Name: 芝麻街》歌曲創作的祕密（由Usher演唱）｜紐約時報 (Secrets of ‘Sesame Street’ Songwriting (Featuring Usher) | NYT)
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“I didn't realize how excited I was until I was there.

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Like, I'm literally looking over at the Muppets,

everyone has the same reaction to these characters

fun to write about the letter A for the hundredth time,

We asked a group of people who work at “Sesame Street”:

How do you write and rewrite the ABCs for 50 years?

“Sesame Street” has become nothing short

“C is for cookie, that's good enough for me.”

Who are the people in your neighborhood?”

Music has been a part of “Sesame Street” from day one,

that when children watched TV, they gravitated

“New country cornflakes, new country cornflakes.”

to motivate children to absorb the curriculum

“Oh, that's kind of a groovy idea, Rowlf:

what they're doing at the Children's Television Workshop.”

“'Sesame Street' is what we call a curriculum-driven show.”

That means that being entertaining is fine,

but everything that happens on “Sesame Street”

is supposed to help prepare kids for school.

And that means that the alphabet has to be on a lot.

That's great news if you're a child or a Muppet —

“We love the alphabet at 'Sesame Street.'”

“There was a long stretch on the show when we actually

sang the alphabet song in almost every show,

“Table 26 wants a hot alphabet soup!”

because we wanted the kids to hear it as much as possible.”

“But for children to really know their letters,

we need to focus on the individual letters.

So that's why we created the Letter of the Day.”

“I've never gotten tired of writing for a letter —”

“Because there are an infinite number of ways to do it.”

“'C Drives Me Crazy' was a fun song.”

“And 'Rebel L,' that was one of my favorites,

partly because they let me play the letter L.”

“I was born to go la, la, la, at the top of my lu, lu,

“When Smokey Robinson came on the show,

I took his 'You Really Got a Hold On Me' song

and wrote a song where the letter U was actually

“Tell me, Queen Latifah, what should I do?”

Using celebrities is one way that writers have

“You can count on him to count for you.”

“Give it to me in the form of a question.”

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芝麻街》歌曲創作的祕密（由Usher演唱）｜紐約時報 (Secrets of ‘Sesame Street’ Songwriting (Featuring Usher) | NYT)

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