译Pitchfork评90年代250首最佳单曲第1名：Mariah Carey: “Fantasy (Remix)” [ft.

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Mariah Carey: “Fantasy (Remix)” [ft. Ol’ Dirty Bastard] (1995)

Leave it to Mariah Carey, the girl next door, to make pure lust sound so naive, so syrupy sweet, that it could be read as something pious to a passerby. Leave it to a diva at the height of her fame to describe being horny as feeling “kinda hectic inside,” and to articulate it by singing more dizzying runs than an amusement park’s worth of rides. It feels right that she wrote, produced, and recorded “Fantasy” in only two days, roughly the amount of time a person can live solely on the giddiness of a flirtation and the anticipation of an eventual release. Here’s what love at 26, the age at which she put out the song, could feel like. It’s what you want love to feel like for the rest of your life, too.

唯有邻家女孩Mariah Carey可以将纯粹的情欲演绎的如此纯真，黏稠的馥郁，在普通听众看来无异于虔诚的祷告。一位事业如日中天的当红天后唱（歌词） “kinda hectic inside,”（内心焦躁不安）的饥渴歌曲，还能娴熟演绎得比游乐园还五光十色。灵感泉涌的她仅花2天时间便完成了歌曲所有创作，制作，录音的工作，大概就是某些站街女的一次挑逗客人的时间，或一切就绪准备上市的最后时间。这就是26岁的爱情，也是她发行这首歌的年纪。这也是你在余生都梦寐以求的爱情。

Mariah’s ninth No. 1 came between hits from fellow icons Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston, outperforming both as a historical chart-topping record. “Fantasy” debuted at the top of the Hot 100, making Mariah the first woman to ever do so, and only the second artist to debut at No. 1 after Michael Jackson. Its foundation was a melding of genres—by reworking several elements from “Genius of Love,” the 1981 Tom Tom Club track that was already becoming a staple in rap sample libraries, she and co-producer Dave Hall suggested that pop music could be just as sly, reverent, experimental, and flip as hip-hop. And the remix, produced by Diddy and his Bad Boy collective, served as their proof of concept.

Mariah Carey的第九首冠军单曲来之不易，从同为传奇偶像的Janet Jackson("Runaway")和Whitney Houston(Exhale (Shoop Shoop))中脱颖而出。单曲空降Billboard单曲榜冠军，载入史册，使Mariah Carey成为首位拥有空降冠军单曲的女艺人，自Michael Jackson后首位拥有空降冠军单曲的艺人。歌曲糅合不同音乐流派——再次加工Tom Tom Club 1981年夜店风单曲“Genius of Love”中的部分元素，这首早已成为饶舌采样的经典曲目。她与同为歌曲制作人的Dave Hall都一致认为，流行音乐可以像嘻哈音乐一样狡猾、致敬、实验和轻浮。混音版歌曲，由P Diddy和他的Bad Boy团队制作，贯彻着他们的音乐概念。

By several accounts, it’s a miracle that the remix exists at all. At the time, Mariah’s infamously controlling label honcho husband, Tommy Mottola, 20 years her senior, had hoped to make a family-friendly balladeer out of the singer. He didn’t want her sullying her pristine image, never mind at the hands of a rapper who performed under the name Ol’ Dirty Bastard. (Later in life, the singer would open up about how she, a light-skinned Black woman, was marketed by her label in ways that felt out of her control.) But Mariah, a superfan of Wu-Tang’s 36 Chambers who was known to blast ODB on a pink boombox while riding around in her limo, insisted that the rapper be given free rein. It became a spectacle, involving exorbitant amounts of money at the time—$15,000 for a verse—and several very drunk studio sessions.

从几个方面来看，混音版的问世简直不可思议。当时，比Mariah Carey大20岁的丈夫，以超级控制狂著称的厂牌总裁Tommy Mottola，想将她打造成老少皆宜的芭乐天后，不希望她打破纯情人设，希望她远离Ol’ Dirty Bastard这样的饶舌歌手，（后来几年，这位天后会袒露心扉，作为一个浅肤色的黑人女性，唱片公司是如何悄无声息的控制和营销她)。但Mariah Carey，作为Wu-Tang Clan专辑《36 Chambers》的超级粉丝，喜欢在豪华轿车里用粉色音响播放ODB（Wu-Tang Clan组合成员）歌曲的Mariah Carey坚决维护这位饶舌歌手的创作自由。最后成就历史时刻，涉及当时的天价邀约——标价15000美金的饶舌桥段——几场酩酊大醉的录音室会议。

And so ODB became the song’s ringmaster, opening with what would become one of the most recognizable callouts in block party history, ambling in and out of the song with a swaggering charm, inevitably swerving so hard that his drawl becomes a little bit country, a little bit rock’n’roll. It was chaos, it was genius, it made for a remix so successful that it ended up being responsible for half of the song’s insane sales. But the song also became something much more powerful for Mariah and those who would follow her: It was a declaration of independence, a reclamation of agency and identity, a blueprint for a new kind of pop song that would be replicated for decades to come. –Puja Patel

于是ODB成为歌曲的主导者，在歌曲开头缔造出将成为街区派对最深入人心的喊麦经典之一，以魅力四射的酷炫姿态游走于歌曲中，意想不到的猛烈转折为男声的拖腔平添了些许乡村，摇滚色彩。歌曲是凌乱的，却是天赋异禀的，混音版的大获成功为本就疯狂畅销的歌曲多贡献了一半销量。但这首歌不仅对于Mariah自己倍感坚韧，对于追随她的粉丝也是如此。这是一份独立宣言，对包装人设与自我内心的重新审视，更是开创了未来几十年流行歌曲的全新模式。–Puja Patel

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