搬運自：網易云音樂專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調整）

翻譯：Beans_Beans

This much is true: reality—where our hyper-connectivity leaves us ever-alienated, where a data-mining "Like" can induce a druglike rush of dopamine, where everything happens so much—is not always as much fun as a Grimes song. But as often as Claire Boucher's musical world has offered a fantastical aesthetic of cyborg-mermaids and robo-pop, she has also been fearless in the face of technology and the ways we live now. Boucher's will to do whatever she wants—to scrap a record, to be open about the actual conditions of her life as a musician and a woman, to wear socks and sandals in public—has made her work feel even more honest.

有一點是毋庸置疑的：現實——在這里，人與人間即存在超關聯(lián)性又同時彼此疏遠、大數據時代下任何一個“喜歡”便能引發(fā)毒品一般的多巴胺決堤效應、一切的一切在這里發(fā)生、應接不暇——并非如 Grimes 歌中趣味橫生的模樣。但是，正如 Claire Boucher 的音樂世界之中常存的一種機械仿生人流行藝術幻想美學一般，她在面對科技與我們如今生活方式時依然無所畏懼。Boucher 愿意做任何她想做的事——撇開一張煩心的唱片、公開她同時作為一名音樂家與一位普通女性的實際生活、甚至在公共場合只穿襪子和涼鞋——而這使她的作品愈加真誠可感。

"REALiTi" is the best new Grimes song since Visions. Boucher says it was recorded in early 2013 and salvaged from the cutting room floor where she is working on her new album, which is impressive. As much as the atmospheric pop collagework of the breezier "REALiTi" could have fit on Visions, it's also a compelling step forth: unlike last year's "Go", there's no big-tent dubstep drop, but "REALiTi" still absorbs EDM and trance into Boucher's seemingly infinite pallete of sound. She accomplishes no small feat in making these typically massive elements feel like subtle brushstrokes rather than buckets of paint dumped whole.

“REALiTi” 是 Grimes 自《Visions》以來最好的作品。令人印象深刻的是 Boucher 說它是在2013年初便錄制完成，并在她正在制作新專輯的剪接室地板上“搶救”過來?！癛EALiTi” 這首懸于大氣層的流行混搭作品與《Visions》一樣，它也同是一個引人注目的進步：與去年的單曲 “Go” 不同，它沒有大張旗鼓的混響低音，但 Boucher 仍將 EDM 與迷幻舞曲吸納進 Boucher 近乎充斥著無限可能的聲音調色板之中。她完成了一個不容忽視的壯舉——將種種典型的宏偉元素匯聚而成微妙而精致的水彩筆觸，而非一桶桶油漆胡亂傾倒于一處。

Listen closer and there is a heaviness to "REALiTi" that is new for Grimes—it's an energizing mini-anthem for anyone who knows what high-stakes are worth, the sound of a jet-setter emerging from the clouds and landing home. "Every morning there are mountains to climb/ Taking all my time," Boucher sings on the chorus, "When I get up this is what I see/ Welcome to reality." Her pop has been grounded before, but it's never been so human.

細細聆聽，“REALiTi” 之中混雜有一絲沉重，這對于 Grimes 而言是全新的元素；它是一首充滿活力的小曲兒，卻有著噴氣飛機從云間突現而驟降的音響，適于任一愿意尋求刺激之人。“When I get up this is what I see/ Welcome to reality/ When I get up this is what I see/ Welcome to reality.” Boucher 在副歌中如此唱道。 她的音樂作品自始至終就非常接地氣，卻從未如此貼近人類。