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| M2M was a Norwegian pop music duo - Marion Elise Raven and Marit Elisabeth Larsen. They released three albums under Atlantic Records and Warner Music: Shades of Purple, The Big Room and The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M released by their record label after M2M disbanded. |
窈窕美眉（M2M）是一個挪威流行音樂組合，由Marion Elise Raven和Marit Elisabeth Larsen兩個女孩組成。在大西洋唱片公司（Atlantic Records）和華納音樂集團（Warner Music）旗下，她們共發(fā)行了三張專輯：《紫色戀情》（Shades of Purple）、《白木屋之戀》（The Big Room）和《珍重再見》（The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M），其中最后一張專輯是在樂隊解散之后發(fā)行的。 |
| Raven and Larsen had known each other since they were five. They formed a duet in the mid-1990s. The group's first single, "Don't Say You Love Me", appeared in 1999, and was featured on the soundtrack of Pokémon: The First Movie. The movie helped the song to reach success worldwide and the duo released their first album, Shades of Purple, in 2000, which debuted at number one in Norway and several Asian countries and in the Top Forty in most other countries. In September that year, they toured with Hanson, performing as the boys' opening act. Earlier in the year, they performed a concert special at Epcot in Walt Disney World, broadcast on April 29, 2002, under the name "M2M and BBMak in Concert", performing six songs with breaks in between of them walking around the park and seeing the sites. |
Raven和Larsen五歲的時候就相識了，在20世紀90年代中葉組建了二人樂隊。她們的第一支單曲《Don't Say You Love Me》于1999年問世，并成為電影《神奇寶貝——口袋餅干皮卡丘》（Pokemon：the First Movie）的主題曲。隨著電影的上映，這首歌在全球大獲成功。M2M乘勝追擊，于2000年發(fā)布了她們的第一張專輯《紫色戀情》。這張?zhí)幣蟮慌e躍登挪威和幾個亞洲國家的排行榜榜首，同時在很多國家入圍流行榜Top 40。那年9月，她們與Hanson組合一起巡演，在Hanson這幾個男孩的演唱會中做開場表演。同年早些時候，她們還在華特迪士尼樂園的明日世界園區(qū)舉辦了一場特別的音樂會，并剪輯成特別節(jié)目“M2M and BBMak in Concert”于2002年4月29日播出。在這個節(jié)目中，M2M演唱了六首歌曲，其中還穿插了她們造訪迪士尼樂園參觀知名景點時的幕后小花絮。 |
| Four more singles were released from the album: "Mirror Mirror", "The Day You Went Away", "Pretty Boy" and "Everything You Do". Their trilingualism made them popular in Asia as they released several songs sung in Mandarin such as "Pretty Boy". However, they did not record a Mandarin version of their hit "The Day You Went Away", and Taiwanese singer Cyndi Wang recorded her own version. |
這張專輯還推出了另外四首單曲：《Mirror Mirror》、《The Day You Went Away》、《Pretty Boy》和《Everything You Do》。她們使用三種語言唱歌，其中包括用漢語演唱的幾首比如《Pretty Boy》，因此在亞洲很受歡迎。不過，她們沒有用漢語錄制熱門歌曲《The Day You Went Away》，只是臺灣歌手王心凌翻唱了這支曲子，推出了自己的版本。 |
| In 2002, the duo returned with a more mature, less pop-oriented sound with their second album, The Big Room. In two years, their voices had changed, especially Raven's. The first single from the album was "Everything" followed by "What You Do About Me". They did not release a third single, even though "Don't" was released to U.S. and Latin America's radio stations and "Wanna Be Where You Are" was released in the Philippines. The promotion for their second record included TV appearances that year, such as a spot on the WB's Dawson's Creek, appearing in the 100th episode of the show towards the end of its fifth year. That year, they also took part in the Pantene Pro-Voice concert series that aired on the now defunct MuchMusic USA. While on tour with Jewel, M2M was dropped by Atlantic Records, who cited a lack of record sales, although the album did do well in Norway, Asia and Australia. Although M2M was the most popular Norwegian female band, the most successful, and the youngest artist to get an international career after a-ha, the duo eventually split in September of that year. They are currently performing as solo artists, now going by their own names. |
2002年，M2M組合用更加成熟、流行導向漸遠的嗓音推出了她們的第二張專輯《白木屋之戀》。這過去的兩年里，她們的聲音已經發(fā)生了變化，尤其是Raven。這張專輯中的第一首單曲是《Everything》，緊接著是《What You Do About Me》。盡管歌曲《Don't》在美國和拉美的廣播電臺推出，《Wanna Be Where You Are》也在菲律賓發(fā)布，她們卻沒有再發(fā)布第三支單曲。為了宣傳這張專輯，她們當年還登上了電視熒屏，在WB電視網播出的肥皂劇《戀愛時代》（Dawson's Creek）的第100集中飾演她們自己。那時候，該劇已經播放將近五年了。同年，她們還參加了潘婷公司舉辦的系列演唱會，曾經播出這些活動的音樂頻道MuchMusic USA如今也已經倒閉。在M2M與歌手Jewel巡回演唱期間，大西洋唱片公司同她們解除了合約。盡管這張專輯在挪威、亞洲和澳大利亞銷量不錯，但大西洋唱片公司宣稱其總銷量不能令人滿意。M2M是挪威最受歡迎的女子樂隊，也是繼a-ha樂隊之后最成功、早早獲得國際名聲的最年輕組合；然而，這支樂隊最終于2002年9月解散。如今，她們各自單飛，分別繼續(xù)著自己的音樂生涯。
（China.org.cn 汪瑋 譯）
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