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）

翻譯：Joonly EC

審譯：Ryan-Chopin

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Lady Gaga has remained one of the biggest pop stars on the planet without actually making much pop music. She abandoned her synths and donned her best cowgirl drag for 2016’s rootsy Joanne, and while she buried a few in-character bangers deep in the soundtrack for A Star Is Born, that movie’s enduring hits were classic power ballads that would’ve sounded just as comfortable in 1978 as in 2018. “Stupid Love,” her new single, is her much-ballyhooed return to pop-as-genre. It’s “classic Gaga,” that imperial phase at the end of the ’00s when the only thing bigger than her hits were the music videos and conceptual art pieces surrounding them.

盡管Lady Gaga實(shí)際上沒有創(chuàng)作太多流行音樂，但她仍然是這個(gè)星球上最受歡迎的明星之一。在2016年發(fā)行的《Joanne/喬安》里，她放棄了合成器音樂，披上了自己最靚的女式牛仔裝。而后，雖然她在《A Star Is Born/一個(gè)明星的誕生》的原聲大碟中用了少許的砰砰聲，而且也很合適宜，但這部電影里那些經(jīng)久不衰的熱門歌曲都是經(jīng)典的聲勢(shì)浩大的抒情曲目，不管是在1978年還是2018年，這些歌聽起來都一樣舒服。她的新單曲“Stupid Love/蠢愛”宣布她強(qiáng)勢(shì)回歸流行音樂?！敖?jīng)典的Gaga型歌曲”制霸了21世紀(jì)00年代末的音樂界，那時(shí)唯一比她的熱門單曲影響更大的便是那些與她的熱單相關(guān)的音樂錄影帶和概念。

The song gestures toward that era without achieving the same kind of grandeur. Those big-budget mini-films were often accompanied by music that was just as audacious; the bulletproof hooks spread throughout The Fame Monster and Born This Way were coated in hair metal grease and industrial grime. If the brawny, shiny disco of “Stupid Love” sounds like?anything in her catalog, it’s a sped-up version of “Do What U Want,” a song mostly erased from the public record because of its prominent R. Kelly feature. The video’s embrace of late-’90s JRPG energy pales in ambition and scale compared to “Bad Romance” or “Telephone.”

這首歌已經(jīng)說明Gaga的新紀(jì)元不會(huì)追求以前的那種莊重華麗。以前的單曲常常配有微電影，且都是豪華制作、大膽又創(chuàng)新；《The Fame Monster/名譽(yù)怪獸》時(shí)期充斥著無懈可擊的副歌，《Born This Way/生來如此》則披上了如頭發(fā)般的自由、滿是金屬感的油漬和工業(yè)污垢。如果非要把這首強(qiáng)有力的、光芒四射的迪斯科舞曲“Stupid Love”和以前的歌作比較，那就是加速版的“Do What U Want/想做就做”，“Do What U Want”因?yàn)橹饕献魅薘.Kelly的性侵丑聞被全球范圍下架?！癝tupid Love”的MV屬于九十年代末期的日式角色扮演，比起“Bad Romance”和“Telephone”的野心和規(guī)模，說服力著實(shí)有些蒼白。

And yet it still feels like “Stupid Love” is filling a void in our downcast, anxious, genre-fluid landscape: The only other artist working in this mode is Dua Lipa, whose Future Nostalgia singles—big, bright, and heart-on-sleeve—have pushed her into a new echelon of pop stardom. There’s an appetite for this kind of unapologetically exuberant sound, one evidenced?by the communal frenzy for the leaked version of this song earlier this year that earned a tongue-in-cheek reprimand from Gaga herself. “Stupid Love” may not reposition her at pop’s bleeding edge, but it captures just enough of the goofy, indomitable spirit that made her so refreshing in the first place.

“Stupid Love”仿佛在試著填滿我們心田里那沮喪、焦慮之感和千變?nèi)f化的喜好：另一位同樣在做這件事的藝術(shù)家是Dua Lipa，她的《Future Nostalgia/懷念未來》里的單曲——宏大、鮮亮、激動(dòng)人心——把她推向了作為一個(gè)明星的另一高度。聽眾中不乏喜愛這種大膽到生機(jī)勃勃的音樂，今年的早些時(shí)候，網(wǎng)友們對(duì)泄曲的熱烈反映就是一個(gè)很好的證明，隨后，Gaga也只是哭笑不得地指責(zé)了一下他們。“Stupid Love”也許不能把Gaga送到流行音樂的最先鋒，但它獨(dú)具恰當(dāng)好的傻氣，再加上不屈不撓的精神，這些足以讓她在樂壇上煥然一新。