【搬运】【译】滚石Rolling Stone评Halsey 2020年专辑《Manic》（躁郁）
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翻译：Emma.Z
校对：Tyler Smith
排版：Ryan-Chopin
在第三张专辑中，Halsey坦然拥抱那个二十多岁患有躁郁症的自己，并渴望收获爱和温柔。
Early on Halsey’s excellent new album, Manic, she samples a bit of movie dialogue: “I’m just a fucked-up girl looking for my own piece of mind. Don’t assign me yours.” It’s from the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, spoken by the manic, pixie dream-girl heroine Clementine. But she definitely speaks for Halsey. And as you’ve probably guessed, the singer doesn’t even come close to finding peace of mind in these songs. Still, she knows how to make it a thrilling quest. Manic is Halsey’s raw autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young mess, craving her share of love and tenderness in a hostile world. Yet Halsey’s Ashley Frangipane is a mess who’s a hungrily ambitious artist seeing herself as a mirror for her entire generation.
新专《Manic》开头的Halsey同名曲《Ashley》中，她尝试加入了一些电影对白:“我只是一个寻找自己想法的女孩。别把你的想法强加给我。” 这句话出自电影《美丽心灵的永恒阳光》中古灵精怪的女孩Clementine之口，她简直说出了Halsey的心声。这也是Halsey最喜爱的电影之一。她根本无法在音乐中保持内心的平静。尽管如此，她知道如何冲破混乱与纠结，找到自我探索之旅的出路。《Manic》更像是Halsey的自传作品，描绘了这位艺术家年轻时的混乱状态，但同时她也渴望在充满敌意的世界中收获爱与温柔。她是一位野心勃勃的艺术家，把自己视为她这一代人的镜子。
And she curates one mean mixtape. As she told Rolling Stone last summer, Manic is “hip-hop, rock, country, fucking everything.” Who else but Halsey would get stellar guest shots from Alanis Morissette and Suga from BTS on the same album? Manic is her first album since Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, her 2017 Romeo and Juliet trip, set in a Shakespearean dystopia. But Manic is about the here-and-now real world and her fight for a place in it as a young woman.
她还策划了一盘出色的混音唱片。正如她去年夏天告诉《滚石》杂志的那样，《Manic》的风格可能是“嘻哈、摇滚、乡村、一切”。除了Halsey，还有谁能在一张专辑中同时得到Alanis Morissette和Suga（防弹少年团）的精彩客串呢?《Manic》是她自《Hopless Fountain Kingdom（破碎王国）》之后的第一张专辑，《Hopless Fountain Kingdom（破碎王国）》以莎翁式的反乌托邦主题为背景，所有歌曲都关于爱人与爱情。但《Manic》发生于此时此地的真实世界，讲述了她作为一名年轻女性奋力在其中争取一席之地的故事。
As she confesses in “Still Learning,” “I should be living the dream/But I go home and I got no self-esteem.” She gets introspective, exploring everything from Lilith Fair folk guitar to South Korean rap. Morissette definitely sounds like a kindred spirit, letting loose some Cher-like wails straight from the City of Angels soundtrack while Halsey purrs, “Your pussy is a wonderland.”
正如她在《Still Learning》中坦承的那样:“我应该活在梦想中/但我回家后却没有自尊。” 她开始自省，从莉莉丝民谣吉他到韩国说唱，她试了个遍。Alanis Morissette听起来绝对像是一个志趣相投的人，她在《天使之城（City of Angels）》的原声音乐中直接发出了一些Cher式的哀号，而Halsey则咕噜着:“你的身体如同仙境。”
She fantasizes about getting revenge for her emotional wounds in “Killing Boys” and “I Hate Everybody.” In “929” she gives a rundown of her twentysomething angst: loneliness, anxiety, real estate purchases, hair loss, falling in love with drug addicts, nicotine withdrawal, stressing over responsibility to her teen fans. As she quips, “I remember the names of every single kid I’ve met/But I forget half the people who I’ve gotten in bed.” Even as she pays the bills for her family, she feels abandoned, admitting, “I’ve stared at the sky in Milwaukee and hoped that my father would finally call me.”
The album’s moment of bliss is the fabulously spacey country-rock romance “Finally/Beautiful Stranger.” It sounds like her A Star Is Born cameo might have fired her up to do her own “Shallow.” But it’s reluctantly hopeful, as Halsey sizes up a new flame — “You got hips like Jagger and two left feet”—and surrenders to the vertigo of letting go and getting her expectations up yet again. It’s a rare glimmer of optimism on an album full of pain. But Halsey makes it feel as true as every other moment on Manic.
她在《Killing Boys》和《I Hate Everybody》中幻想着为自己的情感创伤复仇。在《929》中，她讲述了自己20多岁时的躁郁经历: 孤独、焦虑、买房、脱发、爱上瘾君子、尼古丁戒断、对青少年粉丝的过度责任感。她打趣道:“我记得我见过的每一个孩子的名字，但是忘了一半上过床的人的。”她承认，“我在密尔沃基仰望天空，幻想着父亲最终会给我打电话。”
专辑的高潮是单曲《Finally/Beautiful Stranger（美丽的陌生人），讲述了一段令人难以置信的乡村摇滚罗曼史。听起来客串出演《一个明星的诞生（A Star is Born）》似乎激发了她去创作Halsey版的《Shallow（浅滩）》。但随着Halsey审视新的恋情——“你有Jagger那样的翘臀还有点笨手笨脚”——她不情愿地抱有希望，并在放弃和再次提高期望的眩晕中屈服。乐观像是这张充满痛苦的专辑中一丝罕见的微光。但在Halsey的手中它像其余每一个阴郁时刻一般真实而疯狂。
