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I can't give anybody advice. I'm not in a position to be giving advice. My advice to myself would be to ask somebody else.
我无法给任何人建议。我没有资格给出建议。我给自己的建议是去不耻下问。
Hi I'm Alec Benjamin and I'm here with Seventeen to take a look back at my career. This is then versus now.
大家好，我是亚力克·本杰明，我和Seventeen一起回顾我的职业生涯。这是过去与现在的对比。
I've been singing and making music since I was 14 years old. And I'm here to tell you all of the ways that my career has changed since then. The first professional singing gig.
我从14岁起就开始唱歌和创作音乐。我在这里要告诉你们，从那时起我的职业生涯发生了怎样的变化。第一场专业演唱会。
I'm from Arizona and I performed at this grand opening for this clothing store. I was compensated in the form of like it was supposed to be like a gift card.
我来自亚利桑那州，我在这家服装店的盛大开幕式上表演。我得到的报酬应该是礼品卡。
I don't think anyone really showed up for the grand opening. So I basically just performed for the employees, which was fine but they wanted me to play for like two hours.
我认为没有人真的来参加盛大开幕式。所以我基本上只是为员工表演，这很好，但他们希望我表演两个小时。
But I didn't like have two hours worth of material. I tried to learn some covers. It was rough, it was very rough. The store went out of business before I got my gift card.
但我不喜欢两个小时的材料。我试着学了一些翻唱。这很粗糙，非常粗糙。在我拿到礼品卡之前，这家商店就倒闭了。
How long does it take to write a song? Then versus now, it's still about the same.
写一首歌需要多长时间？那时和现在相比，情况还是差不多的。
I think in some ways I've become more efficient but you know, sometimes it takes like an hour and sometimes it takes like a week or a month to put all the pieces together.
我认为在某些方面我变得更有效率了，但有时要花一个小时，有时要花一周或一个月才能把所有的东西都拼凑起来。
But I don't think that the amount of time you spend writing a song is like directly correlated with the quality of the song.
但我不认为写歌的时间与歌曲的质量有直接关系。
Okay, so then when I first started performing I wanted to throw up before every single show, particularly when I was doing things where I wasn't performing my own music.
当我第一次开始表演的时候，我想在每场演出前呕吐，特别是当我表演的不是我自己的音乐的时候。
I wasn't necessarily comfortable with like sing songs that my voice wasn't really built for. And now it's only actually in the last sort of like 40, 50 shows I've played.
我不太喜欢唱那些不适合我声音的歌。现在其实只在最近的40、50场演出中才有这种感觉。
So the last like two tours where I can confidently say that there have been shows where I've walked on stage and not felt nervous.
在最近的两次巡演中，我可以自信地说，有些演出我走上舞台时并不感到紧张。
My pre-performance rituals then, everything in the day that preceded the show was centered around getting ready for the show. And now my rituals take place 30 minutes before the show.
当时我的演出前仪式，演出前一天的一切都围绕着为演出做准备。现在我的仪式是在演出前30分钟进行的。
And a ritual that I have now is, yeah I go to the bathroom and then my band we all get together around the stage and we do this thing we put our arms like this, we get in a circle we say a phrase and it's different for every tour, and then we get ready and we get on stage.
我现在的仪式是，我去洗手间，然后我的乐队成员聚集在舞台周围，我们将手臂像这样放成一个圆圈，说一个短语，每次巡演的短语都不一样，然后我们做好准备，登上舞台。
A favorite song of mine then, it was Sweater Weather by the Neighborhood. I listened to that song a trillion times. I thought they were, still do, I think The Neighborhood is so cool.
当时我最喜欢的一首歌是the Neighborhood乐队的《Sweater Weather》。我听了无数遍这首歌。我认为他们很棒，现在也是如此，我认为the Neighborhood很酷。
And now my favorite song is, it's hard for me to say what my favorite song is but when I recuperate and I have, you know, fresh ears, I'll let you know.
现在我最喜欢的歌是，我很难说出我最喜欢的歌是什么，但当我康复并且有新鲜的耳朵时，我会告诉你的。
Music artists I look up to then and now pretty much all the same people. Coldplay, I love Eminem, I love Jason Mraz, John Mayer. I love System of A Down.
我当时和现在仰慕的音乐艺术家几乎都是同一批人。酷玩乐队，我喜欢埃米纳姆，杰森·玛耶兹，约翰·梅尔， System of A Down乐队。
There's a plethora of bands and artists that I really look up to and I was like so much more malleable then than I am now.
我非常敬仰很多乐队和艺术家，那时的我比现在更容易被影响。
And I actually miss that 'cause I love being influenced by things and I found it much easier when I was younger.
我真的很怀念那时的我，因为我喜欢受到事物的影响，年轻的时候我发现这很容易。
Excitement to release new music then whoa, now and then I don't really get so excited to release new music. I get excited when the music I've released is discovered by people.
发布新歌时会很兴奋，但有时候我并不那么兴奋发布新歌。当我发布的音乐被人们发现时，我才会感到兴奋。
