Name: 紅髮艾德如何寫出 2017 最紅單曲 Shape of You (‘Shape of You’: How Ed Sheeran Made 2017’s Biggest Track)
Uploaded: 2018-01-16T22:00:00.000Z
Duration: 8 min 45 s

現在進行式

I know what we're doing now is like looking into it.

我知道我們現在像是在回顧，分析這首歌

過去簡單式

But none of us thought that much into it.

I didn't make this song to be mine to sing.

我寫這首歌時不是要寫給自己唱的

He'd already said everything he wanted to say for that moment on his record.

他當時已經把他想說的都寫進專輯裡了

If we were into the session writing a song for Ed Sheeran,

如果我們當時是要寫歌給艾德的話

I don't think we would ever have recorded shape of you.

我不覺得我們有可能會錄下 Shape of You 這首歌

It was the first day I've ever been in with Steve.

The first, literally the first thing he did,

was he walked over to the keyboard and played.

And then I was kinda like "Well, we have this."

我當時想「好啊，我們有這個了。」

The log drum that we use, it was the first sound that I found.

我們用的木鼓是我第一個找到的音效

Ed started doing that thing on the guitar that he does.

I honestly believe it's cause Ed is so impatient

我真的認為，這是因為艾德很沒耐性

that he can't wait for me to get a drum sound up.

So he goes out, and he says, "Look, I'll just do it on the guitar."

所以他出去了一下，說「直接用吉他就好了。」

So he was doing that in the studio and Steve said,

他在錄音室刷吉他，然後 Steve 說

Straight away, he says, "Give me a clean track."

他馬上說「給我錄一個新音軌。」

And he just starts layering over the top.

This is fifteen minutes into meeting, and we're away, we're off.

會議才開始十五分鐘，我們就頗有進展

The easiest thing with this key would be to go with it.

配合這個音調最簡單的方法就是跟著它走

I'm always a fan of keeping it more stripped,

'cause I'm an acoustic artist first and foremost.

And when I play live, I can't replicate all these things.

當我現場演奏時，我無法重現這些效果

So you don't need anything else, because that's the percussion.

所以你其他東西都不需要，因為那就是打擊樂

Johnny's like my main guy that I work with.

Me and him together on our own have probably written two, three hundred songs.

我跟他一起寫了大概兩、三百首歌

One of the things I did to try and keep him in the room while I would be working on a track,

當我在處理那些音樂時，為了要讓他專注

I would have like a suitcase full of lego and pull it to the hotel room.

我會把行李箱裝滿樂高，然後帶進飯店房間

And it was great, 'cause he would sit and build the lego,

and can get lost in that world for a second,

and come up with this moment that was everything.

然後突然靈光一閃，想出絕妙的點子

As we were writing it, I kind of knew I wanted it to be like a really sort of R&B type feel.

我們在寫歌的時候，我就知道我想要這首歌有 R&B 的感覺

And I was like, "Wouldn't it be cool if like, we put like an interpolation of "No Scrubs" in it?"

我想，如果能加入一小段 No Scrubs 的旋律應該超酷的吧？

So the bit that went "Girl, you know I want your love,"

所以 "Girl, you know I want your love." 那一段

originally went "Girl, you know I want your love."

原本是 "Girl, you know I want your love."

There were some moments that I found on the Shape of You tapes which were really interesting.

我在 Shape of You 的音檔中有找到一些有趣的片段

So that's a perfect example of how Ed starts off as a...

這個例子完美呈現艾德從開始唱 ...

And then you hear that moment where he discovers it should be "come on,"

然後你可以聽到他突然發現應該要說「來吧」的時刻

He has in his mind this is how I want a song to sound.

Originally, I think we were talking about maybe being

And, he was like, "no no, it's gotta be my bed sheets."

然後他說「不不不，一定要是床單。」

It's "bedsheets smell of you", and I remember thinking,

是「床單有你的味道」，我記得我當時想

On the original version, it doesn't actually say "I'm in love with the shape of you."

原本的版本裡，歌詞其實不是「我愛上了你的身影。」

See, like a weird thing in there, that's pretty odd.

你聽，有段奇怪的音效，蠻怪的

"I'm in love with your body" on its own, felt objectifying to me.

「我愛上了你的身體。」單這句話聽起來，對我來說有物化的感覺

Do you like, do you not like "I'm in love with your body?"

你喜歡，你不喜歡「我愛上了你的身體。」嗎？

我是說，我會說，我一直都覺得

if we could just push it, so it's one more thing.

如果我們可以更延伸，讓它有更深的意涵

They say look at the shape of you, and that means,

他們會說「看看你的形狀」，這表示

This song is just one loop the whole way through.

It's a very monotonous thing, so when you got that for the whole song,

這是個很重複單一的歌，所以如果你整首都這樣

the only thing you can do are light and shade bits.

你唯一能做的就是增加或是拿掉音樂元素

So once you've heard the first ten seconds,

there's no more learning to be done when it comes to the hook.

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