Avicii传记翻译P129—133 中英对照

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19 May 2012

Tim Bergling

I’m gonna need more time,

我需要更多时间。

still not done with set completely

还没有完成set。

Like 6.45 pickup

6.45左右来接我

Felix Alfonso

Just pulled up

刚刚到达

Tim Bergling

I’m just abt to jump in shower

我正准备去冲个澡。

Felix Alfonso

No can do

不行

We need to leave now

我们现在就要出发了。

Tim Bergling

I can’t

我不能。

Felix Alfonso

Man we have an interview 7.45

我们有一个采访，时间是7.45。

It takes 40 mins to get there

需要40分钟才能到那里。

Tim Bergling

Gonna have to push interview

不得不推迟采访。

I think, not done with set,

我认为，set还未完成。

I’m stressing out. I’ll work in the car

我压力很大。我会在车上工作。

Production manager Felix Alfonso rushed through the hotel lobby at The Standard and took the elevator to Tim’s room. Forty-five thousand people were waiting in an arena in New Jersey, where the Electric Daisy Carnival had spawned.

制作经理Felix Alfonso匆忙穿过The Standard酒店的大堂，乘电梯到了Tim的房间。四万五千人正在新泽西州的一个竞技场等待，那里是雏菊电音嘉年华的发源地。

Felix already knew on the way up to Tim’s room what was going to happen. It was almost comical how predictable this scene had become. Tim was like a four-year-old who refused to put on his boots in the morning. For some reason, he would rather check the traffic on a hundred different sites than take a shower, pack his caps and get down to the reception. It felt as if half of Felix’s job description was to drag Tim out of suites, despite his procrastination and trickery.

Felix在去Tim的房间的路上就已经知道会发生什么了。可预见的局面已经变得非常可笑。Tim就像一个四岁的小孩，早上拒绝穿上他的靴子。出于某种原因，他宁愿查看一百个不同的网站的交通情况，也不愿意洗澡、收拾好帽子然后下到接待处。Felix的工作描述中似乎有一半的内容就是要拖着Tim离开套房，尽管他总是拖延和耍花招。

Felix knocked on the locked door. Of course, Tim didn’t open it.

Felix敲了敲锁着的门。当然，Tim没有开门。

‘Come on, Tim, we can’t be doing this, it’s not professional. We need to leave in a couple of minutes!’

“快点，Tim，我们不能这样做，这太没职业素养了。我们还有几分钟就要走了！”

‘Is that Tim time? I was just gonna jump in the shower!’

“那是Tim时间吗？我正准备洗澡呢！

‘No, that’s real, actual time.’

“不是，是真实的，准确的时间。”

‘Five minutes, bro!’

“五分钟，兄弟！”

Tim time had become an inside joke, a kind of sliding scale which always meant that fifteen minutes ended up being at least forty-five. Forty-five minutes could, in the worst case, mean two hours.

Tim时间已经成为一种内部玩笑，一种滑动比例尺，意味着15分钟最终变成至少45分钟。在最糟糕的情况下，45分钟可能意味着两个小时。

It was hard to reason with Tim, because he was so charming in his foolish stubbornness.

与Tim辩论很难，因为他愚蠢的固执充满了魅力。

‘It’s gonna be forty minutes to the venue,’ Felix tried. ‘I told you that.’

“到达场地要花四十分钟，”Felix尝试说，“我告诉过你了。”

Triumphantly, Tim answered from the other side of the door: ‘I googled it. It’ll only take half an hour!’

Tim从门的另一侧得意洋洋地回答说：“我谷歌了一下。只需要半小时！”

They had just got one week in the Caribbean, Tim and Emily. There, they had eaten good food, Tim had tried out all of Emily’s skincare products and after a few days they had even found a beach that was so isolated that Tim could sunbathe in peace. But even during the holidays, the mailbox had been buzzing – an Italian promoter who needed to book a new date because Tim had cancelled when he became ill, a song with Lenny Kravitz that must be finished. The guys on Styrmansgatan had asked if it was okay for some fans to take selfies with Tim before a gig, and could he print and sign a document so they could arrange a new visa to Australia?

Tim和Emily在加勒比海度过了一个星期。在那里，他们吃了美食，Tim尝试了Emily所有的护肤产品，几天后他们甚至找到了一片非常隐蔽的海滩，Tim可以安心地晒太阳。但即使在假期期间，邮箱也一直在响个不停——一个意大利推广者需要预订新日期，因为Tim生病取消了演出，与Lenny Kravitz的歌曲必须完成。Styrmansgatan上的人们问是否可以让一些粉丝在演出前与Tim自拍，他能否打印并签署一份文件，以便他们可以安排新的澳大利亚签证？

After the short holiday, Tim had done a bunch of gigs in South Africa before moving on to Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand, and now they just were just arriving from a festival in southern Germany.

短暂的假期后，Tim在南非完成了一系列演出，然后前往台湾、印度尼西亚和泰国，现在他们刚从德国南部的一个音乐节回来。

At many of the gigs in the United States that spring and summer, Tim performed in a booth the shape of a man’s head about five metres high, cast in hard white plastic. At the top of this strange colossus, the scalp was hollowed out and there was room for Tim and his equipment. With the help of wires in the ceiling, Tim was able to go out over the audience on a ramp from the giant’s forehead. Lighting from below created the illusion that Avicii was floating in the air, and when Etta James sang the chorus to ‘Levels’, a giant singing mouth was projected on the face.

在那个春夏季的美国多场演出中，Tim在一个巨大的白色硬塑料人头形状的展台上表演，它高约五米。在这个奇特的巨人头部的顶部，头皮被挖空了，有足够的空间留给Tim和他的设备。在天花板上的金属线的帮助下，Tim能够从巨人的前额上的坡道走出去，悬浮在观众上方。从下方照射的灯光营造出Avicii漂浮在空中的幻觉，当Etta James演唱Levels的副歌时，一张巨大的正在歌唱的嘴被投影在脸上。

Perhaps such an escalation in the stage production was necessary. Swedish House Mafia had shown that some Swedes could sell out Madison Square Garden and turn the ice hockey arena into a hedonistic nightclub. It was not without reason that the guy responsible for their special effects was called Pyro Pete – he would set off such large flames that those closest to the stage had a hard time keeping their eyes open. The other artists also did their best to make a lone DJ feel like a full experience. Deadmau5 now dressed in a special costume that read his body movements and got a glowing skeleton to mirror his movements on the screens behind him. The long-haired Steve Aoki climbed the stage rigs and threw cream cakes in the faces of his ecstatic audience, who had started holding up placards that read ‘CAKE ME’. It was this kind of bombastic experience that Tim needed to compete with.

或许这样的舞台制作升级是必要的。瑞典浩室黑手党已经展示出一些瑞典人可以售罄麦迪逊广场花园，并将冰球场变成一个放荡的夜总会。称负责特效的那个家伙叫做Pyro Pete（火焰彼得）是有根据的 - 他会引爆如此大的火焰，以至于最靠近舞台的人很难睁开眼睛。其他艺术家也尽力让单独的DJ变成一场完整的体验。Deadmau5现在穿着特殊的服装，可以读取他的身体动作，并让一个发光的骷髅在他身后的屏幕上反映他的动作。长发的Steve Aoki爬上舞台架构，并向他兴奋的观众扔奶油蛋糕，他们开始举起标语牌，上面写着“给我蛋糕”。正是这种炸裂的体验，让Tim有了与他们竞争的能力。

But the large Avicii head required four expensive trucks to transport, took the stagehands half a day to assemble and was technically difficult to maintain. The first time they used the construction, at the Coachella festival, the computers broke down and Tim had to play the first songs in pitch darkness. It was a fucking monstrosity, quite honestly.

但是，巨大的Avicii头像需要四辆昂贵的卡车来运输，舞台工作人员需要半天时间来组装，并且在技术上难以维护。第一次使用这个展台是在Coachella音乐节上，电脑崩溃了，Tim不得不在漆黑中演奏第一首歌。老实说，这是一个该死的怪物。

At the same time, the collaboration with Ralph Lauren had deepened. Now it wasn’t just Tim’s music that would be available in Denim & Supply’s stores – he would be the face of their entire autumn collection. Recently, they had recorded a campaign film in which fashion models in khaki shorts and fringed vests danced as Tim played for them in a warehouse on Long Island. Tim hated filming. Sober audiences in such an artificial environment, where everyone also knew they were being recorded. It had felt stiff and uncomfortable.

与此同时，与Ralph Lauren的合作也在不断加深。现在不仅仅是Tim的音乐会在 Denim & Supply 的商店里有售 - 他将成为他们整个秋季系列的代言人。最近，他们在长岛的一个仓库里拍摄了一部广告电影，在电影中，时尚模特身穿卡其色短裤和流苏背心跳舞，而Tim则在旁边为他们演奏。Tim讨厌拍摄。他感到局促不安，因为观众们都处于一个人为搭建的环境中，每个人都知道他们被录制了。

They were butting heads more and more, the artist and his manager. Sometimes Tim felt disconnected from the decisions. Recently, when Arash had complained that Tim forgot to mention him in an interview, Tim had replied:

艺人和经纪人之间的摩擦越来越多，他们之间的关系变得越来越紧张。有时候，Tim感到他与决策脱节了。最近，当Arash抱怨Tim在一次采访中忘记提到他时，Tim回答道：

I don’t like not being allowed in on the live shows at all, have asked several times to be involved precisely because I want it to be our thing and not just yours! Feel too much like a doll sometimes, which in some cases I am but don’t want it to become my image, and I am worried that I’ll be kind of like a Korean boy band controlled with an iron fist :P

我不喜欢完全不被允许参与现场节目，我已经多次要求参与，因为我希望这是我们共同参与的事情，而不仅仅是你的！有时候感觉我太像一个玩偶了，虽然在某些情况下我确实是一个玩偶，但我不希望这成为我的形象，并且我担心自己会像被铁腕控制的韩国男子乐队一样。 :P

The crew would this summer start flying between gigs on a private jet; Tim had chosen a luxurious ten-seater Cessna. There would be two decals on the plane: Air Vicii and Ash Alliance. Arash had also drawn up a new logo, which was now printed on the posters ahead of the gigs around Europe. It said Avicii just like always, but suddenly there was an addition: ‘Avicii, part of the At Night family’. In silence, Tim had begun to get annoyed at Arash constantly putting his name next to his. It was Tim who paid for the plane, for example – why would his manager really have his name there? Tim felt that he really made an effort to highlight the importance of Arash in all possible contexts, and he was the person Tim trusted the most in the world when it came to music. But sometimes it felt to Tim like Arash never got enough of the spotlight.

今年夏天开始，团队将乘坐私人飞机在演出间飞行。Tim选择了这架豪华的十座Cessna飞机。飞机上将有两个标识：Air Vicii 和Ash Alliance。Arash 还设计了一个新的标识，现在已经印在了欧洲巡演的海报上。标识上仍然写着 Avicii，但突然间多了一行字：“Avicii，At Night家族的一员。”在沉默中，Tim开始对 Arash不断将自己的名字放在他旁边感到烦恼。比如说，飞机是Tim付钱买的，为什么他的经纪人真的要在飞机上放上自己的名字呢？Tim觉得自己真的很努力地在各种场合强调Arash的重要性，在音乐这方面，Arash是Tim最信任的人。但有时候，Tim觉得Arash似乎永远都得不到足够的关注。

It was probably also the situation itself that had become increasingly tense and unmanageable. There were thousands of things constantly in motion, an entire industry that Tim really only got a sense of from the contours of his inbox.

这种紧张和难以掌控的情况可能也是导致问题加剧的原因。成千上万的事情不断在发生，整个产业的轮廓只能从他的收件箱中感受到。

Out there, outside his hotel room, so much was going on that could no longer be controlled. Lawyers and advisers, press consultants and fall collections, riggers and drivers and pilots, rights disputes and agreements and draft contracts. One never saw what the other was doing, and eventually, it all ended up in Tim’s lap. That’s how it felt. It was him who had to perform, him who had to do the interviews and the jingles and be photographed and prepare new gigs and make songs so that the fans were constantly fed with something fresh.

在他的酒店房间外，有太多的事情已经不再受控制。律师和顾问、新闻顾问和秋季系列、吊装工和司机和飞行员、权利纠纷和协议和草案合同。每个人都看不到其他人在做什么，最终，所有这些都落到了Tim的肩上。这就是他所感受到的，他必须表现出色，他必须做采访和广告歌曲，被拍摄照片、准备新的演出和制作歌曲，以便粉丝们不断地得到新鲜事物。

What would they do without him? Would Felix Alfonso go up on stage? Would Filip Holm be a model for the autumn collection? The Avicii brand simply could not do without Tim, that’s still how it was, in spite of everything. And he was not someone who could just be dragged along, nor did he want it to appear that way.

如果没有他，他们会怎样呢？Felix Alfonso会登上舞台吗？Filip Holm会成为秋季系列的模特吗？无论如何，Avicii品牌不能没有Tim，这就是事实。他不是一个可以被拖着走的人，也不想让人这样认为。

In his hotel room with light wood panels and a view of the Hudson River, it was him who was in control.

在他的酒店房间里，浅色木板覆盖的墙壁和哈德逊河的景色，让他感到自己处于掌控之中。

Felix and the others could certainly wait a little longer.

Felix和其他人肯定能够再等一会儿。