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【第二章】翠鸟战士的声音武器

Having scored a U.S. Top 10 hit, and performed at Prince William's wedding reception and Barack Obama's Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, the release of Ellie Goulding's second album, Halcyon, couldn't be timelier-- nor more varied a collection.
Ellie Goulding的第二张专辑《Halcyon》的发布可谓恰逢时辰，这张专辑不仅登上了美国榜单前十，还借了骨钉姐在威廉王子的婚礼招待会和奥巴马的圣诞树点灯仪式上演出的东风—不过这张专辑更像是一张精选合集。

Its increasingly common for bonus tracks to become sleeper hits, thereby resuscitating albums and digging artists out of their midchart quagmires. (Nicki Minaj's crossover was largely the doing of bonus track"Super Bass" from 2010's Pink Friday.) "Lights", co-written by Biff Stannard, who penned many a hit for the Spice Girls, was also issued as a single. That release came with the featherweight original, a wobbly Bassnectar remix, and a Fernando Garibay dance mix that sounded a lot like his last big project, Lady Gaga's Born This Way.
赠曲成为慢热磨榜大热门的现象越来越常见，并且还能顺势将其原专辑和歌手一起从榜单低位自嗨的泥潭中救出（Nicki Minaj就是被她2010年发布的专辑《Pink Friday》中的赠曲Super Bass拯救的），Lights就是这么一首由为Spice Girls创作出许多大热单曲的Biff Stannard共同创作并发行的单曲，与其一同发行的还有一些轻量改编的作品，比如Wobbly Bassnectar Remix，还有Fernando Garibay的一首 Dance Mix，这首听起来像他上一次和Lady Gaga制作的《Born This Way》。

All styles sounded perfectly plausible and received airplay. Radio-ready dance-pop? She'd be neither the first nor last to make that pivot. Dubstep? She likes it enough to hang with Skrillex, as anything written about Goulding in 2012 inevitably mentions. Polite folktronica? It worked for Beth Orton. Her po-faced cover of Elton John's"Your Song"? It worked for, um, Birdy. Rebloggable covers of ActiveChild and the Weeknd? Why the hell not?
这些各式各样的风格听起来都非常讨喜，也获得了电台的播放，那么她的风格是电台友好型的流行舞曲吗？但她也只是万千成功例子中的一例而已；所以回响贝斯？的确，她和Skrillex都很喜欢这种风格；礼貌的电子民谣？这是Beth Orton绝活；而她对Elton John的Your Song的严肃翻唱呢？Birdy不知道你听说过没有；还有值得被反复提及的Active Child和the Weeknd的翻唱呢？别等了，快去听。

The charitable interpretation of this is that Goulding's got a lot of ideas to play with. The cynical interpretation is that she's being opportunist, flinging herself into five potential genres in the hopes that one will take root. This isn't to say Ellie Goulding's music is anonymous. She has an instantly identifiable voice that can flip from soprano trills to scrappy yarls within a single verse, and she never sounds, like some of her peers, over-anxious to pass a BRIT School vocal jury. Sometimes she leaves her voice more or less alone, but more often she tweaks it, chops it up into snippets, loops it.
对此宽容点的解读就是骨钉姐的办法真的很多，不过按我们婊叉的一贯风格，可以将她定义为一个机会主义者，她将她自己丢进五个不同的潜力流派中，只为至少找到一个适合她立足的风格，别误会，这并不是在说骨钉姐是个十八线歌手，她信手拈来的演唱技巧和极具辨识力的音色足以甩开那些同时期还在担心唱功不过关的洗脚婢，有时她也或多或少地保留原声，发挥她声音的优势，不过她更喜欢花样打磨她的绵羊音。

And so we've arrived at a place where Ellie Goulding has scored a Stateside hit, performed at Prince William's wedding reception and Barack Obama's Christmas-tree lighting ceremony, and has now dropped this perfectly time album, Halcyon. She's calling Halcyon a breakup album in interviews, but the guy whose dumping really matters is Starsmith, who produced most of Lights. Apart from a few bonus tracks, he appears here just once, on the aptly titled "Dead in the Water". His best substitute here is Jim Eliot of Kish Mauve; he's no Stannard, but he's gone the rounds: stately dance for KylieMinogue, angst electro for Ladyhawke, assembly-line hits for "PopIdol" winners.
显然骨钉姐这次在美国大火了一把，还顺大势发行了她的新专辑《Halcyon》，在采访中，她称这是一张分手专，然而更应该说和她分手的是让《Lights》闪耀起来的前制作人Starsmith，除了新专的赠曲外，他只出现在正专曲序的一首歌中，名副其实真就Dead in thewater了，而在这张专辑中这把交椅转交给了最适合的Kish Mauve里的Jim Eliot，他不是Stannard，但他足够可靠，你可能不知道他是谁，但你应该听过澳洲舞曲天后KylieMinogue、焦虑电子歌手Ladyhawke还有Pop Idol冠军们的流水线金曲。

These songs work better than the more traditional folk-leaning tracks, at least. Those underpinnings always existed beneath the club lights in Goulding's music, but mostly, her ballads are somnolent and give too much rein to her drippierlyrical impulses: "I feel a lump in my throat, and this is far from joy," for example, or rhyming "houses" and "rouses" on the title track. She's better off when her voice and sonics take the forefront: the choral swells throughout the otherwise straightforward "Explosions", the way "Don't Say a Word" churns up drama around mostly repeated lyrics, or the whistle-register baubles strewn throughout "Atlantis". Goulding can certainly inhabit a soundscape. Her next step is to inhabit just one.
至少这张专辑的风格比起偏传统民谣的《Lights》更加适合骨钉姐，在她的音乐中，这种根基一直都藏在夜店的灯光之下，但最重要的是，她催眠的芭乐曲过于束缚了她更加动情的歌词表达能力，比如：
"I feel a lump in my throat, and this is far from joy,"
以及在同名曲halcyon里“houses”和“rouses”的押韵。Explosions全程贯穿直截了当的波浪般涌起的和声，Don't Say a Word里那种对歌词洗脑循环所营造的戏剧感，Atlantis里哨音的不断点缀，她的声音一直拔得头筹，骨钉姐是可以用这些声音描绘出一种画面感的，但她下一步应该将那些各式各样的声音绘制成一张鸿篇巨制。

气cry，翠鸟被陷害了

湛蓝很好听，但翠鸟真的是太仙了，而且制作与歌曲本身非常统一，画面感十足，毕竟还有分歧者这个超大mv存在

继续soon惹，下一章是目前唇姐评分最高的羊癫疯

恭喜《湛蓝》喜提婊叉新低

【第三章】翠鸟战士的癫疯登基录