【搬运】【译】叉婊Pitchfork评Harry Styles 2019年单曲《Lights Up》

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翻译：Tyler Smith

审译：Joonly EC

推送：Lynn Liu

Say this for Harry Styles, he’s nothing if not a talented showman, the kind who titles his first single since 2017’s self-titled solo album “Lights Up” and releases it on National Coming Out Day. Styles is no stranger to statement lead singles: He introduced his debut album Harry Styles with “Sign of the Times,” a nearly six-minute-long piece of feathery, melodramatic rock balladry. “Lights Up” is only a little less over-the-top, layering synth, guitars, keys, drums, chunky bass, and a small choir of backup singers until the finished product begins to glisten with sweat. With its winding, psychedelic pre-chorus, the song seems designed to wriggle through the strictures of pop songwriting. It’s less than three minutes but its strangeness makes it feel longer.

这样说吧，Harry Styles没有什么优势，他只是一个有才华的表演者，是一个会在2017年发布同名专辑几年后于国家出柜日回归并发布一首位名为“Lights Up”的歌曲的艺人。Styles对于主打单曲轻车熟路：他推出了他的首张专辑《Harry Styles》，首单为“Sign of the Times”，这是一首近6分钟长的似羽般飘逸的、情节夸张的摇滚民谣。“Lights Up”只是略逊一筹，层次合成，吉他，键，鼓，粗低音，和背景合声交错出现，直到成品开始在汗水的浸润下开始闪耀。曲折迷幻的主副歌交接使这首歌看似精心设计过来绕过流行歌曲写作的定式。由于这种奇异感，这首不到三分钟的歌感觉更长。

“Lights Up” also seems poised to divide those who feel that the best pop songs should speak directly to the moment, and those who think they ought to stand alone, little worlds unto themselves. In isolation, lines like “Never coming back down/Can’t you see/I could, but wouldn’t stay” scan as banal Noel Gallagher-style acid trip nonsense. But on a day of LGBTQ visibility, “Lights up and they know who you are/Do you know who you are?” sound like a rallying cry. By contrast, the song’s video takes place mostly in the dark, where Styles’ bare chest is caressed by a throng of adoring people, bared to the night sky while he rides on the back of a motorcycle, and, in one particularly odd moment, mirrored as his own sequin-suited body floats above a second body wearing only a pair of boxer shorts. It’s hard to know what the show is—just that Styles is the man putting it on.

“Lights Up”似乎也准备将听众划分成不同的小世界：一些人认为最好的流行歌曲应该直接与当下对话，一些人认为歌曲应该独立表达。脱离了歌曲的话，像“Never coming back down/Can’t you see/I could, but wouldn’t stay”（永远不会回来/你看不见/我可以，但不会留下来）这样的字眼就像陈词滥调的Noel Gallagher式酸叽叽的废话。但在LGBTQ群体迎来光明的那天，“Lights up and they know who you are/Do you know who you are?”（灯亮了，他们知道你是谁/你知道你是谁吗？）听起来像是一声振奋人心的呐喊。相比之下，这首歌的mv大多发生在黑暗中，Styles赤裸的胸部被一群崇拜者抚摸，当他坐在摩托车后座上向黑暗的夜色飞驰去时，在一个特别奇怪的时刻，他自己穿着亮片套装的身体漂浮在只穿着一条拳击短裤的第二个身体上方。很难知道这场秀想表达什么——反正是Harry Style演的就行了。