【搬运译】叉婊Pitchfork评Charlie XCX 2021年单曲“New Shapes” （feat...）

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

Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, and Caroline Polachek make main character music: Futuristic, avant-garde pop songs that place you—twirling, glitter-coated—at the center of the dancefloor. But a compelling main character can’t be just gloss; their music also channels the lonely confessional you had with your best friend in the bathroom right before. The three have worked together in different permutations in the past, but on “New Shapes,” a song from Charli’s forthcoming album CRASH (which will also include collaborations with A.G. Cook, Rina Sawayama, and Oneohtrix Point Never), the full trio teams up for the first time.

Charli XCX、Christine and the Queens和Caroline Polachek制作了当下的主流音乐：未来主义、前卫的流行歌曲，将你——飞旋着晶莹的亮片——置于舞池的中心。但一个真正引人注目的主角不可能只是表面光鲜亮丽；她们的音乐也引导着你与你的友人在浴室里的孤独忏悔。这三个人过去曾以不同的形式合作过，但在Charli即将发行的专辑《CRASH》（其中还收录又与A.G. Cook、Rina Sawayama和Oneohtrix Point Never的合作）中的合作曲“New Shapes”中，这三姐妹首次联手合作。

With its towering swells of ’80s production, “New Shapes” feels overcome by heartache. The three singers claw at the wisps of a failing relationship—the titular “new shapes” signal their ineffective attempts to adopt new personalities and behaviors for the sake of a partner—as they traverse mountains of snare, blaring synth, and wailed backing vocals. Their perspectives complement one another nicely: Charli grapples with her tendency to run away, while Chris’ characteristically abstract imagery offers a temporary solution. In one of the song’s most heartbreaking lines, Polachek confesses that things would be better if she’d never met her lover in the first place. “New Shapes” combines the euphoria of a Patrick Swayze dance number with the crushing depth of a Fleabag monologue: a celebration of a love too radioactive to last.

紧随着80年代风格的制作浪潮，“New Shapes”被痛彻心扉所淹没。三名歌手在一段失败的关系中挣扎——所谓的“New Shapes”是指她们为取悦伴侣而采取新的个性和行为的徒劳尝试——穿梭在急促的小鼓、轰鸣的合成器和呼啸的和声之中。她们的观点互补得很好：Charli努力克服她逃避的倾向，而Chris引以典型的抽象意象从而提出一个临时的解决方案。这首歌中最令人心碎的一句歌词，出自Polachek之口，她坦白道倘若她从一开始就没有遇到她的爱人，事情会更好。“New Shapes”结合了Patrick Swayze舞曲的欢快与Fleabag独白中直击人心的深度：一场因彼此的爱意太过强烈（以致于改变了彼此原有的模样）而草草结束的爱的庆典。