【搬运译】Pitchfork评Charli XCX 2019年单曲《Gone》
搬运自：微信公众号【评论搬一堆】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整）
翻译：Peter D
审译：Whitney.L
排版：SpencerC
Is everything OK in Charli land? Ahead of Charli XCX’s upcoming album Charli, pop’s queen of having a wild good time has resorted to the attainable escapism of “1999” with Troye Sivan and recruited Lizzo to “Blame It on Your Love.” But real healing requires introspection, and Charli’s latest single, “Gone,” written and recorded with Christine and the Queens’ Héloïse Letissier, starts from a different place. “I am just now realizing, they don’t care/I try real hard, but I’m caught up by my insecurities,” Charli admits.
Charli世界的一切都还好吗？在Charli的新专辑发行之前，我们这位流行乐坛的疯狂女皇联手Troye Sivan共同推出“1999”这首可以逃避现实，憧憬未来美好的歌曲，还拉来了Lizzo一起合作了“Blame It on Your Love（归咎于你的爱）”这首单曲。但是，真正的愈合需要深刻的反省，而Charli和Christine and the Queens即Héloïse Letissier共同创作并演唱的最新单曲“Gone（离去）”，则出于一个全然不同的立场。Charli 承认：“I am just now realizing, they don’t care/I try real hard, but I’m caught up by my insecurities.（我终于开始意识到，他们毫不关心/我拼尽全力，但只能沦陷于我的不安全感。）”
A. G. Cook and Ö’s production matches the bassy stutters and crackles of Charli’s post-PC Music projects with the kinetic, bilingual funk-pop of Christine and the Queens’ 2018 album Chris. The song bangs like it’s trying to get out of a big metal box, probably because that’s how its creators are feeling: “I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people/How they're making me feel lately,” sings Charli, with typical bluntness. Beside her, Letissier narrates existential panic: “I see myself and I look scared and confused/Wait, did they just talk? Why is it loud?” she asks, a tart pucker in her voice. Though the song’s video finds the pair tied by the same bondage ropes, there’s not much space for mutual support here—more like two parallel panic spirals.
A. G. Cook和Ö的配合使得Charli的后PC Music（译者注：厂牌名）项目中那些低音“结巴”式的唱词、劈里啪啦的电子声音与Christine and the Queens 2018年的专辑《Chris》中动感的双语funk-pop搭配得相得益彰。歌曲让人十分震撼，听上去仿佛是要冲破一个金属牢笼，而这可能也正是创作人们的感受：“I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people/How they're making me feel lately（我感到不安，真TM恨这些人/这就是最近他们给我的感受），”Charli用她代表性的直率唱到。除了她以外，Letissier也描述着那显而易见的慌张：“I see myself and I look scared and confused/Wait, did they just talk? Why is it loud?（我看着自己，我看上去恐惧又迷茫/等等，他们刚刚是在说话吗？为什么这么喧嚣？）”她嘟着嘴问到。虽然在MV中这两个人被同一根绳子绑着，但这里似乎没有什么相互的扶持——更像是两个平行的恐慌漩涡。
The only answers are more questions, and the extended coda flips and stretches them to the breaking point. It’s both a technical flex and a kind of lopsided resolution: What if, instead of a constant thunderous disquiet, we try to unwind any way we can?
唯一的答案只有更多的问题，歌曲的尾声把这些问题扭转、拉扯到了极点。这既是一种技术上的展示，也是一种不平衡的解决方案：如果我们试着去以任何可以触及的方式去放松，而不是持续雷鸣般轰响的忧虑，又会怎样呢？
