翻譯：Nomanlandever

When the days are slow and the responsibilities scarce, the mind can’t help but wander to insecure places. Passing the time at home in New Zealand between albums, Lorde?found herself falling into this mentality. Life had moved on without her: New teenage pop stars burned bright; TikTok became a thing; people got really into the?Grateful Dead, again.

當(dāng)視日如年，責(zé)任丟在一邊時(shí)，思緒就會不由自主地渴望挑戰(zhàn)。籌備專輯期間Lorde在新西蘭的家中打發(fā)時(shí)間，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己陷入了這種心態(tài)。生活在她的缺席下繼續(xù)抒寫新的篇章；新的青少年流行歌星閃亮登場；TikTok成為潮流；人們再次對感恩而死樂隊(duì)（Grateful Dead）產(chǎn)生興趣。

On the folksy “Stoned at the Nail Salon,” she latches onto this existential quandary, beginning with a radiant opening line: “Got a wishbone drying on the windowsill in my kitchen/Just in case I wake up and realize I’ve chosen wrong.” It’s one of her best lyrics yet, so tactile and earthy you can practically reach out and feel the fragile, sun-bleached collagen. But from there, the song becomes increasingly abstract. Intoxicated by acetone fumes, Lorde ruminates about fading beauty, the circularity of time, and losing touch with your past self. But her swings at profundity fall short—she is stoned, after all—and the understated production feels eerily reminiscent of another Jack Antonoff joint,?Lana Del Rey’s?Chemtrails Over the Country Club. “Stoned at the Nail Salon” is most compelling when Lorde lets her anxieties breathe, like when her voice catches midway through, leaving an empty space that’s immediately filled with a bass squiggle. Unfortunately, those moments are few, and in the end, “Stoned at the Nail Salon” feels stuck in a pretty, pedicured bubble.

在民謠風(fēng)的《Stoned at the Nail Salon》中，她陷入存在主義的困境，以辭藻華麗的歌詞開頭：“Got a wishbone drying on the windowsill in my kitchen/Just in case I wake up and realize I’ve chosen wrong.”這是她迄今為止最好的歌詞之一，如此觸手可及的質(zhì)樸，你幾乎可以伸手去觸摸，感受脆弱的，日光下的白嫩肌膚。但就從此處起，歌曲變得越來越抽象。Lorde陶醉在丙酮的煙霧中，沉思著逝去的美，時(shí)光的循環(huán)往復(fù)，以及與過去的自己漸行漸遠(yuǎn)。但她在深度上的嘗試并不出色——畢竟，她是神經(jīng)質(zhì)的——這部低調(diào)的作品讓人詭異地想起Jack Antonoff的另一部作品，Lana Del Rey的《Chemtrails Over the Country Club》，《Stoned at the Nail Salon》最吸引人的是Lorde讓自己的焦慮得到緩解，比如她的聲音在歌詞唱到一半時(shí)（Maybe I‘m）戛然而止，留下一片空白，隨即被一種波動的Bass填充。不幸的是，這樣的精彩時(shí)刻很少，最后，《Stoned at the Nail Salon》給人感覺是卡在了一個(gè)奢華精致修腳店的虛幻泡泡里。