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Florence Welch Talks About Life on the Road

2024/7/9
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Florence Welch: 我的早期歌曲创作源于内心的自卑和羞耻感，试图通过歌曲来处理这些负面情绪。这些歌曲像哥特式童话故事，充满了罪恶感和戏剧性。我感觉自己与其他人格格不入，歌曲是我表达这种感受的方式。早期作品的创作过程简陋而充满热情，例如《Dog Days Are Over》的创作过程就充满了即兴和热情，虽然缺乏专业的乐器和技巧，但这种热情构成了歌曲的独特魅力。长期巡演让我身心俱疲，最终导致休息和崩溃。巡演期间，我像一个高功能的失败者，缺乏自我照顾的能力。我酗酒严重，甚至超过我认识的许多人。我认为酗酒是我对摇滚乐的理解的一部分，也是逃避童年羞耻感的一种方式。然而，酗酒加剧了我内心的羞耻感，让我陷入恶性循环。戒酒初期，我感觉失去自我，并认为自己辜负了摇滚乐的历史。但戒酒后，我感觉比以前更像真正的摇滚乐，更能与歌迷产生联系，这是一种重生的摇滚精神。 John Seabrook: 作为访谈者，John Seabrook引导Florence Welch回顾了她从事业初期到戒酒的整个心路历程，并通过提问帮助她梳理了这些经历背后的原因和感受。他引导Florence Welch从歌曲创作、巡演经历以及戒酒三个方面深入探讨了她的人生经历和感悟，并对她的音乐创作和人生选择进行了深入的探讨。

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Across five studio albums, Florence and the Machine has explored genres from pop to punk and soul. Florence Welch, the group’s singer and main songwriter, is by turns introspective and theatrical, poetic and confessional. She sat down with John Seabrook )at The New Yorker Festival in 2019 to reflect on her band’s rapid rise to stardom. She also spoke about her turn toward sobriety after years of heavy drinking. “The first year that I stopped, I felt like I’d really lost a big part of who I was and how I understood myself,” she says. “What I understood is that that was rock and roll, and, if you couldn’t go the hardest, you were letting rock and roll down.” But eventually getting sober let her connect more deeply with fans and with the music. “To be conscious and to be present and to really feel what’s going on—even though it’s painful, it feels like much more a truly reborn spirit of rock and roll,” she says.  Welch wrote the music and the lyrics for “Gatsby: An American Myth,” which opened in June at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

*This segment originally aired on May 24, 2022. *