翻譯：Nomanlandever

Ariana Grande's first full-length, last year's?Yours Truly, paired the teen TV star-turned-pop singer's impressive vocal skills with airy yet sumptuous R&B-leaning pop that, at its best, evoked?Mariah Carey?in a way that transcended Grande's own mini-Mariah aspirations. From the looks of it, her forthcoming?My Everything?stands to expand her sound palette a bit: first single?"Problem"?overcame guest appearances by no-talent stars?Iggy Azalea?and?Big Sean, coming off as the best saxophone-featuring pop song since?Jennifer Lopez's "Get Right", and now there's the delightfully colorful, life-affirming "Break Free", perhaps Grande's boldest song yet.

Ariana Grande去年推出的首張正式專輯《Yours Truly》中，這位從青少年電視明星轉(zhuǎn)型的流行歌星將令人眼前一亮的演唱與輕快而華麗的R＆B向的流行音樂結(jié)合起來，專輯最棒的部分便是讓人直接聯(lián)想到Mariah Carey，而不是Ariana“小Mariah”式的自嗨。依照常理看，即將發(fā)行的專輯《My Everything》將更多樣地展現(xiàn)她的歌唱可塑性。首單《Problem》中Ariana的表現(xiàn)吊打“無才華”的客串歌手Iggy Azalea和Big Sean，成為繼Jennifer Lopez的《Get Right》之后最好的薩克斯風(fēng)格流行歌曲，現(xiàn)在有了愉悅多彩、積極進(jìn)取的《Break Free》，這可能是Ariana Grande迄今為止最大膽的歌曲。

From the zippy opening synth line to the verse's insistent pounding, "Break Free" certainly invites comparisons to Swedish pop mastermind?Robyn; as ever, Grande brings her own skyscraping voice in top form, so vocally the comparisons don't stick. Production-wise, however, this is top-notch synth-pop, and all credit goes to German producer?Zedd, whose own megahits?"Clarity"?and?"Stay the Night"?have doubled as showcases for his capability to wield loopy, lollipop-sticky synths into dizzying pop-confection perfection. "This is the part when/ I say I don't want you/ I'm stronger than I've been before," Grande belts during the chorus, a breakup-survival cry that matches?Kelly Clarkson's I'm-still-moving-on?"Since You Been Gone", updating that song's guitar-driven rush for today's computer world.

從開頭展現(xiàn)的活潑的合成器主線到重?fù)袈暡粩嗟闹鞲?，《Break Free》很難不與瑞典流行樂掌舵人Robyn比較。如同往常，Ariana使她高亢的嗓音保持著最佳狀態(tài)，因此歌唱上的較量先告一段落。然而，在制作方面，這是一流的合成流行音樂，這一切都要?dú)w功于德國制作人Zedd，他自己的超級(jí)熱單《Clarity》和《Stay the Night》也展現(xiàn)了他的能力，能把棒棒糖般黏糊的合成器做成令人眼花繚亂的頂級(jí)流行作品。?"This is the part when/ I say I don't want you/ I'm stronger than I've been before,"Ariana在副歌高歌著，一段從分手后殘存的哭泣，與Kelly Clarkson在《Since You Been Gone》中唱道的“I'm-still-moving-on”相吻合，使這首由吉他驅(qū)動(dòng)急促感十足的歌更新為當(dāng)今的電腦版。