【搬运】【译】NME评Post Malone 2019年专辑《Hollywood’s Bleeding》

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：Simon Joanne & Sookie.Z

审译：Lynn Liu

排版：SpencerC

有时他听起来像Julian Casablancas，有时他听起来像70年代的调频广播。然而，这张成就斐然、兼收并蓄的唱片只能来自Post Malone

Despite the fact that he’s cursed (no, really – when he touched the Dybbuk box, the world’s most haunted object, a run of bad luck, including his house being robbed, ensued), Austin Richard Post has had a stratospherically successful few years. All 18 songs from his second album ‘Beerbongs and Bentleys’ charted in the US. He’s smashed streaming records. And he’s been nominated for a Grammy.

尽管受到了诅咒（没错，在他碰了世界上最为不祥的东西——恶灵盒之后，一连串的坏运气就找上门来了，比如说他家遭到了洗劫），Post Malone依旧过了异常成功顺遂的几年。他第二张个人专辑《Beerbongs and Bentleys》中18首歌在美区全部上榜。他横扫了各项流媒体记录。他还被提名了格莱美。

With his scraggly-hair, scribbled-on beard and face etched with ‘Always Tired’ and ‘Stay Away’ tattoos beneath his eyes, he may cut an unlikely megastar, but Post Malone is undoubtedly one of the biggest rappers on the planet right now. Well, we say rapper. “I don’t want to be a rapper,” he said last year. “I just want to be a person that makes music.” Posty, it’s clear, doesn’t care a goddam thing about genres.

留着散乱的头发、未修的胡须和眼下纹着“Always Tired（常惫）”和“Stay Away（远避）”的脸，他可能看起来不太像一个超级巨星，但Post Malone绝对是当下这个星球上最为出名的说唱歌手之一。当然，我们说的是说唱歌手。“我不想当一个说唱歌手，”他在去年说道，“我只是想成为一个做音乐的人。”很明显，“小龙龙”并不在乎音乐的体裁。

His first two albums, from 2016’s ‘Stoney’ to 2018’s aforementioned ‘Beerbongs…’, aimed to prove that point, swinging between trap and hip-hop to country and pop. Yet, even as he was dismissed as a one-hit wonder after breakout single ‘White Iverson’, he was able to prove doubters wrong, following it up with hit after hit, huge chorus after huge chorus.

他的前两张专辑，从2016年的《Stoney》到前面提到的2018年的《Beerbongs and Bentleys》，游离在trap和hip-hop、乡村和流行之间，正意图证明这一点。但是，尽管在他推出突破性单曲“White Iverson”之后被诟病为昙花一现的奇迹，他仍然能够通过之后一首接一首的热单证明这些质疑者是错的。

In that sense, Posty is a very modern star – he’s able to skilfully cherry pick from different genres. It’s led to questions of how much he means it, man. But Post Malone is the post everything star the kids have called for, a musician made for the internet-age; a goofball chameleon instinctively skilled at understanding the ways genres can merge together. These are albums made as playlists that skip seamlessly between styles.

这样看来，Malone是一个非常现代的巨星——他能够熟练地从不同的音乐风格中进行挑选。这就让我们不禁想要问，他对此到底有多认真？但是Malone正是现在这些年轻人寻求的那种巨星，一种专门为互联网时代而生的巨星；就像一条变色龙本能地擅长于把各种不同的音乐风格混合在一起。这些专辑就像是播放列表一样，在不同的风格之间无缝跳换。

And never has this been truer than on ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’. It’s a (deep breath) synth-pop-rock’n’roll-bedroom-indie-trap-hip-hop-break-up album. And he’s been really busy going through his Whatsapp contacts to ask for star turns – there are guest spots by everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Future to SZA to Halsey, as well as writing credits for Kanye West and Father John Misty. This cavalcade of star turns only helps to add to the idea of this as a mixtape – although they sometimes upstage the main man himself. 

这一切在《Hollywood’s Bleeding》这张专辑中变得更为明显。这是一张（深吸一口气再读）合成器流行摇滚卧室独立trap嘻哈融为一体的专辑。同时，Malone还在Whatsapp上面寻求过明星合作——从OzzyOsbourne到Future、从SZA到Halsey，每个人都被Malone请来助阵，甚至连Kanye West和Father John Misty也为他写过一些东西。这些和他合作过的歌手都让Malone更加想要把这张专辑做成一张mixtape——尽管他们有时候抢走了主角的风头。

So, yes, it’s an album of weird and wonderful combinations. Not many people would think to pair the odd couple of Travis Scott and Ozzy Osbourne on a track together but on ‘Take What You Want’ the Prince of Darkness asks, “Why don’t you take what you want from me?” as a Sabbath-like guitar shudders jaggedly in the background and Scott tells us, “I need some more reasons to live out this evening… Been sippin’ forever and just taking whatever.”

所以是的，这张专辑是一个奇怪而美丽的混合物。不是每个人都能够想到在一首歌中把Travis Scott和Ozzy Osbourne组合成一个奇怪的组合，但在这首“Take What You Want”中，黑暗王子问道：“Why don’t you take what you want from me?（你何不从我这拿走你想要的？）”Scott用像一把安息日中吉他一样颤抖的、让人不寒而栗的声音告诉我们：“I need some more reasons to live out this evening… Been sippin’ forever and just taking whatever（我需要一些理由撑过这一晚……这辈子都在吸东西，现在随便什么都可以）。”

As those lines suggest, Posty seems in a bad place relationship-wise (maybe it’s that curse again?). On the opening title track, he tells a lost love, “You never took the time to get to know me / Was scared of losin’ somethin’ that we never found.” That shadow looms large over the album.

所有这些歌词都在暗示，Malone在关系中似乎处在一种不利的位置（也许又是诅咒作的祟？）。在专辑同名开场曲中，他讲述了一段迷失的爱恋：“You never took the time to get to know me / Was scared of losin’ somethin’ that we never found（你从来没花过时间来了解我，我只是在害怕失去一些我们从没有拥有过的东西罢了）。”这个阴影在整张专辑中留下了很大的痕迹。

You’ll have already heard lead single ‘Circles’. “Seasons change and our love went cold / Feed the flame ’cause we can’t let it go” he sings in a yearning voice. Unlikely as it would have seemed, it sounds like Tame Impala, Washed Out and there’s even a bit of The XX about it. It’s the sound of growing up, and it’s the sound of him being at his most open. (It also starts to make sense that he’s said that Fleet Foxes are his favourite band of all time.)

你们可能已经听过先发曲“Circles”。他用充满欲望的声音唱道“Seasons change and our love went cold / Feed the flame ’cause we can’t let it go（时过境迁，我们的爱已冷却。用热情浇灌，因为我们无法放它走）。”和预期不一样的是，它听起来像Tame Impala式和Washed Out式的复古迷幻电子摇滚风，还有一些The XX的影子。这首曲子歌唱成长，歌颂他最放松的时刻。（那么他说他一直以来最喜欢的乐队是Fleet Foxes（敏捷狐狸），也就想得通了。）

So – heavy rock: tick. Bedroom indie: tick. What more is there in the jukebox? Well, there’s also the bouncy indie-rock of ‘Allergic’, where he sounds almost like Julian Casablancas as he says, “So sad but true / You’re friends with all my demons” over clicking fingers. And the synth-pop of ‘Staring at the Sun’, with the great line “Give me a chance and I will Fuck up again”, adds another genre into the mix. It doesn’t all work: ‘Die for Me’ is an idea searching for a tune – though Halsey owns it with the line, “I sold 15 million copies of a break-up note”.

因此，重摇滚：它是的，小型独立工作室制作：它也是。这张专辑里还有什么？还有活泼律动的独立小制作摇滚乐“Allergic（过敏的）”，他在歌曲里边弹指边唱道“So sad but true / You’re friends with all my demons（如此糟糕却真实，你与我所有的恶魔为盟”，有种Julian Casablancas的感觉。“Staring at the Sun”这首合成器流行乐里有句很棒的歌词““Give me a chance and I will Fuck up again（给我一个机会，我会让一切重来—源于网易云音乐）”，给这首混合音乐加入了另一个体裁。但并不是他的所有歌都是这样的，“Die for Me（为我付出生命）”这首歌追求曲调和谐，尽管Halsey也献唱了“I sold 15 million copies of a break-up note（我的分手情歌卖了1500万份）”

But the introspection makes Post more widescreen than ever before. ‘Myself’ (assisted by Father John Misty) is a sad but hopeful old-fashioned R’n’B hit that sounds like it’s playing on an FM radio from the ’70s. And the previously leaked ‘Fuck The Internet’ returns here, minus Kanye’s verse (and the profanity in the title). The lush strings and cinematic beat make it an album stand-out. with Posty getting almost political: “The world has gone to shit and we all know that / People freakin’ out, like, hit the Prozac”.

但Post对自己音乐不断地自省，这使得他展现出更多的可能性。“Myself”（Father John Misty倾情献唱）是一首充满希望的老式布鲁斯打击乐，听起来像70年代FM收音机播放的歌曲。之前被泄露的“Fuck The Internet（去他的网络）”、零星侃爷的段子（以及标题中的戏谑）一起回归。繁复的弦音和似老电影中的鼓音使这张专辑足够吸引眼球，Post也体现出他的政治性：“The world has gone to shit and we all know that / People freakin’ out, like, hit the Prozac（世界变得一团糟，我们都知道。人们都很害怕，像磕了盐酸氟西汀）。

Of course we still get the absurd lyrics (on ‘Saint-Tropez’ he lets us know, “Versace boxers on my dick / Bud Light runnin’ through my piss”) and, despite the introspection, he still talks in clichés about drinking beer, popping pills, and having sex. Let’s be clear: ‘Hollywood Bleeding’ is still very much a Post Malone record, and hip hop pulses through it – especially on ‘Goodbyes’, ‘Wow’ and ‘Sunflower’. Elsewhere ‘Enemies’ is also a bop, as he dissing enemies and brags about his rise to the top: “Now your mama needs tickets to my stadium show”.

当然，也会有一些荒谬的歌词（比如“Saint-Tropez”中他唱道：“Versace boxers on my dick / Bud Light runnin’ through my piss（我穿着范思哲的内裤，手里握着百威淡啤，尽情畅饮—来源于网易云音乐）”），尽管对自己的音乐进行了反思，他还是会唱一些类似喝啤酒、嗑药、做爱等的陈词滥调。重申一下：“Hollywood Bleeding”还是纯纯的Post Malone风，贯穿了嘻哈曲风，特别是“Goodbyes”, “Wow”和“Sunflower”几首。除此之外，“Enemies”也是一首波普爵士乐，当他唱道“Now your mama needs tickets to my stadium show（现在你的妈妈需要门票才可以参与我的演出—来源于网易云音乐）”表达对敌人的不屑和吹嘘自己登上顶峰的成就时体现得最明显。

Where ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys’ was criticised for a lack of ideas, here is a record that darts off in many different directions, as though you’ve handed the keys to your Spotify account to a friend with a short attention span. As Post tries new sounds on for size, some git better than others. Sometime it feels as though he’s still trying to figure this out as he goes. But it’s when he keeps things simple and goes beyond the clichés that he feels most like himself.

当《Beerbongs & Bentleys》被批责为缺乏思想时，Post就发行了这张发散性极强的多样化专辑，好像你把你Spotify账号密码交到一个无法长时间保持专注的朋友手上。Post Malone在音乐中尝试了很多新的声音效果，做了一些好于其他人的硬摇滚作品。他好像一直在试图做出一番成就，但往往他需要做的是把事情变得简单，并且脱离那一系列Post式的陈词滥调。

Halfway through the record, on ‘I’m Gonna Be’, over a stripped-back, dreamy guitar line, he tells us, “I’m gonna be what I want / I’m gonna do what I want, when I want, when I want – yeah” It’s a simple manifesto but it’s working for Post Malone. ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’ is a playlist made for these times. It’s going to be huge.

专辑中间部分有一首“I’m Gonna Be”，配合着简单、空幻的吉他弦音，它诉说着““I’m gonna be what I want / I’m gonna do what I want, when I want, when I want – yeah（我要实现我的心愿，我随心所欲，做我想做的事。）”这是一个简单的表达但是恰好为Post Malone量身定做。最后，“Hollywood’s Bleeding”是一个值得循环播放的歌单，它会大火。