搬運自：微信公眾號【評論搬一堆】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

翻譯：Acrees

校正：Ryan-Chopin

What does pop stardom look like in 2018? The supernovas are mostly busy doing other things: Beyoncé nesting with her babies in Malibu; Lady Gaga touring European sports arenas and shooting movies with Bradley Cooper; Rihanna building her cosmetics empire, one lip luminizer at a time. Even Taylor Swift, who emerged from self-imposed exile at the tail end of 2017 with the blockbuster reputation, seems determined to swerve from her lane.

2018年流行歌壇有什么大動靜嗎？貌似巨星們都在忙著自己的副業(yè)：

碧局長在Malibu安靜養(yǎng)娃；

鱉女士游覽了一圈歐洲的古建筑后以后又和Bradley Cooper拍了部電影；

日婆天天推銷她的化妝品，變成大企業(yè)家，F(xiàn)enty Beauty賺得盆滿缽盈；

就連去年專輯“Reputation”大火的霉霉也在年底消失得無影無蹤，開始了悄無聲息的沉淀之路。

But every varsity team has a JV squad waiting in the wings, and so goes the music industry too: the Selenas and Halseys and Cardi Bs who keep the Hot 100 churning. At 20, Camila Cabello is already an industry veteran; as a member of Fifth Harmony, the made-for-TV girl group formed in front of America’s eyes on The X Factor circa 2012 (they finished third), she racked up a series of bright, bouncy singles: “Worth It,” “BO$$,” “Work From Home.” Then came the inevitable reports of infighting and social-media discord, a very public exit from the band in late 2016, and the immediate announcement of a solo debut to follow.

不過連大學(xué)校隊都有資歷較淺的替補小隊隨時待命，音樂界的新人同樣蓄勢待發(fā)。Selena、Halsey和Cardi B讓Hot 100的榜單也沒閑著。年僅20歲的卡妹早已成為業(yè)界資深人士，作為從著名選秀節(jié)目The X Factor USA中脫穎而出并成為了組合Fifth Harmony的一員，一些輕快有活力的單曲，比如“Worth It,” “BO$$,” “Work From Home” 使她賺足了目光。隨后不可避免地出現(xiàn)了組合內(nèi)部的勾心斗角和與社交媒體不和的報道，她在2016年底徹底公開地退出了樂隊，緊接著宣布了個人首演，開啟個人音樂事業(yè)的道路。

If the Harmony era ended with a bang, Camila lands with something much more like a whisper. Not because it’s not hyped — her record label, Epic, has hardly failed to promote it — but because it feels like a much smaller, more intimate album than you might expect from last year’s high-gloss collaborations with the likes of Pitbull, Shawn Mendes, and Machine Gun Kelly and the shuddering early single “Crying in the Club.” (Tellingly, that song doesn’t even make the final cut.) Instead, the Cuban-born, Miami-bred singer trades strobe lights for a warmer glow: swooning over an addictive lover on the airily falsettoed opener “Never Be the Same,” yearning for the one who got away on the stripped-back “All These Years,” dipping into lite reggaeton on the drum-dusted “She Loves Control.” The ubiquitous radio single “Havana,” with its hypnotic piano thump, gruff Young Thug cameo, and hip-swaying na-na-nas, may be the closest Camila comes to a banger, and it hardly bothers sashaying all the way onto the dance floor.

如果說她驚天動地地結(jié)束了自己在Fifth Harmony的時代，那她卻又悄無聲息地重新亮相。他們并不是不想大肆宣傳，只是她的唱片公司Epic沒能成功造勢，因為這張專輯相較她去年和Pitbull、Shawn Mendes、Machine Gun Kelly等明星的高調(diào)合作比起來預(yù)期要小得多，也更私人化。相反，在閃光燈的種種質(zhì)疑下，這位在邁阿密長大的古巴裔美國歌手以更加溫和的態(tài)度曝光在媒體與大眾面前?！?strong>Never Be the Same”里她婉轉(zhuǎn)的假聲是對愛情的狂喜與著迷；在情感赤裸的“All These Years”中思念那個早已離開的人；“She Loves Control”中悅耳的雷鬼旋律與異域風(fēng)情，以及風(fēng)靡各大電臺的單曲“Havana”，迷人的鋼琴伴奏、Young Thug黑嗓的繚繞和讓人隨之搖擺的na-na-nas，都讓《Camila》這張專輯萬眾矚目，也使它毫不費力的登上了舞池神壇。

Cabello’s voice isn’t especially distinctive, but it’s instinctually pretty: effortless and warm, with an edge of morning-after rasp. When she slips in and out of Spanish on songs like the breezy tropical promise “Inside Out,” it feels organic, not market-tested — even as the album’s back half slides into resting-heart-rate tempo with a series of shimmery ballads (it begins to make sense why the original title was The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving). Reportedly, Cabello spent extended time in the studio with topline hitmakers like Stargate, Max Martin, and Diplo. The decision to leave nearly all of them off the final roster might not be shrewd career planning, but at least it makes Camila sweetly, defiantly her own. B+

卡妹的聲音并沒有很強的辨識度，但本質(zhì)上很動聽，柔軟溫暖，有種早上起床后舒服的磨擦感。當(dāng)她用西語唱著輕快而熱情的“Inside Out”時，是不加藻飾的純粹，盡管這張專輯的后半部分插入了溫和平緩節(jié)奏的抒情樂。（這也使原定名“The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving”聽起來合乎情理）。