搬運(yùn)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）

原作者：Stacey Anderson

翻譯：Peter D

審譯：Joonly EC

排版：Ryan-Chopin

In lesser hands, the refrain of?Christine and the Queens’ latest single could land as petulant or performatively blue —“People, I’ve been sad!” is the type of thing your neediest friend tweets before being met with a barrage of heart emojis—but Chris finds real intimacy in the declaration. Over the type of slow-burning, fluorescent synth-pop that has become her bread and butter (her?pain et beurre?), the singer confirms her concealed wounds: “It’s true that people, I’ve been missing out,” she sings, enunciating every word with surgical precision, “And missing out for way too long.” It’s the kind of external admission—clipped, unflinching—that disguises introspective rigor, especially when paired with Chris’ other regrets: She’s on the verge of disappearing now, after having “forsaken things for way too long.”

在那些二流音樂人手中，Christine and the Queens的最新單曲中的怨言可能會變成任性、或是做作的憂郁——“People, I’ve been sad!（各位，我一直都好難過！）”就是典型的你的那些最矯情的朋友會在推特上發(fā)的東西，在這之后他們就會收到一連串的帶著愛心表情的安慰——但在這里，在這份自白中，Chris找到了真正的親密。合成器流行早已是這位歌手創(chuàng)作中必不可少的元素，她在這支單曲中繼續(xù)利用這種激情若隱若現(xiàn)、泛著微光的曲風(fēng)，揭開了被她隱藏起來的創(chuàng)痛：“It’s true that people, I’ve been missing out（各位，這一切都是真的，我一直被世界所遺漏），”她以外科手術(shù)般的精準(zhǔn)清晰地唱出每一個詞，“And missing out for way too long（而且被遺漏太久太久了）?！钡珔s正是這種短促而堅決的外部介入掩蓋了自省所帶來的殘酷，尤其是在她還有其他種種悔恨的情況下：在“forsaken things for way too long（拋下一切已太久）”后，她如今已到了消逝的邊緣。

“People, I’ve been sad” is Hélo?se Adela?de Letissier’s first single since “Gone,” her summer BDSM barnstormer with?Charli XCX, but it shares more with the quieter moments of her 2018 record?Chris: call-and-response vocals, gently and robotically stacked in chorus, as well as dramatic mastery of pauses and hesitant space. In her native French, she mourns a difficult childhood with imagistic lines about dead thistles and walking on glass barefoot. A warm, empathetic string section surges below her, as if to say her resilience and beauty are one and the same. The private nature of the track feels genuine and striking; tellingly, it was written, arranged, and produced only by Letissier, who gently rides its momentum without offering any easy, grand resolutions. The song merely ends, a bit stronger now than when it began.

“People, I’ve been sad”是Hélo?se Adela?de Letissier在“Gone（離開）”中獻(xiàn)聲之后發(fā)布的首支單曲，她和Charli XCX在“Gone”的MV中大玩捆綁play，但截然不同的是，這次的新單與她2018年發(fā)行的專輯《Chris》共享了更多的寧靜時刻：副歌中類似的溫柔但又機(jī)械地重復(fù)著的回應(yīng)式人聲，以及對戲劇性的猶豫和暫停的純熟運(yùn)用。她還用自己的母語——法語寫了幾句意象化的歌詞，用枯死的薊葉和赤腳踩在玻璃上的情形哀悼那異常艱難的童年時光。她的歌聲下涌動著溫暖而感人的弦樂，仿佛是在強(qiáng)調(diào)她的美麗正是源于她的堅韌。單曲的私人內(nèi)核聽上去如此懇切，又如此出眾；整首歌刻畫極為生動，且僅由Letissier一人創(chuàng)作、編排并制作，她并沒有表現(xiàn)出任何簡單又或是宏偉的決心，卻依舊輕易駕馭了歌曲中噴涌的情感。整首歌僅僅是讓人覺得結(jié)尾處比在開始時，又堅強(qiáng)了些許。