翻譯：Nomanlandever

At the outset of Lorde’s comeback breakup jam “Green Light,” she threatens an ex: “I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth,” she sings, her droll voice flaring with rage. But she doesn’t scream—she doesn’t need to. Instead, she reckons with her power as a writer and a protagonist in her own story, dialing back the complex imagery of debut Pure Heroine to flex in a new way. That record explored the anxious teenage mindset that files experiences into memory while they're happening in real time. Here, she understands that songwriting for the masses is now part of her emotional processing (“I whisper things, the city sings ‘em back to you”) but wields her trademark nuance to bury this guy, betraying intimacy in every line. “She thinks you love the beach—you’re such a damn liar,” she snarls, spotlighting how tiny pretensions can feel as treacherous as full-blown betrayal, then multiplies her voice into a skittish falsetto chorus that mocks her ex’s fear of intensity: “Did it frighten you/How we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?”

Lorde回歸的分手歌曲《Green Light》開(kāi)頭，她便威脅前任唱道：“I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth,”她冷面滑稽且?guī)?qiáng)烈怒氣地唱道，但她不會(huì)咆哮——她也不需要咆哮。相反，她利用自己歌曲創(chuàng)作者和故事主人公的身份，以一種新的方式改變了出道專輯《Pure Heroine》中營(yíng)造的復(fù)雜形象。那張專輯探索了青少年焦慮的心理狀態(tài)，將他們的情感波動(dòng)都實(shí)時(shí)記錄了下來(lái)。現(xiàn)在，她明白為大眾創(chuàng)作歌曲已成為她整理思緒的一種方式(“I whisper things, the city sings ‘em back to you”) ，但她用她標(biāo)志性的細(xì)節(jié)描寫來(lái)埋葬這個(gè)男人，每一句歌詞都流露出他們的親密?！癝he thinks you love the beach—you’re such a damn liar,”她怒罵道。她強(qiáng)調(diào)微小的矯揉造作像徹頭徹尾的背叛一樣讓人覺(jué)得不忠，之后聲音放大，歌曲進(jìn)入輕佻假聲演繹的副歌部分?“Did it frighten you/How we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?”

The fear is not one she shares; instead, this rupture only enhances Lorde’s openness to possibility. “I hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” she sings coolly, as rapturous house piano soundtracks her search for the green light that’ll help her get over this relationship. To Lorde, raging synesthete, green equals transcendence. (She once explained that her early single “Tennis Court” was initially “the worst textured tan color” until a shift made it change to “all these incredible greens overnight!!!”) Different hues ripple through her catalog, but the euphoria of “Green Light” is a new look for this 20-year-old who first appeared as a shadowy teenaged mystic. She doles it out carefully, true to her inability to find closure. But when it hits, she’s radiant.

她在歌中傳達(dá)出的不是恐懼。相反，這種關(guān)系的決裂只會(huì)使Lorde看待未來(lái)的心態(tài)更為開(kāi)闊?！癐 hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” 她冷靜地唱道，狂熱的鋼琴?gòu)椬嘞笳髦龑?duì)能幫她挺過(guò)這段關(guān)系的綠光的探索。對(duì)于Lorde，這位感知到憤怒的“聯(lián)覺(jué)者”來(lái)說(shuō)，綠色代表著超脫。（補(bǔ)充：據(jù)TeenVogue報(bào)道，Lorde患有一種罕見(jiàn)的神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)疾病“聯(lián)覺(jué)”，特定的音樂(lè)會(huì)刺激她眼前出現(xiàn)特定的顏色，這種通感極大程度的幫助了她的歌曲創(chuàng)作）?(她曾解釋道，“她早期的單曲《Tennis Court》最初是最深的棕褐漸變色，之后它一夜之間轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)轶@人的綠色?！?不同的色彩在她的作品中蕩漾，但對(duì)這位20歲的少女來(lái)說(shuō)，《Green Light》展現(xiàn)出的情緒高漲的新形象，代表著出道時(shí)陰暗神秘青少年的舊形象一去不復(fù)返了。她小心翼翼地展露她的內(nèi)心，希望內(nèi)心能解脫。但當(dāng)情緒釋放時(shí)，她便變得容光煥發(fā)。