【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Rina Sawayama 2018年单曲“Cherry”

搬运自：网易云音乐专栏【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整）

翻译：豆目豆科

The Japan-born, London-based singer Rina Sawayama doesn’t downplay her ambition: She recently professed, in no uncertain terms, her wish “to break records” in the pop industry. On her march to stardom, Sawayama splits her gaze between the future and the past, writing songs about digital-age anxiety, served up in the glossy trappings of early-Aughts pop hits. Her latest “Cherry,” is a sweet-as-pie take on budding romance, written with an eye toward representation.

日裔英籍歌手Rina Sawayama并没有压抑自己抱负：最近她明确谈到，希望在流行乐坛“打破纪录”。在她的明星生涯中，Sawayama将她的目光在未来与过去之间分野，写下一些关于数字时代精神焦虑的歌曲，并以早期的Aughts风流行歌曲这一华丽形式呈现出来。她最新的作品“Cherry”是对初恋的甜蜜诠释，着眼于出彩的表现手法而呈现。

The past year in pop has seen queer artists grow increasingly candid in their expression of desire. With “Cherry,” Sawayama joins a cohort that includes Troye Sivan, Kehlani, and others, whose songs diversify the romantic narratives encoded in mainstream music. As on previous releases, Sawayama nods to her pop forebears: There are notes of Mariah Carey when she slips into her featherlight, borderline-lazy head voice, and hints of Justin Timberlake’s percussive, nasal tone when she sings, “Won’t you be my baby?” (plus, a near-exact copy of the horn lick from “Suit & Tie”). But from the top of the track, when she recounts an electric encounter on a subway (“You looked my way/With your girl gaze”), Sawayama pushes back on the heteronormative bent of the songs she listened to growing up. As she has explained, “I just think the reason why I wasn’t so comfortable with my sexuality was because there was no one on TV or anywhere that I could point to.” On “Cherry,” Sawayama positions herself to be someone others can look to while capturing the sugar high that is infatuation: a universal phenomenon.

在过去的一年里，酷儿艺术家越来越直白地表达着他们的渴望。一首“Cherry”，Sawayama并入了包括Troye Sivan、Kehlani等人的队伍，他们的歌曲使主流音乐中的浪漫情事更为多样化。同以往的作品一样，Sawayama也在向她的流行音乐前辈致敬：当她滑入她那轻如羽毛、却又近乎疯狂、直逼头顶的高音时，闪烁着Mariah Carey的音符；当她唱到“Won’t you be my baby?”时，夹杂着Justin Timberlake的鼓点和底音。(此外，还有“Suit & Tie”中几乎一比一的喇叭声）。但在这首歌的开头，当她讲述在地铁上的一次电光火石的邂逅时（“You looked my way/With your girl gaze”），Sawayama对她长大后听过的歌曲中烂俗的异性恋倾向进行了反击。正如她所解释的：“I just think the reason why I wasn’t so comfortable with my sexuality was because there was no one on TV or anywhere that I could point to.”在“Cherry”中，Sawayama将自己定位为会引起他人瞩目的人，同时她也能从中捕捉到被迷恋的快感：沉浸在这种（众人拥簇的）普遍现象之中。