【Liberation】【圣旨】定音叉pitchfork评奎姐最新专辑《姐放》

The rollout of her eighth album, Liberation, suggests she’s done selling anything that doesn’t fit into her true vision of herself: She posed without makeup on the cover of Paper magazine, and her cover art is similarly stripped down. And the album is, at the very least, a reminder that—holy shit—she can sing. As contemporary radio continues to favor lighter vocal performances from artists like Halsey and Charlie Puth, Aguilera’s powerhouse voice remains the nucleus of her sound, even when she’s tinkering with trap tropes and try-hard slang.
第八张录音室专辑《姐放》（大概算了JBF和burlesque吧）让我们终于看到克女士已经不再勉强自己去迎合市场了--她在Paper杂志和专辑写真上都以素颜与我们坦诚相见。专辑还是一如既往地提醒大家克里斯蒂娜女士唱功天下第一。尽管现如今的电台更喜欢Halsey和Charlie Puth之流的清亮嗓音，但克女士还是选择逆流直上，以震耳发聩的powerhouse vocal辅以trap元素与用力过猛的流行用语（try-hard slang)。

Are those moments a total bummer? Absolutely. “Pipe” includes lyrics like, “I just left a lituation popping by the High Line/Walked in, no list, **** a go sign,” and, “Got a couple secrets that I'd really love to see if you could keep/Damn, boy, you remind me of my Jeep.” In 2018, “lituation” is a word for children and the cast of “Jersey Shore,” and R. Kelly references belong only in a trash compactor. The album’s Kanye West-produced lead single, “Accelerate,” is equally unconvincing; crackly vocals from the usually hefty-voiced Ty Dolla $ign do it no favors.
像这种中年妇女尝试融入年轻人团体的结果是很尴尬的。Pipe里那句"I just left a lituation popping by the High Line/Walked in, no list, **** a go sign"。。。现在都2108年了，除了小孩和“泽西海岸”（真人秀）那帮人谁还用"lituation"（译者：生造词 lit+situation，表明一种很"燃"的情况,已成为死语）还有 “Got a couple secrets that I'd really love to see if you could keep/Damn, boy, you remind me of my Jeep”这种R Kelly的梗真的可以进垃圾堆里就寝了。而”加速“这首歌也同样令人尴尬，特别是Ty Dolla Sign那几声干吼，可以说是恶心了。

Aguilera’s 2010 album, Bionic, featured cutting-edge singles like “Woohoo”—an ode to oral sex featuring Nicki Minaj—and “Elastic Love,” which was co-written by guest vocalist M.I.A. (And this was nearly two years before Madonna enlisted both Minaj and Maya for “Gimme All Your Luvin’.”) The sound of Bionic was perhaps too forward-thinking, a risk that could have reaped the rewards of poptimism if the album had only been released a few years later. Liberation isn’t completely devoid of progressive moments: “Like I Do” is one spot where contemporary pop fare suits Aguilera. D.C. rapper GoldLink, who had his first real crossover hit with last year’s “Crew,” delivers a verse that confirms her continued relevance in hip-hop; his reference to her 1999 debut single, “Genie in a Bottle,” is a tidy hat-tip to the double meaning of Aguilera singing a can’t-do-it-like-me track.
2010年的Bionic还有类似Woohoo和Elastic Love之类的先锋遗珠（别忘了CA比玛丹娜还要早两年feat了这两首歌的制作人/rapper，麻辣鸡和MIA)，整张专辑在当时听起来可能真的太前卫了，如果晚几年再发可能真的商业成就不会这么差。但也不是说《姐放》就是没有进步。“Like I Do"里克女士还是证明了自己与现今的流行音乐可以完美结合的。而Goldlink在他的verse里用的“瓶中精灵"典故在一部“老娘最**”的曲子里还是蛮恰如其分的。
And most people can’t. The ballad “Deserve” is confessional and explicit—“Sometimes I don't think I deserve you/So I say some ****ed-up shit just to hurt you,” she sings—resulting in one of her strongest showings on the album. Early interlude “Searching for Maria” finds Aguilera singing operatic a cappella while invoking “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” from The Sound of Music, followed by a full track called “Maria” (produced by West and Hudson Mohawke) that Aguilera says is about finding her true self. “[It’s] about feeling as if I've gotten really far removed from myself and unable to feel good about looking in the mirror, because I don't feel like I'm connected with my truth,” she told Paper.
的确，很多人是**不过CA女士的。Deserve这首歌既直白又坦诚，“Sometimes I don't think I deserve you/So I say some ****ed-up shit just to hurt you”是她整砖里感情最热烈的释放。Searching for Maria里CA借翻唱《音乐之声》里的唱段发出了 “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” 的天问，并引出接下来的Maria里CA苦苦寻求真我的感受。（然后说CA采访的时候表示，有时候觉得看着镜子里的自己已经不是真正的样子）
“Maria” also marks the beginning of a triptych of album highlights. “Sick of Sittin’” has writing and production credits from Anderson .Paak and wouldn’t be out of place in his personal catalog (save for the lyric, “It’s good pay, but it’s slavery,” which sounds a little tone-deaf in context). “Fall in Line,” a duet with Demi Lovato, is a confidence booster without melodrama. The singers proclaim their refusal to be silenced while screwed chants from an ersatz drill sergeant instruct them, “Left two, three, right, two, three/Shut your mouth, stick your ass out for me.” These are sturdy moments on an album that feels less like an end in itself than a promising first step toward a genuine pop rebirth—moments that are strong enough to inspire hope for Aguilera’s own The Velvet Rope or, at least, My Love Is Your Love. She has certainly still got the range.
（接下来就是主编认为的其他两首佳曲（SOS和FIL) 及其分析，真的懒得翻译了,都是大白话）
FIL的背景音里那一声声踏步的指令更像是一个巨星稳扎稳打的回春口号。我们仿佛已经可以看到Liberation于CA来说就是《华丽的冒险》（The Velvet Rope)于珍猩（口碑，销量回春），或者至少是My Love is Your Love于惠特尼休斯顿了（惠姨口碑最好专辑，销量不佳）

比较简陋的翻译，我语文功底很差，见谅
译者评：跟我想的大概差不多。CA在尝试融入年轻人这一点的确用力过猛了，外网对她此次流行歌曲的作词也颇有微词。我听到Like I Do里goldlink用精灵的典的那一段真的是要尖叫出来：终于有rapper在你擦的歌里rap跟主题有关的词了！！而且还用得这么妙！本来想单独为这首歌开一贴评论，结果发现自己的文字水平真的是。。。不敢曝短
这次叉婊也一次性简短地补偿了前两张的漏评：莲花是灾难，生化有前瞻性但是没卖气
可以看出来pitchfork是比较偏向于风格有冒险性的艺人，而在框里的流行歌手要不然就不评，要不然就不怎么手下留情。当然，pitchfork的”前瞻性"也不一定次次都对，比如这次的Ye... 给CA6.7算是比较公正，虽然我私心真的很想它再给高点，因为它在metacritic里的权重会很高所以会很拉分。但是没办法，人家有理有据，而且本来就不是随便给高分的主。。。
67也算差强人意了吧。这张专辑要大爆真的不太可能，但如果可以为CA的事业一口喘息的机会，那还是很不错的

婊叉能给67都算是毒奶了

其实67算是手下留情了

婊叉第一次评分惹，跟本来想的分数差不多
不服加速的评语，pipe制作也是很好
然后作词很多擦是在第一位但也是有其他人，整专制作人也有很多年轻的吧？他们也没去改词可能也是有原因惹

第八张是算了拉丁和圣诞