【搬运】【译】滚石Rolling Stone评粉妈P!nk 2019年专辑《Hurts 2B Human》

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翻译：WhitneyL

校正：Lynn Liu

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Pink 在《Hurts 2B Human（做人好难）》中的表现比以往更能打动人

Life changes after you see Pink live in concert. For one thing, every time you hear a new Pink song you can’t help but wonder: “Will this be in the flying portion of the show or is it more of a slow-dance martial arts number?” On her eighth album Hurts 2B Human, there are chest-beating, middle-finger jabbing anthems in every shade of Pink (from Valentine’s Day Pink to Blood-Runs-Pink Pink). At the top of the track list are definite set additions like the boogie-woogie-ing “Hustle” (“I live my life like a bullet in a gun/ Give you all my love ‘til my patience is done,” she sings) and the Nate Ruess cowrite “Walk Me Home,” a jacked-up sequel to their trapeze-core ballad “Just Give Me A Reason.”

当你看过Pink的现场演唱会后，你会发现，生活发生了不可思议的变化。首先，每当你听到一首Pink的新歌的时候，你就会忍不住去想:“这首歌是会出现在演唱会的飞行部分，还是只是出现在慢节奏的舞蹈表演环节?”在她的第八张专辑《Hurts 2B Human》中，不管是心跳声中，还是随着竖着的中指而响起的节拍中都充斥着的Pink的影子（从冒着爱恋气息的她到热血澎湃的她）。在播放列表的顶部仍然是那些意味模糊的歌曲（译者注：Explicit你懂的），就像她在“Hustle（喧嚣）”中唱到的那样，（“I live my life like a bullet in a gun/ Give you all my love ‘til my patience is done,[箭无虚发是我的人生教条/为你付出我所有的爱直到我耐心全无]”)以及和Nate Ruess合作写的那首歌“Walk Me Home（带我回家）”中，以舒缓不定的民谣风进行延续。

The pacing of Hurts 2B Human is telling. Pink sings “I abhor reality” on the sugary dance song “Can We Pretend” featuring Cash Cash. But when she digs into what’s getting her down, it’s the most brazen and heartbroken she’s ever sounded. On the Sia-cowritten “Courage,” Pink’s voice swings up the scale on its own chandelier. “I don’t have to do this perfectly,” she sings. “Happy” (co-written by Teddy Geiger and Sasha Sloan) reminds us she is also the patron saint of the Missundaztood: “Can somebody find me a pill to make me unafraid of me/ Maybe I’m just scared to be happy,” she sings, as if raising a glass to acolytes like Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Alessia Cara, Bebe Rexha, husky-voiced, underdog divas who clearly rocked out to her 2001 album.

在《Hurt 2B Human》这张模糊的概念专辑中，它的节奏就能说明这一切。Pink在与Cash Cash合作的甜美舞曲“Can We Pretend（我们能假装吗）”中唱到“I abhor reality（我厌倦了现实）”。但，随着她深入探寻到底是什么让她沮丧时，却发现这是她所有的歌声里听起来最令人心碎的声音。在和Sia合作完成的歌曲“Courage(勇气)”中，Pink的声音摇摆不定，她唱道:“I don’t have to do this perfectly（我不必做得很完美）”。在“Happy（快乐）”(由Teddy Geiger和Sasha Sloan共同创作完成)这首歌中又提醒着我们，她永远是Missundaztood（粉妈2001年专辑）的守护神，她唱到:“Since I was seventeen/I’ve always hated my body/And it feels like my body hated me/Can somebody find me a pill to make me unafraid of me/ Maybe I’m just scared to be happy（从我17岁开始/我一直讨厌我这幅躯体/并且感觉我的身体也同样讨厌我/有人能给我点良药吗，让我不再害怕自己/也许我只是害怕得到幸福）,”并且向她的朋友们致意，如Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Alessia Cara, Bebe Rexha。同时，那略带沙哑的嗓音,让那些处于困境的人从Pink象征性的自信，治愈性的歌词与大量的歌曲中寻求慰藉。

Pink steps into duet-mode with a varied trio of partners: Wrabel (“90 Days”), Khalid (“Hurts 2B Human”) and Chris Stapleton (“Love Me Anyway”), transforming the chaos of insecurity into confessional ballet, which is kind of her super power these days. It sets the stage for “Circle Game,” the most vulnerable addition to the Pink canon in recent memory, a meditation on motherhood and mortality. Pink sings about how seeing herself in her daughter makes her long for the time her father took care of her as a little girl. She mourns that memory and also mourns the version of herself that didn’t know how transient life is. “In the Circle Game, no one ever stopped to say/ Soon it’s gonna change, it all just goes away.” You can hear sobs all the way to the nose-bleeds. 

Pink先后与三个不同的搭档合作演唱:首先是是和Wrabel一同作出“90 Days（90天）这首歌，再是和Khalid一同完成“Hurts 2B Human”，又和Chris Stapleton一同作出“Love Me Anyway（不论如何，请爱我）”，不论如何，她总是可以将混乱的不安全感变成充满忏悔的芭蕾舞剧，这也是她不同寻常能力的体现。这些歌曲都为“Circle Game(圆圈游戏)”奠定了基础，这是近年来Pink近年来的作品中最脆弱的一首，这是对母亲这一身份与死亡的沉思。Pink唱到，看到自己的女儿像她小时候一样，渴望着父爱。她为那段回忆感到悲伤，也为自己不知道生命是多么短暂而悲伤。“In the Circle Game, no one ever stopped to say/ Soon it’s gonna change, it all just goes away（在圆圈游戏中，没有人会停下来说/很快就会改变，一切都会消失）”。透过这句歌词，你可能已经听到痛哭流涕的声音了。