【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评 Kanye West 2019年单曲《On God》

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翻译：谷璞 Alice

审译：Joonly EC

推送：Lynn Liu

They say we should separate church and state, but nobody ever said we couldn’t unite church and the Supreme store. With “On God,” the fifth track from Kanye West’s gospel-infused album Jesus Is King, the Chicago rapper sets out to make an anthem for pastors with a pair of Off-White VaporMaxes in the closet of their multimillion-dollar homes. Kanye wants us to think he’s a new man—no more cursing or Grammy worship—though a close look at this song’s lyrics prove that he hasn’t changed much. “Thirteenth Amendment, gotta end it, that’s on me,” he says, wading back into the controversy about slavery that he ignited last year without really clarifying anything. Elsewhere, he blames the exorbitantly high prices of his sneakers on the IRS and because he “can’t be out here dancin’ with the stars.” It’s self-sacrifice at its most self-absorbed.

人人都认为宗教应该和国家政权分离开来，但却没人说不能把宗教和Supreme组合起来。Kanye West，这位来自芝加哥的说唱歌手推出了“On God（神的旨意）”——他福音气息浓厚的专辑“Jesus Is King（耶稣，万王之王）”中的第五首歌，准备为那些衣柜里有米色VaporMaxes鞋，家里有几百万美元的牧师们作一首赞美诗。Kanye希望我们能对他留下崭新的印象——不再是那个满口脏话，过度崇拜格莱美奖的人了。然而，仔细看看歌词，我们便会发现他并没改变多少。“Thirteenth Amendment, gotta end it, that’s on me（13号法案敲定，矛头向我，可以停歇了吗？）”（歌词翻译来源于网易云）他说道，把目光倒退回了去年他引发的那场关于奴隶制的辩论，却没有说明这样做的意图。在另一段歌词里，他把自己的运动鞋价格过高怪罪于国家税收，因为他“can’t be out here dancin’ with the stars（璀璨星空，我不能在同台共舞）”（歌词翻译来源于网易云）。这是一种极端自私中的自我牺牲。

Aside from the sloppy rapping, Kanye’s capabilities as a studio curator and beatmaker haven’t completely waned. Together, a production team of Ye, Pi’erre Bourne, and others use bright, Graduation-sized synths, head-knocking drums, and a manipulated vocal sample to make Kanye’s fumbled message bearable. His conversion story doesn’t really make sense here, but he’s right that church would slap way harder if every song was produced by Pi’erre Bourne.

抛开这段漏洞百出的说唱不谈，Kanye作为一名工作室总监和节奏大师的成就还不能被一概抹去。总的说来，Kanye,和Pi’erre Bourne的制作工作室其他成员用了明快的，毕业典礼风格的合成器，震得人头嗡嗡响的鼓点，和一段加工过的人声样本，把Kanye这段糟糕的歌词改进了一些。在这张专辑上，他所做的的转型努力并没有起到什么效果。不过他证明了一点，那就是如Pi’erre Bourne继续作曲，教会会反对的更强烈。