Lorde問道:“到底哪里是完美的地方?”答案是不存在。但是你知道要想找到那里簡直觸手可及褥紫。
- UNIVERSAL NZ 2017
- Lorde
- “Perfect Places”
在Lorde的世界里悟泵，不完美總是一種美德——無論是她“不正確的作曲”（拐彎抹角的banger--Green Light和Liability中無可避免的孤獨(dú)）港华，或者是她從歌曲中體會(huì)到的瘋癲的舞蹈表達(dá) 脾歇。她說她即將發(fā)行的第二張專輯《Melodrama》描繪了一個(gè)轟趴的發(fā)展軌跡刻蟹，這聽起來有點(diǎn)滑稽：已經(jīng)發(fā)行的這些歌里逗旁，并沒有聽起來很“狂歡作樂”。但Lorde作為一位作曲者座咆，仍然把自己不合拍的泰然自若埋在旋律中痢艺。
聚會(huì)在哪里結(jié)束? Melodrama 的結(jié)束曲 “Perfect Places ”（譯者注：根據(jù) Lorde 在 instagram 上公布的曲目列表來看，這是專輯的結(jié)束曲）對(duì)凌晨3點(diǎn)的境況剖反映的相當(dāng)坦率介陶。這首歌從一個(gè)和 Pure Heroine 的" Team "一樣寬敞的堤舒、炭黑的節(jié)拍開始，但后面變得更加殘酷哺呜。在“ Perfect Places ”里舌缤，Lorde的主角們正在死去 ; 她受不了頭條消息; 天氣也很糟糕（譯者注：均為歌詞）。周圍的世界變得越來越不容易辨認(rèn)，你該如何應(yīng)對(duì)? “現(xiàn)在我不能忍受孤獨(dú)国撵，”她唱道陵吸。
如果有論調(diào)說 party 是唯一活下去的方法，那么Lorde的歌就應(yīng)該是論據(jù)之一介牙∽吵妫“ Perfect Places ”指的是我們體驗(yàn)人生時(shí)可以探索的范圍，但它卻不涉及“不優(yōu)雅”（譯者注：歌詞）环础、怪誕的真實(shí)生活的任何細(xì)節(jié)——“夜晚在我們臉上度過” （譯者注：歌詞） 的后果囚似。轟趴的承諾很少兌現(xiàn):無論你幾歲，你都不可能在酒精和陌生人中找到烏托邦线得。在這首歌的結(jié)尾饶唤，伴隨著突然的轉(zhuǎn)折，Lorde問道:“到底哪里是完美的地方?”答案是不存在贯钩。但是你知道要想找到那里簡直觸手可及募狂。（譯者注：pitchfork的意思是party嗎？）
原文：
Imperfection is always a virtue in Lorde’s world—whether it’s the “incorrect songwriting” of her fantastically nonlinear banger “Green Light,” her unchosen solitude on “Liability,” or the manic expressive dancing these new songs inspire within her. She has said that her upcoming second album, Melodrama, charts the trajectory of a single house party, which is a little funny in this context—the searching introspection of these songs doesn't quite scream “rager” yet. But Lorde is a songwriter who still vividly celebrates out-of-step self-possession.
Where does the party end? Melodrama closer “Perfect Places” cuts to the 3 a.m. heart-to-heart. The track slides in on a spacious, charcoal beat à la Pure Heroine’s “Team,” but reality has grown crueler since then. In “Perfect Places,” Lorde’s heroes are dying; she can’t stand the headlines; the weather is disagreeable. The world around is becoming less recognizable, and how to cope? “Now I can’t stand to be alone,” she sings.
If there is an argument to be made for partying as a mechanism of survival, this Lorde song bolsters it. “Perfect Places” is about the extents we go to in order to feel more alive, but it spares no details of “graceless,” grotesque real life—the consequences of “nights spent off our faces.” The promise of the house party is so rarely fulfilled: At any age, you are unlikely to find utopia in a drink and a stranger. By the end of the song, with the raspy inflection of experience, Lorde asks, “What the fuck are perfect places anyway?” There are none. But the path to figuring that out comes close.
原文地址：http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/19166-lorde-perfect-places/?
