【3】gigwise--100
机翻：
安静的自信，残酷的诚实和强大的*
社交媒体上的人们真的很喜欢说已经发生了“文化重置”，好吧，如果你往墙上扔一大堆果冻，最终会有东西粘住。
在她的第二张全长唱片《Happier Than Ever》中，Billie Eilish（与她的制作人/兄弟 FINNEAS 一起）发起了一个新方向，
这将不可避免地波及我们的新文化——是的，甚至可能重置它。在 56 分钟时，我们收到的新全长单曲——“我的未来”、“失去的原因”、“你的力量”、“保密协议”和“因此我是”——无法指望哪里比以往更快乐真的去向。总的来说，Happier Than Ever 将我们如此熟悉的事物转化为整体。除了可以独立存在的歌曲之外，这些单曲还呈现出安静的自信、残酷的诚实和强大的性。
开场白“Getting Older”展现了比莉深思熟虑的最佳状态，但开场有点失误：专辑中出众的“我没有改变我的号码”开场时狗的咆哮立即将铁路切换到比以往更快乐的地方真的是：一幅由不同的——通常是凌乱的——部分组成的年轻女性的细致画作。
Billie 的英国版《Vogue》“打破互联网”拍摄，展示了她一系列令人惊叹的、复古风格的内衣造型，更多地表明了音乐上的发展方向，超出了我们的想象。当我们都睡着了我们要去哪里？比莉口齿伶俐，极具颠覆性，在这里她体现了纯粹的力量，生命中最有力的主题成为比莉抒情的焦点：性、死亡、悲伤、自我赋权。
在'Billie Bossa Nova'和'Oxytocin'中，她明确表达了自己的愿望：“今晚你的样子有点……让我想……和你一起拍一部我们不得不隐藏的电影”她唱到前者; “因为如果她看到我们，我喜欢做上帝不赞成的事情”对后者。当然，其中一些是为了引诱小报八卦而制作的令人兴奋的马戏，但也有一种非常强烈的感觉，即比莉也在展示从青少年成长为年轻成年人的新肌肉。
她的信心像水一样在整张唱片中蔓延：在单曲“Lost Cause”中，她嘲笑她曾经渴望的失败者，而在“Not My Responsibility”中，她处于最重要的状态，发表了一段关于人们评判的她的，令人起鸡皮疙瘩的独白“我与生俱来的身体”。当主打歌出现时，听到表面意思上的声明实际上并不是指被新情人拥抱，而是恰恰相反：“当我离开你时，我“比以往任何时候都更快乐”她唱道。而这一切都无法触及 Happier Than Ever 音乐和制作的非凡之处！感谢上帝，Billie 决定与她的兄弟 FINNEAS 一起担任联合编剧和制片人：这些兄弟姐妹之间的共生再次创造了魔力。
在波萨诺瓦、摇滚、耳语声学、灵魂乐和不断创新的电子音乐中，这对搭档成功地将一个又一个流派，呈现为他们自己的流派，使解释影响看起来就像从音乐史的草地上摘花并将它们安排在一个花束里。
随着制作怪癖、歌曲中间的转变和抒情的丰富，比以往任何时候都更快乐，感觉远远少于其近一个小时的运行时间，呈现出一座需要一次又一次探索的宫殿。重新审视，发现包含脆弱和真正心碎的壁龛，冷笑嘲笑的肖像，大胆颠覆生产的走廊以及流行文化的整体氛围-它显然已经很好地真正重置。
原文：
Album Review: Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
Quiet confidence, brutal honesty and powerful sexuality.
People on social media really really like to say that there’s been a 'cultural reset'. Well, if you throw a hell of a lot of jelly at the wall, eventually something’s going to stick. On her second full-length record Happier Than Ever, Billie Eilish (alongside her producer/brother FINNEAS) has instigated a new direction that will inevitably ripple throughout our culture—and yeah, maybe even reset it.
At 56 minutes long, the singles we received for this new full-length —‘my future’, ‘Lost Cause’, ‘Your Power’, ‘NDA’ and ‘Therefore I Am’—could not hope to indicate where Happier Than Ever was really going. As a whole, Happier Than Ever transforms what we’re so familiar with into something whole. Alongside songs that could have also stood alone, these singles take on a totality of quiet confidence, brutal honesty and powerful sexuality.
Opener ‘Getting Older’ shows Billie at her thoughtful best, giving somewhat of a false start: the growls of a dog at the open of album standout ‘I Didn’t Change My Number’ immediately carry out a railroad switch towards what Happier Than Ever really is: a nuanced painting of a young woman made up of disparate—and often messy—parts.
Billie’s ‘internet-breaking’ British Vogue shoot, which showed her in a series of stunning, vintage-inspired lingerie looks, was more of an indication of where things were going musically than we could have ever imagined. Where on When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? Billie was sharp tongued and subversive, here she is sheer power embodied, the most potent of life subjects become the focus of Billie’s lyric-writing: sex, death, sadness, self-empowerment.
On ‘Billie Bossa Nova’ and ‘Oxytocin’ she is explicit in her desires: “there’s something ’bout the way you look tonight…Makes me wanna…make a movie with you that we’d have to hide” she sings on the former; “‘Cause I like to do things God doesn’t approve of if She saw us” on the latter. Of course, some of this is titillating horseplay made to bait tabloid gossip, but there is also a very strong sense that Billie is also flexing new muscles that come with growing from a teenager into a young adult.
Her confidence spreads like ink in water across the entire record: on single ‘Lost Cause’, she derides a loser she once craved and on ‘Not My Responsibility’, she is at her most essential, delivering a goosebump-inducing monologue about people judging her for “the body I was born with”. By the time the title track comes around, it’s less of a surprise to hear that the titular statement does not in fact refer to being in the embrace of a new lover, but quite the opposite: “When I’m away from you, I’m happier than ever” she sings.
And none of that is to even touch the extraordinariness of the music and production on Happier Than Ever! thank God Billie decided to stick with her brother FINNEAS as co-writer and producer: the symbiosis between these siblings creates magic once more. Across bossa nova, stadium rock, whispering acoustics, soul, and ever-inventive electronics, the pair manage to present genre after genre as their own, making interpreting influence look as easy as plucking flowers from the meadow of musical history and arranging them in a bouquet.
With production quirks, mid-song about-turns and lyrical flourishes aplenty, Happier Than Ever feels far less than its near hour-long runtime, presenting a palace to explore again and again. Revisit to find alcoves containing vulnerability and genuine heartbreak, portraits of sneering derision, corridors of bold production subversion and an overall air of pop culture having been well and truly reset.
> 我来回应