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Lindsey Jordan is no stranger to heartbreak, and on “Ben Franklin,” the second single from her upcoming album Valentine, she makes it clear that the wounds she licked on previous records remain wide open. Until now, the Snail Mail oeuvre has reflected raw, adolescent yearning, rife with bellowing, cathartic choruses and acoustic indie-pop instrumentation. On “Ben Franklin,” though, Jordan murmurs and sneers over a synth-driven arrangement built around one of her heaviest basslines to date. But even while seething at an ex-lover with jaded lines like, “Got money, don’t care about sex,” she can’t quite submit to the numbness she tries to channel. The further Jordan tries to lean into her uglier professions of hatred, the more her characteristic honesty seeps through the cracks. “Sometimes I hate her just for not being you,” she spits, before admitting: “Post-rehab, I’ve been feeling so small/I miss your attention, I wish I could call.”

Lindsey Jordan對這種心碎的體驗并不陌生，在她即將發(fā)行的專輯《Valentine》的第二支單曲“Ben Franklin”中，她坦誠道，她在先前專輯中所試圖舔舐的淋漓傷口仍未愈合。迄今為止，Snail Mail的所有作品都充斥在咆哮、宣泄而出的副歌和獨具硬地色彩的原生器樂聲之中，真實地反映著青少年們心中最原始的那份渴望。不過在“Ben Franklin”這首歌中，Jordan圍繞著由她迄今為止最為厚重的低音所作的合成曲進行一番低語和嘲諷。然而，即便她對曾經(jīng)的曖昧對象說了“Got money, don’t care about sex.”這樣的陳詞濫調(diào)感到憤怒，也無法完全接受她試圖傳遞的麻木與頹廢。Jordan越試圖向她丑惡的厭惡獨白靠攏、隱藏在她心中那特有的誠實就越能從縫隙中逸散出來。她不屑地吐痰，承認道：“Sometimes I hate her just for not being you/Post-rehab, I’ve been feeling so small/I miss your attention, I wish I could call.”

Jordan’s despair is certainly not new, but the stark absence of romanticism in “Ben Franklin” is. Not once does she scream like she does throughout her debut, Lush, or even on her brasher recent single, “Valentine.” Sung in her lower register, her admissions of vulnerability read far more fatalistic. Still, there’s a perverse bounciness to the song as Jordan flirts with the occasional high note, adding to her fantasy of flippant, anesthetized spite. In the song’s most incisive moment, Jordan sings of a toxic relationship, “Had to make myself believe/I deserve it, I’m crazy,” before trailing off, lost in her own head. Finally, she defends herself with a stinging condemnation: “But don’t act like you’ve never met me.” Her voice is as calm and airy as it’s ever been, yet somehow more vicious than her scream.

Jordan所經(jīng)歷的絕望當然不是什么新鮮事，而“Ben Franklin”中浪漫主義地明顯缺失才真正給了聽眾們新的體驗。她不再像在她的處女作《Lush》中那樣尖叫，哪怕一次，甚至在她最近的單曲“Valentine”中也是如此。她用更低的音域來演唱，她脆弱而坦誠的獨白愈顯宿命感。同時Jordan偶爾也會用高音來調(diào)弄，使這首歌還有著一種反常的張力，增加了她對輕率、麻木的怨恨的幻想。在這首歌最精辟的時刻，喬丹演繹著一段病態(tài)的戀情，“Had to make myself believe/I deserve it, I’m crazy”，然后拖長音調(diào)，迷失在自己腦海的幻象之中。最后，她用尖刻刺耳的譴責為自己辯護：“But don’t act like you’ve never met me.”她的聲音和以往一樣平靜輕盈，但不知為何卻比她的尖叫聲更具惡意。