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The Japan-born, London-based singer Rina Sawayama doesn’t downplay her ambition: She recently?professed, in no uncertain terms, her wish “to break records” in the pop industry. On her march to stardom, Sawayama splits her gaze between the future and the past, writing songs about digital-age anxiety, served up in the glossy trappings of early-Aughts pop hits. Her latest “Cherry,” is a sweet-as-pie take on budding romance, written with an eye toward representation.

日裔英籍歌手Rina Sawayama并沒有壓抑自己抱負(fù)：最近她明確談到，希望在流行樂壇“打破紀(jì)錄”。在她的明星生涯中，Sawayama將她的目光在未來與過去之間分野，寫下一些關(guān)于數(shù)字時代精神焦慮的歌曲，并以早期的Aughts風(fēng)流行歌曲這一華麗形式呈現(xiàn)出來。她最新的作品“Cherry”是對初戀的甜蜜詮釋，著眼于出彩的表現(xiàn)手法而呈現(xiàn)。

The past year in pop has seen queer artists grow increasingly candid in their expression of desire. With “Cherry,” Sawayama joins a cohort that includes Troye Sivan, Kehlani, and others, whose songs diversify the romantic narratives encoded in mainstream music. As on previous releases, Sawayama nods to her pop forebears: There are notes of Mariah Carey when she slips into her featherlight, borderline-lazy head voice, and hints of Justin Timberlake’s percussive, nasal tone when she sings, “Won’t you be my baby?” (plus, a near-exact copy of the horn lick from “Suit & Tie”). But from the top of the track, when she recounts an electric encounter on a subway (“You looked my way/With your girl gaze”), Sawayama pushes back on the heteronormative bent of the songs she listened to growing up. As she has?explained, “I just think the reason why I wasn’t so comfortable with my sexuality was because there was no one on TV or anywhere that I could point to.” On “Cherry,” Sawayama positions herself to be someone others can look to while capturing the sugar high that is infatuation: a universal phenomenon.

在過去的一年里，酷兒藝術(shù)家越來越直白地表達(dá)著他們的渴望。一首“Cherry”，Sawayama并入了包括Troye Sivan、Kehlani等人的隊伍，他們的歌曲使主流音樂中的浪漫情事更為多樣化。同以往的作品一樣，Sawayama也在向她的流行音樂前輩致敬：當(dāng)她滑入她那輕如羽毛、卻又近乎瘋狂、直逼頭頂?shù)母咭魰r，閃爍著Mariah Carey的音符；當(dāng)她唱到“Won’t you be my baby?”時，夾雜著Justin Timberlake的鼓點和底音。(此外，還有“Suit & Tie”中幾乎一比一的喇叭聲）。但在這首歌的開頭，當(dāng)她講述在地鐵上的一次電光火石的邂逅時（“You looked my way/With your girl gaze”），Sawayama對她長大后聽過的歌曲中爛俗的異性戀傾向進(jìn)行了反擊。正如她所解釋的：“I just think the reason why I wasn’t so comfortable with my sexuality was because there was no one on TV or anywhere that I could point to.”在“Cherry”中，Sawayama將自己定位為會引起他人矚目的人，同時她也能從中捕捉到被迷戀的快感：沉浸在這種（眾人擁簇的）普遍現(xiàn)象之中。