译RC评Billie Eilish 职业生涯中发行的所有专辑（2017-2021）怪奇比莉
翻译：Nomanlandever
原文链接：http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=billie+eilish
专辑综评
Dont Smile at Me [Darkroom/Interscope EP, 2017] B+
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? [Darkroom/Interscope, 2019] A
Happier Than Ever [Darkroom/Interscope, 2021] A
Dont Smile at Me（不要对我笑） [Darkroom/Interscope EP, 2017]
Billie's songwriting is still juvey here, Finneas's production still in the learning stage. Yet those gobsmacked by the album are now equipped to go back to first appreciate and then savor Eilish's RIAA-certified singles and their EP pals. I doubt I'll ever find the quietly murderous "Bellyache," say, much more than a sublimated tantrum, bummer, existentialist gesture, whatever. But none of these interpretations render it anything close to unlistenable, carried as it is, like the whole wittingly makeshift collection, by her still-fragile melodies and still-pure voice. B+
尽管Billie的创作能力还很青涩，Finnea的制作仍处学习阶段。但那些对这张专辑惊艳得目瞪口呆的听众早已开始迫不及待地欣赏Billie Eilish的多首白金单曲和EP旧作。我怀疑以后再也听不到"Bellyache"这样的暴力美学作品了，洗涤灵魂的暴躁，郁闷，存在主义者的姿态，诸如此类。但对这些负面情绪的诠释却没有让整首歌曲变成不堪入耳的噪音，歌曲像是精心拼凑的合集，充满不变的弱化旋律和依旧清澈的歌声。B+
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? （当我们睡了，怪事发生了）[Darkroom/Interscope, 2019]
Slotting this self-created 17-year-old as pop computes musically and commercially while reminding us how amorphous that once snappy term has become. Her soprano too diminutive for vocal calisthenics, her sensibility too impressionistic to bother mapping out track-and-hook bliss points, Eilish is a home-schooled Highland Park weirdo whose darkly playful version of teen-goth angst had already captivated millions of young weirdos-in-potentia before this electro-saturated debut album put in its bid for the rest of us. Seldom catchy in any conventional sense, every one of these 14 tracks entices the ear anyway, from "Bad Guy"'s "duh"s to "Xanny"'s blown speaker cone to the shuddering sound-pit that swallows "You Should See Me in a Crown" to the plinked piano of "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" to the tunefully cooed "Wish You Were Gay," and it keeps going. Only then it closes shut when one of the least self-glorifying suicide songs ever sets up a finale comprising songs titled simply "I Love You" and "Goodbye"--each quiet, each pretty, each what it says, each sad without ever turning gruesome or crossing its fingers. A
将这位17岁青少年的作品归类为流行乐，无论是从音乐性还是商业上都讲得通，这也提醒我们（流行乐）这个词看似简单实则变化莫测。她的高音过于微弱，她的敏感过于自我，以至于很难打造出歌曲hook的神来之笔。Billie Eilish是接受家庭教育的有钱怪小孩，在这张扣人心弦的electro（电子合成舞曲）十足的专辑发行前，她黑色幽默版的青少年哥特式焦虑音乐早已唤起数百万青少年潜在的怪诞心理。专辑全部14首歌几乎不是传统意义上的“抓耳”——“bad guy”里的“duh”，“xanny”里轰鸣的扬声器，“you should see me in a crown”里吞噬一切的地狱级震颤声、“all the good girls go to hell”叮当作响的钢琴声、“wish you were gay”的轻声细语，专辑以此循序渐进。最后进入专辑尾声，一首最不吹嘘的自杀曲“listen before I go”为随后的落幕曲目“i love you”和“goodbye”做好铺垫。两首静谧，美丽，不带阴森恐怖感的悲情歌曲。A
Happier Than Ever（怪乐的不得了） [Darkroom/Interscope, 2021]
Because she enjoyed the incomparable distinction and suffered the incomprehensible burden of sweeping the Grammys at 17, ordinary life will be out of her reach for a long time. So unless and until she elects to go public with romantic encounters I hope she enjoys and applaud her for concealing via "NDA," quote unquote because "NDA" is an actual song title here, that leaves her with one subject: stardom and its discontents, a privilege and dilemma it would seem impossible to say anything new much less interesting about. Only then out of sheer candor she does. "Things I once enjoyed/Just keep me employed now/Things I'm longing for/Someday I'll be bored of/It's so weird/That we care so much until we don't." Nor is this the only new truism she pulls out of her thoughtstream. How about "I sure have a knack for seeing life more like a child"? Or the meditation on the objectified female body that is "Not My Responsibility"? No wonder the music Finneas comes up with for her is calmer and less sprightly than the stuff that converted the world. But because I'm old enough to feel both concern for a youngster's well-being and awe at her unguarded resourcefulness, that's fine with me. Let's hope her fellow teens feel the same. A
因为她在17岁无可匹敌的卓越，同时承受着横扫格莱美的难以理喻的负担，所以在她接下来很长一段时间内，平凡都是不可奢求的事物。也因此，除非她选择公开自己的浪漫情郎，也祝愿她能享受爱情，或者通过“NDA”（保密协议）隐瞒真相而继续赢得喝彩，因为“NDA”的确也是专辑里的一首歌曲名称，也留下一个主题：璀璨星途下的不满，特权，似乎必须说俏皮话的难堪。但当她赤诚袒露心声时（”Getting Older“歌词）“Things I once enjoyed/Just keep me employed now/Things I’m longing for/Someday I’ll be bored of/It’s so weird/That we care so much until we don’t.（曾使我乐此不疲的事物/现在只是我谋生的工具/我梦寐以求的事物/总有一天会使我厌烦/很奇怪/我们曾经如此在意现在却漠不关心）当然她的感悟也不限于此。（“Everybody Dies”歌词）“I sure have a knack for seeing life more like a child”（我总能像孩童一样剖析生活），和“Not My Responsibility”中物化女性身体的沉思，这些想法是否让你对她刮目相看？怪不得她哥哥Finneas为她打造的音乐更为镇定不活泼，与什么扭转世界的音乐相比。但已足够年老的我既关心她的身心健康，也对她卸下防备的内在想法刮目相看。但愿同龄的青少年能与她感同身受。A
