搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200首最佳单曲第67名：Kacey Musgraves: “Slow Burn”

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原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-songs-of-the-2010s/

翻译：谷璞 Alice Gu

审译：Joonly EC

推送：Lynn Liu

By picking up on narrative threads of past country rebels, from Loretta Lynn’s sexual frankness to Willie Nelson’s penchant for mind-expanding flora, Kacey Musgraves’ lyrics have been defiant and open-minded, even when her music has sounded more traditional. But on Golden Hour, her third album, it’s the arrangements that catch your attention. Its opening track, “Slow Burn,” begins by evoking sunny Laurel Canyon soft rock as much as it does country, with a serene melody and gently strummed acoustic guitar. But midway, after the introduction of a drumbeat and bassline, it takes on shades of trip-hop, as though filtering Patsy Cline through a Portishead prism. “Slow Burn” is not so much a genre crossover as an open-ended journey, like the acid trip in the desert that inspired Musgraves to write the song. Rather than leaving country behind, the songwriter has chosen to explore the limits of its territory, and to expand them. –Shuja Haider

同是运用过去乡村音乐反叛派的叙事方式，Kacey Musgraves的歌词创作既不同于Loretta Lynn的大胆奔放，也不同于Willie Nelson的营造的感官丛林，她的词风蔑视世俗，又包容开明，虽然旋律听起来偏向传统。不过在她的第三张专辑《Golden Hour（黄金时刻）》中，歌曲的安排才是最大的亮点。第一支单曲“Slow Burn（文火慢熬）”以木吉他轻柔的拨弦开头，让人想起《月桂谷》中的慢摇和秀丽的乡间风光。但歌曲中途加入了鼓点和大提琴，将乐曲罩上了迷幻舞曲的色彩，就仿佛透过Portishead另类摇滚风格的棱镜审视复古的乡村天后Patsy Cline。不过，“Slow Burn（文火慢熬）”并不是一支跨越不同风格，无拘无束的另类歌曲，也不是Musgraves一时兴起所作的离经叛道之作。Musgraves不是想要放弃乡村风格，而是想探寻它的边界，并在这个领域内开拓出新的道路。