Amy MacDonald-This Is The Life

一筆零用錢、一張 CD、一把便宜吉他，簡單得不能再簡單的元素，奇妙地成就了英國新生代中最受矚目的創作型女歌手「Amy Macdonald」，而這個乍聽之下，宛如小紅莓的清新版，讓人聽過一次就忘不掉，今年開始已經成為流行樂壇廣為討論的焦點。

來自蘇格蘭格拉斯哥的 Amy Macdonald，12 歲時爺爺奶奶給她的零用錢改變了她的一生，她選擇用零用錢買下生平第一張 CD，Travis 樂團的【The Man Who】專輯，從此她便一頭栽進音樂的世界。父親送的聖誕禮物，一把平價的木吉他則開啟了她的音樂創作生涯，她彈的一手好吉他完全是無師自通。15 歲 Amy 就以 Acoustic 自彈自唱的表演方式，廣受當地酒吧、咖啡廳的歡迎。大學時期參加的 T In The Park 音樂節，讓她 48 小時都瘋狂沉浸在搖滾樂中，而直到此時，音樂還只是 Amy 最熱愛的興趣，她認為她一生都不會離開音樂，總會拿著心愛的吉他彈唱，但是她從沒想過把音樂當成她的事業。直到她無心插柳回覆了 NME 音樂雜誌所刊登製作公司的廣告，而下一步她竟然已經登上了英國排行榜冠軍，連艾爾頓強對她的才華都讚不絕口。Amy 快速成名的過程，套句她最常用的口頭禪 “真是太詭異了(It was really bizarre)”。

Amy Macdonald 在 20 歲生日前發行了個人首張專輯【This Is The Life】，一鳴驚人奪下英國、瑞士、荷蘭、丹麥的排行冠軍，並在 6 個國家登上排行前三名，全球專輯銷售已經突破兩百萬張！Amy 快意的吉他搖滾架構，搭上個性十足的嗓音，在創作型女歌手中獨樹一格，辨識度極高。專輯中同名單曲 "This Is The Life" 和 "Mr. Rock & Roll"，推出後紛紛搶佔歐洲各國單曲榜冠軍；民謠旋律並加入弦樂的 "Youth Of Today"，是她 15 歲寫下的作品，敘述兩代間思想觀念之差異；帶點墨西哥味道的開場，"Let’s Start A Band" 唱出了她的自信和音樂企圖心，決定要讓所有人刮目相看；充滿小酒館熱鬧氣息的 "Barrowland Ballroom"，輕快的旋律不禁讓人隨樂起舞；"L.A." 則是 Amy 送給心目中偶像，因主演電影「斷背山」而聞名的 Jake Gyllenhaal / 傑克葛倫霍的一首歌。這張充份展現 Amy Macdonald 唱功及創作能力的精彩作品，滾石雜誌不吝給予四顆星近滿分的高度評價！


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Oh the wind whistles down
The cold dark street tonight
And the people they were dancing
To the music vibe

And the boys chase the girls, with curls in their hair
While the shocked too many sit way over there
And the songs get louder each one better than before

And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the sizxe
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight

So you're heading down the road in your taxi for 4
And you're waiting outside jimmy's front door
But nobody's in and nobody's home till 4
So you're sitting there with nothing to do
Talking about Robert Ragger and his 1 leg crew



And where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Oh where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
Where you gonna sleep tonight

And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
Oh where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?
And you singing the song thinking this is the life
And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size
where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

Where you gonna sleep tonight?