【译】Pitchfork评Sky Ferreira 2013年专辑 Night Time, My Time（黑夜属于我）

翻译：Nomanlandever

At barely 21, Sky Ferreira’s had a musical career burdened—and bolstered—by so many warring external forces that the sheer existence of her debut album is a minor miracle. It’s both a relief and a bit of a shock that Night Time, My Time is not only here, but that it’s one of the most pleasing pieces of pop-rock to come along this year.

年仅21岁，Sky Ferreira的音乐事业却寸步难行，受诸多外部阻力影响，这张专辑的面世已是一个小小的奇迹。令人感到宽慰和有点震惊的是《Night Time, My Time》不只是现在，更是今年发行的最有趣的流行摇滚专辑之一。

About 17 and a half minutes into her debut album, Sky Ferreira prods you to consider how strange it is that you’re listening to it at all. “I just want you to realize I blame myself,” she sings, “for my reputation.” The last word there is the slippery one: It’s difficult to pinpoint what exactly Ferreira’s reputation is at this point, or whom she might be shifting blame from. Maybe she has in mind her young parents, who put her upbringing in the hands of her grandmother. Or perhaps she’s talking to the A&R team at Capitol Records, who signed her at age 15 in the hopes that she’d become the next Britney. The label orchestrated some minor singles for her (“One” and "Obsession”), only to let her planned full-length sputter and die along with her recording budget.

开始播放这张专辑17分30秒左右，Sky Ferreira很难不让你感慨这张专辑的奇怪听感 “I just want you to realize I blame myself,” “for my reputation.”她唱道。最后一个词令人抓不着头脑，很难猜想此处Sky Ferreira的名誉具体指什么，或是谁让她把责怪的矛头转向自己。也许她想到她年轻的父母，把她转让给奶奶抚养。或是与Capitol唱片公司艺人作品部的谈话，该厂牌在她15岁时便签下她，想把她培养成下一个Britney。厂牌只为她精心策划了一些小单曲(“One” 和"Obsession”)，只为阻碍她出道专辑的制作进程，企图让专辑因预算问题流产。

It’s also possible she’s addressing the horde of fashion-world supporters who helped her become a raccoon-eyed ingenue better known for looking cool on Terry Richardson’s Tumblr and modeling Hedi Slimane’s Saint Laurent pieces than making music. More plausible still, her followers at large for being seduced by the socialite component while failing to invest in her musical aspirations. And what of her boyfriend, Zachary Cole Smith of bedroom-rock band DIIV, the guy carrying a bunch of heroin when the two were arrested together in upstate New York this fall? At barely 21, Ferreira’s had a musical career burdened—and bolstered—by so many warring external forces and unconventional zig-zagging that the sheer existence of her debut album is a minor miracle.

也有可能，她是在向时尚界里一群支持她的人致词，那些人帮助她成为一个成天画着烟熏妆的天真无邪少女，在Terry Richardson的Tumblr账号上惊艳亮相，为Hedi Slimane的时尚品牌Saint Laurent做模特，而不是做音乐。更可信的是，她的粉丝很大程度上是被她社交名流的身份所吸引，并不愿意关注她的音乐志向。还有她男朋友Zachary Cole Smith，卧室摇滚乐队DIIV成员之一，一个大量私藏海*因的男人，据传两人今年秋季在纽约州北部被逮捕。年仅21岁，Sky Ferreira的音乐事业却寸步难行，受诸多外部阻力和非常规因素影响，这张专辑的诞生已是一个小小的奇迹。

So it’s both a relief and a bit of a shock that Night Time*, My Time* is not only here, but that it’s one of the most pleasingly conventional and cohesive pieces of pop-rock to come along this year. Particularly given last year’s uneven Ghost EP, which rode the success of “Everything Is Embarrassing” and used big-name collaborators to dabble in a sometimes-confusing assortment of styles—Shirley Manson-stamped grunge, singer-songwritery folk, electro-pop. Night Time*, My Time* finds Ferreira navigating her tastes more gracefully, bridging the gaps between 80s pop sparkle and full-bodied 90s grunge in a streamlined way. Her primary collaborator this time is producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Solange, Haim, Charli XCX, Vampire Weekend, Usher), a guy known for adding both big-league pop polish to smaller acts and fine-tuning to bigger ones.

令人感到宽慰和有点震惊的是《Night Time, My Time》不只是现在，更是今年发行的最有趣，最具凝聚力的传统流行摇滚专辑之一。特别是考虑到去年的《Ghost》EP表现不佳，该EP凭借单曲“Everything Is Embarrassing”的成功，与大牌制作人合作，涉足了一些令人迷惑的风格—Shirley Manson式的车库摇滚，原创词曲的民谣，电子流行，专辑《Night Time, My Time》里可以发现Sky Ferreira更能得心应手地掌控自己的风格，将80年代的流行韵律与90年代的车库摇滚以一种流线型的方式结合起来。这次她的主要合作伙伴是制作人Ariel Rechtshaid (曾为Solange, Haim, Charli XCX, Vampire Weekend, Usher制作)，他以在小众音乐中加入顶级流行元素进行微调并使歌曲大获成功而知名。

Night Time, My Time resists the self-serious instinct to position Ferreira as an artist artist— which might have been an especially powerful temptation considering she's a young woman in the music industry who’s spoken about coming into her own sense of agency. She examines emotional neglect (“Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)”) and self-loathing, but also sings clever songs about lifestyle posturing—“Stabbin’ pens in my hand/ But I’m never workin’, just spending/ A giant comedy with museums and shopping with Kristine,” she sings on “Kristine”, a giddily odd track with ska undertones. She’s does her glummest Chan Marshall impersonation (“Night Time, My Time”), but she also refers to the men in her life as simply boys and isn’t afraid to address them in a purposefully grade-school tone: “Boys, they’re a dime a dozen,” she mutters. “Boys, they just make me mad.” Night Time, My Time isn’t the reactionarily somber anti-pop drag it could have been—instead, it’s a smart Kelly Kapowski hair-whip and loud bubblegum-crack of a record that lends itself to compulsive listening.

专辑《Night Time, My Time》拒绝我们将Sky Ferreira先入为主地定位为一位很艺术家做派的艺术家——考虑到她是位在音乐产业中谈论自我意识的年轻女性，这可能是一个强大的诱导因素。她审查自己在情感上的被忽视(“Nobody Asked Me (If I Was Okay)”)和自我厌恶，但也会发布提倡健康生活的歌曲——“Stabbin’ pens in my hand/ But I’m never workin’, just spending/ A giant comedy with museums and shopping with Kristine,”她在歌曲“Kristine”中唱道，一首带斯卡低音的眩晕古怪的歌曲。(专辑同名曲“Night Time, My Time”里)她扮演了忧郁之极的Chan Marshall，但她也把现实生活中的男人称作男孩且并毫不畏惧地故作小学生腔调向他们喊话，“Boys, they’re a dime a dozen,” 她喃喃细语道“Boys, they just make me mad.”专辑《Night Time, My Time》不是极度阴沉的反流行音乐，尽管可以走这种路线。相反，专辑是Kelly Kapowski式的狂甩秀发 和砰砰作响的泡泡糖音乐，让听众欲罢不能。

All of which was made possible by the unlikely power of “Everything Is Embarrassing”, the subdued electro-pop gem that reoriented Ferreira’s career map altogether last year. (Ferreira is one of the rare artists for whom the word “crossover” has meant a foray into the indiesphere.) The only flashes of that song’s anthemic pop fizz are found on “I Blame Myself”, an uptempo beast that sparkles with the promise of a song destined to become some kind of hit. What’s especially remarkable is that the song achieves the impact of “Everything Is Embarrassing” without its seductive too-cool vacancy—Ferreira now sounds like she has her head held up high instead of glancing down at the floor, bored and ready to leave the party. For someone whose voice often registers at a depressive whisper, she also knows how to look listeners directly in the eye and get them to just listen to her. Finally. She's at the center of her music now, blissfully free of anyone else to blame.

这一切的震撼效果都要归功于“Everything Is Embarrassing”这首神曲，这首沉闷的电子流行巨作在去年彻底改变了Sky Ferreira的职业生涯。（Sky Ferreira是罕见的将“跨界”一词视作进军独立音乐的艺人之一）这首歌转瞬而逝的的颂歌式流行嘶嘶声可以在歌曲“I Blame Myself”里找到，“I Blame Myself”这首快节奏爆曲注定会成为热单。值得瞩目的是这首歌在没有“Everything Is Embarrassing” 性感冷酷留白的情况下达到了“Everything Is Embarrassing”  的水准——Sky Ferreira现在听起来像高昂着头，而不是低头看地板，感到无聊，准备离开派对。对于一个抑郁耳语型的声音来说，Sky Ferreira也知道如何在直视听众眼睛的同时捕获他们的注意力。最终，现在Sky Ferreira成为了自己音乐的掌舵人，幸福地摆脱了其他人的阴影。