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Alison Gold的音乐视频“我爱中国菜”火爆互联网——中国看客并不像美国看客
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 October, 2013, 4:40pm
Jeremy Blum jeremy.blum@scmp.com
“I love Chinese food, you know that it’s true, I love fried rice, I love noodles, I love chow mien, chow mo-mo-mo-mo-mien!”
“我爱中国菜，我说真的，我爱炒饭，我爱面条，我爱炒面，炒-嗷-嗷-嗷-嗷-面！”
This is the chorus of a song titled “I Love Chinese Food”, sung by 12-year-old Alison Gold and released on Youtube on October 14.
这是“我爱中国菜”的歌里的副歌，唱歌的是12岁的 Alison Gold，她10月14日的时候把这首歌上传到了Youtube。
In it, the pre-teen croons her love for Chinese food over a sugary sweet beat, prances in a field with a man dressed in a giant panda costume, and has a pillow fight with her friends, while declaring that her love for egg rolls, chop suey, fortune cookies and wonton soup is without equal.
这位小少女在歌中深情吟唱她对中国菜的热爱，与一个穿熊猫装的男人一起在田地里又蹦又跳，和朋友们打枕头仗，同时高唱她最爱蛋卷、杂烩、幸运饼干和馄饨，没有之一。
Aside from its chorus, the song includes other choice lines such as “I smell food in the air, it’s Chinese food, my favourite, so I’m getting getting getting getting hungry” and “Chinese food takes away my stress, now I’m going to go and eat Panda Express.”
除了副歌，歌词中还包括“我闻到空气里的香味，那是中国菜，我喜欢，所以我现在很很很很饿”，“中国菜赶走了我的压力，现在我要去吃熊猫快餐。”
These lines were penned by Patrice Wilson, co-funder of Ark Music Factory, a musical production company in Los Angeles that filmed and promoted the video. Wilson, who appears as the video’s panda, originally founded Ark Music Factory to discover and display the talents of young singers.
歌词是Patrice Wilson写的，他是洛杉矶的方舟音乐工厂的创办者之一，方舟音乐拍摄了这个视频。Wilson自己在视频里扮演了熊猫，他创办方舟音乐的初衷是发现年轻有才的歌手并给他们提供展示空间。
The company has achieved notoriety in the last few years for music videos that have, in the words of internet bloggers, “exploited the dreams of pre-teen girls” and achieved “so bad it’s good” status. The company’s most famous video, “Friday” by 16-year-old high school student Rebecca Black, was notably ridiculed in 2011, but became a viral hit, even reaching number 58 on the US Billboard 100.
方舟音乐在过去几年名声很臭，按网上的说法就是“利用了年轻小姑娘的梦想”，做出来的东西“糟糕到底了以至于糟出好来了”。这家公司最出名的视频“星期五”，是一个叫Rebecca Black的16岁高中生唱的，在2011年的时候被黑的很厉害，但是居然火了，还上了美国Billboard 100排行榜的58位。
“I Love Chinese Food” seems to be emulating this success. In the three days since it was uploaded, the song has received over six million views and inspired hundreds of comments, which have labelled it everything from “the next viral sensation” to “racist”.
“我爱中国菜”似乎是复制“星期五”的成功。这首歌上传之后三天里，已经有过600万点击，几百条回复，且从“又一轰动金曲”到“种族歧视”，褒贬不一。
“[This song is] the best example of why American children … are among the worst educated in the world,” wrote one particularly vehement reviewer on Apple’s US iTunes store, where the song is available for download. “[Alison Gold] poorly identifies Japanese food as Chinese frequently throughout the song … as well as in the music video. A horrible song.”
“[这首歌是]说明了为什么美国的儿童是世界上教育程度最低的，”这首歌在苹果美国iTunes店可以下载到，一个特别激动的顾客留言说，“[Alison Gold]在歌里一直把日本菜和中国菜混为一谈，这个视频也是。糟透了的歌。”
While Gold’s video does feature a segment where the singer dances in a Japanese kimono, her references to “Chinese food” are probably not meant to refer to actual Chinese cuisine and are instead an ode to the stir-fried dishes served in takeaway restaurants in the United States. Many Chinese viewers, who were generally more sympathetic than their American counterparts, picked up on this when they watched the video.
虽然 Gold的视频里确实有她穿着和服跳舞的场景，她所说的“中国菜”可能并不特指中国菜，而是说美国的外卖餐馆里的油炸食品。很多中国的看客注意到了这一点，因而比美国看客要客气的多。
“I think it’s very good,” said An Tanyo, a lifestyle writer from the mainland. “But fortune cookies only exist in overseas Chinese restaurants. Still, the little girl is cute and the black man dressed as the panda had a nice twinkle in his eye.
“我觉得这歌很棒，”An Tanyo说，他是中国大陆的生活品味作家。“但是幸运饼干只有国外的中餐馆里才有。不过小女孩还是很可爱，扮熊猫的黑人眼睛里的小星星也很漂亮。”
“You could probably say that most foreigners don’t know much about actual Chinese cuisine. But having a cute blond haired girl sing ‘I love Chinese food,’ is something I think many people will find adorable.”
“大多数外国人对真正的中国菜了解的不错。不过我相信很多人都会觉得一个可爱的金发小女孩唱着‘我爱中国菜’是一件很可爱的事。”
Other netizens on China’s Sina Weibo social network echoed these views. While many pointed out that Gold’s Japanese dress and love for egg rolls were “not really Chinese”, an equal number agreed that the singer was “very pretty” and “the panda absolutely stole the show”.
中国的新浪微博的其他网民同意这些说法。尽管很多人指出Gold的日本和服和蛋卷不是“真正的中国风味”，同样很多人都同意小歌手“超萌”，“熊猫太抢镜了”。
Others called the video “some sort of foreign divine comedy”, and one Weibo poster even pointed out that “Alison Gold’s technique for holding her chopsticks is not bad.”
另一些人称这个视频是“外国人的神曲”，一个微博用户甚至发现“Alison Gold拿筷子的水平很高。”
David and Andrew Fung, an Asian American Youtube comedy duo known collectively as the Fung Bros, also viewed “I Love Chinese Food” in a more positive light. In a response video, the pair said that the song was only a joke intended to go viral, and not the racist work that some American viewers had made it out to be.
美籍亚裔的youtube喜剧双人组David 和Andrew Fung也以更积极的眼光看“我爱中国菜”。在一个回复视频中，Fung兄弟说这首歌只是一个博眼球的玩笑，而不是一些美国人说的种族歧视作品。
“If you want to look at the positive end of this, the video is getting people who never think about Chinese food to think about Chinese food,” Andrew Fung said.
“如果你以积极的眼光来看，这支视频让一些从没有想过中国菜的人开始想到中国菜了。”Andrew Fung 说。
“People [in America] used to make songs about how [Chinese people] eat dogs and cats and rats,” David Fung added. “And now people are just saying ‘I love Chinese food’.”
“ [美国]人过去总是唱[中国人]吃狗吃猫吃老鼠，”David Fung 补充说。“现在人们只是说'我爱中国菜'。”
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