没心没肺多个胃

2009-11-05

Speech To Michael Jackson - [The MusicDise]

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从未觉得Madonna是个美女，尤其是清晰看到她嘴角上那个分外惹眼的美人痣之后；
从未觉得Madonna是个身子很干净的女星，尤其在看过她早些拍过的那些nude pics之后；
从未觉得Madonna的音乐能成为和MJ一样的主流，尤其是听过她那首被成为“床上音乐”的Justify My Love。

不过，对一个人的观点是可以改变的……

《贝隆夫人》的成功以及阿根廷人的闭嘴，Madonna开始变得端庄美丽；
追逐梦想，吃苦耐劳，作为一个离过婚并要抚养孩子的女人，Madonna显得愈发成熟；
2009年MTV颁奖典礼，一段对Michael Jackson无比深情的演讲，为她自己，更为逝去的MJ赢得了更多的赞许和掌声。

Madonna，值得尊敬！

其实，早在1990年左右，两个M之间有过约会，但结局并不很好，那个时候，经常会看到互相之间指责对方的言论，MJ指责Madonna要带他去脱衣舞俱乐部（Strip Bar），并说这个女人是个“Nasty Witch”，对所要签名的小歌迷出言不逊。不过，物是人非，20年之后，当年两个人的约会在Madonna的演讲稿里，变得很童话，曾经沧海难为水，为纪念Michael Jackson而作的演讲，由出生日期只相差13天的Madonna来perform，我觉得胜过于世界上任何一个人，的确，她们有太多相似的地方，有太多别人不知或许永远也不会知晓的秘密，不管怎样，她的这段发言应该慰藉了Michael的在天之灵。

演讲视频链接

麦姐的演讲风度和驾驭能力，比小布什强多了，个人觉得这是一段非常好的英文演讲稿，抄袭下来，好好学习学习……

下面的演讲稿取自MTV官方网站

Michael Jackson was born in August, 1958. So was I.
Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So did I.
Michael Jackson had eight brothers and sisters. So do I.
When Michael Jackson was 6 he became a superstar and was perhaps the world's most beloved child. When I was 6 my mother died. I think he got the shorter end of the stick.

I never had a mother, but he never had a childhood.
And when you never get to have something, you become obsessed by it.
I spent my childhood searching for my mother figures; sometimes I was successful.
But how do you recreate your childhood when you are under the magnifying glass of the world for your entire life? 

There is no question that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known. That when he sang a song at the ripe old age of 8, he could make you feel like an experienced adult was squeezing your heart with his words. That the way he moved had the elegance of Fred Astaire and packed the punch of Muhammad Ali. That his music had an extra layer of inexplicable magic that didn't just make you want to dance but actually made you believe that you could fly, dare to dream, be anything that you wanted to be.

Because that is what heroes do. And Michael Jackson was a hero.

He performed in soccer stadiums around the world；
He sold hundreds of millions of records；
He dined with prime ministers and presidents.
Girls fell in love with him；
Boys fell in love with him；
Everyone wanted to dance like him；
He seemed otherworldly,
BUT he was also a human being.
Like most performers, he was shy and plagued with insecurities.

I can't say we were great friends, but in 1991 I decided I wanted to get to know him better. I asked him out to dinner: I said, 'My treat, I'll drive, just you and me.' He agreed and showed up to my house without any bodyguards. We drove to the restaurant in my car. It was dark out, but he was still wearing sunglasses. I said, 'Michael, I feel like I'm talking to a limousine, do you think you could take off those glasses so I could see your eyes?' He paused for a moment, then he tossed the glasses out the window, looked at me with a wink and a smile and said, 'Can you see me now, is that better?'

In that moment, I could see both his vulnerability and his charm. The rest of the dinner, I was hell-bent on getting him to eat French fries, drink wine, have dessert and say bad words, things he never seemed to allow himself to do. Later, we went back to my house to watch a movie and we sat on the couch like two kids, and somewhere in the middle of the film, his hand snuck over and held mine. It felt like he was looking for a friend more than a romance and I was happy to oblige him. And in that moment he didn't feel like a superstar, he felt like a human being.

We went out a few more times together and then for one reason or another we fell out of touch. Then, the witch hunt began and it seemed like one negative story after the other was coming out about Michael. I felt his pain. I know what it's like to walk down the street and feel like the whole world has turned against you. I know what it's like to feel helpless and unable to defend yourself because the roar of the lynch mob is so loud that you are convinced your voice can never be heard.

But I had a childhood, and I was allowed to make mistakes and find my own way in the world without the glare of the spotlight. When I first heard that Michael had died I was in London, days away from the opening of my tour. Michael was going to perform in the same venue as me a week later. All I could think about in that moment was that I had abandoned him. That we had abandoned him. That we had allowed this magnificent creature that once set the world on fire to somehow slip through the cracks. While he was trying to build a family and rebuild his career, we were all busy passing judgment. Most of us had turned our backs on him.

In a desperate attempt to hold onto his memory, I went on the Internet to watch old clips of him dancing and singing on TV and onstage and I thought, 'My God, he was so unique, so original, so rare. And there will never be anyone like him again.' He was a king. But he was also a human being and alas, we are all human beings and sometimes we have to lose things before we can truly appreciate them. I want to end this on a positive note and say that my sons, age 9 and 4, are obsessed with Michael Jackson. There's a whole lot of crotch-grabbing and moonwalking going on in my house, and it seems like a whole new generation of kids has discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is now, he is smiling about this.

Yes, yes Michael Jackson was a human being, but dammit, he was a king. Long live the king.

离《This is It》上映已经有多日了，viola同学问我是否看过，抱歉，没有，我从没想过，在一个偌大的剧场和充满欢呼声的空间，和众多其他MJ的粉丝一同对他的死和他最后的影像表示缅怀和纪念，这不是我愿意做的，我仅仅乐于分享自己的情绪，不夹杂别人的，这样比较自由，也不需要紧张。