【原】The Human League《Don’t You Want Me》

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对您来说是忘却一个几乎是无关紧要的名字，

对我来说是忘却一个无法实现的美梦。

——《茶花女》

歌名: 《Don’t You Want Me》

歌者：The Human League

词曲：Jo Callis, Philip Adrian Wright & Philip Oakey

流派：New Wave

推荐理由

非常适合蹦迪的音乐，听着这首歌走路都有节拍了。

歌词

[Verse 1: Philip Oakey]

You were workin' as a waitress in a cocktail bar

When I met you

I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around

Turned you into someone new

Now five years later on you've got the world at your feet

Success has been so easy for you

But don't forget, it's me who put you where you are now

And I can put you back down too

[Pre-Chorus: Philip]

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

It's much too late to find

You think you've changed your mind

You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

[Chorus: Philip]

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

[Verse 2: Susan Ann Sulley]

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

That much is true

But even then I knew I'd find a much better place

Either with or without you

The five years we have had have been such good times

I still love you

But now I think it's time I live my life on my own

I guess it's just what I must do

[Pre-Chorus: Philip]

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

It's much too late to find

You think you've changed your mind

You'd better change it back or we will both be sorry

[Chorus: Philip]

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus Repeated Until Fade: Philip]

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, ohh?

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多添一点：

今天分享一首 The Human League（人类联盟乐队）的《Don’t You Want Me》。

感觉昨天的实验类音乐不是伙伴们的胃口，今天来首蹦迪的歌曲。这首歌于1981年11月27日在英国发行，是人类联盟乐队第三张录音室专辑《Dare》(1981)中的第四支单曲。当年12月12日登上榜首，并在那里停留了5周。1982年1月在美国登陆，1982年4月的时候，这首歌进入了榜单前40。MV的曝光让这首歌有了很大的影响力，所以在1982年7月这首歌就登上了榜首的宝座，并在那里停留了三周。这首歌的崛起也反应了MV时代的到来。这张专辑也是乐队迄今为止最著名、商业上最成功的唱片。

这首歌讲述了一个养成系的故事，男人遇到一个鸡尾酒女服务员，在他们的爱情变质之前，把她变成了明星。灵感来自一本女性杂志上的一篇文章。主唱 Phil Oakey 声称这不是一首情歌，而是关于两个人之间的权力政治。其实，他倒是说出了很多时候情感的本质。Oakey最初录制这首歌的时候是男声独唱，但是在看了1976年的音乐剧《一个明星的诞生》之后，他决定和乐队的一位女歌手Susan Ann Sulley合唱这首歌。这首歌其实是主唱在专辑中最不喜欢的一首歌，他认为这首歌“质量很差”，也认为制作人混音混的不行，本来打算将这首歌放到专辑最后一首的，但是乐队首席执行官Simon Draper还是决定让这首歌放在专辑靠前的位置发行。Oakey 最终妥协了。

这首歌的作者Roger Linn说这是第一首使用LM-1打鼓机的热门歌曲。这个鼓机1980年才刚刚面世，这机器是第一个对真正的鼓进行采样而不是合成鼓的可编程装置。它成为那个时代许多热门歌曲的基础，Culture Club、Peter Gabriel 和 Gary Numan 等人用它来制作背景音乐。它最大的支持者是Prince，他在《Little Red Corvette》和《When Doves Cry》等歌曲中使用了它。看下歌手资料

The Human League（人类联盟乐队）由 Philip Oakey、Adrian Wright、Martyn Ware 和 Ian Craig Marsh 于 1978 年成立。Wright 不是音乐家 ，他负责视觉效果并制作了精心制作的幻灯片，这些幻灯片在他们的歌曲中投射到舞台上。

1980年增加了女后备歌手Susan Ann Sulley和Joanne Catherall，并聘请了各种音乐家《Dare》专辑工作。Wright学会了一些合成器的演奏并为歌曲创作做出了贡献，但团队的领导者还是Oakey 。《Don't You Want Me》由Oakey 和Wright与键盘手Jo Callis共同创作。