旻的初夏

The World's Got Talent

Growing up in Chengdu, China, Jane Zhang set her sights on becoming a singer. After her father passed away, the 15-year-old took a job singing at a local pub to help support her mother, and quickly developed her own local fan base.

In 2005, Jane was one of 120,000 hopefuls who auditioned for a new talent show, Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl. After singing Mariah Carey's "Hero," she was instantly chosen to compete for the title of the next Super Voice Girl.

Four hundred million viewers tuned in to see who would take home the title, and although Jane didn't win the competition, she became the show's breakout star. With 15 number one hit singles, Jane's been named China's Best Female Artist three years in a row. She's making her American television singing debut on The Oprah Show!

Source: Oprah.com

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关于oprah show这档节目，对美国文化稍微了解的人一定知道它的地位。连MIMI这样的老老人也要靠它来打榜，其团队是非常的一流啊，建议大家可以去翻一下以前那部the lengend ball 来看。LY能上这个节目着实给中国人挣了一口气了，关于她的表演不用再评介什么了，报道够多的，我想说说其他。

❤一个呢，LY这次毕竟是配角，谁让苏珊大妈现在那么红呢，所以作为一个配角能如此抢眼实属不易
❤另外从oprah show的嘉宾选择还是看得出来像春哥那样的的确还是不符合大众审美，去了多半会被当小丑看
❤simon还是很贱，他的表情从头到位就是一副等着看笑话的表情，后来跟LY对话的时候还故意字正腔圆的用非常简单的基础表达来跟LY对话，有些嘲讽中国人死板的英文表达的意思
❤oprah show的保密实在是到位，没到它官方的宣传片出来还真是一点风声都没有，记得去年MIMI去唱bye bye的时候好像也没有现场照片出来
❤LY的英文还需要加强，当oprah称赞到oh，that's pretty amazing，她回答yes。。。。姑且是当做她幽默了一下吧
❤XX酸酸乳XX被翻译成了mongolian cow sour yoghourt super girls，雷吧。。。。

其实周六那天就很想写这段文字，不知怎么的，挑了个最困的时间来写

这是应该是我听过mariah的第一首歌，旋律和这个歌名一样，很迷幻，再加上当年MC正处于对这类婉转情歌拿捏到了登峰造极的地步，让我至今难以释怀

那年我刚刚14岁，现在看来真是很懵懂啊 。这歌词的内容是一段青涩的恋爱，从私会到heat到不情愿的分手。我学会了好几个单词，underneath，flush，drift，bittersweet，reluctant

以下这段视频是mariah在1996的东京演唱会上表演的，应该说当时的她正处在一个非常特别的时期，一方面声音还能维系和20岁出头那阵子一样的剽悍，同时6年多的职业生涯让她对音乐，尤其是他自己创作的歌曲有着极高的表现力；但消极的一方面是3年前那个她的童话婚礼让她一天天的被约束被郁闷着，她没法展示出她内心最真实的一面。
所以在这首歌的开头她提到了这个歌是"my favorite song from the new album"，没错，就是favorite，她毫不掩饰她自己的偏好，虽然这个歌也的确被空降的fantasy，被那首传说中的百年来对流行乐影响最大的one sweet day，以及那很容易被非lamb轻松爱上的甜腻腻的always be my baby轻松超越，但这一切恰巧就让她成为了这张旷世专辑里面最闪亮的遗珠，永远被lamb们珍藏

One summer night
We ran away for a while
Laughing, we hurried beneath the sky
To an obscure place to hide
That no-one could find
And we drifted to another state of mind
And imagined I was yours and you were mine
As we lay upon the grass
There in the dark
Underneath the stars
(Young love)
Underneath the stars
(Young love)
Oh baby
Weak in the knees
Wrapped in the warm gentle breeze
So shy, a bundle of butterflies
Flush with heat of desire
On a natural high
As we drifted to another place in time
And the feeling was so heady and sublime
As I lost my heart to you
There in the dark
Underneath the stars
(Young love)
(Shum do do do)
Beautiful and bittersweetly
You were fading into me
And I was gently fading into you
But the time went sailing by
Reluctantly we said goodbye
And left our secret place so far behind
And I lay in bed all night
And I was drifting
Drifting
Drifting
Drifting
Drifting
And I was yours
And you were my own
My own baby
As we lay
As we
Lay underneath the stars
(Young love)
(Young love)
Ohhhhh
Underneath the stars
(Shum do do do)
Underneath the stars
(Young love)
Underneath the stars
(Young love)

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本周四，歌坛天后玛利亚凯利为了宣传自己的第11张新专辑，来到洛杉矶一家大型购物商场，在这里举行了一场免费演唱会。一听歌后到来而且还有免费演出，商场立刻被歌迷们围了个水泄不通。凯利现场演唱了新专辑中的5首歌曲，虽然已经成名多年，但是天后的歌唱功力没有丝毫减退，唱起标志性的海豚音，仍然游刃有余，另现场歌迷大饱耳福。玛利亚的新专辑引用了爱因斯坦相对论中的公式作为专辑名称，主打歌Touch My Body在全美电台播出不到一个月，就创造了8千2百万次收听的惊人成绩。而且这首歌还成为玛利亚的第18支冠军单曲，这一成绩超过了“猫王”埃尔维斯•普莱斯利，仅次于披头士。到目前为止，新专辑已经销售了110万张。今年年末，玛利亚将举行全球巡演。

Message to Sichuan Earthquake Victims
Mariah: My heart obviously goes out to all those who have been affected by this terrible tragedy and really the families, and every one who suffered the loss and I just, you're in my prayers and I hope, I encourage everybody in the world to get more involved and try to help as much as possible.