搬運(yùn)自：微信公眾號(hào)【評(píng)論搬一堆】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語(yǔ)原文與排版調(diào)整）

原文鏈接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/

翻譯：Ryan-Chopin

校對(duì)：Lynn Liu

推送：Lynn Liu

At first, Lady Gaga seemed like a slightly smarter-than-usual dance-pop hopeful and nothing more. But then came “Bad Romance.” A gothic psychodrama draped around a titanic club banger, accompanied by?an instantly iconic music video?in which she stoically burns a man to death, the song announced Gaga as a true force to be reckoned with.

剛出道時(shí)，Lady Gaga似乎只是一個(gè)比普通人更聰明的流行舞曲歌手，且僅此而已。直到后來她發(fā)行了“Bad Romance”。這首歌簡(jiǎn)直是一部哥特式的心理劇，在大型俱樂部里播放而帶動(dòng)氛圍，一同出世的還有一支標(biāo)志性的音樂錄影帶，她在MV中冷酷無(wú)情地將一名男子活活燒死。這首歌宣告了Gaga是一個(gè)不容忽視的音樂力量。

“Bad Romance” kicked off?The Fame Monster, a collection of eight songs released as a deluxe edition of Gaga’s 2008 debut album,?The Fame. (Yes, we know:?The Fame Monster?was technically released in late November 2009. But for something that cast such a long shadow over this decade, we’re making an exception.) Other than the supremely fun, Beyoncé-featuring “Telephone” (originally written for Britney Spears!), none of these songs sounded like anything else released at the time. They’re bizarre and jarring, full of references to death, dangerous sex, Hitchcock movies, and eating brains. (There’s also “Speechless,” an unabashedly retro power ballad that Meat Loaf would have killed for.)?The Fame Monster’s release kicked off an arms race of pop kookiness: Suddenly, it seemed like everyone from Katy Perry to Nicki Minaj to Kesha was falling all over themselves to out-weird each other. But nobody’s freak flag ever flew higher than Gaga’s. –Amy Phillips

“Bad Romance”一曲拉開了《The Fame Monster》（該EP是Gaga于2008年發(fā)行的首張專輯《The Fame》的豪華版，其中收錄了八首新歌曲）的序幕。（是的，我們知道《The Fame Monster》準(zhǔn)確來說是在2009年11月下旬正式發(fā)布。但它在這十年里大放異彩，影響深遠(yuǎn)，我們破例將其歸在這個(gè)列表中）除了超有意思的和Beyoncé合作的歌曲“Telephone”(最初是Gaga為Britney Spears寫的!)之外，其他歌曲聽起來都不像那個(gè)時(shí)候制作出的歌曲。歌詞有些奇葩和不和諧，其中充斥著死亡、危險(xiǎn)的性愛、Hitchcock電影的影子，還有吃腦子的情節(jié)。(“Speechless”這首抒情歌毫不掩飾其復(fù)古影響力，搖滾樂巨匠Meat Loaf定會(huì)為之瘋狂)《The Fame Monster》一問世便引發(fā)了一場(chǎng)以流行異類為狂歡的軍備競(jìng)賽：突然之間，從Katy Perry到Nicki Minaj，再到Kesha，似乎每個(gè)人都在爭(zhēng)先恐后地超越對(duì)方，想做最“奇葩”的那個(gè)人。但是沒有人能比Gaga在這方面更“怪異”了。