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：Tiana.T

校正：Lynn Liu

排版：Ryan-Chopin

“Be eternal.” That’s the advice?Lizzo?got from one of her first high-profile fans, Prince. And she lives up to the Purple One’s words on her legend-making?Cuz I Love You, the breakthrough album where she finally claims her baby-I’m-a-star crown as a mega-pop queen. Melissa Jefferson can do it all: she sings, she raps, she plays the flute, she speaks her mind, always ready to dedicate an R.I.P to the memory of her last fuck. Lizzo’s the perfect star for right now — but she also aims for the timeless. Like the lady says: “Ho and flute are life.”

“要永恒不朽。”這是Lizzo從她的首批粉絲中的知名人士Prince那里得到的建議。她沒(méi)有辜負(fù)Purple One的希望——她制作了自己的傳奇唱片《Cuz?I Love?You（因?yàn)槲覑勰悖罚?strong>在這張突破性的唱片中，她戴穩(wěn)了作為流行樂(lè)女王的“baby，我就是巨星”的皇冠。Melissa Jefferson（Lizzo本名）同樣也可以做這些：唱歌，說(shuō)唱，吹長(zhǎng)笛，表達(dá)自我并且總是要以上一段情感經(jīng)歷為靈感做文章。但Lizzo才是當(dāng)下最完美的明星——不過(guò)她意做一位跨時(shí)代的巨星。就像這位女士說(shuō)的：“放聲大笑和長(zhǎng)笛才是生活?！?/p>

Born in Houston, nurtured in Minneapolis, Lizzo drops?Cuz I Love You?on the edge of turning 31. (She was born just a few days after Prince dropped “Alphabet Street,” which may help explain her superhuman levels of Paisley Park-dom.) It’s a flawless major-label debut, after she grabbed ears with her indie gems?Lizzobangers?and?Big Grrrl Small?World. No filler here—just 33 minutes of twerk-core, hip-hop self-love anthems, torchy soul ballads, plus the occasional moment where she busts out her inner Tull to play flute hero. Lizzo’s woodwind muse, Sasha Flute, has?its own Instagram, becoming the most iconic axe to rock the hit parade since guitars like B.B. King’s Lucille or Neil Young’s Old Black.

她出生于休斯頓，成長(zhǎng)于明尼阿波利斯，Lizzo在即將31歲時(shí)發(fā)行了這張專輯《Cuz?I Love?You》（她僅出生于Prince發(fā)行“Alphabet Street“的幾天后，這或許能解釋為什么她能和Prince一樣擁有超人水準(zhǔn)）在她通過(guò)自己的獨(dú)立音樂(lè)專輯《Lizzobanger》和《Big?Grrrl?Small?World》獲得一定關(guān)注之后，《Cuz?I Love?You》仍是一次完美無(wú)暇的主流首發(fā)。毫不夸張——33分鐘的電臀動(dòng)感旋律，傳達(dá)自信的嘻哈頌歌，傷感的靈魂歌謠，加上她偶爾用長(zhǎng)笛來(lái)爆發(fā)自己內(nèi)心的聲音。Lizzo木質(zhì)的靈感繆斯，正是她的長(zhǎng)笛，Sasha?Flute，擁有自己的ins賬號(hào)，這正成為她最具代表性的武器，用以撼動(dòng)自B.B. King’s Lucille的吉他和Neil Young的Ole?Black以來(lái)十年的樂(lè)壇。

Cuz I Love You is all about Lizzo’s quest to embrace her inner strength, learning to be her own “Soulmate” (“Bad bitch in the mirror like ‘Yeah, I’m in love’”) and flex feminist body positivity (“If you feel like a girl, then you real like a girl”). She isn’t hung up on her past anymore — as she declares, “Only exes that I care about are in my fucking chromosomes.” In “Lingerie,” she makes lounging around in her underwear sound like a revolutionary act.

《Cuz?I Love?You》全都關(guān)于Lizzo尋求自我內(nèi)心的力量，并且學(xué)習(xí)成為自己的靈魂伴侶，女生應(yīng)自信地展現(xiàn)自己的身體。（歌詞“if?you?feel?like?a girl, then you real like a girl.”）她不再高調(diào)展現(xiàn)她的過(guò)去——正如她所說(shuō)“只有我在乎的前任才能存在在我的染色體里?！薄禖uz?I Love?You》依然延續(xù)了她過(guò)去幾年一直打造的傳奇。她內(nèi)心是一個(gè)放克搖滾樂(lè)歌手，如同她的導(dǎo)師——Sleater?Kinney，許多Lizzo的粉絲在riot-grrrl?legents合體的巡回演唱會(huì)的開場(chǎng)表演中第一次聽說(shuō)。

Cuz I Love You follows through on the legend she’s been steadily building over the past few years. She’s a punk rocker at heart, like her mentors Sleater-Kinney — many Lizzo fans first heard her as the opening act on the riot-grrrl legends’ 2015 reunion tour. If you watched Someone Great on Netflix this weekend (like most of us), you got blown away by the pivotal scene when Rolling Stone music critic Gina Rodriguez has a self-care moment listening to Lizzo declare, “I just took a DNA test / Turns out I’m 100 per cent that bitch.”

在Lingerie的MV中，她革命性地只穿著內(nèi)地懶洋洋的躺著。如果你這周在Netflix看了Someone?Great（大人物）（我們大部分人都看了），你一定會(huì)對(duì)一個(gè)重要的場(chǎng)景印象深刻，那就是滾石的樂(lè)評(píng)人Gina Rodriguez在聽了Lizzo的歌詞“我去測(cè)了DNA，結(jié)果表明我百分百是個(gè)賤人”時(shí)，頓時(shí)有了一種自私利己的感覺(jué)。

She’s got a sly sense of music history, which is how she can reach so far on Cuz I Love You, mixing it up with producers Ricky Reed, Oak and X Ambassadors. The single “Juice” has the classic Eighties R&B glide of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. (Any basic can imitate Janet Jackson — but it takes nerve to nail the precise vibe of Cherrelle circa High Priority.) “Cry Baby” dips into Prince slow-love mode, though her attitude is more like if Apollonia took over the Morris Day role in Purple Rain. As Lizzo sneers, “A lot of girls have time for this shit.

她對(duì)音樂(lè)史很敏感，這就是她能在《Cuz?I Love?You》中能達(dá)到如此高度的原因，音樂(lè)制作人Ricky Reed、Oak和X Ambassadors參與了專輯的制作，單曲“Juice有80年代經(jīng)典R&B巨匠Jimmy Jam和Terry Lewis的鼎力相助。（其中任何一個(gè)基本要素都可以模仿Janet Jackson——但要準(zhǔn)確把握Cherrelle《High Priority》中的明確氛圍需要勇氣。）“Cry Baby”進(jìn)入了Prince的緩慢愛戀模式，盡管她的態(tài)度更像是Apollonia在《Purple Rain》中扮演Morris Day的角色。Lizzo冷笑道：“A lot of girls have time for this shit.（很多女孩都有時(shí)間做這種事。）”

Lizzo sure does love the hell out of a nice juicy old-school soul weeper, the kind that Etta James, Ruth Brown or Ann Peebles liked to rip apart with their bare hands. Lizzo can do that while simultaneously serving a flute lewk. Case in point: the title track, which begins with a startling soul holler, or “Jerome,” where she tells a lovesick boy-child, “Two a.m. photos with smileys and hearts / Ain’t the way to my juicy parts.”

Lizzo當(dāng)然非常喜歡提到那些老派的愛哭鬼，就是Etta James, Ruth Brown或者Ann Peebles喜歡徒手撕裂的那種類型。Lizzo還可以在這樣做的同時(shí)吹長(zhǎng)笛。舉個(gè)例子:這首主打歌的開頭是一段令人震驚的靈魂吶喊，或者叫“杰羅姆”(Jerome)。在專輯的主打歌中，她對(duì)一個(gè)患有相思病的男孩說(shuō)，“Two a.m. photos with smileys and hearts / Ain’t the way to my juicy parts.（有點(diǎn)污，不翻譯了，你懂得。）”

“Tempo” begins with a snippet of “When Doves Cry”-style guitar, then takes off into a club blast with a manifesto for a chorus: “Slow songs, they for skinny hoes / Can’t move all this here to one of those / I’m a thick bitch, I need tempo.” Guest goddess Missy Elliott sends it through the roof. “Heaven Help Me” is her Aretha tribute, full of gospel piano. And just when you think the song can’t get any bigger? Lizzo?moves over and lets Sasha Flute take over.

?“Tempo”以“When Doves Cry”風(fēng)格的吉他片段為開端，然后攜著一段合唱宣言進(jìn)入夜總會(huì)曲風(fēng):“Slow songs, they for skinny hoes / Can’t move all this here to one of those / I’m a thick bitch, I need tempo.（慢歌，它們是給瘦子的/這種節(jié)奏根本就high不了/我就是個(gè)婊砸，我就是要節(jié)奏。）”女神Missy Elliott與Lizzo合作了這首單曲?！癏eaven Help Me”是她對(duì)Aretha的贊頌，其中充滿福音鋼琴。當(dāng)你覺(jué)得這首歌不能再宏大的時(shí)候，Lizzo的聲音沒(méi)了，而讓她的Sasha長(zhǎng)笛接手。

Lizzo turned heads with the pithy question she once asked in “TRuth Hurts”: “Why are men great until they gotta be great?” But it’s not a question she wastes much time on here. When she belts “Cuz I Love You,” it’s obvious her “you” is the star she sees in the mirror. As she testifies all over the album, it was difficult work for Lizzo to learn that she’s her own hero. But it just takes listening to?Cuz I?Love You?to make her yours.

Lizzo在“TRuth Hurts”中提出了一個(gè)精練的問(wèn)題:“Why are men great until they gotta be great?（為什么男人在變得偉大之前都已經(jīng)很偉大?）”但她并沒(méi)有在這個(gè)問(wèn)題上浪費(fèi)很多時(shí)間。在“Cuz I Love You”中，很明顯，她的“你”就是她在鏡子里看到的明星。正如她在整張專輯中所證明的那樣，對(duì)于Lizzo來(lái)說(shuō)，要認(rèn)識(shí)到她是自己心目中的英雄是件很困難的事情。但只需要傾聽《Cuz?I Love You》，讓她成為你的英雄吧。