Tuomas的最新采访～好累啊【nightwish吧】

stalker杂志对Tuomas的采访．．

我翻译的，感觉还是有很多地方被我翻的不通，水平有限，希望没犯什么错误，专家们请过目～～

一楼暂且到这．

Stalker:新专辑"Dark Passion Play"，从你的视点，哪一首歌是最重要的歌？

Tuomas：它必须是第一首，"The Poet And The Pendulum"，它有点定义了关于整张专辑，
它是为了这张专辑的歌，用钟摆做封面还有一切

Stalker：什么是促使你写这首歌的灵感？

Tuomas:那就像我生活的电影声带，从2005年发生的。在一首歌中它真的是一个可以治疗你自杀的东西，
就像我在这一首中所做的这样：刀刃将我劈成两半。我热爱生命。这个世界是一个美丽的地方，我从来没有
想过要那样做，但有时候你只能感觉到无法置信的糟糕和伤害，但当你可以做一首这样的歌时，它真的可以帮助你转变

stalker:这样是不是有一点爱伦坡在里面？

Tuomas:那就是全部想法诞生的地方，我喜欢爱伦坡的很多作品，那是我最喜欢的小说。
就像这样投合，《The Pit And The Pendulum 》，好吧，那就《The Poet And The Pendulum》。
这里有一个强烈的象征主义感。在这我挺为文字游戏感到骄傲的，它真的有用。我就像在刀口下沉沦的那个人

stalker:现场演奏这首歌不会很困难吧？

Tuomas:管弦乐团和唱诗班将会来自背景音乐，我们已经排演很多遍了，昨天晚上，我们准备现场演奏它的，
至少只是试一试，演奏这首歌真是非常有意思，14分钟，我希望观众会有耐心..

stalker:你不禁会将你的过去和新专集的一些歌名联系起来，评论一下，像《bye bye beautiful》

tuomas:是的，不是秘密，这就像一首为Tarja送别的歌，它产生于一个好的精神状态下，虽然它听上去有一点点
侵略感。这里没有不满，比如仇恨或者类似的，它更多的是“为什么这必须发生”。在这种情况下，到最后没有人是
无辜的，这是发生的一件令人悲伤的事情，所以“bye bye beautiful”也可以是“bye bye ugly one”那会伤感情的,
但那就是为什么我是一个歌曲作者,那就是为什么我们要待在一个乐队中,所以,我们可以强调我们经历的感觉.当然,
一切都已经发生了,它们影响了你,你想让这些魔鬼远离,做关于这些的歌.所以,我的意思是,一定不会有人觉得这些
事在这张专集中无关.“bye bye beautiful”是那样有形的例子,我希望没有人会生气,因为它并不是想要那样.

stalker:和Anette在一起工作感觉怎样,一起排演,她不住在芬兰,这困难吗?

tuomas:没关系,从这到她住的地方坐飞机只要1.5个小时,在2000年初,tarja也在德国住了三年,我们仍然可以做一切事情,
所以这不是问题，只要稍微组织一下，而世界这么小，都需要组织一下。其实今天我们开始排练了,我们已经和伙计们排练了一周,所以她没有感到害羞,当她进到排练室的时候,
让我们想下是怎么样的,我们从没和她一起演奏过,真是非常激动,让我们看看效果怎么样吧

stalker:未来你有什么期望,在演唱会上,比如,从观众那里?

tuomas:我希望我们会度过一段愉快的时间.我希望会从观众那里得到一些礼貌.比较是不可避免的,但是我仍然希望观众
可以礼貌的欢迎Anette,你知道的,她没有做错过任何事,这是一个公开试镜，她申请这分工作，她得到了这分工作，她
所做的一切都是在尽力做到最好，如果你们要向台上扔番茄的话，就扔我们吧，不要扔她，因为我们是选择了她的人。

stalker：至今为止观众的反映怎么样？

tuomas：非常分裂，这也是意料之中的。我的意思是，有很多人真的很喜欢她，比如“这是一个完美的选择，
她一点都没有模仿tarja,她的声音中依然有情感和力量，这是一个好的趋势”。还有一些人认为tarja始终是nightwish
的唯一，他们再也不会去听了。好吧，让他们做自己的选择，我对此没有任何意见。这是注定的，尤其是当我们和她
的新声音准备现在演奏那些老歌的时候，一定会引起很多人震动

stalker:我看了一下乐队官方网站的留言簿，其实我注意到大部分都是非常积极的

tuomas:是的，非常惊讶，我预感的是非常糟糕的，所以至少他们给了她一个机会，给了我们一个机会。这里也很惊讶的出现
很多人，他们一直很喜欢这个乐队的音乐，但是从来没喜欢过tarja的声音，因为她的声音太高亢洪亮太歌剧化了，他们
这样说“我终于可以这样听了，唱的对耳朵来说要简单些了”。这里又有一些很多这样的人。所以我们流失了一些歌迷，可能我们
也会得到一些新的歌迷

stalker：你们有为了更适合新声音重新编排老歌吗？

Tuomas:我们没重新编排过任何歌。她准备稍微改变一下她的声线去适应她的声音，她准备用她自己的摇滚声音去唱它们，
所以我怕歌剧会完全消失。但这是唯一的做法。只有一首歌我们再也不会来一遍了，当然就是《the phantom of the opear》
因为这首歌太集中在tarja和古典风格上了。我们会做其他的的很多不错的歌..（长时间的停顿)...我是这样想。
在今晚排演了之后明天我会变的要聪明的多。。（笑）

stalker：我有种印象你的音乐中依然有歌剧。戏剧性的，尤其是这首《The Poet And The Pendulum》track就像一小部歌剧
或者一小部电影

tuomas:是的，在这个音乐中它依然在这里，“ Poet”有一点电影配乐，是的，我想这音乐没有改变多少。我听到所有的评论
都在说这是一个全新的开端，这张专辑有一些完全不同，我真的不同意。这音乐的灵魂是交响弦乐，唱诗班，猛烈的吉他，
民谣-同样的成分依然在这里，只是歌声改变了。即使是一个完全不同的声音，我也认为我们在两张专辑之前就离开了歌剧。
即使是tarja在century child 和once里也没有用这种风格唱了，事实上我不认为这种改变是根本性的和戏剧性的。

原文如下:

NIGHTWISH Mainman Talks About New Singer, Upcoming Tour
06.09.2007

Stalker magazine recently conducted an interview with NIGHTWISH mastermind Tuomas Holopainen. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Stalker: The new album "Dark Passion Play" — what is, from your perspective, the most important song?

Tuomas: Well, it has to be the first, "The Poet And The Pendulum", it kind of defines what the whole album is about. It is kind of THE song for the album, with the pendulum on the cover and everything.

Stalker: What was the inspiration for this song?

Tuomas: It's like the soundtrack of my life, from the year 2005, what was going on. It's a really therapeutic thing to kill yourself in a song, like I do in this one: the blade slashes me in half at the end of the song. I love life, I think the world is a beautiful place and I would never even think about doing something like that, but sometimes you just feel so incredibly bad and hurt, that when you can do a song like this, it really helps you to move on.

Stalker: So there's a little bit of Edgar Allan Poe in it?

Tuomas: That's where the whole idea was born. I like Poe's work a lot and this is my favourite novel. It just clicked: "the pit and the pendulum." OK, "the poet and the pendulum!" There is a strong sense of symbolism here, and I am pretty proud of the word-play here, it really works. I felt like the guy under the blade which was descending and descending...

Stalker: Wouldn't it be difficult to perform that song live?

Tuomas: Well, the orchestra and all the choirs will be coming from the backing tracks, and we have been rehearsing it a lot, last night, and we are going to do it live, at least just give it a shot. It is a lot of fun to play, 14 minutes. I hope the audience will have the patience...

Stalker: You cannot help to associate some song titles on the new album with your past, as a comment, like "Bye Bye Beautiful"...

Tuomas: Yeah, it's no secret, this is like a farewell song to Tarja, and it's made in a good spirit. Even though the song sounds a bit aggressive, there is no bad feelings, like hatred or anything like that. It is more about, "Why did this have to happen?" and in this situation where nobody in the end was innocent, and It's a sad thing that happened, so bye bye beautiful." It could be "Bye Bye Ugly One," that would be hurtful (laughter), but that's why I'm a songwriter, and that's why we all play in a band, so we can emphasize those feelings we go through. So, of course, all things that happened, they affect you, and you want to let the demons out and make songs about them. So, I mean, there cannot be any person thinking that these things are NOT involved on this album. "Bye Bye Beautiful" is a concrete example of that. I hope nobody gets offended, because it's not meant to be like that.

Stalker: So how does it work with Anette, with rehearsals, is it more difficult as she doesn't live in Finland?

Tuomas: It doesn't matter, it's only 1.5 hours flight from where she lives. And also back in the beginning of 2000 Tarja lived in Germany for three years, and we were still able to do everything, so it is no problem, it just takes a little bit of organizing, but the world is a small place and all about organizing. Actually we start rehearsing with her today, we have been rehearsing with the guys for a week now, so that she doesn't feel ashamed when she comes to the rehearsal place (laughs). Let's see how it goes, we never played with her yet, so it's kind of exciting, let's see how it's going to work.

Stalker: What do you expect or hope from the future, at concerts, for example, from the audience?

Tuomas: I hope we're going to have a good time, and I hope for some courtesy from the audience. The comparison is always inevitable, but I still hope that people will have the courtesy of welcoming Anette and, you know... she never did anything wrong. It was an open audition, she applied for the job, she got the job. All that she has ever done was doing her best. So if you're throwing tomatoes on stage, aim at US, not HER, because we were the ones who chose her!

Stalker: How were the reactions of fans so far?

Tuomas: Very divided, which was to be expected, too, I mean, there's a lot of people who really like her, like "This was the perfect choice, she is not trying to copy Tarja at all, but she still has the emotion and the power in the voice, it's a good direction," and then there are the other people who think that Tarja was the only thing ever for NIGHTWISH and they are never going to listen to it again. Well, let them have their way, I have no problem with that. This is the way it's going to be, and especially when we're going to play the old songs live with her new voice, it's going to be a shocker for many people.

Stalker: But I had a look at the band-website guestbook, and actually I noticed that the majority was pretty positive...

Tuomas: Yeah, I'm kind of surprised, I was expecting much worse, so at least they are going to give her a chance, give US a chance. And there are surprisingly many people out there who have always enjoyed the music of the band, but never really liked Tarja's voice, because it was so high and loud and operatic. And they are like "Finally I can listen to this, because the singing is a bit easier to the ear." So there are a lot of those people as well. So for the fans we gonna lose, perhaps we gonna have new ones.

Stalker: Did you have to re-arrange the old songs to fit better with the new voice?

Tuomas: We have not re-arranged anything. She is going to change the vocal lines a little bit, to fit her voice, and she is going to sing them in her own rock voice, so the opera is totally gone, I'm afraid. But this is the only way to do it. The only song that we're never going to do again for sure is "The Phantom Of The Opera", because it was so focused on Tarja and the classical style. Pretty much all the other songs we could do... (long pause)... I think. I'll be much wiser tomorrow after tonight's rehearsals (laughs).

Stalker: Well, I have the impression that you still have opera in your music, the dramatic style, and especially this "Poet and the Pendulum" track is like a tiny opera, or a short film...

Tuomas: Yeah, in the music it's still there, and "Poet" is a bit soundtrack-ish, that's right... The music hasn't changed that much, I think. I hear all those comments saying that this is a complete new start, that the album is something completely different, and I really disagree. The soul of the music, the orchestra and choir, heavy guitars, ballads — the same elements are still there, it's just the voice that has changed. And even though it's a completely different voice, I also think that we left out the opera two albums ago! Even Tarja wasn't singing with that style on "Century Child" and "Once" anymore, so is that change really that radical and dramatic — I don't think so, actually.