翻译 Pitchfork Best New Track: Perfect Places - Lorde

Lorde问道:“到底哪里是完美的地方?”答案是不存在。但是你知道要想找到那里简直触手可及。

"Perfect Places" artwork

• UNIVERSAL NZ 2017
• Lorde
• “Perfect Places”

在Lorde的世界里，不完美总是一种美德——无论是她“不正确的作曲”（拐弯抹角的banger--Green Light和Liability中无可避免的孤独），或者是她从歌曲中体会到的疯癫的舞蹈表达 。她说她即将发行的第二张专辑《Melodrama》描绘了一个轰趴的发展轨迹，这听起来有点滑稽：已经发行的这些歌里，并没有听起来很“狂欢作乐”。但Lorde作为一位作曲者，仍然把自己不合拍的泰然自若埋在旋律中。
聚会在哪里结束? Melodrama 的结束曲 “Perfect Places ”（译者注：根据 Lorde 在 instagram 上公布的曲目列表来看，这是专辑的结束曲）对凌晨3点的境况剖反映的相当坦率。这首歌从一个和 Pure Heroine 的" Team "一样宽敞的、炭黑的节拍开始，但后面变得更加残酷。在“ Perfect Places ”里，Lorde的主角们正在死去 ; 她受不了头条消息; 天气也很糟糕（译者注：均为歌词）。周围的世界变得越来越不容易辨认，你该如何应对? “现在我不能忍受孤独，”她唱道。
如果有论调说 party 是唯一活下去的方法，那么Lorde的歌就应该是论据之一。“ Perfect Places ”指的是我们体验人生时可以探索的范围，但它却不涉及“不优雅”（译者注：歌词）、怪诞的真实生活的任何细节——“夜晚在我们脸上度过” （译者注：歌词） 的后果。轰趴的承诺很少兑现:无论你几岁，你都不可能在酒精和陌生人中找到乌托邦。在这首歌的结尾，伴随着突然的转折，Lorde问道:“到底哪里是完美的地方?”答案是不存在。但是你知道要想找到那里简直触手可及。（译者注：pitchfork的意思是party吗？）

原文：
Imperfection is always a virtue in Lorde’s world—whether it’s the “incorrect songwriting” of her fantastically nonlinear banger “Green Light,” her unchosen solitude on “Liability,” or the manic expressive dancing these new songs inspire within her. She has said that her upcoming second album, Melodrama, charts the trajectory of a single house party, which is a little funny in this context—the searching introspection of these songs doesn't quite scream “rager” yet. But Lorde is a songwriter who still vividly celebrates out-of-step self-possession.
Where does the party end? Melodrama closer “Perfect Places” cuts to the 3 a.m. heart-to-heart. The track slides in on a spacious, charcoal beat à la Pure Heroine’s “Team,” but reality has grown crueler since then. In “Perfect Places,” Lorde’s heroes are dying; she can’t stand the headlines; the weather is disagreeable. The world around is becoming less recognizable, and how to cope? “Now I can’t stand to be alone,” she sings.
If there is an argument to be made for partying as a mechanism of survival, this Lorde song bolsters it. “Perfect Places” is about the extents we go to in order to feel more alive, but it spares no details of “graceless,” grotesque real life—the consequences of “nights spent off our faces.” The promise of the house party is so rarely fulfilled: At any age, you are unlikely to find utopia in a drink and a stranger. By the end of the song, with the raspy inflection of experience, Lorde asks, “What the fuck are perfect places anyway?” There are none. But the path to figuring that out comes close.
原文地址：http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/19166-lorde-perfect-places/​