【搬运】【译】Pitchfork评Lana Del Rey 2019年单曲《Looking for America》

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翻译：Lynn Liu

审译：Tyler Smith

推送：Lynn Liu

A couple of years ago, a trucker-capped and woodsy Lana Del Rey popped up in a sequoia grove to debut a new song she eventually called “Coachella-Woodstock in My Mind.” At the time, this was out of character: She kept such a tight lid on her image that she was among the last pop stars you’d expect to release a half-finished song on purpose. But these days it seems to come naturally: She looks composed and almost unaware of the camera as she records “Looking for America,” a new song written in response to a weekend of bloodshed: the 31 people who died in gun massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio this past Saturday and Sunday.

几年前， 颇具丛林气息的Lana Del Rey带着顶货车司机的帽子，突然出现在红杉林中，首次演唱了最终名为“Coachella-Woodstock in My Mind”的新歌。那时候，这与她的人设不符:她几乎不发布与音乐相关的影像，说到故意发布半成品的流行歌手，你很难想到打雷 。但是这些天这似乎变得很自然:她看起来冷静，几乎没有意识到她抬着相机录着“Looking for America”，她写这首新歌是在回应周末的枪击杀戮事件:在八月的一个周末，31人死于德克萨斯州的埃尔帕索市以及俄亥俄州的代顿市的枪击案。

Like “Coachella,” “Looking for America” begins with a road trip through California. Watching children at play, she murmurs that she “used to only worry about them after dark.” “I’m still looking for my own version of America/One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly,” she sings. It’s a disconcerting statement coming from Lana, the woman who practically willed her own dreamlike, slyly ironic vision of America into existence.

和“Coachella”一样，“Looking for America”也是从加州的公路旅行开始的。看着孩子们玩耍时，她喃喃自语道，她“used to only worry about them after dark（过去只会在天黑之后担心他们）”。她唱道:“I’m still looking for my own version of America/One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly（我仍在寻找我心目中的美国/一个没有枪支的美国，国旗可以在那里自由飘扬）”这句话出自打雷之口，有些令人不安。打雷实际上是在嘲讽美国现状，并表达了自己梦幻般的愿景。

But even Lana Del Rey still has to live here. “Used to go to drive-ins and listen to the blues/So many things that I think twice about before I do,” her song goes. This nostalgic Americana doesn’t just go back to Woodstock—it predates the Kennedy assassination. Now each of us who visit a public space live in fear, and in fear begin to curtail our own freedoms.

但就连打雷也不得不住在这里。她的歌是这样唱的:“Used to go to drive-ins and listen to the blues/So many things that I think twice about before I do（我过去常去影院听布鲁斯，很多事情我都要三思而后行）”这种怀旧的美式风格不仅可以追溯到Woodstock，还可以追溯到肯尼迪遇刺之前。现在，我们所有出现在公共场合的人都活在恐惧中，并且这开始限制我们自己的自由了。