哇~~看了那麼一長段報導(真是感謝leila的轉錄)
其實在之前我就對mbt在第三張專輯要做些啥模突破感到憂心
因為他們第一張專輯的"異常"成功 已經造成許多人對這張的過度期待而失望
看了一些樂評 我感受Rob在第二張做了一些歌 想延續第一張的成功
但效果似乎不是很好> < (可能要做出像"push"那種歌太難了)
真希望他們能在第三張多加些不一樣的音樂元素 不要淪為沒特色美國團
像我看過他們一些第一張專輯的宣傳照 很有英國八零年代團那種怪怪的感覺
(化妝又搞怪的美少男團......呵~~喜歡^^)
可是這張專輯後 就真的美國團味粉重說
期盼看到他們開發出不同於其他同性質團體的自我特色說 0-0
※ 引述《leila (the world's spinning)》之銘言：
: matchbox twenty Enjoying 'Smooth' Sophomore Ride
: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001009/re/music_matchbox_dc_1.html
: Monday October 9 3:37 PM ET
: By Gary Graff
: DETROIT (Reuters) - On matchbox twenty's 1996 debut album, frontman
: Rob Thomas pleaded for the real world to stop bothering him. That
: turned out to be a prophetic request, given that ``Yourself or Someone
: Like You'' sold more than 10 million copies and made the singer one of
: rock's hot new stars.
: The real world certainly hasn't forgotten Thomas since then, either.
: How could it, when he was the voice and co-writer of ``Smooth,'' the
: Grammy-guzzling song that vaulted Carlos Santana back into the black
: magic limelight last year? The big question was whether fans would
: forget matchbox twenty, particularly in light of Thomas's solo
: notoriety. They haven't.
: With the single ``Bent,'' which has received ``Smooth''-like airplay,
: the group's second album, ``mad season by matchbox twenty,'' debuted
: in late May at No. 3 on the Billboard charts and is already certified
: double-platinum. It also assures that ''Yourself or Someone Like You''
: was more than a fluke.
: But Thomas says he and his bandmates -- guitarists Kyle Cook and Adam
: Gaynor, bassist Brian Yale and drummer Paul Doucette -- were braced for
: any kind of sophomore ``slump'' they might face.
: ``We kind of expect things, but none of us expects another freakish
: success, like another 10 million,'' Thomas explains. ''When you sell
: 3 million records, you think you're hot ... But when you get to 10
: million records, you start to realize how many things are out of your
: control. You realize it's the management and the record company and
: the timing and the radio stations and MTV.
: ``For something like that to happen, all the chains have to be connected
: and everything has to work. You're just part of something as opposed to
: being the sole machine that made it run, and it took a lot of the
: pressure off to realize that nobody expected to do that again.''
: Thomas is not one to complain about his band's success; he does,
: however, say that matchbox twenty's rapid ascent was a cold slap in
: the face, especially since the group's lineup had solidified only
: shortly before it hit the studio to record the first album and was just
: learning how to be a band, let alone how to handle multi-platinum sales.
: ``We're just playing a bunch of songs; that's the intention you start
: off with,'' Thomas says. ``When it first starts happening, you get
: consumed by it. It's like nothing you've ever done. And it's so fragile;
: you want to keep it going.
: ``I had a hard time being comfortable when I was in that position, and
: then I went through a period where I had a hard time being comfortable
: in my own skin, and not quite sure how to be normal or how I was
: supposed to act.''
: The group came to grips with its status by taking some time off. Thomas
: made the most of it -- moving to New York, getting married and, of
: course, doing the ``Smooth'' collaboration with Santana that led to his
: own bandmates referring to the singer as Sir Grammy Davis Jr. in the
: studio.
: Thomas, however, tries to deflect that particular spotlight.
: ``I always liken it to a parade; it was like Carlos' parade, and I got
: to have a float right behind Carlos in it,'' Thomas says. ``It was good
: to be swept up in something like that. I find myself trying to
: constantly sieve Carlos and figure out how he does it, maintain being a
: musician for 30-some-odd years and keep his integrity and never take any
: of the wrong roads and do everything for the right reason.''
: Thomas and producer Matt Serletic, the man behind the band's first album,
: began working on songs for ``mad season'' at a lakefront retreat near
: Atlanta and held a similar session in the mountains of North Carolina.
: ``Once we got back into that process and it gets rolling, it's a fun
: thing, just pounding out hours and hours of rehearsals, 'Let's try this
: idea. Let's try that idea,''' Serletic recalls.
: In the end, Thomas's relationship with his wife inspired many of ``mad
: season's'' songs -- even ``Bent,'' which he describes as a ``'90s co-
: dependent love song.''
: Most importantly, he says, the group was more cohesive -- thanks to
: nearly three years spent on the road to support the first album -- and
: the band members were each open to new ideas rather than feeling tied
: to an established sound.
: ``Everybody wanted to -- not necessarily do something different, because
: that wouldn't be honest, either -- but to start from scratch and do what
: we did with the first record, which was pick the song we like and take
: each one separately and do exactly what that song needs,'' he says.
: ``We realized we had to make a record as if we hadn't made one before,
: and don't try to think about one cohesive feel or think of us as a band
: or an image. I think that was the only way to get an honest record out
: of us.''
: And that philosophy, Thomas says, ultimately insulates the band from any
: measure of ``mad season's'' success other than its own.
: ``I think the main thing was, when we left the studio, we were happy,''
: he says. ``That's really the only mark of whether you think you made a
: good record or not; it can't be whether it sells or whether people are
: jumping on it right away.
: ``We wanted to be happy with it before we moved to that step, and I
: think we really were.''
: (Gary Graff is a nationally syndicated journalist who covers the music
: scene from Detroit. He also is the supervising editor of the award-
: winning ``MusicHound'' album guide series.)
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