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Around 1974,
大約1974年
they started doing product at Motown that perhaps wasn't the best.
摩城的產品開始有點差強人意
As a fan, l loved songs like The Boogie Man is gonna get you,
我是粉絲 所以很喜歡The Boogie Man會來抓你
and lookin' through the Windows, and skywriter,
Lookin' through the Windows 與 Sky Writer
but these songs weren't hits.
但這些歌都稱不上是暢銷曲
Joe mentioned to me
喬對我說
several times that he felt like Motown was taking the group over,
有好幾次他都覺得摩城要接手
taking them away from his direction.
將團體帶離他心中所想的方向
What happened was that
不久之后
Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson
馬文與史提夫·汪達 還有史摩基·羅賓遜
were writing and producing and doing a lot of things at Motown
開始替摩城創作與制作許多歌
that the Jacksons had begun to want to do for themselves.
杰克遜五人組也開始有所打算
And to see how Motown treated other artists
目睹摩城如何對待其他歌手
and how the other artists was making it,
以及其他歌手如何成功
it was kind of disillusion.
其實有點理想破滅
The company was being run at that time by Ewart Abner,
公司那時的營運由伊維·艾伯納
Berry Gordy Was making movies with Diana Ross.
貝瑞·戈迪正忙著與黛安娜·羅絲拍電影
And Abner felt pretry strongly
伊維·艾伯納深深的認為
that they should not be writing and producing their own music,
他們不應該自己創作與制作音樂
that they should just accept the material that came their way
應該給他們什么就唱什么
and just do a good job with it in the studio.
著重在錄音室里把歌唱好
Michael Was vety disillusioned.
邁克爾整個夢想幻滅
He wanted to not only write his own material
他不但想自己寫歌
but produce it as well.
還想自己制作
He realised
他發現
if he was to reach these goals, he would have to go somewhere else.
自己必須要到別處才能完成這些夢想
