位於Burbank的音乐工作室送出了我的demo带。 他们告诉我他们的经纪人喜欢我且想与我一起共事，我因而开始与当时同样在该工作室的 Sean Alexander 一起工作。我们一开始是想写的不是"CLOSER"而是另外一首歌，但在进 行了许多次尝试并投入超过16个小时以上的精力後，我发现"感觉不太对"--至少我自己唱 起来是这麽觉得。 I originally planned on trying to become a singer, so I contacted a studio in Burbank and sent them some vocal demos. They responded back and told me that their talent manager wanted to work with me. It was through that that I started working with Sean Alexander, who worked at that studio at the time. We originally had started on another song other than “Closer”, but after several sessions and 16+ hours, I just wasn’t “feeling it” — at least as far as singing it myself went. 有一天我走进工作室，然後告诉他我想要全部重来 … 而那就是 "CLOSER" 的开始。我们 一开始写这首歌，立刻就有种灵感自然涌出的感觉。那真的是很酷的经验，因为那首歌感 觉是如此的自然 -- 那绝对是一个 "muse" 的状态。我从一开始我就知道我希望让这首歌 有一种梦幻感 -- 一种美丽却又有点奇异的风格。我给了 Sean 我想使用的和弦进行，并 且写了歌曲中使用到的钢琴曲调。我们一确定了和弦进行之後，就开始在工作室不停的重 复播放，哼出数百数千种不同的旋律，寻找最适合搭配的一种。我们就这样一个段落一个 段落的进行，直到整首歌终於大功告成。一开始这首歌的风格和现在比起来比较不太一样 (有点R&B的味道)，因为我一开始是想在美国的音乐市场发行这个曲子。然而我後来思考发 现，以我26岁的年龄，要成为流行音乐明星已经是不太可能的事情了。 I came in to the studio one day and told him I wanted to start over … and that’s when “Closer” happened. Once we started writing, it’s like it just was flowing out. It was a really cool experience, because the song felt so natural — it was definitely a “muse” situation. I knew, from the start, that I wanted the song to have a dreamy feel– something beautiful, but also slightly eerie. So I gave Sean the chord progression I wanted to use, and also wrote the piano hook used in the song. Once we had the chord progression, we just sat in the studio playing it on repeat, humming out tons of different melodies that could fit. We went section by section until the song was finished. The song originally had a different feel (more of an R&B beat) because I was going to release it and try to shop it here, in the American song market. However, I decided that, as a 26-year-old, my chances of becoming a pop star were slim to none. 於是我写了电子邮件给 Sean 告诉他 "我们乾脆把这首歌卖了吧" 。他把这首歌的曲调稍 做修改，让它更带有上升调，以符合韩国流行音乐市场的口味，接着就将歌曲寄给他所有 认识的韩国音乐界的相关人士。 So I e-mailed him and said “let’s sell it.” He changed the instrumental and made it more upbeat to fit the K-pop market, then sent it to all of his contacts in the Korean entertainment industry. 在写这首歌/卖这首歌之前，你对於这首歌即将归属的团体有任何认知吗?比如，这个团体 的风格之类的? Did you know much about the group before writing/selling the song to the group ’s company? As in, the concept they were going for and all that? 说真的我对於这个团体原先完全没有任何了解。我有听过 "Cupid" ，但当时我并不太 follow 他们。由於 "Cupid" 这首歌的关系，我原先以为他们会走一个比较 "可爱风" 的 路线，所以当我得知他们(公司)买下 "CLOSER" 这首歌的时候真的非常惊讶！我完全不知 道他们会用怎麽样的概念来诠释这首歌，直到我看到第一张 teaser 照片。由於我自己本 身是迪士尼热爱者，所以他们这种童话故事的概念让我完全一百倍兴奋了起来。 I honestly knew nothing about the group beforehand. I had heard the song “ Cupid“, but didn’t really follow at that point. Because of the song “Cupid ”, I would have thought they would go for a more “cutesy” style for their second single, so I was really surprised when I heard that they had bought “ Closer”! I had absolutely no idea what concept they were using with the song until the first teaser poster was released. I’m a Disney freak, so it made me 100 times more excited that they were using a fairy-tale concept. 这首歌发行之後，你有曾经想过它会成为国际饭(即海外饭)之中如此备受喜爱的歌曲吗? Once the song was out did you ever think it would become such a fan-favourite amongst the international audience? 注：CLOSER在海外得到的评价非常的高，於欧美网路上韩乐相关排行榜的成绩与评价，甚 至是第一流团体的等级 我完全不知道会得到什麽样的评价。一开始我强迫自己不可以看任何关於他们的评论或评 价。我不太确定这是不是因为这首歌是我自己所写的，而我一直对自己很吹毛求疵，但我 非常害怕看到我如此努力写出的作品得到大量的负面评语。但当我终於开始阅读那些回覆 和评论之後，我终於可以松了一口气。我最喜欢的评论是写关於这首歌的风格非常的特别 而新鲜，与时下一般的韩国流行音乐听起来很不一样。这就是我自己身为作曲家的目标： 想要创作出美丽而艺术层面而言独特的歌曲。我真的完全没有预期这首歌能够得到这样的 关注，所以其实想到世界各处有很多人都在唱着从我(以及 Sean)手中谱写出的歌曲时， 脑袋总是晕乎乎的。 I had no idea what to expect. I initially forced myself to not look at any of the comments or reviews at first. I’m not sure if it was because it was something that I wrote, and I’m naturally critical of myself, but it was my worst fear to see a bunch of bad comments on something I worked so hard on. But once I finally started reading the feedback and comments, I could breathe a huge sigh of relief. My favorite ones were those mentioning how different and refreshing the song is, and that it doesn’t sound like typical K-pop nowadays. That is my goal as a songwriter: to write music that is beautiful and artistically different. I really didn’t expect it to get the attention it did, so it’s pretty trippy to think that people all over the world are singing something that came out of my (and Sean’s) head. 你会愿意再为 OH MY GIRL 写歌吗？如果愿意的话，你会想写一个风格类似的曲子，还是 会挑战新的曲风？ Would you write for Oh My Girl again? If so, would it be a similar sound to “ Closer” or would you challenge yourself with a different genre? 我当然愿意为他们再次写歌！我非常喜爱 OH MY GIRL 的一点就是她们甜美的歌声，这使 得她们很适合唱细致、艺术美的旋律。我很高兴她们能够继续走这样的神秘/童话路线路 线；我很期待听到 "LIAR LIAR" ！就我个人而言，我很愿意写任何风格的歌曲，但不想 使它太陷入某种风格，导致写出来的歌听起来和其他的歌曲没两样。我很喜欢能够将多种 不同的风格融合为一、产生新的风格的歌曲。 I would write again for them in a heartbeat! What I love about Oh My Girl is the sweetness of their vocals, which makes it easy to give them delicate, aesthetic melodies. I’m so excited that they’re building on the mysterious/fairytale feel. I’m really excited to hear “Liar Liar“! Personally, I would love to be able to write songs for any genre, but not get so sucked into the genre that it sounds like everything else. I really love listening to songs that are able to combine different styles to create something new. —– 下面主要是跟他本人有关的访谈所以就不翻了 --

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