【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Lady Gaga单曲《Stupid Love》（愚蠢的爱）

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翻译：Joonly EC

审译：Ryan-Chopin

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Lady Gaga has remained one of the biggest pop stars on the planet without actually making much pop music. She abandoned her synths and donned her best cowgirl drag for 2016’s rootsy Joanne, and while she buried a few in-character bangers deep in the soundtrack for A Star Is Born, that movie’s enduring hits were classic power ballads that would’ve sounded just as comfortable in 1978 as in 2018. “Stupid Love,” her new single, is her much-ballyhooed return to pop-as-genre. It’s “classic Gaga,” that imperial phase at the end of the ’00s when the only thing bigger than her hits were the music videos and conceptual art pieces surrounding them.

尽管Lady Gaga实际上没有创作太多流行音乐，但她仍然是这个星球上最受欢迎的明星之一。在2016年发行的《Joanne/乔安》里，她放弃了合成器音乐，披上了自己最靓的女式牛仔装。而后，虽然她在《A Star Is Born/一个明星的诞生》的原声大碟中用了少许的砰砰声，而且也很合适宜，但这部电影里那些经久不衰的热门歌曲都是经典的声势浩大的抒情曲目，不管是在1978年还是2018年，这些歌听起来都一样舒服。她的新单曲“Stupid Love/蠢爱”宣布她强势回归流行音乐。“经典的Gaga型歌曲”制霸了21世纪00年代末的音乐界，那时唯一比她的热门单曲影响更大的便是那些与她的热单相关的音乐录影带和概念。

The song gestures toward that era without achieving the same kind of grandeur. Those big-budget mini-films were often accompanied by music that was just as audacious; the bulletproof hooks spread throughout The Fame Monster and Born This Way were coated in hair metal grease and industrial grime. If the brawny, shiny disco of “Stupid Love” sounds like anything in her catalog, it’s a sped-up version of “Do What U Want,” a song mostly erased from the public record because of its prominent R. Kelly feature. The video’s embrace of late-’90s JRPG energy pales in ambition and scale compared to “Bad Romance” or “Telephone.”

这首歌已经说明Gaga的新纪元不会追求以前的那种庄重华丽。以前的单曲常常配有微电影，且都是豪华制作、大胆又创新；《The Fame Monster/名誉怪兽》时期充斥着无懈可击的副歌，《Born This Way/生来如此》则披上了如头发般的自由、满是金属感的油渍和工业污垢。如果非要把这首强有力的、光芒四射的迪斯科舞曲“Stupid Love”和以前的歌作比较，那就是加速版的“Do What U Want/想做就做”，“Do What U Want”因为主要合作人R.Kelly的性侵丑闻被全球范围下架。“Stupid Love”的MV属于九十年代末期的日式角色扮演，比起“Bad Romance”和“Telephone”的野心和规模，说服力着实有些苍白。

And yet it still feels like “Stupid Love” is filling a void in our downcast, anxious, genre-fluid landscape: The only other artist working in this mode is Dua Lipa, whose Future Nostalgia singles—big, bright, and heart-on-sleeve—have pushed her into a new echelon of pop stardom. There’s an appetite for this kind of unapologetically exuberant sound, one evidenced by the communal frenzy for the leaked version of this song earlier this year that earned a tongue-in-cheek reprimand from Gaga herself. “Stupid Love” may not reposition her at pop’s bleeding edge, but it captures just enough of the goofy, indomitable spirit that made her so refreshing in the first place.

“Stupid Love”仿佛在试着填满我们心田里那沮丧、焦虑之感和千变万化的喜好：另一位同样在做这件事的艺术家是Dua Lipa，她的《Future Nostalgia/怀念未来》里的单曲——宏大、鲜亮、激动人心——把她推向了作为一个明星的另一高度。听众中不乏喜爱这种大胆到生机勃勃的音乐，今年的早些时候，网友们对泄曲的热烈反映就是一个很好的证明，随后，Gaga也只是哭笑不得地指责了一下他们。“Stupid Love”也许不能把Gaga送到流行音乐的最先锋，但它独具恰当好的傻气，再加上不屈不挠的精神，这些足以让她在乐坛上焕然一新。