碎金集 2021 Fortuitous Gold Nuggets 2021 第 04 篇 Section 04
三月 音乐颂 March: Ode to Music
返回 碎金集 2021 Back to Fortuitous Gold Nuggets 2021现在想想，音乐自我初中以来，在我人生中起到了不可或缺的作用。
Reflecting upon it now, music has played an indispensable role in my life ever since junior high school.
我初一时没有什么好朋友，受挫了就傍晚坐在宿舍的座位上听歌看书，一听就是一个小时；初中住宿的时候时常想家，深夜坐在宿舍床上，拿出mp3听听歌，周五回家似乎就不再遥远；每周五回家，我在周五晚不写作业而用电脑听本周音综和新歌、刷b榜，再把歌下载到mp3上成为了习惯；再后来，我和两个同学成了好哥们，一起聊欧美音乐、在宿舍里飙歌；我人生第一个生日礼物zy送的是霉霉的《reputation》和一年的网易云音乐会员；初三时我听着high hopes迎接每一个晚自习……
In seventh grade I had few close friends; whenever I faced setbacks, I would sit at my dorm desk in the evening listening to music and reading, listening for a whole hour at a stretch. Boarding during middle school, I often felt homesick; deep in the night I would sit on my dorm bed, pull out my MP3 player, and listen to songs, and going home on Friday suddenly seemed no longer so distant. Every Friday upon returning home, it became my habit not to do homework on Friday night, but instead to use the computer to catch up on the week’s music variety shows, listen to new tracks, browse the Billboard charts, and download the songs onto my MP3 player. Later on, I became close buddies with two classmates; we talked about Western pop music together and belted out tunes in the dormitory. The first birthday gift of my life was Taylor Swift’s reputation and a one-year NetEase Cloud Music subscription from zy; in ninth grade, I greeted every evening self-study session listening to Panic! At The Disco’s “High Hopes”…
我爸曾经半开玩笑地对我说：“没有音乐，不知道你初中三年在园区校会怎么度过。”
My father once said to me half-jokingly: “Without music, I don’t know how you would have survived those three middle school years at the Industrial Park campus.”
到了苏高中，竞争激烈了不只一倍，也不再能傍晚在宿舍奢侈地听一小时的歌，周末也不再能用大把时间刷整场音综、听完b榜前50，而那两个好朋友一个早已出国一个渐渐沉沦，我身边听欧美的氛围顿时烟消云散。但是我还是保留着我们当时三个在宿舍的一些小习惯：洗澡的时候唱歌/放歌；每月第一天赶紧吃完饭到宿舍收听宿舍歌单的更新；整理衣服的时候会哼最近听的歌……音乐给予我巨大的调适身心的功效，让我能在紧张的学习之余，觅得一片宁静之地。虽当年盛况不再，但仍颇为自适。
Upon arriving at Suzhou High School, competition grew more than twice as fierce. No longer could I lavishly spend an hour listening to songs in the dorm at dusk, nor could I dedicate large swathes of weekends to binge-watching entire music shows and listening through the Billboard Top 50. Of those two good friends, one had long since gone abroad while the other gradually went into decline, and the atmosphere of listening to Western pop around me vanished in an instant. Yet I still retained several little habits the three of us formed in the dorm: singing or playing music while taking a shower; rushing back to the dorm right after dinner on the first day of each month to listen to updates to our dorm playlist; humming recently heard tunes while sorting clothes… Music bestowed upon me an immense power to regulate body and soul, granting me a sanctuary of tranquility amidst grueling academic pressures. Though the grandeur of past days was gone, I remained quite at home.
进入最艰难的21年，身边种种变故让我意气消磨，只影相吊，也早已没有了以前一般关注最新音乐的雅兴，Ariana的positions专后，我渐渐把目光转移回了华语近两年优秀的音综：《天赐的声音》、《歌手》、《我们的歌》等等，原因无他，我最熟悉的歌坛除了欧美即是华语，而华语歌坛寥寥新人的现状正适合我回坑。这两年我粉上了吴青峰、邓紫棋等歌手，短暂而珍贵的音乐能让我从一天的忙碌中平静下来，坚持完成一天的学业。
Entering the most arduous year of 2021, various upheavals around me eroded my spirits, leaving me to pity my solitary shadow. I had long lost my former zest for following the latest musical releases; after Ariana Grande’s positions album, I gradually shifted my gaze back to fine Chinese music shows of the past two years: The Treasured Voice, Singer, Our Song, and so forth. The reason was simple: aside from Western pop, the Chinese music scene was what I knew best, and the current drought of new talent in Chinese pop was ideally suited for my return. Over these two years I became a fan of singers like Wu Qing-feng and G.E.M.; fleeting yet precious music allowed me to regain composure from the bustle of the day and persevere through each day’s studies.
单纯的中学时代即将结束，但我的人生才刚刚开始；都说世间好物不坚牢，但音乐永远留在那里，每一次聆听都使它们成为了我生命中密不可分的一部分。我从16年薛之谦的《初学者》开始的音乐之旅将一直进行下去，历经寒暑，音乐作为我人生的底奏，永不褪色。
A pure secondary school era is drawing to a close, yet my life is only just beginning. It is said that all fine things in this world are fragile, yet music remains forever there; each listen has woven them into an inseparable thread of my life. My musical odyssey, which began with Joker Xue’s Beginner in 2016, will continue onward; enduring through winter chills and summer heat, music will remain the fundamental overture of my life, never to fade.