搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200张最佳专辑第151名：Lady Gaga: The Fame Monster(2009)

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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

校对：Lynn Liu

推送：Lynn Liu

At first, Lady Gaga seemed like a slightly smarter-than-usual dance-pop hopeful and nothing more. But then came “Bad Romance.” A gothic psychodrama draped around a titanic club banger, accompanied by an instantly iconic music video in which she stoically burns a man to death, the song announced Gaga as a true force to be reckoned with.

刚出道时，Lady Gaga似乎只是一个比普通人更聪明的流行舞曲歌手，且仅此而已。直到后来她发行了“Bad Romance”。这首歌简直是一部哥特式的心理剧，在大型俱乐部里播放而带动氛围，一同出世的还有一支标志性的音乐录影带，她在MV中冷酷无情地将一名男子活活烧死。这首歌宣告了Gaga是一个不容忽视的音乐力量。

“Bad Romance” kicked off The Fame Monster, a collection of eight songs released as a deluxe edition of Gaga’s 2008 debut album, The Fame. (Yes, we know: The Fame Monster was technically released in late November 2009. But for something that cast such a long shadow over this decade, we’re making an exception.) Other than the supremely fun, Beyoncé-featuring “Telephone” (originally written for Britney Spears!), none of these songs sounded like anything else released at the time. They’re bizarre and jarring, full of references to death, dangerous sex, Hitchcock movies, and eating brains. (There’s also “Speechless,” an unabashedly retro power ballad that Meat Loaf would have killed for.) The Fame Monster’s release kicked off an arms race of pop kookiness: Suddenly, it seemed like everyone from Katy Perry to Nicki Minaj to Kesha was falling all over themselves to out-weird each other. But nobody’s freak flag ever flew higher than Gaga’s. –Amy Phillips

“Bad Romance”一曲拉开了《The Fame Monster》（该EP是Gaga于2008年发行的首张专辑《The Fame》的豪华版，其中收录了八首新歌曲）的序幕。（是的，我们知道《The Fame Monster》准确来说是在2009年11月下旬正式发布。但它在这十年里大放异彩，影响深远，我们破例将其归在这个列表中）除了超有意思的和Beyoncé合作的歌曲“Telephone”(最初是Gaga为Britney Spears写的!)之外，其他歌曲听起来都不像那个时候制作出的歌曲。歌词有些奇葩和不和谐，其中充斥着死亡、危险的性爱、Hitchcock电影的影子，还有吃脑子的情节。(“Speechless”这首抒情歌毫不掩饰其复古影响力，摇滚乐巨匠Meat Loaf定会为之疯狂)《The Fame Monster》一问世便引发了一场以流行异类为狂欢的军备竞赛：突然之间，从Katy Perry到Nicki Minaj，再到Kesha，似乎每个人都在争先恐后地超越对方，想做最“奇葩”的那个人。但是没有人能比Gaga在这方面更“怪异”了。