[works]艾美麗愛美麗（第22屆「金曲獎最佳作詞人獎」入圍）

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[…] 莫文蔚的〈艾美麗愛美麗〉是和聲音有關有意識的word play實驗。她寫這首曲子的時候demo叫Emily，說希望歌名是人名。Emily音譯成中文可以是「艾美麗」或「艾蜜麗」或「愛美麗」，我選了「艾美麗」，然後我發現在聲音上，「艾美麗」是 “ai mei li” 和「愛美麗」是一樣的，但「愛美麗」可以理解為一句片語，不但是人名，就是「喜愛美麗」，這樣我覺得很有故事。 “ai mei li”如果不管聲調，漢語拼音還可以是「曖昧裡」或「愛魅力」，都是片語，所以我就寫下「Emily 曖昧裡／想像的愛終於也無人認領／艾美麗 喔 愛美麗／但太美麗 你又懷疑不真實」。然後 “ai mei li” 也很像法文的 “Amelie”，也就是Emily的法文版，我又寫了「Emily 喔 愛開始／總是想你值得更好的結局／Amelie 喔 愛魅力／容易亢奮的心下落不明／艾美麗 喔 唉美麗／你說美麗 到底是什麼把戲」 “ai mei li”的聲音在歌詞裡面不斷重複出現，有時候是不同的人名，有時候是有意思的片語，非常好玩，而那麼多不同寫法的但其實意思是近似的名字，我想到的是人生是不是「用不同的名字／演差不多故事／我和你 認不認識 也類似」？ The song that I just wrote for Karen Mok recently is predicated on a play on sounds—with quite interesting consequences. The demo of the melody she had written was titled, “Emily,” and when Karen showed it to me she said she hoped that the name of the song would be an actual name of a person. Now, transliterated into Chinese, Emily could be written in three different ways: 艾美麗, 艾蜜麗 or 愛美麗 (all ai4 mei3 li4). I went for the first one initially, but I discovered that the third had the advantage of being a phrase as well: “in love with beauty”. I felt that there was something in there. If you glossed over the actual tone of the following, 愛美麗 might further sound like 曖昧裡 (ai4 mei4 li3)[in an ambiguously unrequited relationship] or 愛魅力 (ai4 mei4 li4) (in love with charm), which are all phrases, so I wrote the following: “Emily 曖昧裡 (in an unrequited relationship)/the love of one’s imagination did not get claimed after all/ Emily oh 愛美麗 (in love with beauty)/but if it’s too beautiful, you’d also not believe it.” In addition, the French version of Emily is Amelie(the movie), so I wrote “Emily when love begins/you always think you’ll get a better ending than before/Amelie 愛魅力(in love with charm)/an heart that’s easily excited may not be so easy to track…” The sounds “ai Mei Li” repeat over and over in this song, sometimes as the names of different people, sometimes as the sounds of different phrases…rather interestingly, I think. And all these differently written but almost synonymous names—doesn’t it portend that our lives are “acted under different names/but nonetheless the same story/Even if I don’t know you, we’re the same?”
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