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Michael felt that Quincy shouId have been on his team
邁克爾認(rèn)為昆西應(yīng)該要挺他的
with 100 million.
應(yīng)當(dāng)要破億萬銷售
And he told his attorney,
他跟律師說
'Thriller's not coming out. Quincy doesn't believe in it.
Thriller不發(fā)行了 因?yàn)槔ノ鲗?duì)專輯沒信心
'Cancel. The thing's not coming out, ' right?
取消了 不錄制了 是嗎?
so, Michael had a conversation with Wallter Yetnikoff,
當(dāng)時(shí)邁克爾與沃爾特·耶特尼科夫談話
Who Was running CBS at that time.
也就是當(dāng)時(shí)CBS的總裁
And Walter Yetnikoff told Michael, 'Look, who cares what these guys think.
沃爾特·耶特尼科夫?qū)~克爾說 你管他們?cè)趺聪?/p>
'lt's not about what their impression is of this music,
他們對(duì)音樂的印象不重要
'it's what you believe to be the case.
重要的是你怎么想
'And if you believe this is going to sell 100 million copies,
若你認(rèn)為這張會(huì)破億萬銷售量
'guess what, Michael?
你知道嗎?
"l'm with you.
我挺你
"let this thing come out. Don't mess with this. Just Iet it come out.
就發(fā)片吧 別管這些了 你發(fā)片就是了
And then Michael did.
邁克爾真的就發(fā)了
But it could have gone either way.
但是結(jié)局可能倒向任何一面
We were averaging a million units a week, which no other record had done.
當(dāng)時(shí)每周平均銷售百萬 已經(jīng)打破銷售紀(jì)錄
Michael Jackson, that year with Thriller, saved the record business.
邁克爾·杰克遜那年的Thriller 拯救了整個(gè)唱片業(yè)
Tower Records was going out of business,
淘兒音樂城面臨倒閉
CBS itself had had two black Fridays where they laid off, like, a thousand people,
CBS本身也經(jīng)歷了兩次黑色星期五 裁了上千員工
other companies were laying off people. Everybody was losing their job.
其他公司也在大量裁員 很多人都丟了工作
But Thrillerwas so big,
但Thriller卻造成轟動(dòng)
it brought millions of people into the stores
吸引了上百萬人到店里消費(fèi)
and they not only bought Thriller, they bought other product.
他們不光是購(gòu)買Thriller 也購(gòu)買其他產(chǎn)品
lt was the music that will probably influence contemporary artists
這張專輯的音樂 對(duì)當(dāng)代歌手的影響
for a long, long time to come.
將會(huì)非常的深遠(yuǎn)
lt gave us a...
它給了我們...
A goal, a bull's-eye or a dream to get to,
一個(gè)可追逐的目標(biāo)
something to aspire to.
一種啟發(fā)
