英語新聞一點通：「星期五」新曲網路大賣 @ 【精英翻譯】的部落格

‘Friday’ Nets a Profit

The latest teen sensation has become famous not because she is so good, but because most people believe she is so bad. 13 year old Rebecca Black posted the music video of her song ‘Friday’ on youtube in February. The song, which includes banal lyrics like ‘Tomorrow is Saturday / And Sunday comes afterwards’ soon got attention, for all the wrong reasons.

By mid-March the song had gone viral. It picked up almost 30,000,000 views and hundreds of thousands of negative comments. Now, the views stand at over 60,000,000 and the comments keep coming. Rebecca, however, has risen above the anger directed at her. Her new-found fame has got her into the papers and on television. The song itself is estimated to have made her thousands of dollars, which she says she will give to help Japan’s disaster relief efforts. In the end, good or bad, the song has left Rebecca in the black.

「星期五」新曲網路大賣

近來在網路引起轟動的少女並非因為她非常傑出，而是因為大多數的聽眾痛批她的表現很糟。今年二月，年僅13歲的Rebecca Black將她的「星期五」新曲影片上傳到網路youtube頻道，這首歌的歌詞平庸，例如：「明天是星期六，而星期日則隨之而來。」但這首歌卻立即因為各種荒謬的理由而受到矚目。

截至三月中為止，這首歌就如同病毒一樣到處散播，更有近乎三千萬次的影片點閱率以及大量的負面評價。如今，點閱率已超過六千萬次，且來自各方的評語仍持續增加中。然而，Rebecca對於大眾的怒氣卻早已處之泰然；她在成名之後，報章雜誌與電視紛紛加以報導，根據估計，這首歌已使Rebecca賺進數千美元，她表示將全數捐出以協助日本救災。無論如何，這首歌都已為Rebecca帶來利潤。

字彙

Sensation 引起轟動的人物或事件
banal 平庸的
viral 病毒的
negative 負面的；否定的
rise above 超越；克服
lyrics 歌詞
estimate 估計

解讀

This article uses two financial puns. ‘Net a profit’ means make a profit, and also refers to the internet. ‘In the black’ also means ‘in profit’, and the girl’s name is Rebecca Black.

本文使用了兩個與「財務」相關的雙關語。「Net a profit」意指賺錢，同時也代表網路收益。「In the black」是指利潤，同時亦代表文中的少女歌手Rebecca Black。

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