【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Charli XCX 2021年单曲《Good Ones》

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：Beans_Beans

The pop dancefloor looks lonely these days. Hedonistic impulses are checked by pandemic nerves, and artists like Lorde and Billie Eilish have traded bombastic bangers for softer ballads, expressing a clear exhaustion with the demands of celebrity. The vibes are off. Leave it to Charli XCX—whose finger has always been on the pulse of something weirder than the radio—to usher in some fun. “Good Ones,” her latest single, embraces, as she put it in a recent interview, the “Charli ultra popstar” version of herself, but uses this persona to examine her very human tics.

近期流行舞池似乎有些冷清。流行享乐主义的激情被新冠疫情压抑，Lorde和Billie Eilish类似的艺术家转而选择更为柔和的民谣而非浮华的摇滚乐，直白地表现出对追名逐利的厌倦。流行氛围转而直下，就让Charli XCX来带来一些乐趣吧——她的指尖总能触碰到比电台歌曲更为怪奇的东西。正如她在最新一次采访中所说，她的最新单曲“Good Ones”开启了“极端主义流行巨星”(Charli Ultra Popstar)版的自己，同时用这个角色来重新审视自己更为人性化的行为。

Charli the superstar can still write a song that will make you wonder if the wetness in your eyes is sweat or tears. Like her beloved cuts “Track 10” or “Gone,” “Good Ones” pairs emotional transparency—this time it’s her tendency to self-sabotage—with hypnotic, throbbing synths. As the song begins, Charli snarls over punchy production. But when this energetic opening dies down, she pairs her falsetto with lonesome synth to make a fragile admission: “You couldn’t have loved me any better.” But like a clubber who Purells between poppers, “Good Ones” is a little cautious and never fully lets loose—the exact opposite of Charli’s impulse to dive deep into fraught relationships. So many pop songs drag on for too long, but this one could stand to stretch its legs. Perhaps that’s the point: the good things always slip away too quickly.

超级巨星Charli如今仍能写出这样一首歌，让你怀疑湿润眼眶的究竟是汗水还是泪水。像她备受欢迎的作品“Track 10”以及“Gone”一样，“Good Ones”中的情感流露凭借着催人泪下、悸动的合成器音效依旧透明可感——而这次更是一种自我放弃、自我毁灭的倾向。歌曲一开始，Charli便伴着强有力的制作将她的声音缠结其中。但当这个充满活力的开场渐渐退居幕后，她开始用假声搭配寂寥的合成器音效，脆弱地坦诚道：“You couldn’t have loved me any better.”但毕竟不是一个还在流行乐坛抹黑探索的俱乐部新人，Charli在“Good Ones”中的发挥有点过于谨慎，并未完全放开——这与Charli企图深入探索矛盾关系的冲动背道而驰。这也许就是问题所在：“Good Ones”总是溜得太快、难以把握。