NME Music Review 中文翻译：Charli XCX – ‘Pop 2’
（作者：Rhian Daly）
The pop star finds freedom in innovation on her second mixtape of 2017
这位流行歌手在2017年的第二张混音带中找到了创新的自由。
“Fuck playing the game,” Charli XCX wrote in a note to fans following the release of ‘Pop 2’, admitting along the way that she’d lost her way in recent months, losing sight of what she wanted from life. The insinuation was she had been very much playing the game up until she made her first mixtape of 2017, ‘Number 1 Angel‘, and had been left frustrated, disheartened and directionless by the fact making all the right moves hadn’t got her to the big prize. Pop success had become like playing chess against a supercomputer.
“去他妈的玩游戏。” 《Pop2》发行后，洗茶姐在给歌迷的一封信中写道。她承认自己最近几个月迷失了方向，看不见自己对生活的渴望。这说明她一直在玩游戏直到她在2017年制作出自己的第一张混音带—《Number 1 Angel》。所有正确的举动并未让她获得大奖，这让她感到非常沮丧、灰心和迷茫。流行音乐的成功变得像和超级计算机下棋般困难。
Luckily, disregarding the way pop stars are “meant” to make and release music has given Charli a new sense of freedom. That is abundantly clear listening to the experimental, feature-heavy ‘Pop 2’. Each song is a metamorphic piece of dance-pop that traverses disorientating samples (‘Femmebot’), skittering beats (‘I Got It’), and a ton of auto-tune (‘Delicious’). What’s immediately striking is that Charli somehow manages to keep pop at the centre of every piece of this forward-thinking, boundary-pushing puzzle, never letting her experiments overshadow melody or hook.
幸运的是，忽视流行歌手“注定”创作和发行歌曲的方式给洗茶姐带来了全新的自由感。这一点在聆听实验性且特点丰富的《Pop 2》时体现得淋漓尽致。每首歌曲都是一首美妙的流行舞曲，令人迷惑的节录（Femmebot）、不断跳跃的节拍（I Got It）和大量的Auto-Tune（Delicious）贯穿其中。让人眼前一亮的是，洗茶姐设法将流行音乐置于具有前瞻性和突破性的难题中央。这从不让她的实验音乐使旋律或hook 黯然失色。
‘Track 10’, for instance, screeches in on a bed of rewound, slowed-down gabbles, before zooming through rippling synths and the kind of eerie drones you’d want a Halloween remix to be slathered in. It never quite settles on one sound – and is the opposite of the very unapologetically pop ‘Out Of My Head’ – yet the chorus line of “I blame it on your love/Every time I fuck it up” is the thing that’s left front and centre in your memory.
例如，“Track10”在一堆倒放的、慢速的杂音中显得刺耳，然后在连绵不断的合成器和您想在万圣节重混乐中充斥的怪异嗡嗡声中急速穿行。它从不会完全停留在一种声音上—与毫无歉意地爆发的《Out Of My Head》截然相反。但副歌中的“我将一切罪责推之于你的爱/每当我心慌意乱”（I blame it on your love/Every time I fuck it up）是记忆中重要的部分。
Charli has never been shy about collaborating and ‘Pop 2’ is full of co-productions. All but two songs boast a featured artist (and the whole thing was made with PC Music’s AG Cook), but there are no gratuitous cameos. Whether it’s pop cult queen Carly Rae Jepsen forlornly breaking hearts on the shimmering ‘Backseat’ or Korean-American singer Jay Park on the soft undulation of ‘Unlock It’, everyone not only earns their place, but is heralded by Charli and AG too – the production shifts every time a new guest arrives on the scene, subtly giving them the space to do their own thing. Charli’s second mixtape of the year isn’t just about proving she’s more than your average pop star, but about her settling into her role as innovator, celebrator, and curator supreme.
洗茶姐从不畏惧合作。《Pop 2》中全都是合作的歌曲。除了两首歌曲之外，所有歌曲都由一位特别的艺术家操刀（一切都由PC Music的AG Cook制作），但其中没有免费的客串。无论是流行歌后卡莉·雷·杰普森（Carly Rae Jepsen）在闪烁的《Backseat》上伤心，还是韩裔美国歌手 Jay Park 在柔和起伏的《UnlockIt》中，每个人不仅占一席之地，还得到了洗茶姐和AG 的称赞。每当有新人物登场时，制作的过程就会发生变化，巧妙地给予他们做自己事情的空间。洗茶姐今年的第二张混音带不仅在于证明她比一般的流行歌手出色，还在于适应创新者、庆祝者和最高企划人的角色。
原文：https://www.nme.com/reviews/charli-xcx-pop-2-2177551
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