【搬运译】Pitchfork评Grimes 2019年单曲So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth

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翻译：Chris.Yin

审译：Joonly EC

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Grimes’ new music this year has often resembled roguish, pessimistic concept art. With stomping nü-metal transhumanism and sinister synthpop about abusive power dynamics, the dystopian conceit of her upcoming climate change-themed Miss Anthropocene has so far hinged on audacious genre-hopping and overly affected lyrics, for better and for worse. Grimes’ latest offering, the six-minute downtempo odyssey “So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth,” feels like an inevitable comedown from the rave-ups, with the forceful theatrics supplanted by a languid pace and insular frame of mind.

今年Grimes新单的风格类似于俏皮又有些悲观的概念艺术。由于带有新金属的超人类主义元素和过度用力的合成器流行乐，不管怎样，大胆做作的歌词造就了她即将推出的以气候变化为主题的专辑《Miss Anthropocene（《新人世小姐》）》这一反乌托邦奇想。Grimes最新推出的长达6分钟的节奏缓慢的《So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth（重坠地球）》表达了一种低落的情绪，这感觉就像是狂欢中不可避免的潦倒，而缓慢的节拍和与世隔绝的心境取代了强有力的戏剧性。

Grimes seems even more emotionally fraught than we last heard on the slick, breathless “Violence.” She coos of feeling so “weighed down” by love that she fears the ground beneath her could give way, extending another dark, complicated notion of violence as comfort. Of course, Grimes had a more elaborate storyline in mind for the song: Back in February, she teased a concept art sketch of a dragon and an angel locked in mid-air combat above the caption, “Massive battle scene.” You can imagine that fantastical deathmatch in torpid slow motion, then, with Grimes’ murmured vocals and gloomy, minimalist production alluding to more unrest to come.

与上一次华而不实的“Violence（暴力）”相比，这一次Grimes似乎更加烦躁不安。她感觉自己被爱情“压倒”，以至于她害怕自己脚下会崩裂，并延伸出另一种黑暗，复杂地把暴力刻画得如同安慰一样。当然，Grimes对这首歌的构思更为复杂：回首二月，她嘲笑了那副把巨龙大战天使定格在标题之上的概念艺术草图，标题为“Massive battle scene（浩劫）”。你可以想象，在缓慢的节拍中发生了荒诞的死亡竞赛，然后，由于Grimes喃喃的嗓音和忧郁的情绪的渲染，简约主义者的作品暗示着更多动荡的到来。