搬運自：網(wǎng)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(diào)整）

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In the three years since UK up-and-comer?Charli XCX?released her first single, the press has tempered any enthusiasm for the teenage singer's lush pop songs with skepticism about her longevity. So perhaps it's a sly rebuke to faint-praising critics that her latest single, "Stay Away", draws so heavily from T'Pau, the 1980s one-hit wonder whose?"Heart and Soul"?was one of the most eloquent synth-pop songs on the radio in 1987. The group never again scaled such heights, but nearly a quarter-century later, that song survives on countless compilations, mixtapes, and wedding setlists. Charli XCX's fate is, of course, unknowable, but "Stay Away" smartly evokes a certain romance for pop's darker corners, evoking any number of artists who were largely forgotten by the time Charli XCX was born:?Nu Shooz,?Martika,?Shakespear's Sister. This song should be pastiche, but its synths pulse with gothic fervor as Charli effortlessly toggles between careful restraint and operatic emotionalism. "Won't you just stay away?" she pleads on the hook, her infectious longing making it pretty damn difficult to do just that.

在英國新晉歌手Charli XCX在發(fā)布她第一支單曲后的三年里，媒體對這位少女歌手優(yōu)美的流行歌曲的熱情有所減弱，同時也為她能長紅持懷疑態(tài)度。她的最新單曲“Stay Away”在很大程度上借鑒了T'Pau的作品，這也許是對那些不堪一擊的批評者的一種狡猾的回擊，T'Pau可謂是上世紀80年代的單曲奇跡，其“Heart and Soul”是1987年電臺中最具影響力的合成器流行歌曲之一。這個團體之后再也沒有達到這樣的高度，但近四分之一個世紀后，這首歌仍在無數(shù)的合輯、混音帶或是婚禮節(jié)目單中得以留存。當然，Charli XCX的命運尚不可知，但“Stay Away”巧妙地喚起了暗藏在流行音樂陰暗角落的某種浪漫，喚起了人們對那些在Charli XCX出生時已基本被遺忘的藝術家——Nu Shooz、Martika、Shakespear's Sister。這首歌可能僅僅是模仿，但它的合成器卻充斥著哥特式的狂熱，Charli毫不費力地在謹小慎微的克制和歌劇式的浪漫主義之間切換。她在Hook中懇求道：“Won't you just stay away?”她那富有感染力的渴望是常人難以做到的。