拙译了rc的乐评

#翻译Robert Christgau的乐评#

Young, Gifted and Black [Atlantic, 1972]

This plays straight to the nouveau-bourgeois black album audience, with all the self-consciousness and instrumentation that implies, but though it's genteel it's never bloodless: Aretha's free-flight improvisations are vehicles of a romanticism extreme and even unhinged enough to soar from the Afro-American experience right into the blithe fantasies of pop. She makes "Long and Winding Road" rock and turns the programmatic title anthem into a hymn. She proves herself a fond observer of everyday life on her own "First Snow in Kokomo." And on "Day Dreaming" she provides a metaphor her American-dreaming sisters and brothers can relate to: the song is wishful thinking, but the man it's about may just be real anyway, and that's the way America is sometimes. A

由于里面体现出来的个体意识和它所用的器乐，这张专辑直接可以以新贵的中产阶级为受众了。尽管十分的雅致，它并非没有人情味：Aretha天马行空的即兴承载着一种极端浪漫主义，甚至疯狂到跳脱出非裔美国人的经历，直接升华为美妙绝伦的流行音乐。她让《Long and Winding Road》摇滚起来，让这首带有标题的“国歌”变成一首圣曲。她用创作的《First Snow in Kokomo》证明了自己是一个对日常生活兴致勃勃的观察者。而在《Day Dreaming》里，她使用了一种让她执迷着美国梦的兄弟姐妹们可以感同身受的隐喻：尽管歌曲是一厢情愿的，但不管怎样里面的人却可能是真的，而美国有时也确实如此。