She’s just being herself
Art Angels
我曾在16年的夏末写过艺术天使的乐评 (我唯一的长乐评)。最近因为Miss Anthropocene的缘故，我把这张老专辑又重温了两遍，借着这个机会再review一次。
有趣的是，Art Angels这张专辑最打动我的地方，并不是变幻莫测的节奏，也不是流光溢彩的合成器音效。反而Grimes所展现的人格，是最能打动我的——Ms. Boucher披着一层仙系外衣，然而扒开这层外衣，待在里面的却是一个“平凡”的小女孩。她渴望着被爱，敢于打破束缚，也时常哀叹着命运的无力或挚友的背叛。正是这些强烈的人格要素，给予了这张专辑一个额外的维度，让所有的hook、dance beat都有了额外的意义——of the human feelings，I guess。
RC在给艺术天使的评价中，把Grimes这种情感的释放联系到了Feminism，关于这点我是存疑的。不过即便如此，他的这篇review仍然是我读到的最好一篇，where he wrote [1]，
“This singer-composer-producer is neither cute nor ethereal, and although the consistency of her register is an affectation by definition, she'll convince anyone who isn't a grouch that she's just being herself, not merely female but, f*ck you, feminine--the fairie she likes to claim crossed with a charming three-year-old getting what she wants. Which includes adrenaline highs and mitigated perversity and California love and pornography in phonetic Chinese. She embodies hyperfeminist individualism for a post-rock mindset that likes a good beat fine.”
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