【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Lorde 2021年单曲《Stoned at the Nail Salon》
翻译：Nomanlandever
When the days are slow and the responsibilities scarce, the mind can’t help but wander to insecure places. Passing the time at home in New Zealand between albums, Lorde found herself falling into this mentality. Life had moved on without her: New teenage pop stars burned bright; TikTok became a thing; people got really into the Grateful Dead, again.
当视日如年，责任丢在一边时，思绪就会不由自主地渴望挑战。筹备专辑期间Lorde在新西兰的家中打发时间，发现自己陷入了这种心态。生活在她的缺席下继续抒写新的篇章；新的青少年流行歌星闪亮登场；TikTok成为潮流；人们再次对感恩而死乐队（Grateful Dead）产生兴趣。
On the folksy “Stoned at the Nail Salon,” she latches onto this existential quandary, beginning with a radiant opening line: “Got a wishbone drying on the windowsill in my kitchen/Just in case I wake up and realize I’ve chosen wrong.” It’s one of her best lyrics yet, so tactile and earthy you can practically reach out and feel the fragile, sun-bleached collagen. But from there, the song becomes increasingly abstract. Intoxicated by acetone fumes, Lorde ruminates about fading beauty, the circularity of time, and losing touch with your past self. But her swings at profundity fall short—she is stoned, after all—and the understated production feels eerily reminiscent of another Jack Antonoff joint, Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club. “Stoned at the Nail Salon” is most compelling when Lorde lets her anxieties breathe, like when her voice catches midway through, leaving an empty space that’s immediately filled with a bass squiggle. Unfortunately, those moments are few, and in the end, “Stoned at the Nail Salon” feels stuck in a pretty, pedicured bubble.
在民谣风的《Stoned at the Nail Salon》中，她陷入存在主义的困境，以辞藻华丽的歌词开头：“Got a wishbone drying on the windowsill in my kitchen/Just in case I wake up and realize I’ve chosen wrong.”这是她迄今为止最好的歌词之一，如此触手可及的质朴，你几乎可以伸手去触摸，感受脆弱的，日光下的白嫩肌肤。但就从此处起，歌曲变得越来越抽象。Lorde陶醉在丙酮的烟雾中，沉思着逝去的美，时光的循环往复，以及与过去的自己渐行渐远。但她在深度上的尝试并不出色——毕竟，她是神经质的——这部低调的作品让人诡异地想起Jack Antonoff的另一部作品，Lana Del Rey的《Chemtrails Over the Country Club》，《Stoned at the Nail Salon》最吸引人的是Lorde让自己的焦虑得到缓解，比如她的声音在歌词唱到一半时（Maybe I‘m）戛然而止，留下一片空白，随即被一种波动的Bass填充。不幸的是，这样的精彩时刻很少，最后，《Stoned at the Nail Salon》给人感觉是卡在了一个奢华精致修脚店的虚幻泡泡里。
