ransom歌詞的八卦，Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

英文的「我夢過一個夢！」
歌詞原文如下：

『 I dreamed a dream！』

註：***部分的歌詞只出現在歌劇中，平常時被刪減。

*** There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft and their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
and the world was a song and the song was exciting

There was a time then it all went wrong***

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid

When dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder

As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dreams to shame

*** He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came***

And still I dream he'll come to me
that we would live the years together

But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
so different from this hell I'm living
so different now from what it seems

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

Lil Tecca Droppin’ New Album《Virgo World》🚀

前陣子不斷在預告自己將出新專輯的Lil Tecca，終於在9月18日於個人Youtube頻道上上傳了整張專輯的視覺影像，各大串流平台也上架了此張新專輯。

總共19首歌，跨刀音樂人有:Polo G, Lil Durk, NAV, Skrillex, Lil Uzi Vert, Guwop Reign…等，陣容豪華、風格多變，非常值得一聽。

《Virgo World》是Lil Tecca的個人首張錄音室專輯，而之前的《We Love You Tecca》是他個人第一張Mixtape, 這張Mixtape不僅是Lil Tecca獨自寫詞完成19首歌曲，只有最後一首Ransom Remix 有Feat. Juice Wrld，其他都沒有feature，這張Mixtape更是得到了白金唱片的成績，這是自從2018年以來只有J.Cole跟Russ達到過的成績，證明了Lil Tecca的音樂不僅有自己特色，大眾更是相當喜歡。

這次新專輯除了音樂之外，Lil Tecca更加花了時間在主視覺(Visualizer)上，19首歌曲每首都有不同的主視覺在Youtube頻道上，雖然都是Lil Tecca一個人在畫面中跳舞，但是依據歌詞內容不同，每首在不同場景，穿著不同服裝，跳著不同的Groove，再搭配上類似GTA III聖安地列斯的整體風格，非常用心且完整。

外加這次跟《Virgo World》一起推出的週邊服飾，不難看出Lil Tecca這次來勢洶洶，完整專輯規格的一系列宣傳、音樂、產品、到視覺，希望可以在主流音樂市場闖出一條路。

因應這次疫情關係，在不能開現場演場會的狀況下，許多的饒舌歌手都採取線上發表，線上演唱會的方式持續宣傳自己的音樂，甚至連大型的音樂頒獎表演都採取線上直播表演，像前陣子的MTV VMA表演，所有的饒舌歌手現場跟舞群，搭配舞台影像，讓觀眾在家也可以有蒞臨現場的享受，可見視覺影像在音樂上日漸重要的趨勢。

相信Lil Tecca這次搭配著主視覺一起的專輯《Virgo World》也是看中了這個趨勢，讓他的粉絲在家也可以像在現場演唱會一樣一起跟著他的音樂Bounce！

#liltecca #virgoworld

購買實體專輯：
已完售，感謝大家的支持！

Follow Xiangyu on Twitter https://instagram.com/notXiangyu
Follow Ransom-Notes on Twitter https://twitter.com/ransom1992

0:00　星星之火　A Single Spark
2:52　延續和決裂　Continuity and Rupture
6:02　流言蜚語　Rumors and Slanders
8:56　夢　Dream
11:26　這不是請客吃飯　This Is Not a Dinner Party
14:50　社會主義還是人類滅絕　Socialism or Human Extinction

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5LXDWD9UWMinJpuGXfOHF9
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/album/1475720641
KKBox: https://www.kkbox.com/tw/tc/album/Po-XjuEwvaj3s0F3XnGK009H-index.html
虾米音乐： https://www.xiami.com/album/5021315036

專輯介紹： https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%98%BB%E5%93%88%E5%8F%8D%E5%B8%9D%E5%9C%8B-%E9%8D%BE%E7%BF%94%E5%AE%87%E8%AA%AA%E5%94%B1%E6%98%9F%E6%98%9F%E4%B9%8B%E7%81%AB-063724380.html

繼 2018 年金音獎入圍的《炮打司令部》後，中文嘻哈界絕無僅有的共產主義饒舌歌手鍾翔宇與英國製作人 Ransom-Notes 馬不停蹄地聯手炮製出六首歌的新專輯《星星之火》，相較於上張專輯還有如〈保力達B〉、〈偶像的手冊〉等比較詼諧幽默的歌曲，這張專輯顯得更加嚴肅而深入的闡述自己的意識形態。

即使如此，這張專輯並沒有流於自我重複的說教，而是透過自己在美國成長過程親眼目睹的（台灣媒體跟好萊塢電影不告訴你的）具體事實，鍾翔宇戳破所謂的「美國夢」，一層一層爬梳嘻哈音樂如何失去最初的反抗精神、分析爭取勞動權益的困境甚至環保議題。很難想像這麼龐大的知識量被鍾翔宇精巧的放在一張不到 20 分鐘的專輯當中，這樣大膽的嘗試絕對值得你靜下心搭配歌詞細細玩味。搭配 Ransom-Notes 充滿黃金年代風格的編曲，讓嚴肅的歌詞不再難以下嚥。而鍾翔宇精心設計的多韻和不時的好笑 punchline，也展現他想讓歌曲直面普羅大眾的誠意。

批判美國的霸權和當今的社會經濟制度等於動搖了非常多人的基本信念，鍾翔宇也深知這一點。然而看到不公不義的事實而站出來發聲，這是讓鍾翔宇之所以愛上嘻哈的浪漫初衷。《星星之火》這張專輯就如同他的偶像，英國嘻哈詩人 Lowkey 的 “Soundtrack to the Struggle” 一樣，是貨真價實的革命之聲，所有真心想衝破世界當今所面對的困境的人，肯定能從鍾翔宇的音樂中得到啟發。


Shortly after his 2018 album "Bombard the Headquarters" was nominated best hip hop album by the Golden Indie Music Awards, Xiangyu, one of the few openly communist rappers in the Sinosphere, together with his comrade Ransom-Notes from the UK, began working on "a Single Spark." In comparison to his previous album, which contains comedic songs like "Paolyta B" and "the Idol's Handbook," "a Single Spark" takes on a more serious tone and delves deeper into Xiangyu's ideology.

Despite the comparatively somber tone, this new album avoids repetitive preaching. Through sharing his personal experiences and the things he saw growing up in the United States, Xiangyu debunks the so-called "American Dream." Using materialist dialectics, he tells us how hip hop has lost its rebellious essence, and also analyzes power dynamics and touches on topics such as the environment. It is difficult to imagine how Xiangyu and Ransom-Notes were able to condense such a vast expanse of knowledge into an album less than 20 minutes in length. You will not be disappointed should you decide to sit down and listen to such a bold album while studying the lyrics. Reminiscent of hip hop's golden age, Ransom-Notes' beatmaking provides the listener with the sugar that makes the pill easier to swallow. Xiangyu's carefully constructed rhymes and the occasional humorous punch line demonstrate his sincere attempt to make his agitprop more accessible to the layperson.

Criticizing US hegemony and the socioeconomic order of today is tantamount to shattering the fundamental beliefs of many, and Xiangyu is acutely aware of this. The fact that hip hop can serve as a platform for pointing out injustices is what attracted Xiangyu to the genre in the first place. "A Single Spark" is similar to "Soundtrack to the Struggle" by Lowkey, one of Xiangyu's influences, in the sense that it is truly revolutionary in content. Those who genuinely seek to transform the predicaments plaguing our world today will certainly find inspiration in Xiangyu's music.

作詞：鍾翔宇
編曲：Ransom-Notes
錄音：鍾翔宇
混音：鍾翔宇、Ransom-Notes
母帶後期製作：Glenn Schick
繪圖：Bijan Nader Sharifi

Lyrics by Xiangyu,
Beats by Ransom-Notes,
Recorded by Xiangyu,
Mixed by Xiangyu and Ransom-Notes
Mastered by Glenn Schick,
Artwork by Bijan Nader Sharifi.

#星星之火 #鍾翔宇 #aSingleSpark

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https://youtu.be/rC1TMm28v6Q

購買實體專輯：已完售，感謝大家的支持！

虾米音乐： https://www.xiami.com/album/5021315036

Follow Xiangyu on Twitter https://instagram.com/notXiangyu
Follow Ransom-Notes on Twitter https://twitter.com/ransom1992

〈延續和決裂〉， beat 的部分非常切題地復刻了 90 年代經典嘻哈，以如 DJ Premier 那樣以刷碟方式，取樣其他歌曲的歌詞來替作曲人或是歌曲本身發聲。這首歌在副歌部份取樣了兩首 90 年代的歌曲： Canibus 的〈Get Retarded〉以及 Mobb Deep 的〈Drop a Gem on 'Em〉。取樣的句子在這首歌中串連起來所表達的意思，或許跟原曲有所差異，但這正是嘻哈取樣有趣、且令眾多愛好者著迷的地方。

在討論歌詞以前，筆者先稍微解釋仕紳化（Gentrification，或譯作縉紳化）的概念：

「仕紳化」比較常運用在城市發展中，意旨中低收入社區因為某些基礎建設或建築的更新改善，使得房價、地價或社區商業模式改變，逐漸被中間或中上階層遷入居民佔據。這些新遷入的中上階層住戶逐漸占主導地位，展開對原住戶的歧視，甚至用直接或間接的方式（例如土地徵收、收購房地產、或是新商業模式帶來不堪負荷的生活開銷等方式）驅離原中低收入戶，使得社區性質改變。

這種過程猶如現今嘻哈文化的發展一樣，70 年代由少數族裔與中下階層在貧民窟發展的簡易藝術創作形式，似乎象徵著人民把發聲工具拿回來了，卻在 90 年代開始跨國唱片公司所展開的「長島大併購」（開始一系列併購嘻哈音樂獨立廠牌，包含 Def Jam 等），以及 2000 年以後，跨國企業帶著商業嘻哈商品全球化發展，嘻哈逐漸仕紳化，成為中上階層的生活寫照，美國少數族裔的生活條件也並未有任何進展。這首歌，以延續與斷裂表達了鍾翔宇對現今嘻哈的態度：延續美國非裔等少數民族的正義鬥爭精神，並與跨國企業全球化帶來閹割過的「嘻哈」決裂。