美国女歌手乔丁·斯帕克斯的新音乐让她“步入自己的权力”

Jordin Sparks revealed what to expect from her upcoming album.

乔丁·斯帕克斯透露了她即将发行的新专辑。

On Thursday, Sparks, 34, joined artists Marcella Araica and Carly Pearce at PEOPLE’s Women In The Mix panel (held in partnership with the Recording Academy and Sephora) about creating space and opportunities for even more female representation in the music industry. Sparks caught up with PEOPLE on the red carpet before the event.

周四，34岁的斯帕克斯与艺术家玛塞拉·阿拉卡和卡莉·皮尔斯一起参加了《人物》杂志的“女性在混音”座谈会(该座谈会由唱片学院和丝芙兰联合举办)，讨论为音乐行业中更多的女性代表创造空间和机会。活动开始前，斯帕克斯在红毯上接受了《人物》杂志的采访。

“This new music is all about stepping into the woman I am now, stepping into my power, my confidence, who I am as a woman, a human, an artist, a mom, a wife, a friend, a woman,” the American Idol alum exclusively shares with PEOPLE.

“这首新音乐都是关于走进现在的我，走进我的力量，我的自信，我是一个女人，一个人，一个艺术家，一个母亲，一个妻子，一个朋友，一个女人，”这位《美国偶像》的明星在接受《人物》杂志独家采访时表示。

She shares that listeners will “hear little bits and pieces” of different music genres that have “inspired [her] over the years,” including country, R & B and “a little bit” of her “gospel roots.”

她分享说，听众将“听到一点点”不同的音乐类型，这些音乐类型“多年来一直激励着(她)”，包括乡村音乐、r&b和她“一点点”的“福音根源”。

The singer explains how this upcoming album allowed her to feel “freedom” within herself. She shares that freedom has “been a throughline” throughout her career and that previously, “the focus has been the freedom within the creative” or “sometimes the focus has been the freedom within the look.” But this time, she wants to feel that freedom within her music.

这位歌手解释了这张即将发行的专辑是如何让她感受到内心的“自由”。她分享说，自由在她的整个职业生涯中“一直贯穿始终”，而在此之前，“重点是创意中的自由”，或者“有时重点是外观中的自由”。但这一次，她想在音乐中感受那种自由。

“I want to be able to record the music that I want to record because I want to record it, not because it has to meet certain criteria,” confesses the singer. “I want to make it for me, and I want to believe in it, and I want to love it.” 

“我希望能够录制我想录制的音乐，因为我想录制它，而不是因为它必须满足某些标准，”歌手坦白道。“我想为自己创造它，我想相信它，我想热爱它。”

“But the album is going to be amazing because I don't want to put any limits on myself,” Sparks adds.

斯帕克斯补充说:“但这张专辑将会很棒，因为我不想给自己施加任何限制。”

During the Women In The Mix Q&A between Sparks, Araica and Pearce, the “No Air” singer elaborated on creating boundaries for herself in the music industry.

在斯帕克斯、阿拉卡和皮尔斯的“混音女性”问答会上，这位演唱过《No Air》的歌手详细阐述了自己在音乐行业的界限。

She explained that because she joined the industry at 17 years old after winning the sixth season of American Idol, she “didn't understand that not everybody wants good for you.”

她解释说，因为她在17岁赢得《美国偶像》第六季后进入这个行业，她“不明白不是每个人都希望你好”。

“I have an old colleague of mine said, ‘Jordin, This is music business, not music friendship.’”

“我的一位老同事对我说，‘乔丁，这是音乐生意，不是音乐友谊。’”

Sparks confirmed that “obviously” there are “definitely” chances to be friends, but she learned then that music “is a job for a lot of people.”

斯帕克斯证实，“显然”有“绝对”的机会成为朋友，但她后来意识到，音乐“对很多人来说都是一份工作”。

“People have different goals and it might not exactly align with yours,” added the singer. “So the boundaries are so important and it's OK to hold them, we have to hold the boundaries."

“人们有不同的目标，它可能与你的不完全一致，”这位歌手补充道。“所以界限非常重要，保持界限是可以的，我们必须保持界限。”

“‘No’ is a complete sentence,” elaborated the singer. “You do not have to explain yourself. You don't have to give a reason why you're saying no, why it's not gonna work, [or] why you can't make [a] meeting.”

“‘不’是一个完整的句子，”这位歌手解释道。“你不必为自己辩解。你不需要给出拒绝的理由，不需要给出拒绝的理由，不需要给出拒绝的理由，不需要给出拒绝的理由，不需要给出拒绝的理由，也不需要给出拒绝的理由，或者不需要给出拒绝的理由。”

As Sparks draws firmer boundaries, she explained during the Q&A that it has allowed her to protect her family, “energy,” “peace” and her “peace of mind and heart.” The musician explained how protecting those elements has become the “top priority [for her] that comes before anything else.”

随着斯帕克斯划定了更严格的界限，她在问答中解释说，这让她能够保护她的家庭、“能量”、“和平”以及她的“心灵和内心的平静”。这位音乐家解释说，保护这些元素已经成为“(她)的首要任务，比其他任何事情都重要”。

Sparks added that once she made “that decision” everything she dreamed of started coming to fruition because she “wasn't distracted by the other things.”

斯帕克斯补充说，一旦她做出了“那个决定”，她梦想的一切都开始实现，因为她“没有被其他事情分心”。