乐坛十年：前辈的警告

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Being the youngest person in every room for over a decade 在超过十年的时间里，我一直是所有场合中最年轻的人

meant that I was constantly 这意味着我一直

being issued warnings 收到警告

from older members of the music industry, 来自音乐界的前辈，

media, 媒体，

interviewers, 采访者，

executives. 以及高管们。

And this advice 而这些建议

often presented itself 常常表现为

as thinly veiled 一种隐晦的

warnings. 警告。

See, I was a teenager. 你看，我那时还是个青少年。

at a time when our society was absolutely obsessed with the idea 在那个时候，我们的社会完全痴迷于一个想法

of having 拥有

perfect 完美

young female role models. 的年轻女性榜样。

It felt like 感觉好像

every interview I did 我做的每一次采访

included slight barbs 都包含着一些轻微的讽刺

by the interviewer 来自采访者

about me one day 关于我有一天会

running off the rails. 脱轨。

And that meant a different thing 而这对于

to every person who said it to me. 每个对我说这话的人来说，都有不同的含义。

So 所以，

I became a young adult 我成长为一个年轻人

while being fed the message 同时被灌输着这样的信息：

that if I didn't make 如果我没有犯

any mistakes 任何错误，

all the children of america 所有美国的孩子

would grow up to be perfect 都会成长为完美的

angels 天使；

however if i did slip up 然而，如果我真的犯了错，

the entire earth would fall off its axis 整个地球就会偏离轨道，

and it would be entirely my fault 那将完全是我的错，

and i would go to pop star jail 我就会被关进流行歌星的监狱，

forever and ever 永永远远。