【搬运译】Pitchfork 2021百佳单曲第一名Caroline Polachek: Bunny Is a Rider

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

Who is Bunny? In Caroline Polachek’s vision, she is a figure of undeniable intrigue. Sexy and beguiling, untraceable even by satellite, she goes where she wants and is beholden to no one. You wish you were Bunny; we all do.

“兔子”是谁？在Caroline Polachek眼中，她毫无疑问是个大阴谋。性感迷人，即使是卫星也无法追踪到她，想去哪里就去哪里，不受任何人的约束。相信你希望你就是那只“兔子”；我们都希望如此。

Casting off the gossamer avant-pop of 2019’s Pang, Polachek and producer Danny L Harle opt for a sound that is both commercial and weird: a deep, juicy bassline befitting of the Top 40, a “yoo hoo” whistle, a sample taken from Harle’s giggling baby, even marimba plinks that conjure an island vacation with Kygo. It’s a characteristic display of PC Music alum Harle’s impulse to simultaneously send-up and pay homage to popular forms, with results too deliciously crisp to read as a joke.

一改19年《Pang》中华丽的前卫流行乐，Polachek同制作人Danny L Harle选择走上一条既商业又怪异的声音道路：完全有实力冲入排行榜前40的厚实玩味的bassline、俏皮的“yoo hoo”口哨、采样自Harle本人的婴儿嗤笑的切片，甚至还有马林巴琴，会让人犹如正同Kygo在岛屿上度假。与PC Music师出同门的Harle将他的个人特色展示出来，向流行致敬的同时也隐含对其的不屑，最终成果依旧趣味横生、清脆利落，不能小觑。

Meanwhile, as if recreating the slipperiness of Bunny, Polachek darts through various images (blazing fireworks, a wet palette, a cut check), never resting long enough for you to grasp what’s next. She enters a new dimension in the chorus, switching from narrator to first-person, trading a Drake-like rhythmic delivery for her usual lithe, crystalline singing. She may be channeling the want to be immaterial, the ability to evaporate like a wisp of smoke, but when she sings “I’m so nonphysical,” it comes with embodied longing, as if she’s aching for touch. The thrill of the song is wrapped up in how it skirts any pressure to lay out its intentions, how it moves at its own whims. Bunny keeps you guessing. –Cat Zhang

除此之外，如同再现兔子的机敏矫捷一般，Polachek的歌声飞梭在各种图景之中（绚丽的焰火、湿漉漉的着色版、撕碎的支票），让人应接不暇。来到副歌部分，她遁入一个全新的维度，叙述者转为第一人称，用类似Drake的韵律感来替代她一贯轻盈、精致的歌声。她可能是在引向对精神需求的渴望，像一缕炊烟一般蒸腾而上的能力，但当她唱到 “I'm so nonphysical”时，它又携有具象的渴望，她在渴望触摸。这首歌所带来的爽感被裹挟在它如何避开任何需要细细阐明自身意图的压力上，在它如何随心所欲地行进下去上。“兔子”很是让人捉摸不透。