搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200张最佳专辑第59名：Taylor Swift: Red (2012)

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原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/

翻译：Ryan-Chopin

审译：Lynn Liu

推送：Lynn Liu

Red is a portrait of a young woman eager to feel everything on her way to the top. Its songs are self-aware enough to be funny and guileless enough to be honest, capturing the temptation of risk-taking, the rush of memory and disappointment, and the transformative power of grown-up romantic love felt for the first time. The album gave Taylor Swift her first No. 1 hit (the irresistible “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”) and inaugurated many of her famously over-the-top marketing tactics: commemorative Keds sneakers, Papa John’s pizza boxes, weaponized tabloid gossip. Aside from her pop leanings, the chipper breakup-to-makeup story “Stay Stay Stay” and melancholic renewal ballad “Begin Again” would be some of her final acoustic-forward recordings of the decade. Soon after Red, nobody in America could ever again plausibly ask, “Who’s Taylor Swift, anyway?” –Anna Gaca

《Red》这张专辑是对一位年轻女性的写照，她渴望在通往成功的道路上体验一切。专辑中的歌曲有足够的自知性，因此也有足够的趣味性，也因足够坦诚，而抓住了这场冒险中的诱惑、记忆中的冲动和失望，以及第一次感受到转变为成熟浪漫爱情的力量。这张专辑给Taylor Swift带来了她的第一首冠军单曲(那首让人无法抗拒的“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together/我们再也不会在一起了”)，并开启了她许多著名的夸张式营销策略:有纪念意义的Keds运动鞋代言宣传、Papa John披萨盒宣传、利用小报八卦为武器的宣传等。专辑中她逐渐从乡村偏向流行化，轻快的“从分手到和好”的叙事歌曲“Stay Stay Stay”和忧郁的恢复抒情曲“Begin Again”将是她这十年的最后几首不插电唱片歌曲。在《Red》发行之后不久，美国就再也没了人会振振有词地问:“Taylor Swift到底是谁?”