【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Lorde 2021年单曲《Mood Ring》

翻译：Nomanlandever

校对：柏原Dellen

In the starry-eyed newsletter Lorde sent announcing Solar Power, her third studio album, the pop star introduced her fans to a new persona: “Her feet are bare at all times. She’s sexy, playful, feral and free. She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini…her skin is glowing, her lovers are many. I’m completely obsessed with her, and soon you will be too.” The prose was rapturous, romantic in a way that seemed almost unhinged, to the point that I seriously contemplated whether it had been ghostwritten by Caroline Calloway. Lorde has presented Solar Power as an opportunity to dethaw, a beach soundtrack that reflects her “unending search for the divine”—but something about this framing has felt off. The “Solar Power” music video was so eerily sanitized and optimistic that it seemed like the kind of thing the younger Lorde, a keen critic of societal excesses, would have skewered gleefully.

在Lorde官宣第三张录音室专辑《Solar Power》的宣传邮件中，这位流行歌星向粉丝揭晓新的概念形象：“她总是光着脚。她性感、顽皮、野性、自由。她是一个穿着老式比基尼的现代女孩……她的皮肤光彩夺目，她的情人众多。我完全被她迷住了，很快你也会的。”这篇散文充满了狂放的浪漫，显得精神错乱，以至于我严肃思忖它是否是由Caroline Calloway代写的。Lorde将《Solar Power》视作一次解冻的机会，一首反映出她“对神圣境界的探索”的海滩音乐——但此场面有些不对劲。《Solar Power》的MV是如此诡异的洁净和乐观，似乎是一种以前的Lorde对会欣然抨击的社会问题类的事物。

On her latest single, “Mood Ring,” Lorde is still breezy—urging the ladies to begin their sun salutations and invoking all the tenets of pseudo-spiritual wellness culture: astrology, crystals, sage-burning—but she’s firmly emphasized the song is satire. “Don’t you think the early 2000s seem so far away?” she wonders cheekily, while pulling from a blissed-out palette that evokes roughly the same era, music that sounds like you’re about to start your day with a breakfast of fat-free yogurt (see: Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Imbruglia). There are some witty lines, like a trifling complaint that her mood is “as dark as my roots.” But, in the context of the prior singles, it’s yet another song that’s less exciting than hoped for; plus, for someone who’s previously been so ahead of the curve, this critique of wellness culture seems pretty trite.

在她的最新单曲《Mood Ring》中，Lorde依旧怡然自得——敦促女士们尽快开启太阳崇拜仪式，并援引伪精神健康文化的信条：占星术、水晶、燃鼠尾草——但她坚定地强调这首歌是讽刺的。 “Don’t you think the early 2000s seem so far away?”她厚脸皮疑惑地唱道，同时献上让人联想到那个时代幸福调色板似的音乐，就像你准备以脱脂酸奶早餐开启你的一天(如:Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Imbruglia)。歌中有一些诙谐的句子，如一句小小的抱怨，谈到她的心情 “as dark as my roots.”但是，与她曾经的单曲相比，这又是一首未达到期待值的歌曲；另外，对于一个曾经走在潮流前沿的人来说，这种对健康文化的抨击似乎相当老套。