翻譯：Nomanlandever

校對：柏原Dellen

In the starry-eyed?newsletter?Lorde?sent announcing?Solar Power,?her third studio album, the pop star introduced her fans to a new persona: “Her feet are bare at all times. She’s sexy, playful, feral and free. She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini…h(huán)er skin is glowing, her lovers are many. I’m completely obsessed with her, and soon you will be too.” The prose was rapturous, romantic in a way that seemed almost unhinged, to the point that I seriously contemplated whether it had been ghostwritten by Caroline Calloway. Lorde has presented?Solar Power?as an opportunity to dethaw, a beach soundtrack that reflects her “unending search for the divine”—but something about this framing has felt off. The “Solar Power” music video was so eerily sanitized and optimistic that it seemed like the kind of thing the younger Lorde, a keen critic of societal excesses, would have skewered gleefully.

在Lorde官宣第三張錄音室專輯《Solar Power》的宣傳郵件中，這位流行歌星向粉絲揭曉新的概念形象：“她總是光著腳。她性感、頑皮、野性、自由。她是一個穿著老式比基尼的現(xiàn)代女孩……她的皮膚光彩奪目，她的情人眾多。我完全被她迷住了，很快你也會的。”這篇散文充滿了狂放的浪漫，顯得精神錯亂，以至于我嚴(yán)肅思忖它是否是由Caroline Calloway代寫的。Lorde將《Solar Power》視作一次解凍的機(jī)會，一首反映出她“對神圣境界的探索”的海灘音樂——但此場面有些不對勁。《Solar Power》的MV是如此詭異的潔凈和樂觀，似乎是一種以前的Lorde對會欣然抨擊的社會問題類的事物。

On her latest single, “Mood Ring,” Lorde is still breezy—urging the ladies to begin their sun salutations and invoking all the tenets of pseudo-spiritual wellness culture: astrology, crystals, sage-burning—but she’s firmly emphasized the song is satire. “Don’t you think the early 2000s seem so far away?” she wonders cheekily, while pulling from a blissed-out palette that evokes roughly the same era, music that sounds like you’re about to start your day with a breakfast of fat-free yogurt (see: Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Imbruglia). There are some witty lines, like a trifling complaint that her mood is “as dark as my roots.” But, in the context of the prior singles, it’s yet another song that’s less exciting than hoped for; plus, for someone who’s previously been so ahead of the curve, this critique of wellness culture seems pretty trite.

在她的最新單曲《Mood Ring》中，Lorde依舊怡然自得——敦促女士們盡快開啟太陽崇拜儀式，并援引偽精神健康文化的信條：占星術(shù)、水晶、燃鼠尾草——但她堅定地強(qiáng)調(diào)這首歌是諷刺的。?“Don’t you think the early 2000s seem so far away?”她厚臉皮疑惑地唱道，同時獻(xiàn)上讓人聯(lián)想到那個時代幸福調(diào)色板似的音樂，就像你準(zhǔn)備以脫脂酸奶早餐開啟你的一天(如:Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Imbruglia)。歌中有一些詼諧的句子，如一句小小的抱怨，談到她的心情?“as dark as my roots.”但是，與她曾經(jīng)的單曲相比，這又是一首未達(dá)到期待值的歌曲；另外，對于一個曾經(jīng)走在潮流前沿的人來說，這種對健康文化的抨擊似乎相當(dāng)老套。