【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Nilüfer Yanya 2017年单曲“Baby Luv”

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

As far as weird venues go, a TEDxTeen talk certainly qualifies. It’s where the 22-year old London musician Nilüfer Yanya played an early version of “Baby Luv.” The performance had the feeling of freewheeling open mic, and Yanya opens up at it; before starting her set, she explains that the song is about “suppressing your feelings and not being able to feel the normal things like joy and pain.” This earnestness and heartbreak is the opposite of her previous jazzy pop songs, like “Golden Cage” and “Sliding Doors,” which wiggled with youthful energy and effortless cool.

就猎奇场所而言，TEDxTeen演讲比赛当然再合适不过。22岁的伦敦音乐家Nilüfer Yanya就是在那里演奏了早期版本的“Baby Luv”。演出中她手持麦克风收放自如，Yanya彻底地敞开了心扉；在开始表演之前，她解释说，这首歌是关于“压抑内心情感，无能去体验正常的事物，哪怕是最习以为常的快乐和痛苦。”这种恳切与心碎同她以前的爵士式流行歌曲截然不同，比如“Golden Cage”和“Sliding Doors”，这些歌曲它们肆意挥洒着青春活力还有不经意间流露出的酷劲。

Built around a blunt, dead-simple guitar line, “Baby Luv” hits a different emotional note. In the TEDxTeen show, she played solo, and her voice cracked a few times; the new studio version, adds some sheen, with quiet percussion and subtle synths, but the take is just as raw. There’s not much in the way of a melody or beat, allowing Yanya’s voice to be the focus, strained as she continually repeats “Do you like pain?” and “call me sometime” on the chorus. While the peculiar tunefulness of her timber and the bounce of her delivery remains, hearing her disappointment is affecting. For a young artist, Yanya already has an impressive range, and her ability to render the highs and lows of life in her songs is no small feat.

围绕着一条直白、简易的吉他音轨，“Baby Luv”敲出了一个不同的情感音符。在TEDxTeen的演出中，她独自歌唱，有几次几近破音；新发行的录音室版本，更具光泽，毫不出挑的打击乐和合成器微妙相融，但依旧原始真挚。没有过多的的旋律或节拍变化，而聚焦于Yanya的声音，当她不断重复“Do you like pain?”和“call me sometime”的副歌时，她的声音紧绷毫不放松。虽然独特的音色音调和她华语中的轻盈感依旧存在，但我们能听到失望对她仍有所影响。对一个年轻的艺术家而言，Yanya已经有足够宽广音域，同时她在歌曲中渲染生活的高潮、低谷的高超作为也是不可小觑的成就。