【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Mitski 2021年单曲“The Only Heartbreaker”

搬运自：网易云音乐专栏【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整）

翻译：豆目豆科

Ever the harbinger of love’s decay, Mitski chokes through a self-created inferno on “The Only Heartbreaker.” Though she’s waxed melancholic on love and loss before, the second single from her upcoming sixth studio album veers away from subdued indie rock and into full-fledged frenzy, recalling the exuberant synth-pop of the 1980s as Mitski implicates herself in the inevitable unraveling of a toxic relationship. Detonating the restraint of previous single “Working for the Knife,” she rises from the ash only to succumb to a dense array of video game-like instrumentals. The video reflects Mitski’s consumption by her own guilt: Everything she touches lights ablaze. “I’ll be the only heartbreaker,” she wails, alone in a vast expanse of pyromanic destruction, her limbs contorting to the beat through the will of some unknowable force.

发觉爱情衰败的预兆，Mitski在“The Only Heartbreaker”中通过自我创造的地狱来扼制悲伤。虽然她过去也曾对爱情、失去抒发过类似的阴郁情愫，但这首来自她即将发行的第六张录音室专辑的第二首单曲摆脱了平淡无奇的独立摇滚，卷入了全面的狂热，不禁让人开始追忆上世纪80年代旺盛的合成器流行乐风潮，Mitski使自己陷入一段病态关系的不覆之境。彻底引爆了先前单曲“Working for the Knife”的隐忍、克制，她从灰烬涅槃，沉浸于密集的电子游戏般的器乐声之中。MV中，Mitski被她自己的内疚所吞噬，她所触及的一切都被一一引燃。“I’ll be the only heartbreaker,”她哀嚎着，独自在一片充斥着烟尘与炽焰的广袤废墟中，她的四肢在某种未可知力量的意志操纵下，随着节拍舞动。

The opening lines—“If you would just make one mistake/What a relief that would be”—convey guilt, but they also flicker with resentment. Building on the themes of resignation and heartbreak present throughout Mitski’s previous work, “The Only Heartbreaker” comes to a disconcertingly frank conclusion: She is the problem. “I’ll be the water main that’s burst and flooding/You’ll be by the window, only watching,” she sings, leaving us helpless spectators to her self-destruction. But even as Mitski casts herself as “the bad guy in the play,” the song’s feverish pulse asks: When devastation leaves everything charred and desolate, what is left to do but dance in its wake?

开头的只言片语——“If you would just make one mistake/What a relief that would be”——传达着困扰她的内疚、悔过，但它们同时也闪烁着幽怨的光芒。在Mitski以前的作品中已然存在的逆来顺受、心碎的情感基石上，“The Only Heartbreaker”发展出了一个令人不安的结论：她自身就是问题所在。她唱道：“I’ll be the water main that’s burst and flooding/You’ll be by the window, only watching,”而我们只能无助地看着她自我毁灭。但是，即使Mitski把自己当作“剧中的坏人”，这首歌狂热的脉搏也像是在询问：当毁灭已然让一切都变得焦黑、荒凉，我们除了在废墟中起舞，又能做些什么呢？