搬運自：微信公眾號【評論搬一堆】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調整）

翻譯：Lucia C

審譯：Lynn Liu

排版：Ryan-Chopin

Earlier this year,?FKA twigs?returned from a three-year lull with “Cellophane,” a minimalist, saturnine breakup song that felt like an out-and-out punch to the gut. Twigs was her most vulnerable, her voice aching and raspy, revealing a reflective facet of herself that forthcoming sophomore album?MAGDALENE?promised to explore in even more painstaking detail. The moody single “holy terrain,” however, is a clear turn from the sparseness of “Cellophane.” Riding a twitchy trap-influenced beat, warped backing vocals, and hollowed-out ad-libs from?Future, twigs offers a heat-sick and tormented look at an infatuation period, when balancing on the precipice of something with another person feels like life or death.

今年早些時候，F(xiàn)KA twigs用一首“Cellophane（玻璃紙）”結束了無作品產(chǎn)出的三年。那是一首極簡主義、悲傷憂郁的分手歌，給人徹頭徹尾的觸動。Twigs在那首歌中非常的脆弱，有著悲痛的、沙啞的嗓音，展現(xiàn)了她自我反思的一面，這也會在她即將到來的第二張錄音室專輯《MAGDALENE》中發(fā)掘得更加淋漓盡致。然而，情緒多變的新單曲“holy terrain（神圣土地）”卻與“Cellophane”的簡約感形成了鮮明對比。伴著緊張的trap風節(jié)奏、怪誕的合聲，再配以Future空靈感的即興說唱，twigs通過講述如同在懸崖上保持平衡的提心吊膽的戀愛關系，帶來了對一段迷戀期的冷靜而痛苦的思考。

“holy terrain” scans as an expansion of twigs’ guest feature on A$AP Rocky’s “Fukk Sleep” last year, on which she adapted to and interpolated Rocky’s winding flow with ease. Here, though, it’s twigs’ evocative lyrics and floating falsetto that take the spotlight: “Now my fruits are for taking/And your fingers are stained/Do you still think I’m beautiful/When you light me in flames?” she sings, airy vocals rising in a chorus around her. She finds a worthy foil in Future, the only featured guest on?MAGDALENE, who delivers a remorseful if fatalistic verse in response: “We die, we die together, the prophecy complete/... If you pray for me I know you play for keeps,” he raps, at one point even pleading not to take his love in vain (“I love sad Future,” twigs?explained?to?i-D?about the verse, which, same). Where once twigs asked a lover to?pacify?her need for devotion with lies if necessary, on “holy terrain” she’s moving to higher ground, confident and emboldened enough to implore that he follows his heart to her this time around.

“holy terrain”像是延續(xù)了twigs在去年A$AP Rocky的歌曲“Fukk Sleep”中的合作表演，在那首歌中她的歌聲輕松地配合了Rocky流暢的說唱。而在這首歌里，主角則是twigs動人的歌詞和曼妙的假聲演唱：“Now my fruits are for taking/And your fingers are stained/Do you still think I’m beautiful/When you light me in flames? （現(xiàn)在我的果實任人擷取/而你的手指沾染了污漬/當你用大火將我燃燒之時/你還覺得我很美麗嗎？）”她唱著，空靈的歌聲在伴唱中脫穎而出。整張專輯中唯一的合作者Future給了她完美的陪襯，帶來了一段懊悔、有些宿命論的回應：“We die, we die together, the prophecy complete/... If you pray for me I know you play for keeps （我們死去，我們一起死去，完成那個預言/…如果你為我祈禱，那我知道你是在玩真的）”他唱著，甚至還在某句歌詞中懇求不要浪費他的愛情（“我喜歡傷感的Future?！眛wigs在接受i-D采訪時說到這句歌詞）。曾經(jīng)twigs讓戀人滿足她對愛情的向往，就算運用謊言也無妨，而在“holy terrain”中她進了一步，用自信而勇敢的姿態(tài)要求他追隨真心來到她身旁。