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Bon Iver
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Bon Iver
乐团Bon Iver

Phrasal Verbs

Date: Jan 11 2012

Themes: Music

Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

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Some people start bands because they want to become rich and famous. But Bon Iver doesn’t seem to be one of them. He prefers a quiet life at home with his family to being on the road all the time or living the high life in a big city like New York or Los Angeles. Even though he was recently nominated for four Grammys, he says he doesn’t care about awards. He just cares about making music. Hear Jason and Marni talk about this humble musician who’s been getting lots of attention.

某些人因为追求名和利而成立乐队。但是 Bon Iver 似乎与他们不同。他不喜欢四处奔波,也不喜欢在纽约或洛杉矶那样的大城市过上流社会生活,他喜欢与家人一起在家中安静地生活。即使他最近获得格莱美奖提名,他也说不在乎是否得奖。他只在乎创作音乐。请听詹森和玛尼谈论这位受到大量关注的谦虚音乐家。

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Marni

Marni

Jason

Jason

Marni:  Jason, I am really into…do you call him Bon Iver or Bon Iver?

Jason:  Either way, it’s the surprise of the Grammy nominations.

Marni:  Absolutely.

Jason:  Four of them.

Marni:  Yeah, I think that’s really awesome. Regardless of how you pronounce his name, I think he’s really awesome, and I’m really excited for him.

Jason:  Yeah, I think it’s cool too that he…After his Grammy nominations came out, there was this quote released that I guess the New York Times had been sitting on, that he said that the Grammys are’t very important and had this whole rant about how he thought they were pointless. And now he’s tweeting about how he stands by that still.

Marni:  Well, we’ll have to see. That’s kind of interesting, because I don’t know how I feel about the Grammys, but I just recently watched the Pearl Jam documentary where they, for their Grammy acceptance speech, say, “This is pointless,” and, “This is meaningless.” So there’s sort of that tradition of artists who really view themselves as artists. When they get an award for their art, it’s sort of like…I don’t know, to them it seems meaningless.

Jason:  Yeah, I mean, he seems really interested in being who he is. Like he goes home, I guess, to Wisconsin all the time. He never wants to be on the road for a really long time, which I really respect.

Marni:  I do too, and I can relate to that feeling. I’m also from the Midwest originally, so there’s something very comforting about being in that part of the country, and especially when you tour a lot and you’re on the road.

Jason:  Yeah, and he just says, “The music industry says, ‘You have to do it this way,’ but I’m just not not going to. I’m going to go home to Wisconsin and hang out with my family.”

Marni:  You gotta respect that in an artist.

 

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Marni is a fan of the musician Bon Iver. She is excited that he was nominated for four Grammy awards.

But Bon Iver said that he doesn’t care about the Grammys. He thinks the awards are pointless. Marni says that he isn’t the only artist who have said they don’t care about winning awards. They only care about their art.

Jason says that Bon Iver doesn’t like to be on the road a lot. He prefers to spend time with his family. Jason respects Bon Iver for doing things the way he wants to, and not the way the music industry thinks he ought to.

Do you like to spend time at home with your family?

 

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manu_wj

manu_wj

Italy

I don’t know, I guess that Bon Iver is really a humble person and maybe he likes to have that kind of life, living at home and making music, but I don’t thing he dislikes award and success, maybe he just doesn’t want to go out home to get materially the award.


If he get satisfation only from his music he wasn’t been a famous person.

05:42 AM Jan 11 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

I don´t swallow this pill that they don´t care about awards. It looks like they want to stand out from the rest of the artists  that are happy to be  awarded with  .   if they  consider  the award as pointless- to say the least –  then why  they go to receive it.? 

12:00 PM Jan 10 2012 |

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