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翻譯：Ryan-Chopin

校對：Whitney.L

排版：Peter D

Carly Rae Jepsen在《Dedicated（奉獻）》中為活力四射的Teen-Pop（青少年流行音樂）注入新的智慧

——Carly Rae Jepsen在第四張專輯中向80年代這流金歲月敞露心扉，可謂該風(fēng)格的又一力作。

One of the funniest lines in Amy Poehler’s new movie?Wine Country?is when Paula Pell tells Rachel Dratch that her soul’s age is around 18-and-a-half. “Probably old enough to drink and bone … almost out of the house.” It’s a sentiment?Carly Rae Jepsen?can certainly relate to. The 33 year-old pop star specializes in dragging our souls back to that special, post-pubescent place. And her fourth LP keeps on doing it with the precision we’ve come to expect from her.

在Amy Poehler的新片《葡萄酒之鄉(xiāng)(Wine Country)》里，Paula Pell告訴Rachel Dratch說，她靈魂的年齡大約是18歲半，這要屬該片最有趣的臺詞之一了?！翱赡艿搅艘欢昙o，人就會嗜酒，也會更專注一些了……心卻幾乎已經(jīng)走遠了?！盋arly Rae Jepsen肯定也對此感同身受。這位33歲的流行歌手擅長帶我們的靈魂拉回到那個有特殊意味的后青春期之地。的確，她的第四張專輯依舊不負眾望。

The album beings with “Julien” – a watered-down version of ABBA’s “Waterloo” – but revs up with some good, old chaste titillation. “Automatically in Love” packs a whole?CW?season of romantic cliches, from rollercoasters to getaway cars into an Eighties-Madonna track.?Jepsen tries out a breathy purr on “Too Much.” Then really goes for it on “Everything He Needs.” “Like pressure points/ My love can ease him in my hand,” she sings. The lyrics were actually inspired by cartoon couple Popeye and Olive, which, for a Carly Rae Jepsen album, sounds about right.

專輯以歌曲“Julien”拉開序幕——算是ABBA的歌曲“Waterloo”的低配版——但這首歌也有所妙筆生花，融入了古老而純潔的愉悅感。Jepsen似乎把CW電視臺一整季的浪漫橋段都搬進了“Automatically in Love”里，從老套的過山車到逃亡汽車的場景，都融入了八十年代Madonna的風(fēng)格。Jepsen還試著在“Too Much”里發(fā)出呼嚕聲，然后全力以赴去滿足“Everything He Needs（他需要的一切）” 。“Like pressure points, my love can ease him in my hand/壓力使然 只有我的愛可以將他撫慰”（歌詞源自網(wǎng)易云音樂）她如此唱道。這首歌實際上是受到著名卡通情侶大力水手(Popeye)和奧利夫(Olive)的啟發(fā)而作的，運用在Carly Rae Jepsen的這張專輯里是恰到好處的。

Four albums in, the notion of Jepsen coming out with a “mature” album would be anathema to all that is Carly Rae. And she seems more than happy holding the mantle of cheerful, mid-tempo pop-rock for her generation – a great American tradition passed down from the Monkees to Wilson Phillips to Hanson.?The downside is that when your fans expect you to bring the hooks, you better bring them. Jepsen doesn’t appear constrained by those expectations, maybe because pop’s two main ingredients – melody and melodrama – come to her naturally. But with all its polish and production,?Dedicated?can sound less like an artistic benchmark and more like?throwing gum drops at the ceiling to see which ones stick.

Jepsen已經(jīng)發(fā)行了四張專輯，她推出一張“成熟的”專輯可能對她所有曾經(jīng)的形象來說會是一個詛咒。她似乎更樂于為她那一代人披上歡快、中速流行搖滾的外衣——這是一個偉大的美國音樂傳統(tǒng)，幾乎從Monkees樂隊傳到了Wilson Phillips和Hanson，其缺點就是當你的粉絲希望你能制作時下流行之作時，你最好滿足他們。Jepsen似乎拋開了這些期望的束縛，也許因為流行音樂的兩大主要成分——旋律和背景——總是青睞她，一切都自然而然發(fā)生了。不過，盡管《Dedicated》有著精心的打磨和制作，但里面的曲目聽起來離藝術(shù)基準還有差距，更像是往天花板上扔口香糖，看看哪個能粘上（譯者注：歌曲制作欠點火候，歌手試圖在制作一些藝術(shù)造詣高的歌曲時，有碰運氣的成份）。

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. And if that’s the case, “Want You In My Room” and “Now That I Found You,” are up there for good. They’re both joyous gallops in the vein of her previous slam-dunk, “Cut to the Feeling.” The album-closing?“Party For One” is another easy success. Like her apocalyptic hit “Call Me Maybe,” it rides a sparse, peppy melody, but takes a subtle turn when Jepsen proclaims that she’s better off alone than with someone who won’t return her calls. “If you don’t care about me/I’ll just dance for myself,” she sings. Jepsen may have the soul of a teen queen, but she’s also got the wisdom of a 33-year-old woman.?

但這未必是件壞事。如果真是這樣的話，“Want You In My Room”和 “Now That I Found You”可以算沾上天花板的口香糖（上成品）。這兩首聽著都像是繼她之前發(fā)行的大制作“Cut to the Feeling”后的再度狂歡。專輯結(jié)束曲“Party For One”又是一首抓耳的歌，和她的熱門單曲“Call Me Maybe”一樣，這首歌的旋律簡單而活潑，但Jepsen宣稱，比起和一個不回她電話的人在一起，她一個人過得要好，這時的劇情便發(fā)生了微妙的轉(zhuǎn)折。她這樣唱道：“If you don't care about me/I'll just dance for myself/若你不予我關(guān)心/我便要舞出自己。”Jepsen的靈魂也許對應(yīng)著一位有少女心的女王，但她同樣也懷揣了33歲女人的智慧。