搬運(yùn)自：網(wǎng)易云音樂專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

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Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, and Caroline Polachek make main character music: Futuristic, avant-garde pop songs that place you—twirling, glitter-coated—at the center of the dancefloor. But a compelling main character can’t be just gloss; their music also channels the lonely confessional you had with your best friend in the bathroom right before. The three have worked together in different permutations in the past, but on “New Shapes,” a song from Charli’s forthcoming album CRASH (which will also include collaborations with A.G. Cook, Rina Sawayama, and Oneohtrix Point Never), the full trio teams up for the first time.

Charli XCX、Christine and the Queens和Caroline Polachek制作了當(dāng)下的主流音樂：未來主義、前衛(wèi)的流行歌曲，將你——飛旋著晶瑩的亮片——置于舞池的中心。但一個(gè)真正引人注目的主角不可能只是表面光鮮亮麗；她們的音樂也引導(dǎo)著你與你的友人在浴室里的孤獨(dú)懺悔。這三個(gè)人過去曾以不同的形式合作過，但在Charli即將發(fā)行的專輯《CRASH》（其中還收錄又與A.G. Cook、Rina Sawayama和Oneohtrix Point Never的合作）中的合作曲“New Shapes”中，這三姐妹首次聯(lián)手合作。

With its towering swells of ’80s production, “New Shapes” feels overcome by heartache. The three singers claw at the wisps of a failing relationship—the titular “new shapes” signal their ineffective attempts to adopt new personalities and behaviors for the sake of a partner—as they traverse mountains of snare, blaring synth, and wailed backing vocals. Their perspectives complement one another nicely: Charli grapples with her tendency to run away, while Chris’ characteristically abstract imagery offers a temporary solution. In one of the song’s most heartbreaking lines, Polachek confesses that things would be better if she’d never met her lover in the first place. “New Shapes” combines the euphoria of a Patrick Swayze dance number with the crushing depth of a?Fleabag?monologue: a celebration of a love too radioactive to last.

緊隨著80年代風(fēng)格的制作浪潮，“New Shapes”被痛徹心扉所淹沒。三名歌手在一段失敗的關(guān)系中掙扎——所謂的“New Shapes”是指她們?yōu)槿偘閭H而采取新的個(gè)性和行為的徒勞嘗試——穿梭在急促的小鼓、轟鳴的合成器和呼嘯的和聲之中。她們的觀點(diǎn)互補(bǔ)得很好：Charli努力克服她逃避的傾向，而Chris引以典型的抽象意象從而提出一個(gè)臨時(shí)的解決方案。這首歌中最令人心碎的一句歌詞，出自Polachek之口，她坦白道倘若她從一開始就沒有遇到她的愛人，事情會(huì)更好?！癗ew Shapes”結(jié)合了Patrick Swayze舞曲的歡快與Fleabag獨(dú)白中直擊人心的深度：一場因彼此的愛意太過強(qiáng)烈（以致于改變了彼此原有的模樣）而草草結(jié)束的愛的慶典。