【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Future ft. Drake 2020年单曲《Life Is Good》

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：Chris.Y

审译：Lynn Liu

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Future and Drake have been trying to get a collaboration right for a while now. Going back nearly a decade to 2011’s “Tony Montana” remix (which wasn’t without controversy), the stars simply can’t seem to get one just right. There’s Future’s “Never Satisfied,” which ends abruptly to avoid a Drake verse. There’s Drake’s “Blue Tint,” which uses a dollop of Future like frosting. They spent all of their tag-team project, What a Time to Be Alive, cutting in on each other, so much so that the mixtape ends with two solo songs. Their latest song together, “Life Is Good,” isn’t so much a Drake and Future collaboration as it is a Drake song and a Future song smashed together.

Future 和Drake 一直想来一次完美合作。回顾近十年，2011年那首混音版的“Tony Montana”（在当时也备受争议），两人都好像没有发挥到极致。二人合作单曲“Never Satisfied”结尾很突兀，因为Future为了避开Drake的主歌部分；Drake的单曲“Blue Tint”，他在里面使用了Future的vocal来为这首歌润色。二人竭尽全力联手打造了专辑《What a Time to Be Alive》，但由于两个团队内部不和，导致了整张专辑的最后两首歌变为他们二人各自的单曲。而最近他们发行了新歌曲“Life Is Good”，与其说它是Drake 和 Future的进一步合作，不如说是他们两人的碰撞与融合。

Maybe that’s why, despite it not really working, it’s already one of their best team-ups yet. They both get to occupy their own space, freeing them up from having to, you know, gel or even coordinate. Through this split-screen experience, Drake gets to go all petty king and continue to pretend Pusha-T hasn’t rattled him unimpeded (“Niggas caught me slippin’ once, okay, so what?”), and Future is straight stick talk, taking private jets and Dracos to London, his Promethazine-laced blood boiling. There isn’t even a transition. You can’t blame them for trying. It worked for Drake with Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode.” Where that song felt like a little three-act play, this feels like trying to pull a fast one.

The great Director X-directed video seems very much like an attempt to draw your eye away from the seam of an illusion. The two stars shadow each other as co-workers across a series of odd jobs: garbage men, an Apple-like tech nook, a burger joint, and as members of the video’s camera crew. They are side-by-side in nearly every shot. It’s not enough of a distraction, even with cameos from 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, and Mike-WiLL Made-It. “Life Is Good” is an empty ploy trying to keep a mutually beneficial relationship musically viable. At this point, it’s safe to wonder if the most influential rap star of the last decade and the biggest rap star of a generation are simply incompatible.

也许这就是为什么这可以称得上他们最成功的的合作了吧，尽管这首歌虽然算不上完美。他们开始更关注自己的部分，而不是要刻意的相互结合。通过这次“分工合作“，Drake开始描述一些琐碎的事情，并继续假装Pusha-T没能让他惊慌失措（“Niggas caught me slippin’ once, okay, so what?”【我尝尽了失败的滋味又能怎样】），而Future则是直截了当，坐私人飞机、带着Draco枪和一腔热血去伦敦。尽管上次合作并不愉快，但这次合作并无任何过渡，并且你也不能责备他们不努力。Drake与Travis Scott的单曲“Sicko Mode”很成功，这首歌像是一部小型的三幕剧，而“Life Is Good”却给了人一种欺骗感。

著名的Director X为他们拍摄了这首歌的mv，这个mv制造了某种幻象，让人沉浸其中移不开眼。他们两位在很多岗位上扮演着同事的角色：垃圾工、苹果公司的技术人员，汉堡店的员工以及摄制剧组的一员。他们几乎每个镜头都并肩出现，但这还不够，他们还请了21 Savage, Lil Yachty和 Mike-WiLL Made-It在mv中客串。“Life Is Good”可以说是一个空壳策略，他们只是在保持着一种互惠互利的关系。由此看来，我们可以大胆的猜测，过去十年最有影响力的说唱歌手和现在最流行的说唱歌手的关系可能并不融洽。