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Michael felt that Quincy shouId have been on his team
迈克尔认为昆西应该要挺他的
with 100 million.
应当要破亿万销售
And he told his attorney,
他跟律师说
'Thriller's not coming out. Quincy doesn't believe in it.
Thriller不发行了 因为昆西对专辑没信心
'Cancel. The thing's not coming out, ' right?
取消了 不录制了 是吗?
so, Michael had a conversation with Wallter Yetnikoff,
当时迈克尔与沃尔特·耶特尼科夫谈话
Who Was running CBS at that time.
也就是当时CBS的总裁
And Walter Yetnikoff told Michael, 'Look, who cares what these guys think.
沃尔特·耶特尼科夫对迈克尔说 你管他们怎么想
'lt's not about what their impression is of this music,
他们对音乐的印象不重要
'it's what you believe to be the case.
重要的是你怎么想
'And if you believe this is going to sell 100 million copies,
若你认为这张会破亿万销售量
'guess what, Michael?
你知道吗?
"l'm with you.
我挺你
"let this thing come out. Don't mess with this. Just Iet it come out.
就发片吧 别管这些了 你发片就是了
And then Michael did.
迈克尔真的就发了
But it could have gone either way.
但是结局可能倒向任何一面
We were averaging a million units a week, which no other record had done.
当时每周平均销售百万 已经打破销售纪录
Michael Jackson, that year with Thriller, saved the record business.
迈克尔·杰克逊那年的Thriller 拯救了整个唱片业
Tower Records was going out of business,
淘儿音乐城面临倒闭
CBS itself had had two black Fridays where they laid off, like, a thousand people,
CBS本身也经历了两次黑色星期五 裁了上千员工
other companies were laying off people. Everybody was losing their job.
其他公司也在大量裁员 很多人都丢了工作
But Thrillerwas so big,
但Thriller却造成轰动
it brought millions of people into the stores
吸引了上百万人到店里消费
and they not only bought Thriller, they bought other product.
他们不光是购买Thriller 也购买其他产品
lt was the music that will probably influence contemporary artists
这张专辑的音乐 对当代歌手的影响
for a long, long time to come.
将会非常的深远
lt gave us a...
它给了我们...
A goal, a bull's-eye or a dream to get to,
一个可追逐的目标
something to aspire to.
一种启发
