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记者(以下简称“记”)：《心中的日月》中的chinked-out曲风和hip-hop、rock有什么不同？王力宏(以下简称“王”)：chinked-out可以说是嘻哈音乐一个新派系，现在嘻哈是全世界的一个流行音乐，它会有很多的派系产生，chinked-out就是我自己的音乐风格。Chinked这个词其实本意有点歧视的意思，但是我希望可以重新拥有这个词，将其负面意思变为正面意思，来形容华人的嘻哈音乐，这当中也融入了很多中国少数民族的音乐，跟嘻哈音乐相结合。whitebearbother学者的说法我第一次听说。「chinked-out」其实就是中国风的嘻哈音乐；王力宏与生俱来的音乐使命感，有感于华人音乐圈常常受到西方音乐文化的影响，却一直缺乏明确定位，因此大胆借用了chink 这个词来命名自己的音乐，希望能确立华人新流行音乐的独特地位，引领东方流行音乐圈找出自己的方向，并尝试出更多的创意与想象。Is 'chinked-out' the new 'nigga'? So, Chinese pop star Wang Lee Hom says his new album Heroes of Earth is "chinked-out." We wondered if this phrasing would offend some people. "I don't find 'chink' offensive," one Chinese-American we polled said. "I think it's stupid, but I think Wang Lee Hom is stupid." Curiously, this person did seem to know a lot about Mr. Wang: "He's actually American ... upstate New York, Rochester about ... went to Williams, Berklee School of Music ... has studio in Boston ... born 1976 ... MVP of his high school baseball team ... three years running ... little brother at MIT." We interrupted: "You are reading this from a website, right? Please say you are reading this from a website." He said he wasn't. We got freaked out and ended the conversation there. (But from the image attached to this post we can also assume that Wang also likes to ski ... with 1980s hair and clothing.)Wang was in Shanghai recently, you can watch a KTV-ready video of him signing autographs over at YouTube. There we also found out that Wang is not very good at speaking or reading Chinese -- at least five years ago he wasn't.By the way, here is Wang's definition of "chinked-out":The term "chinked-out" comes from "chink," which was used to put down Chinese people. "Chinked-out" turns the negative meaning of "chink" upside-down, and uses it as material to form a musical style. Chinese pop music does not have a strong enough feature. Instead of imitating other countries' popular songs, we can focus on developing our own sound, drawing from the rich resources that abound in Chinese culture. This is how the conception of "chinked-out" music came out.
