翻譯：Nomanlandever

原文鏈接：http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=lily+allen

專輯綜評

• Alright, Still?[Capitol, 2007]?A-

• It's Not Me It's You?[Capitol, 2009]?A

• Sheezus?[Warner Bros., 2014]?A-

• No Shame?[Warner Bros., 2018]?*

Alright, Still（就是要搞怪）[Capitol, 2007]
In a no-frills voice that carries a tune as easily as a schoolkid carries a backpack, the 21-year-old daughter of performing arts professionals plays a girl sticking up for herself, creating an illusion of the ordinary that seems as simple and inevitable as punk without punk shock and/or rage. Just to help out, her well-attuned producers pretend that ska was a basic pop component in an era not yet lost. Only two songs ring false: the one about her ex's penis because everybody lies about that, and the one about keeping it real because all the 21-year-olds sing that tune--and because she isn't real, really.?A-

如同背著書包的孩童一樣純真的曲調(diào)，這位21歲出自演藝世家的女孩在專輯里為自身辯護，創(chuàng)造出看似不過是（不帶震動/或怒吼的）絕經(jīng)朋克音樂的幻覺。她音感絕佳的制作團隊為了配合她，仿佛還身處斯卡音樂還未消逝的年代，在專輯里將斯卡視作基本音樂元素。專輯里只有兩首歌有些虛偽：一首（“Not Big”）是講述他前任下面的歌曲，因為每個人都會在此處撒謊，另一首（“Everything's Just Wonderful”）是講述保持真我的歌曲，所有21歲的年輕人都會唱的主題——因為她本身也不是很真實。A-

It's Not Me It's You（干我屁事）?[Capitol, 2009]
She is too a role model--for chart queens, bohemians born-and-raised, and paparazzi victims everywhere. True, her synth-pop album debuted below India.Arie at five before its SoundScan swan dive. But even diving she's more graceful than most, and she has every expectation of popping out of the pool and climbing the ladder again, which is how her first one went gold. Here the modestly likable, oddly uncategorizable singer of?Alright, Still?emerges as that rare thing, a vocalist of genuine technical command who sounds like no one else--and even rarer, like everygirl at the same time. The snarky lyricist of?Alright, Still?achieves new amalgams of aesthetic specificity and masscult applicability--the love song "Who'd Have Known," the dad song "He Wasn't There," even the God song "Him." She does synth-pop right not by providing a template but by demonstrating its adaptability. Pink, relax. Christina, quiet songs about your baby beckon. Kelly, stop flexing your vocal cords and let your brain do the emoting.?A

Lily Allen是樂壇楷?！駟闻?，土生土長的波西米亞女孩，狗仔隊隨處跟拍的受害者。雖然但是，她的這張合成器流行專輯出師未捷身先死，初次空降（Billboard榜單）第五位，隨后便在SoundScan的銷量數(shù)據(jù)瘋狂跳水。但即使是跳水，她也比大多數(shù)人優(yōu)雅，然后她有野心爬出“游泳池”，再次“爬上梯子”，這也是她的出道專輯取得黃金唱片銷量認(rèn)證的原因。在這張專輯里，這位謙遜可愛，無法標(biāo)簽化的歌手，是稀有的掌上明珠，成為一位真正的技術(shù)型歌手，她的音樂聽起來絕無僅有——甚至更珍貴，仿佛唱出每個女孩的心聲。這位在《Alright, Still》里尖酸刻薄的作詞人，在新專輯里實現(xiàn)怪誕不經(jīng)與大眾通俗間的平衡統(tǒng)一——比如情歌“Who‘d Have Known”，也有寫給爸爸的歌曲“He Wasn’t There”，甚至還有寫給上帝的歌曲“Him”。她游刃有余于合成器流行樂，沒有套用模板——而是依靠她隨機應(yīng)變的適應(yīng)力。所以，Pink，放輕松。Christina Aguilera，請不要用怒音唱搖籃曲。Kelly Clarkson，別再扭曲你的聲帶，隨性抒發(fā)情感就好。A

Sheezus（怪怪女教主）?[Warner Bros., 2014]
The key's in a multivalent lyric she balances with a surehandedness that isn't guaranteed the way it was when she was single: "Life for Me," a tuneful rendering among many tuneful renderings (hell, all five bonus misses are tuneful) about feeling nostalgic for the discontented days marital bliss has put behind her forever, or so she usually thinks. Even when that bliss devolves into a painful argument, she can put it into song, and though the bite that was her premarital specialty has softened, give her credit--marital bliss is a theme few lyricists sharpen much at all. Opposites that attract: "Our Time," in which single working girls get wasted on Friday night, and the scornful celebrity-feminist "Hard Out Here."?A-

有著多重豐富意義的歌詞的單曲“Life for Me”與她往日所呈現(xiàn)的風(fēng)格大相徑庭，一首在抓耳專輯里曲調(diào)悠揚的歌曲（見鬼，五首豪華版加曲也都旋律優(yōu)美），一首懷念過去那些罔顧婚姻幸福不順心歲月的歌曲（或許這只是她的主觀想法）。即使這種幸福演變成痛苦的爭吵，她也能把它寫進歌里，盡管婚前咄咄逼人的她早已溫柔許多，還是要歸功于她——婚姻幸福是很少有作詞人會去著墨的主題。與之相反的亮點歌曲有"Our Time"，一首講述單身職場女孩在周五晚上喝得酩酊大醉的故事，和諷刺女明星的女權(quán)歌曲“Hard Out Here”。A-

No Shame（女人當(dāng)自強）?[Warner Bros., 2018]
Thrown out of whack by bad romance and worse social media, she's no longer so clever about putting up a front or hiding behind a tune, but don't assume it's permanent--not yet ("Three," "My One")?*

走出前段婚姻和社交媒體的陰影，她不再擅于假裝體面或在歌曲中掩飾自我，但別以為這是永恒的——現(xiàn)在還不是。?*

推薦曲："Three,"?"My One"