翻譯：少俠尼克（b站id）

審譯：Nomanlandever（b站id）

原文鏈接：https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7693-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-20-1/

If someone told you that the sheet music for “Crazy in Love” was just a lot of exclamation points on a staff, you would believe them, right? From its first moments on til the end, its enormous beats and blaring fanfare pummel everything its path like a brutal force of nature, leaving us all with a clear choice to either turn away or submit to its indomitable power. It’s fitting that this sound would be the basis of Beyoncé Knowles breakthrough hit, as it is the ideal showcase for the singer’s forthright persona and her gift for vocal performances that manage an improbable balance of poised professionalism and feral emoting.

如果有人告訴你《Crazy in Love》的樂譜只是五線譜上的眾多感嘆號時，你會相信的，對吧？從音樂響起到最后一刻，它宏大的節(jié)拍和喧囂的號角聲如同一股野蠻的自然力量，使所有聽眾都面臨抉擇，要么轉(zhuǎn)身離開，要么屈服于它戰(zhàn)無不勝的力量。這首歌理應成為Beyoncé Knowles首支突破性熱門單曲，因為它理想地展現(xiàn)出這位歌手的直率個性和她的聲樂表演天賦，在從容自若的專業(yè)性和狂野情感間取得超凡脫俗的平衡。

Amazingly, “Crazy in Love” isn’t even Knowles at full blast– she comes much harder on later hits such as “Get Me Bodied” and “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”– but the sheer force of her presence is enough to overshadow a strong cameo appearance by the freakishly charismatic Jay-Z and nearly erase the memory of her former bandmates in Destiny’s Child. She was no stranger to stardom before “Crazy In Love,” but after its blockbuster success, there was no question that Beyoncé had arrived as the definitive female R&B singer of her era, and had become the clear successor to a lineage of superstars including Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, and Diana Ross. –Matthew Perpetua

出乎意料的是，“Crazy in Love”甚至還不是碧昂絲全力以赴的時刻——她在之后的熱單中愈發(fā)強勢，如“Get Me Bodied”和“Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”——但她驚天動地的絕對力量足以湮滅客串歌手Jay-Z的非凡魅力 ，并幾乎抹除了她Destiny’s Child其他成員的身影。在“Crazy In Love”之前，她也是聲名顯赫的明星，但在爆紅后，毋庸置疑，碧昂絲已成為這個時代最具權威的 R&B 女歌手，并公認成為Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer和 Diana Ross巨星譜系的接班人。