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The Open Door 豆瓣
8.0 (44 个评分) Evanescence 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2006年1月1日 出版发行: Wind-Up
Evanescence 的新专辑"The Open Door",将在10月3日由Wind-Up公司发行。在谈到新专辑的时候,主唱Amy Lee说:“这将不同于上一张专辑,但仍是Evanescence 风格,其中会有一些有趣、性感的地方,同时也保留了黑暗、史诗般的风格。我想歌迷会喜欢这张新专辑的,我就是这个乐队的歌迷,我爱这支乐队。”

“如果人们期望这张专辑更加柔和,更加女性化,更加感伤,他们将会感到惊奇。这张专辑不会充满着像'My Immortal'这样的歌曲。每一首歌都完全不同,有时候我觉得比我们以前的歌曲都要重,而且歌曲给人的感觉是新奇有趣的,是不模仿其他人,具有独自风格的。”

“和不同的音乐人合作很不错。”Lee说,“过去我从没有和别人一起写过歌词,我也不记得和Ben有没有一起写过(在Ben Moody离开乐队后,COLD乐队的吉他手Terry Balsamo顶替了他的位置。),我们一直都是,Ben负责乐曲的创作,他把谱好的旋律给我,我再写出歌词,最后我们把这些组合在一起。那时候歌词都是我自己写,所以很具有个人风格,有时候歌词中的含义让人很难懂。”

“与Terry合作写词的过程真的很棒,我们坐在一间屋子里,做一些Demos(试验歌曲)。我们一起工作,互相交谈,鼓励对方。我们也彼此信任,做出各种歌曲的尝试,有了Terry的帮助,才有了这张专辑的产生。整个过程让我受益良多。”
Born This Way (天生完美) 豆瓣
8.5 (113 个评分) Lady Gaga 类型: 流行
发布日期 2011年5月23日 出版发行: Interscope
Born This Way is the second studio album and third major release by American recording artist Lady Gaga. It was released on May 23, 2011 by Interscope Records as a follow up to her internationally successful, The Fame (2008) and the extended play The Fame Monster (2009). Born This Way is notably different from The Fame and The Fame Monster as it incorporates a broader range of elements of several musical genres such as opera, heavy metal, disco, and rock and roll, and fuses those elements with sounds of electropop and dance. The album also is heavily inspired by synthpop and electronic music from the 1980s and 90s. In the album, the central themes include those of religion, sexuality, and feminism. On the record, Gaga worked with several producers, including RedOne, the only hold over for her previous work. With Born This Way, Gaga took more control of her musical direction and the album composition.
Production first took place in early 2010, with recording sessions for the album took place at various recording studios around the world. The title was revealed in September at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards after Gaga's win of the Video of the Year Award for "Bad Romance". Just a week before the album's scheduled release, the contents were leaked online, but were shortly removed due to copyright violations.
Three singles and one promotional single were released for the album. "Born This Way", the lead single, topped the charts in over eighteen countries including the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It would become the fastest selling single in iTunes history, having sold over 1 million copies within its first five days. "Judas" was the second single for Born This Way. The song peaked on the top ten in nineteen countries. "The Edge of Glory", originally released as one of two proposed promotional singles, was shortly made as the third single of the album. The song debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in Brazil and South Korea. The promotional single for the album, "Hair", peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100 and chart on the musical charts in sixteen different countries.
The album has been met with generally positive reception from contemporary critics, who complimented Gaga's vocals and the album's varying musical styles. However, the repetitive use of the word "Jesus", in addition to the employment of church bells and monk voices in many of the album's tracks including "Marry the Night," "Bloody Mary" and "Electric Chapel" have all resulted in negative reactions from some Christian societies, including those in Lebanon, where Born This Way was temporarily banned. Despite such strife, Born This Way topped the charts in twenty-three countries. It debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 1.11 million copies. Over 430,000 of these sales were at a special price of US$ 0.99, which Amazon.com offered for two days during the album's first week of release.
Beautiful Soul 豆瓣
Jesse McCartney 类型: 流行
发布日期 2006年2月7日
UK version. Platinum selling Beautiful Soul is a blend of up-tempo, modern pop/rock/R&B/dance beats and strong melodies. Highlights include the smooth debut UK single and title track, and anthemic US hit 'Because You Live'. The album evokes both Hall & Oates' blue-eyed soul ('She's No You') and Michael Jackson at his '80s peak ('Get Your Shine On'). Other songs are influenced by admitted McCartney favorite Craig David's influential two-step garage sound ('That Was Then') and old-school Motown ('Why Is Love So Hard To Find?'). Angel Music. 2006.
私生活 豆瓣
6.6 (7 个评分) Lindsay Lohan 类型: 流行
发布日期 2005年12月6日 出版发行: Casablanca
2005年12月,林赛的第二张专辑《私人空间》发行。刚开始的时候专辑得到了美国告示牌排行榜(Billboard 200)第20位,但紧接着的六周就跌出前100。唱片评论很差,认为一张林赛用以表露心声的唱片成了“俗套的流行乐制成品”。《Slant》杂志称之为“那些所谓的有分量主题都很造作……有骨无肉。”虽然如此,《私人空间》还是在2006年1月18日成为了金唱片。 Lindsay Lohan 臀部上的刺青是手写体的意大利文 "la bella vita" 意思就是 "A beautiful life" (美丽人生),这个刺青是为了纪念她过世的意大利籍的祖父,此外"A Beautiful Life (La Bella Vita)" 也是Lindsay Lohan在2005年底推岀的个人第二张专辑【A Little More Personal (Raw) /私人空间】最后一首歌。
真情守候 豆瓣
Jesse Mccartney / 杰西麦卡尼 类型: 流行
发布日期 2007年11月1日 出版发行: Hollywood Records/东方红音乐
Jesse McCartney is an American actor and singer. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career.
Enema Of The State 豆瓣 Spotify
7.9 (22 个评分) Blink 182 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 1999年1月1日 出版发行: MCA Records
Blink-182是当今美国比较年轻一代的朋克乐队中,在商业上最为成功的乐队之一。Blink-182乐队最早组建于1993年,这只有三个人组成的乐队最初在美国加利福尼亚州南部的Poway成立,当时的名字叫做Blink,由歌手兼吉他手Tom Delonge首先创立,另外两名成员分别是他的朋友,贝斯手Mark Hoppus和鼓手Scott "Mad Dog" Raynor。但是Blink乐队在成立不久之后,他们被告知自己乐队的名字和爱尔兰一支乐队相同,并且有可能因此受到法律方面的指控,Tom Delonge和其他两名成员被迫在乐队名字的后边加上了后缀数字182以示区别,于是就形成了乐队现有的名称Blink-182,至于数字182的含义,乐队成员表示这只是他们随机任意挑选的数字而已,并没有什么特别的含义。
Blink-182乐队成立之后,在1993年,乐队自行录制并发行了第一张EP唱片《Fly Swatter》,几个月之后这张专辑被重新定名为《Buddha》,在1994年正式发行,这张专辑的发行提升了乐队的地位,并且使他们的名字渐渐被更多的人们所知晓,他们的音乐也开始出现在一些滑冰,冲浪,滑雪板等刺激性很强的极限运动的电视节目中,这也使他们有机会和比较大一些的唱片公司签约。不久之后,Blink-182乐队正式和Grilled Cheese/Cargo唱片公司签约,并且在几个月以后发行了乐队的第二张专辑《Cheshire Cat》。在Blink-182乐队的名声渐渐扩大之后,他们也得到了更多的出场演出机会,其中最重要的就是获得了与另外两支已经名声在外的朋克乐队 Pennywise乐队和NOFX乐队一起展开世界性范围的巡回演出的机会,这次名为Warped的世界性巡回演出在1996到1997年中,先后在美国,加拿大,日本和澳大利亚等国家和地区展开,同时,Blink-182乐队的音乐也开始更多的出现在那些极限运动的电视节目中作为背景音乐。同时在 1997年,Blink-182乐队乐队发行了第三张专辑《Dude Ranch》,这张专辑第一次冲进了Billboard 200排行榜,这也让这支三人乐队拥有了更大的听众群体以及更大的知名度。不久之后,Blink-182乐队与MCA唱片公司签订合同。
1999年,Blink-182乐队在MCA唱片公司发行了乐队的第四张专辑《Enema of the State》,这张由大唱片公司发行的专辑在发行不久之后,就成功的进入了Billboard 200排行榜的前十名,并且最终销量突破了四百万张。在这张专辑把Blink-182乐队塑造成为了音乐明星之后,乐队发行了一张限量版专辑《The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back)》。在这张专辑发行之前,Blink-182乐队的人员已经发生了变化,乐队的原鼓手Scott "Mad Dog" Raynor重新回到了学校去完成学业,取而代之的则是已经在多支乐队里担任过鼓手的Travis Landon Barker。
2001年,Blink-182乐队的第五张专辑《Take Off Your Pants and Jacket》正式发行,这张专辑在发行之后迅速成为了Billboard 200排行榜的冠军。随后的时间里,Blink-182乐队继续展开了巡回演出,他们和Green Day等朋克乐队一起在2002年的时候参加了Pop Disaster巡演活动。2003年11月18日,Blink-182乐队的第六张专辑《Blink-182》正式发行。
Come Clean 豆瓣
Hilary Duff 类型: 流行
发布日期 2004年4月27日 出版发行: Wea International
Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, businesswoman, singer-songwriter, producer, and writer. Duff began her acting career at a young age and quickly became labeled a teen idol as the title character of the television series Lizzie McGuire and in the theatrical film based on the series, The Lizzie McGuire Movie.
Super Bass 豆瓣
8.5 (20 个评分) 尼基·米纳杰 Nicki Minaj 类型: 说唱
发布日期 2011年5月13日 出版发行: Young Money / Cash Money
Save Me, San Francisco 豆瓣
8.0 (45 个评分) Train 类型: 摇滚
发布日期 2009年10月27日 出版发行: Sony
从还是一个在北加州地下表演场地表演的乐团,到1998年在Columbia旗下发行首张同名专辑《Train》、成为Counting Crows, The Neville Brothers, The Dave Matthews Band, Hootie & the Blowfish, Collective Soul等知名先进团体巡回全美的首选暖场团体,再到2000年终于独挑大梁地在旧金山最负盛名、最具历史性的The Fillmore会场举行演唱会,成功地创下门票全数销售一空的圆满成绩,一路行来,Train都凭借着其创作好音乐的信念、丰富的音乐元素,以及扎实的现场表演功力,让愈来愈多的乐迷逐步地被他们所征服,成为其死忠的追随者。
毕业生 豆瓣
9.3 (52 个评分) Simon & Garfunkel 类型: 原声
发布日期 1988年1月1日 出版发行: Sony
The Graduate is an album of songs from the soundtrack of Mike Nichols' movie The Graduate, featuring many songs from the folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel as well as several instrumental pieces by Dave Grusin. The music meshed perfectly with the themes of the film, the album topped the charts, and it introduced Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience.
Born to Die 豆瓣
8.7 (362 个评分) Lana Del Rey 类型: 流行
发布日期 2012年1月31日 出版发行: IGA
Born to Die is the second studio album and major-label debut by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey. It was released on January 27, 2012 by Interscope Records, Polydor Records, and Stranger Records. Del Rey collaborated with producers including Patrik Berger, Jeff Bhasker, Chris Braide, Emile Haynie, Justin Parker, Rick Nowels, Robopop, and Al Shux to achieve her desired sound. Their efforts resulted in a primarily baroque pop record, which sees additional influences from alternative hip hop, indie pop and trip hop music.
Contemporary music critics gave Born to Die mixed reviews; some commended its distinctive production, while its repetitiveness and melodramatic tendencies were a recurring complaint. The record debuted at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 77,000 copies; it was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after moving one million units. Born to Die reached the peak position on eleven international record charts, and has sold 8.5 million copies worldwide as of May 2015.
After attaining online success after its initial premiere on June 29, 2011, "Video Games" was released as the lead single from Born to Die on October 17, 2011; it peaked at number 91 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Its follow-up singles "Born to Die", "Off to the Races", "Blue Jeans", "Summertime Sadness", "National Anthem", and "Dark Paradise" performed sporadically across Billboard component charts and international record charts. The Cedric Gervais remix of "Summertime Sadness" was released on July 11, 2013, and became Del Rey's highest-charting single in the United States, reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100. Del Rey additionally promoted Born to Die with several televised performances, including a widely criticized appearance on Saturday Night Live. It was reissued on November 9, 2012 as an expanded version subtitled The Paradise Edition, which was packaged with her third extended play Paradise (2012).