【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Charli XCX 2015年单曲"Doing It" [ft. Rita Ora]

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

Miley's "Party in the U.S.A.". Ke$ha's "Tik Tok". Katy's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)". This is the chart-clobbering, brain-zapping, awe-inducing 21st century lineage to which "Doing It" clearly aspires—and just-as-clearly nails. You know it from that opening giggle, the kind of "what me worry?" laugh someone might let slip after splashing a creepy barfly with water, stealing a six pack, or draining a half-court shot. It is the sound of invincibility, of youth, of not having to be anywhere until tomorrow afternoon. Charli XCX is familiar with this sound.

同Miley的“Party in the U.S.A.”、Ke$ha的“Tik Tok”、Katy Perry的“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”一样，这就是“Doing It”所向往的——也显而易见、铁板钉钉的——令人望而却步的纯正21世纪榜单血统。你可能会注意到开头的那种“what me worry?”式的嘲笑，这可能是某人在用水泼了一个吓坏了的酒吧伙计、偷了一打六瓶装饮料或是废一个半场球之后发出的声响。这是一种无敌的声音、一种青春的声音、一种表明在明天下午前可以哪都不去、啥都不用干的声音。Charli XCX显然对这种声音再熟悉不过。

Along with its bubble-pop perfection, "Doing It" doubles as a joyous sign of progress. The last time I can remember the phrase "doing it" so prominently featured on a hit song was on LL Cool J's gross-at-the-time (and utterly-gross-in-retrospect) "Doin' It" in 1996. (Sample lyric: "Baby stick it out, here comes the man of steel.") (Sorry.) But for all the implicit and explicit fun Charli has on "Doing It", the song is not even necessarily about sex. It's the latest salvo in the current wave of female BFF-core that has been dominating the Hot 100 for months, made even clearer by the track's new remix with Charli's fellow Londoner Rita Ora (who is really getting an awful lot of chances to break out Stateside). Ora's performance neither adds nor takes away from the song's instant-party jolt, but her mere presence—especially in the video, where the dudes are the ones in pasties—can't help but bolster the sense of camaraderie. Because "Doing It" is one huge high-five, and high-fiving yourself looks pretty dumb.

除了其完美的Bubble-pop音乐，“Doing It”还标志着一个令人愉悦的进步迹象。我记忆中上一次“Doing It”这个短语如此突出地出现在一首热门歌曲中，是1996年LL Cool J的“Doin'It”，当时听到就感觉很恶心（现在回想起来也很恶心）。【歌词示例：“Baby stick it out, here comes the man of steel.”(类似于“我的很大，你忍一下。”)】(轻喷)但Charli在“Doing It”中或含蓄或直白地表达的是对真正乐趣的追求，甚至也并不一定是关于性的。这是也当前女性艺术家联合浪潮中的最新一波Hit，几个月来一直主导着Hot 100，这首歌与Charli的伦敦友人Rita Ora（但她确实在美国得到了很多爆红的基于）的新混音使这一趋势更加明晰。Ora在这首歌中的表现并没对这首歌即时的派对冲击力造成干扰，而她的存在——特别是在MV中，那些现象级的穿着胸罩的男人们——更是增强了女性之间的情谊。也只因“Doing It”值得我们为之欢呼、鼓舞，而倘若Charli只与自己击掌那看起来就显得格外愚蠢了。