搬運自：網易云音樂專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調整）

翻譯：豆目豆科

Early on in the making of Haim’s 2017 album Something to Tell You, the band’s producer (and Danielle Haim’s romantic partner) Ariel Rechtshaid learned that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Though he’s since recovered, Haim’s new song “Summer Girl” was born at a time when his prognosis was still uncertain. “I was on tour and felt like I was trying to send positive energy his way almost telepathically,” Danielle wrote in a statement about the track. “Whenever I would come home in between shows I wanted to be his sunshine—his summer when he was feeling dark.” Co-produced by Rostam and Rechtshaid himself, the sweetly plaintive “Summer Girl” captures the disquieting feeling of trying to conjure up any ounce of hope in a grim situation.

在Haim 2017年的專輯《Something to Tell You》的制作初期，樂隊的制作人（同時也是Danielle Haim的男朋友）Ariel Rechtshaid被診斷出患有睪丸癌。雖然他如今已經痊愈，但當Haim的新歌“Summer Girl”釋出時，他的病情尚不穩(wěn)定?！癐 was on tour and felt like I was trying to send positive energy his way almost telepathically,” Danielle在關于這首歌的聲明中寫道。“Whenever I would come home in between shows I wanted to be his sunshine—his summer when he was feeling dark.”在Rostam和Rechtshaid本人的共同制作下，甜美而樸實的“Summer Girl”捕捉到了面臨嚴峻形勢時渴望喚起任何一絲希望的焦灼情緒。

Taking heavy inspiration from Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” the song features a jazzier palette than Haim’s usual guitar-forward funk-pop. All throughout, an upright bass cycles through a handful of notes while Danielle’s soft coos of “doot-doo” mirror the tension. It’s a phrase that usually surfaces in lighthearted background vocals, or when humming along to a song you don’t know the words to, but Danielle’s vowels are tinged with sadness and hesitation, as if she’s holding back tears. The song’s momentous bridge reveals the fear and uncertainty that came with Rechtshaid’s diagnosis, but still she remains eerily calm, singing with an almost meditative composure: “You walk beside me, not behind me/Feel my unconditional love.” With those words, Danielle positions herself as a rock for her partner and invokes the age-old belief: Love has the power to heal.

這首歌從Lou Reed的“Walk on the Wild Side”中汲取了大量靈感，相較于Haim一貫的吉他+前衛(wèi)的放克流行樂充實了更多的爵士樂元素。自始至終，都有著立式貝斯的醇厚低音游走于零星幾個音符間，同時Danielle輕柔的“嘟嘟”聲也塑造了這種緊張氛圍。這種小呢喃往往出現在有著輕快基調的音樂中，有時你可以在不知道歌詞的情況下跟著哼唱，但如今Danielle口中的元音卻夾雜著悲傷與躊躇，好像她正忍著淚水歌唱。這首歌的重要橋段為我們揭示了Rechtshaid癌癥的確診為Danielle帶來的恐懼與不安，但她仍努力保持平靜，異常的平靜，以一種近乎冥想的鎮(zhèn)定唱道：“You walk beside me, not behind me/Feel my unconditional love.”通過這些話，Danielle將自己視作她伴侶內心的磐石，同時由此喚起一個古老的信念——愛能治愈一切。