Thoughts in English #1

Some people want to be famous so badly, they don't know who they are and what they are capable of anymore.

從黑白變彩色

(500) Days of Summer 導演 Marc Webb 因其輕快跳痛的風格讓他贏得導演2012年電影蛛蛛人(Spider-Man 蛛蛛是故意打錯)的機會。其實，他原本是以拍短片和音樂帶(MV)起家，Regina Spektor 的 Fidelity 就出自他之手。看過 (500) Days of Summer 之後再來看 Fidelity ，的確，風格存在於彈指間。

話說 Regina Spektor 這個俄裔美籍的女歌手，從 2005 年以來她的歌開始密集出現在各電視影集和電視廣告中，令人驚訝的是，從 CSI, Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, 甚至是最新一季即將上演的 Weeds，這些我喜歡的美劇，都曾用過她的歌曲，難怪她的歌聽起來似曾相識，原來都曾趁我專心看影集時當成洗腦背景樂了。

通常她會以情境設定和人物個性作為一首歌典的基準，然後讓自己的想像力奔馳進而完成一首又一首混合式風格的無曲調流行樂。然而，感覺她的歌都沒什麼強烈明顯的節奏調性(這一定讓愛K歌的一般人有一種想K卻K不出的痛苦吧，不是每個人都是天生的歌唱家啦)，卻又渾然天成自成一格。她習慣在歌曲裡添加幾個不知所云的音，音域極廣加上口技極佳，配上流暢的鋼琴伴奏，不想注意都很難。她的 Laughing With 也是一首很酷的歌，尤其開頭那微微大舌頭的英文發音，聽她的歌有時會覺得到底是自己英文太差還是根本就沒有這種發音的英文字?


Regina Spektor－Fidelity

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music

And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

And suppose I never ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better better better better
Better better better

I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting by heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

I hear in my mind all of these voices
I hear in my mind all of these words
I hear in my mind all of this music

Breaks my heart
Breaks my heart