搬運自：微信公眾號【評論搬一堆】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

翻譯：Peter D

審譯：Whitney.L

排版：SpencerC

Is everything OK in Charli land? Ahead of?Charli XCX’s upcoming album?Charli, pop’s queen of having a wild good time has resorted to the attainable escapism of “1999” with Troye Sivan and recruited?Lizzo?to “Blame It on Your Love.” But real healing requires introspection, and Charli’s latest single, “Gone,” written and recorded with?Christine and the Queens’ Hélo?se Letissier, starts from a different place. “I am just now realizing, they don’t care/I try real hard, but I’m caught up by my insecurities,” Charli admits.

Charli世界的一切都還好嗎？在Charli的新專輯發(fā)行之前，我們這位流行樂壇的瘋狂女皇聯(lián)手Troye Sivan共同推出“1999”這首可以逃避現(xiàn)實，憧憬未來美好的歌曲，還拉來了Lizzo一起合作了“Blame It on Your Love（歸咎于你的愛）”這首單曲。但是，真正的愈合需要深刻的反省，而Charli和Christine and the Queens即Hélo?se Letissier共同創(chuàng)作并演唱的最新單曲“Gone（離去）”，則出于一個全然不同的立場。Charli 承認：“I am just now realizing, they don’t care/I try real hard, but I’m caught up by my insecurities.（我終于開始意識到，他們毫不關心/我拼盡全力，但只能淪陷于我的不安全感。）”

A. G. Cook?and ?’s production matches the bassy stutters and crackles of Charli’s post-PC Music projects with the kinetic, bilingual funk-pop of Christine and the Queens’ 2018 album?Chris. The song bangs like it’s trying to get out of a big metal box, probably because that’s how its creators are feeling: “I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people/How they're making me feel lately,” sings Charli, with typical bluntness. Beside her, Letissier narrates existential panic: “I see myself and I look scared and confused/Wait, did they just talk? Why is it loud?” she asks, a tart pucker in her voice. Though the song’s video finds the pair tied by the same bondage ropes, there’s not much space for mutual support here—more like two parallel panic spirals.

A. G. Cook和?的配合使得Charli的后PC Music（譯者注：廠牌名）項目中那些低音“結(jié)巴”式的唱詞、劈里啪啦的電子聲音與Christine and the Queens 2018年的專輯《Chris》中動感的雙語funk-pop搭配得相得益彰。歌曲讓人十分震撼，聽上去仿佛是要沖破一個金屬牢籠，而這可能也正是創(chuàng)作人們的感受：“I feel so unstable, fucking hate these people/How they're making me feel lately（我感到不安，真TM恨這些人/這就是最近他們給我的感受），”Charli用她代表性的直率唱到。除了她以外，Letissier也描述著那顯而易見的慌張：“I see myself and I look scared and confused/Wait, did they just talk? Why is it loud?（我看著自己，我看上去恐懼又迷茫/等等，他們剛剛是在說話嗎？為什么這么喧囂？）”她嘟著嘴問到。雖然在MV中這兩個人被同一根繩子綁著，但這里似乎沒有什么相互的扶持——更像是兩個平行的恐慌漩渦。

The only answers are more questions, and the extended coda flips and stretches them to the breaking point. It’s both a technical flex and a kind of lopsided resolution: What if, instead of a constant thunderous disquiet, we try to unwind any way we can?

唯一的答案只有更多的問題，歌曲的尾聲把這些問題扭轉(zhuǎn)、拉扯到了極點。這既是一種技術上的展示，也是一種不平衡的解決方案：如果我們試著去以任何可以觸及的方式去放松，而不是持續(xù)雷鳴般轟響的憂慮，又會怎樣呢？