【译】滚石Rolling Stone评Kylie Minogue 2014年专辑《Kiss Me Once》（再吻一次）

翻译：Nomanlandever

The Australian dance-pop diva recently signed a management deal with Jay Z's Roc Nation, and she's been working with crossover-friendly writers Pharrell and Sia. But if her 12th album sounds a lot like contemporary pop, that's probably just because a lot of contemporary pop bears resemblance to the effervescent club music that Minogue's been making since the Eighties. A cheesy jam called "Sexercize" and an Enrique Iglesias duet aside, most of the production has a respect-the-goddess quality befitting an icon of her status. "I don't care if the world is mine/'Cause this is all I know," she sings. Tasteful self-awareness: the rarest of diva virtues.

这位澳大利亚舞曲天后近期与Jay-Z所创立的Roc Nation厂牌签署唱片合约，与音乐跨界大师Pharrell和Sia进行深度合作。但如果你对这张Kylie Minogue第12张专辑（《Kiss Me Once》）的感受与对当代流行音乐的感受很相似，那可能是由于许多当代流行歌曲深受Kylie从80年代就开始创作的激情澎湃的俱乐部音乐的影响。除了陈腐的口水歌《Sexercise》和与Enrique Iglesias的合作曲之外，大多数歌曲质量都有达到使听众佩服她的水准（respect-the-goddess），很适合作为乐坛标杆的她。 "I don't care if the world is mine/'Cause this is all I know," 她唱道。充分认识自我的高端品味：一位乐坛天后最宝贵的品质。