For all the hype about fashion, drugs, and sex, it's technology that truly defines Gossip Girl. There have been plenty of shows about the idle rich, and almost as many stylized dramas about adolescent angst: Beverly Hills, 90210, My So Called Life and The OC, to name a few. But while Gossip Girl's characters suffer through the same teenage rituals - heartbreak, petty feuds, college-acceptance panic - they do it with a thumb pressed to a keypad. On the show, "Gossip Girl" is the name of an anonymously written website that dishes on the daily scandals at Constance Billard and St. Jude's. Its authorship is a great mystery. Everyone leaks to Gossip Girl via text message - who's stepping out on Serena, who might share a half brother, who smoked hash in the courtyard. Gossip Girl adheres to the observer's paradox of modern teenage life: If it isn't blogged or texted about, it didn't happen. 虽然大肆宣传的是时尚, 毒品, 性, 但真正让GG有意义的是科技。有很多的影集都是 在讲豪野人, 有同样多的影集在讲青少年维持的烦恼, 例如Beverly Hills, 90210, My So Called Life, 和 The OC, 还有更多。但是当GG的角色们痛苦地挣扎於同样的 青少年问题 - 心碎, 小争吵, 大学入学恐慌 - 他们用拇指按着键盘来进行。在戏里, "Gossip Girl"是一个匿名网站的名称, 专门发布Constance Billard和St. Jude's 发生的丑闻, 网站管理者没人知道是谁, 但每个人都用简讯方式把八卦传给GG - 包括 谁抛弃了S, 谁可能有共同血缘的兄弟, 谁在学校中庭吸大麻。GG赶上时代潮流, 提出 当代青年生活的观察者谬论: 没有post在网路上的事情就是没有发生过的"流言"。 But technology also partly explains why Gossip Girl is not a conventional television hit. An average episode attracts about 3 million Nielsen viewers, roughly a quarter of the audience that watches Jennifer Love Hewitt connect with the beyond in Ghost Whisperer - no one's idea of sexy show. CW executives blame Gossip Girl's rating anemia on an antiquated system that doesn't account for the millions watching it in groups, online or downloading episodes from iTunes, where it routinely sits at Number One. 但科技也是为何GG并非传统的电视热门影集的部份原因。一般的影集吸引大约三百万 尼尔森的观众, 大概是看Ghost Whisperer, 一部由Jennifer Love Hewitt (曾经是 美国美丽性感女星象徵) 主演和亡者接触, 没有人认为性感的一部影集的观众的四分之 一。CW的制作们归咎於这个古老老旧过时的统计忽略了数百万计的人, 在网路上观看, 或从iTune上下载, 因为GG通常在这些网站占据第一名。 "We'd wake up in the morning and look at the ratings and say, 'Wow, that's pretty low.'" says Schwartz, a Providence, Rhode Island, native who launched The OC when he was just 26 and oversees Gossip Girl with Savage long-distance from Los Angeles. "But then you'd hear people talk about the show and you'd think, 'This is weird.' The reaction to the show feels much larger than the audience." "我们曾在早上醒来, 看着统计数字说'哇, 这也太低了吧'" Schwartz, 一个住在罗德岛 , 在刚满26岁时就制作了The OC的神人, 和远在另一端洛杉矶的Savage一起相中GG。 "但是你会听到人们都在讨论这个影集, 然後你会想'这真的很怪', 这影集造成的回响, 感觉上似乎远远超越观众的数目。" The truth is you're either in or you're either out with Gossip Girl. If you're out, you're out: These beautiful kids might as well be speaking Mandarin. But if you're in, you're crazy in - wearing out your exclamation key life-blogging episodes, creating syrupy song tributes on YouTube, and wasting hours ruminating on Chuck and Blair, and what if total psychobitch Georgina Sparks returns at the end of this season and terrorizes Serena... The drama goes on and on. The mania for Gossip Girl isn't measurable by ratings - it's more like a hypoxic obsession. 事实是, 你不是对GG有兴趣就是完全没有。如果你对GG没兴趣, 这些漂亮的孩子们 就像在讲中文, 听不懂他们在说啥。但如果你对GG有兴趣, 那你就是非常的有兴趣, 你会不断地赞叹让你印象深刻的片断, 在YouTube上创作甜蜜蜜的歌, 浪费你的时间 反覆地回想Chuck和Blair, 不断地揣测万一疯子乔G娜在这季的最後又回来整S... 事件不断地发生, GG造成的狂热根本无法用统计数字来测量 - 它是种无法抗拒的沈迷。 No one appreciates this more than its stars, most of whom moved to New York en masse in the summer of 2007, and, according to Lively, "live within a five-block radius of one another" in downtown Manhattan. They have become part of a meta social experiment: beautiful young people living in New York, playing beautiful young people living in New York on TV. "Where the show ends and reality begins can be very blurry," admits Schwartz. 没有人会比GG的明星们更感谢这些粉丝, 他们大多在07年的夏天就搬到NY, 根据Lively 的说法"我们住在离彼此半径只有五个街区之内"在曼哈顿。他们变後社会实验的一部份: 住在NY的漂亮青年们在电视上演出住在NY的漂亮青年们。"什麽时候秀已经结束, 真实 生活开始是非常模糊的" 制作人承认。 "I remember going to the set one day, and this really big guy, about six feet five, comes up to me, and I thought, 'I don't remember a character like that in the script, '" says Jessica Szohr, 24, a former departmentstore model from Wisconsin who plays Nate's on-off hipster girlfriend, Vanessa Abrams, on the show. "And he says, 'I'm your security guard.' I'm like, 'What?' And we turned the corner, and there were hundreds of little girls." "我记得有一天到拍摄现场, 有个大家伙, 大概六尺半, 走近我, 我想说'怎麽不记得 剧本里有这样一个角色？'"24岁的Jessica Szohr, 从威斯康辛州来的前百货公司模特儿 在GG里扮演Nate的嬉皮女友Vanessa这样说, "他告诉我'我是你的保镖', 我吓一跳想 '啥?!'等我们走过转角, 发现大概有百来个小女生在那里。" "I was shocked by it," says Lively. "These 12-year-old girls hitting in our cast members. I remember one walked up to Penn and was like, 'Hey, you wanna come over to my house later?' That was before they were in any of these teen magazines. The guys were like, 'What. Is. Happing?' It was really instant, a whirlwind." "我感到很惊讶" Lively说, "这些12岁大的女孩们搭讪我们的演员们, 我记得有一个 过来问Penn'嘿, 你等一下要不要来我家？'这发生在他们出现在任何一本少年杂志前, 这些男生们忍不住问'到底花生了什麽素?!' 这效应真的很快, 像龙卷风一样。" -- 喘口气... 看起来, GG真的是超红的, 不过... 12岁小女生?! o_O 我还以为那个时段她们都该睡觉了... 果然爸妈是满糟糕的 XD --

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