【译】叉婊Pitchfork评 Lorde 2017年单曲《Green Light》（绿光）

翻译：Nomanlandever

At the outset of Lorde’s comeback breakup jam “Green Light,” she threatens an ex: “I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth,” she sings, her droll voice flaring with rage. But she doesn’t scream—she doesn’t need to. Instead, she reckons with her power as a writer and a protagonist in her own story, dialing back the complex imagery of debut Pure Heroine to flex in a new way. That record explored the anxious teenage mindset that files experiences into memory while they're happening in real time. Here, she understands that songwriting for the masses is now part of her emotional processing (“I whisper things, the city sings ‘em back to you”) but wields her trademark nuance to bury this guy, betraying intimacy in every line. “She thinks you love the beach—you’re such a damn liar,” she snarls, spotlighting how tiny pretensions can feel as treacherous as full-blown betrayal, then multiplies her voice into a skittish falsetto chorus that mocks her ex’s fear of intensity: “Did it frighten you/How we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?”

Lorde回归的分手歌曲《Green Light》开头，她便威胁前任唱道：“I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth,”她冷面滑稽且带强烈怒气地唱道，但她不会咆哮——她也不需要咆哮。相反，她利用自己歌曲创作者和故事主人公的身份，以一种新的方式改变了出道专辑《Pure Heroine》中营造的复杂形象。那张专辑探索了青少年焦虑的心理状态，将他们的情感波动都实时记录了下来。现在，她明白为大众创作歌曲已成为她整理思绪的一种方式(“I whisper things, the city sings ‘em back to you”) ，但她用她标志性的细节描写来埋葬这个男人，每一句歌词都流露出他们的亲密。“She thinks you love the beach—you’re such a damn liar,”她怒骂道。她强调微小的矫揉造作像彻头彻尾的背叛一样让人觉得不忠，之后声音放大，歌曲进入轻佻假声演绎的副歌部分 “Did it frighten you/How we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?”

The fear is not one she shares; instead, this rupture only enhances Lorde’s openness to possibility. “I hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” she sings coolly, as rapturous house piano soundtracks her search for the green light that’ll help her get over this relationship. To Lorde, raging synesthete, green equals transcendence. (She once explained that her early single “Tennis Court” was initially “the worst textured tan color” until a shift made it change to “all these incredible greens overnight!!!”) Different hues ripple through her catalog, but the euphoria of “Green Light” is a new look for this 20-year-old who first appeared as a shadowy teenaged mystic. She doles it out carefully, true to her inability to find closure. But when it hits, she’s radiant.

她在歌中传达出的不是恐惧。相反，这种关系的决裂只会使Lorde看待未来的心态更为开阔。“I hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” 她冷静地唱道，狂热的钢琴弹奏象征着她对能帮她挺过这段关系的绿光的探索。对于Lorde，这位感知到愤怒的“联觉者”来说，绿色代表着超脱。（补充：据TeenVogue报道，Lorde患有一种罕见的神经系统疾病“联觉”，特定的音乐会刺激她眼前出现特定的颜色，这种通感极大程度的帮助了她的歌曲创作） (她曾解释道，“她早期的单曲《Tennis Court》最初是最深的棕褐渐变色，之后它一夜之间转变为惊人的绿色。”)不同的色彩在她的作品中荡漾，但对这位20岁的少女来说，《Green Light》展现出的情绪高涨的新形象，代表着出道时阴暗神秘青少年的旧形象一去不复返了。她小心翼翼地展露她的内心，希望内心能解脱。但当情绪释放时，她便变得容光焕发。