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Review: Lorde's 'Melodrama' Is Fantastically Intimate, a Production Tour De Force
On her debut, Pure Heroine, Lorderidiculed pop music while glorying in it. The former Ella Yelich-O'Connor displayedan honor-roll-brat-in-detention-hall flow, a goth sense of drama and the sortof supreme over it-ness that only an actual 16-year-old can muster. Fullof heart and nuanced writing, the LP was a small masterpiece and a massive hitas well. You could tell the Auckland, New Zealand kid was in for the long haul,and, after a four-year wait, her second album, Melodrama, confirms thatnotion.
在她的大热专辑《Pure Heroine》中，Lorde在使流行乐大放光彩的同时，毫不留情地嘲讽了其现状。Ella Yelich-O’Connor 展示了一种类似于优秀孩子被关禁闭的感觉，一种哥特式的戏剧感，一种只有真正的16岁的少年才能生发的超脱看透的思考。由心而发的微妙的创作，让这张专辑既是一张精巧的杰作，又达成了巨大的商业成功。你能看出新西兰的青少年们都在她的音乐中沉迷。在4年的等待后，她的第二张专辑《Melodrama》，进一步地证明了这些观点。
On her debut, Pure Heroine, Lorderidiculed pop music while glorying in it. The former Ella Yelich-O'Connor displayedan honor-roll-brat-in-detention-hall flow, a goth sense of drama and the sortof supreme over it-ness that only an actual 16-year-old can muster. Fullof heart and nuanced writing, the LP was a small masterpiece and a massive hitas well. You could tell the Auckland, New Zealand kid was in for the long haul,and, after a four-year wait, her second album, Melodrama, confirms thatnotion.
在她的大热专辑《Pure Heroine》中，Lorde在使流行乐大放光彩的同时，毫不留情地嘲讽了其现状。Ella Yelich-O’Connor 展示了一种类似于优秀孩子被关禁闭的感觉，一种哥特式的戏剧感，一种只有真正的16岁的少年才能生发的超脱看透的思考。由心而发的微妙的创作，让这张专辑既是一张精巧的杰作，又达成了巨大的商业成功。你能看出新西兰的青少年们都在她的音乐中沉迷。在4年的等待后，她的第二张专辑《Melodrama》，进一步地证明了这些观点。
Now 20, Lorde signals a new orderstraightaway, with lonely piano chords where Pure Heroine's pureelectronic palette was. They open the single "Green Light," a barbedmessage to an ex who the singer can't quite shake. The song grows into astomping electro-acoustic thrill ride, its swarming, processed vocal chant"I want it!" recalling another precocious, hyperliterate,synth-loving auteur singer-songwriter – Kate Bush, who insisted back in 1982 on Give Lorde credit for wanting it all too– the massive vistas of electronic music alongside the human-scaled andhandmade.
迈入20岁，Lorde用简单的钢琴和弦代替了《Pure Heroine》中的纯电子基调，以显示她新的编曲风格。首单《Green Light》是写给一个难以摆脱的前男友的讽尖锐讽刺，它便以这些钢琴和弦开场，转而变成了复沓而震撼的电音。处理过的人声不断地重复着“I want it!”，这让人想起了另一位同样天赋异禀，极具文化超越性，好使用合成器的唱作人—Kate Bush。她在1982年的作品"Suspended in Gaffa"中，同样一直重复着"I wantit all!"的歌词。这也给了Lorde同样“Want It”的信念：随着人性的发展，电子音乐有着宏大的前景。
迈入20岁，Lorde用简单的钢琴和弦代替了《Pure Heroine》中的纯电子基调，以显示她新的编曲风格。首单《Green Light》是写给一个难以摆脱的前男友的讽尖锐讽刺，它便以这些钢琴和弦开场，转而变成了复沓而震撼的电音。处理过的人声不断地重复着“I want it!”，这让人想起了另一位同样天赋异禀，极具文化超越性，好使用合成器的唱作人—Kate Bush。她在1982年的作品"Suspended in Gaffa"中，同样一直重复着"I wantit all!"的歌词。这也给了Lorde同样“Want It”的信念：随着人性的发展，电子音乐有着宏大的前景。
That's the trick here, abetted playfully byco-writer/co-producer, who brings the rock-schooled song sense he coined withfun. and honed on Taylor Swift's 1989 to Lorde's electro-pop craftiness.Using empty space to spectacular effect, the arrangements veer from starkclarity to delirium, often in a few bars. Like the finger snaps on herbreakout, "Royals," small touches loom: the dry guitar opening of"The Louvre," with its ambient-dub atmospherics; the distant yelpsand heraldic roots-reggae brass on "Sober," a sexy midtempo jamendlessly second-guessing its own pleasure; the screeching industrial noise andf-bombs on "Hard Feelings – Loveless"; the trap beats that strafe thetitle track's orchestral brooding. As a pop song production display, it's atour de force.
《Melodrama》里面的电子音乐技巧（见前文），来自于专辑的共同制作人Jack Antonoff。他的摇滚乐感，从fun.乐队开始，在Taylor Swift的1989中磨练，最终在Lorde的电子流行乐中圆润成熟。编曲从完全的清醒变化至狂喜，经常是在几句歌词中发生的，这种壮观的效果得益于恰到好处的留白。就像Lorde出道单曲“Royals”中的响指，小小的细节表现了隐晦的情感，又如“The Louvre”仅有单调的吉他配着背景中渲染氛围的鼓声开场；“Sober”里似乎来自远处的尖叫以及根源雷鬼乐风的铜管乐，用性感的中速节奏曲风不断地彰显着自身的满足感；”Hard Feelings/Loveless”中刺耳的工业噪音和不突兀的脏话；”Melodrama”中Trap的节拍穿插在管弦乐中。《Melodrama》作为一场流行音乐制作的呈列，十分富有力量。
《Melodrama》里面的电子音乐技巧（见前文），来自于专辑的共同制作人Jack Antonoff。他的摇滚乐感，从fun.乐队开始，在Taylor Swift的1989中磨练，最终在Lorde的电子流行乐中圆润成熟。编曲从完全的清醒变化至狂喜，经常是在几句歌词中发生的，这种壮观的效果得益于恰到好处的留白。就像Lorde出道单曲“Royals”中的响指，小小的细节表现了隐晦的情感，又如“The Louvre”仅有单调的吉他配着背景中渲染氛围的鼓声开场；“Sober”里似乎来自远处的尖叫以及根源雷鬼乐风的铜管乐，用性感的中速节奏曲风不断地彰显着自身的满足感；”Hard Feelings/Loveless”中刺耳的工业噪音和不突兀的脏话；”Melodrama”中Trap的节拍穿插在管弦乐中。《Melodrama》作为一场流行音乐制作的呈列，十分富有力量。
But Melodrama's most striking momentmay be the tiny aside on "Homemade Dynamite" – a goofy new-lust paeanwith a Top Gun reference and a death wish – when Lorde vocalizes a tinyexplosion amid total silence, like a friend whispering a wordless message inyour ear in a nightclub booth as chaos rages. It's emblematic of a modern poprecord that prizes old-school intimacy, and lingers well after the house lightshave gone up.
但是”Melodrama”最令人为之震撼的可能是”Homemade Dynamite”中一段小小的独白——这首歌以”飞行员”的引用以及对死亡的希冀，承托出对蠢钝的欲望的颂扬——当Lorde用自己的声音在完全的寂静中模拟出一个小小的爆炸，就像在暴乱即将肆虐的夜总会中，一位朋友在你的耳边低语无言的信息。它象征着称颂老派行为的这张现代流行专辑，给人似乎要于聚会结束后还要徘徊许久，回味悠长的感觉。
但是”Melodrama”最令人为之震撼的可能是”Homemade Dynamite”中一段小小的独白——这首歌以”飞行员”的引用以及对死亡的希冀，承托出对蠢钝的欲望的颂扬——当Lorde用自己的声音在完全的寂静中模拟出一个小小的爆炸，就像在暴乱即将肆虐的夜总会中，一位朋友在你的耳边低语无言的信息。它象征着称颂老派行为的这张现代流行专辑，给人似乎要于聚会结束后还要徘徊许久，回味悠长的感觉。
