译Pitchfork评90年代150张最佳专辑第60名：Mariah Carey: Butterfly (1997)

翻译：thesweetescape

原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-albums-of-the-1990s/

Fueled by the tantric edging of an extramarital liaison and the pleasure of “finally getting a shot of good Vitamin D,” as she cheekily put it in her memoir, Butterfly is Mariah Carey at 28, reawakened by “breathless and fervid” love affairs, as well as a post-divorce freedom to fully embrace Black genres in her music and write from the heart. She is a babydoll with a tear-soaked pillow; a sexy-ass vixen; a technician and a tone poet. Few but Carey can sing “My All” on a technical level, but Butterfly rarely feels like vocal showboating; her voice weaves textural tapestries over in the cut R&B, and she takes audible pleasure in her instrument’s elasticity. Particularly heavenly is the five-song hang suite at Butterfly’s center, a showcase for the strength she finds in vulnerable sensuality, as well as sympatico with peers like Mobb Deep and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony—collaborators she lavishes in layers of harmony like tweezed gold leaf. –Owen Myers

在对过去婚姻的反思和欣喜中， “finally getting a shot of good Vitamin D,”（终于吸到几个优质的维他命D），正如她春风得意地在回忆录专辑中写道，《Butterfly》记录了28岁的Mariah Carey，从“狂热窒息”的爱情中脱身重获新生，彻底投入黑人音乐的怀抱中，敞开心扉。她是一个常在枕边啜泣的精致玩偶；一个魅惑心机的坏女人；一位专业的歌者和作曲家。很少有人能在技术层面上媲美Mariah Carey演绎的歌曲“My All”，但专辑《Butterfly》却并未刻意展现强悍的歌唱实力；她的歌唱宛如在R&B经典中编织一条质感细腻的挂毯；在灵活多变的器乐中尽情享受声乐的乐趣。专辑最超神的部分是《Butterfly》中段的五部曲，展现出她在脆弱敏感中重振旗鼓，以及与同辈艺人Mobb Deep和Bone Thugs-N-Harmony的完美和音，她如同精雕细琢的金箔般在层次分明的和声中脱颖而出。 –Owen Myers