凱蒂佩裏:時尚界的自信女王
It seems the Grammy Awards just don’t favor Katy Perry – the US singer and songwriter has been nominated 13 times for her music without ever taking home a prize. But Twitter users and music lovers obviously don’t see eye-to-eye with the award committee.
看起來格萊美大獎真的是不鍾情凱蒂•佩裏——這位美國創作型歌手已經被提名13次，但是卻沒有一次抱獎而歸。但是很顯然，推特用戶和音樂愛好者和與格萊美獎項委員會的看法不同。In 2013 Perry became the most followed person on Twitter and, with nearly 70 million followers today, she still reigns supreme.
2013年，佩裏成爲推特上粉絲最多的明星。到今天，已擁有7000萬粉絲的她，領頭羊的地位仍不可撼動。
In an interview with USA Today she shared her secrets to successfully managing social media, giving tips such as “don’t use it just to promote yourself”, “don’t be self-*indulgent” and “ignore your haters”.
在接受《今日美國》報紙的採訪時，她分享了成功駕馭社交媒體的祕密，列舉的竅門有“別把它只當做推銷自己的工具”，“別太沉浸在自我中”和“無視那些討厭你的人”等。
Perry isn’t just friendly with her fans online, she also makes connections with them in the real world.
佩裏並不只是在網上與粉絲友好互動，她還在現實生活中與他們保持聯繫。This month, the 30-year-old pop star brought her Prismatic World Tour to Guangzhou and Shanghai. Tickets were sold out shortly after they went on sale online.
這個月，這位30歲流行歌手開辦的五光十色世界巡迴演唱會轉戰到了廣州和上海。演唱會門票在網上開售後短時間內被一搶而空。The artist gave her all to meet fans’ high expectations, belting through a selection of her most popular hits including “Roar”, style Teenage Dream and Firework. She even invited fans to come up on stage to teach her to say “I love you” in Chinese and “Fruit Sister”, as she is called by many Chinese fans, making her screaming fans even crazier.
爲了滿足粉絲的超高期待，這位藝術家使出了渾身解數，串燒了多首她的最流行熱門歌曲，包括“咆哮”中文歌名用書名號，“少年夢”和“焰火”。她甚至還把粉絲請到舞臺上去，讓他們教她用漢語說“我愛你”和“水果姐”，因爲許多中國粉絲都這樣叫她。這一舉動讓舞臺下尖叫的粉絲更加難以自拔。On social media, Perry doesn’t fight back against every rumor or criticism directed her way. Her music, which stands as her foothold in the business, also keeps her style consistent. She sticks to herself and pays no attention to anyone who says otherwise.
使用社交媒體時，佩裏不會回擊每一個針對她的流言或指責。她賴以安身立命的音樂也保持着她不變的風格。她堅持自我，無視否定她的人。Perry first made her entrance into the music biz in 2008 with her hit single I Kissed a Girl, and she came to international fame with the multi-platinum album Teenage Dream in 2010. Unwilling to join the ranks of the average pop-rock idols, Perry developed a controversial style featuring colorful dresses and straightforward lyrics.
佩裏在2008年憑單曲“我吻了一個女孩” 初次進軍音樂界，2010年發行的白金唱片《少年夢》則爲她帶來了國際盛譽。佩裏無意與一般的流行-搖滾偶像爲伍，而是以色彩斑斕的穿着及直接明瞭的歌詞自成一派。With her latest album Prism (2013), she’s developed a “cooler” and “more sophisticated” style, as she told global lifestyle magazine Elle. In Roar, a musical autobiography about her transformation from a passive girl into a woman who can stand on her own two feet, she stresses self-empowerment and self-esteem.
她對環球時尚雜誌《依都錦》表示，在其最新專輯《棱鏡》（2013）中，她的風格更加“酷炫”、“老道”。歌曲“咆哮”中，她用音樂書寫了自傳，講述了自己從一個消極的女孩蛻變成自立的成熟女性的過程，凸顯了自強與自尊。In a conversation with USA Today, Perry offered up this observation: “If you tried to please everyone, you’d have no sense of self. You’d lose yourself in the process of being a people-pleaser and there’d be nothing unique left.”
在與《今日美國》報刊的對話中，佩裏分享了自己的心得：“如果你試圖取悅每個人，那你就不會有自我意識。就會在取悅別人中丟掉自我，喪失獨一無二的自己。”
