【搬运译】Pitchfork评FKA twigs 2019年单曲《holy terrain》

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：Lucia C

审译：Lynn Liu

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Earlier this year, FKA twigs returned from a three-year lull with “Cellophane,” a minimalist, saturnine breakup song that felt like an out-and-out punch to the gut. Twigs was her most vulnerable, her voice aching and raspy, revealing a reflective facet of herself that forthcoming sophomore album MAGDALENE promised to explore in even more painstaking detail. The moody single “holy terrain,” however, is a clear turn from the sparseness of “Cellophane.” Riding a twitchy trap-influenced beat, warped backing vocals, and hollowed-out ad-libs from Future, twigs offers a heat-sick and tormented look at an infatuation period, when balancing on the precipice of something with another person feels like life or death.

今年早些时候，FKA twigs用一首“Cellophane（玻璃纸）”结束了无作品产出的三年。那是一首极简主义、悲伤忧郁的分手歌，给人彻头彻尾的触动。Twigs在那首歌中非常的脆弱，有着悲痛的、沙哑的嗓音，展现了她自我反思的一面，这也会在她即将到来的第二张录音室专辑《MAGDALENE》中发掘得更加淋漓尽致。然而，情绪多变的新单曲“holy terrain（神圣土地）”却与“Cellophane”的简约感形成了鲜明对比。伴着紧张的trap风节奏、怪诞的合声，再配以Future空灵感的即兴说唱，twigs通过讲述如同在悬崖上保持平衡的提心吊胆的恋爱关系，带来了对一段迷恋期的冷静而痛苦的思考。

“holy terrain” scans as an expansion of twigs’ guest feature on A$AP Rocky’s “Fukk Sleep” last year, on which she adapted to and interpolated Rocky’s winding flow with ease. Here, though, it’s twigs’ evocative lyrics and floating falsetto that take the spotlight: “Now my fruits are for taking/And your fingers are stained/Do you still think I’m beautiful/When you light me in flames?” she sings, airy vocals rising in a chorus around her. She finds a worthy foil in Future, the only featured guest on MAGDALENE, who delivers a remorseful if fatalistic verse in response: “We die, we die together, the prophecy complete/... If you pray for me I know you play for keeps,” he raps, at one point even pleading not to take his love in vain (“I love sad Future,” twigs explained to i-D about the verse, which, same). Where once twigs asked a lover to pacify her need for devotion with lies if necessary, on “holy terrain” she’s moving to higher ground, confident and emboldened enough to implore that he follows his heart to her this time around.

“holy terrain”像是延续了twigs在去年A$AP Rocky的歌曲“Fukk Sleep”中的合作表演，在那首歌中她的歌声轻松地配合了Rocky流畅的说唱。而在这首歌里，主角则是twigs动人的歌词和曼妙的假声演唱：“Now my fruits are for taking/And your fingers are stained/Do you still think I’m beautiful/When you light me in flames? （现在我的果实任人撷取/而你的手指沾染了污渍/当你用大火将我燃烧之时/你还觉得我很美丽吗？）”她唱着，空灵的歌声在伴唱中脱颖而出。整张专辑中唯一的合作者Future给了她完美的陪衬，带来了一段懊悔、有些宿命论的回应：“We die, we die together, the prophecy complete/... If you pray for me I know you play for keeps （我们死去，我们一起死去，完成那个预言/…如果你为我祈祷，那我知道你是在玩真的）”他唱着，甚至还在某句歌词中恳求不要浪费他的爱情（“我喜欢伤感的Future。”twigs在接受i-D采访时说到这句歌词）。曾经twigs让恋人满足她对爱情的向往，就算运用谎言也无妨，而在“holy terrain”中她进了一步，用自信而勇敢的姿态要求他追随真心来到她身旁。