时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台3月


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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:


We have a winner. For the last three years, thousands of aspiring 1 musicians have submitted videos to NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest for a chance to come to Washington, D.C., and perform at NPR's home office behind a desk. Here is who the judges chose for this year's honor.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Rapping) Down by the river where the green grass grow and the sun be burnin' burnin' hot, take your buddy 2 hold. Don't nobody know where you go. Just know the block just got hot (ph).


SHAPIRO: Tank and the Bangas. From New Orleans, they are Norman Spence, Albert Charbonneau Allenback (ph), Robert Cat Jr. (ph), Anjelica Jelly Joseph (ph), Jonathan Johnson (ph) Josh Johnson and the lead singer...


TARRIONA BALL: I'm Tarriona Tank Ball. Hey, you guys. I'm Tank of Tank and the Bangas.


SHAPIRO: Hey, you guys, congratulations.


BALL: Thank you so much.


(CROSSTALK)


BALL: It's so cool to actually hear the song, like, playing.


SHAPIRO: I got to start by asking where the name Tank and the Bangas came from.


BALL: Oh, wow. My nickname is Tank. My dad, he was in college, and he played football, and they called him Cannonball. And it would be so crazy that years later that he would literally 3 call me his tank, you know? He passed on, and I really feel like I'm living out his dreams through just this simple nickname that he gave me. It's kind of crazy that the whole world knows it now.


SHAPIRO: And where does the word Bangas come from?


BALL: We started this open mic at this cafe that we used to be at called Black Star Cafe. And I guess they add bangas on and honestly - because you would go there every Sunday and the music would be banging.


SHAPIRO: How many years ago are we talking?


BALL: It was about six years ago.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Rapping) I'm drivin' real fast with a tank full of gas...


SHAPIRO: Tell me about the song that you submitted for the Tiny Desk Contest.


BALL: Well, the song is called "Quick!" One day, Albert, the saxophonist of the group, was playing with beats in his room like he does. He's a very lonely person. He just likes to...


(CROSSTALK)


ALBERT ALLENBACK: First of all - I'd like to correct the record, first of all.


BALL: So you're not a lonely person.


ALLENBACK: I'm lonely, but it's not sad. The dog was there.


BALL: All right. I never said sad.


SHAPIRO: It's a happy loneliness.


BALL: And he brought this to Joshua one day.


SHAPIRO: Joshua is the musical director and drummer.


BALL: Yes. And we were just playing in the car, and he was like, I want you to write something to this.


SHAPIRO: Tell us about where you took it in this song.


BALL: If you really actually want to know what the song is about, which is fun, it is about a guy that tried to really get a girl. And she's just planning on getting him back. It's about a high-speed chase. It has a lot of elements, and the story is actually told backwards 4.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Rapping) So I got to make a quick decision. I got to get out my feelings, see that money on the dash, never want to going to finish, never want to going to finish (ph).


SHAPIRO: This song really goes through a lot of chapters. It goes into different modes.


BALL: It does. It - I don't know if you know this hand game called down by the river called hanky panky...


SHAPIRO: Oh, yeah.


BALL: ...Where the bullfrog jump from bank to bank - but that's how I got the first line - down by the river where the green grass grow and the sun be burning hot. Like, I have a lot of childhood memories that still stick with me a lot today, and it is always incorporated into music in some type of way. It's like the - my back is aching, my bra too tight - it's hand games that we would play as little girls.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Rapping) My back is achin' my bra too tight, my booty shakin' from left to right. The next thing that I know...


SHAPIRO: You guys are a New Orleans band. It's appropriate that we're talking on Mardi Gras. What is New Orleans about your sound?


BALL: One of the beautiful things that I guess I could say about Tank and the Bangas that a lot of people even from New Orleans know is that we are very different from what is traditionally New Orleans. New Orleans has a good ground of beautiful, great music that's jazz-a-rific (ph) - if that's even a word - that's brass 5-a-delicious (ph)...


SHAPIRO: Brass-a-delicious, yes.


BALL: ...And definitely bounce-aholicinism (ph). But if I was to take anything from New Orleans, definitely just being an entertainer - in New Orleans, you can walk down the street and someone is standing 6 still just for money. There are children tap dancing for change. There's a brass band on the corner almost every night. And you just know that no matter what you're going through that New Orleans wants you to know for some reason that it will be all right if we put a beat to your pain. There's just something about it. There's something about walking those streets and seeing people - old - start dancing like young boys when they hear certain music. You want to always carry on that tradition of what New Orleans is.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Singing) Oh, my God, my goodness gracious.


SHAPIRO: Well, Tank Ball, Tarriona Ball, it's been great talking with you and the rest of the band. Tank and the Bangas, congratulations on winning the Tiny Desk Contest.


TANK AND THE BANGAS: Thank you. Happy Mardi Gras.


SHAPIRO: And happy Mardi Gras.


TANK AND THE BANGAS: Happy Mardi Gras.


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TANK AND THE BANGAS: (Rapping) Who going to save me, save me, save me? Who going to save me (ph)?



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  • Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
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n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
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