2022年上海高级口译练习题:摇滚巨星时代的终结

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2022年上海高级口译练习题:摇滚巨星时代的终结

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  Has the Internet killed the myth of the rock star

  "In the last three or four years the internet’s taken a stranglehold and

  killed off the myth of the rock star," Tom Meighan of Kasabian told Bangshowbiz

  last week. "You know when you used to buy records and there was a myth behind

  them? There’s too much on blogs now and I think it’s killed it off. There are so

  many rock stars writing these self-pitying blogs and it’s not in the spirit of

  rock’n’roll."

  The irony of giving such a headline-grabbing opinion to an internet-only

  news service seems to have been lost on Meighan, but as a singer clearly in

  thrall to the mystique of Bowie, Bolan and Bj?rk, he makes a good point. For all

  the wrong reasons.

  We are in danger of losing the enigma of the rock star: you only have to

  stand Grizzly Bear next to pop stars like Dizzee Rascal, Florence Welch, or Lady

  Gaga in her blowtorch bra to see that the mainstream has gazumped alt-rock in

  terms of retina-frying freakishness. Dolled up in Napoleon outfits for their

  last promo stint Kasabian seem like a throwback to a time when rock favoured the

  fantastical. A time before hair metal made dressing up seem corny, long before

  lad rock forced music to be "real", and long before Pitchfork made a star of the

  bearded troubadour.

  But it’s not Twitter that has exploded the myths behind the rock star.

  If anything it’s magnified them, making it easier to sort the say-nothing

  chaff from the proper-bizarre wheat. Yes, Calvin Harris and Mike Skinner go on a

  bit with tweets about sandwich fillings and train delays, but that’s because

  they’re fundamentally ordinary blokey-blokes; only a particularly naive T4 guest

  booker would kid themselves that they were "pop stars". Follow the Proper Rock

  Stars on Twitter and there’s plenty of propagated myths – there are pictures of

  Muse playing futuristic digital clarinets in Japanese airports, while Liam

  Gallagher roars expletives about his brother’s haircut. Even if it’s not

  actually the star in question doing the tweeting, the fact that an impostor can

  convincingly impersonate them is testament to a heroic or cartoonish character

  in the best rock-myth tradition.

  Any rock star worth the name is a rock star as much in tweet as in a glossy

  video, tour-bus boudoir or fatal strangle-wank accident. True, had Twitter

  existed in the 70s several major stars might well have been ruined by the

  exposure – Clapton would have seemed less God-like if he’d been squeezing his

  "rivers of blood" rant into 140 characters, while authorities might have been

  alerted to Gary Glitter much earlier. However, today’s rock-star bloggers are

  more interested in breaking down the barriers between them and their fans. The

  real rock icons maintain their mystery simply by not blogging.

  No, the reason the internet may kill off rock-star mystique is that the

  blogosphere, by its own limitation and design, is not in thrall to image.

  Traditional music media requires cover stars to be the complete package, looking

  as good as they sound and producing snappy, controversial pull-quotes at the

  drop of a Dictaphone. To earn the status of rock legend, the old-school star

  needs to lure in the browsing commuter with the secret Strokes shirt on under

  his office clobber.

  Music websites, however, have no news-stand to leap out from; their

  "covers" consist of pictures little bigger than postage stamps, so they rely on

  Google to draw in traffic. The click-to-hear-it nature of the web goes against

  the alluring band-as-gang image readers buy into, copy and adore long before

  they hear a note. It doesn’t matter if a singer has anything important, funny or

  interesting to say, or if they say it dressed as Caligula with a chicken on

  their head; the music is all that matters online.

  The blogosphere’s appeal is momentary so attention-seeking bands are

  turning to shock tactics to create a controversy buzz while the printed press is

  now forced to chase internet hype for their next cover stars.

  词句笔记:

  stranglehold:压制,抑制

  self-pitying:自怨自艾的

  headline-grabbing:吸引眼球的

  thrall:奴役

  be held in thrall to:被……深深迷住

  以上就是为大家整理的“2022年上海高级口译练习题:摇滚巨星时代的终结”,希望大家能够更好的学习上海高级口译,取得理想的成绩。


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