30 Is the Best Adele Album Yet
She’s never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30 —more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs inthe key of her own damn life
30是Adele迄今为止最好的专辑
她从未像30一般凶猛——对自己的感情表达更加生动，在将其塑造成歌曲的技巧方面更加精湛
By ROB SHEFFIELD

“Mummy’s been having a lot of big feelings recently,” Adele announces early on in 30. Hands up — who’s surprised? This is Adele, after all. She was born with big feelings, and ever since the day she first stepped into a recording studio, she’s been off-the-charts brilliant at sharing them with the world. That’s why total strangers hear ourselves in the swoops and raptures of her voice, even as it gets more flexible, stealthy, dangerous. If you were expecting this woman’s divorce album to be a smooth ride, you’re definitely in the wrong place.
“妈妈最近有很多感受，”阿黛尔在发布30时这样写道。请问谁会感到惊讶？毕竟这是Adele。她生来就会表达情感，从她第一次踏入录音室的那一天起，她就在与世界分享这些感情方面表现的非常出色。这就是为什么陌生人会在她的声音中听到自己的声音，即使它变得更加灵活、隐蔽、危险。如果你期望这位女士的离婚专辑是一段平稳的旅程，那么你绝对来错地方了。
Adele has never sounded more ferocious than she does on 30 — more alive to her own feelings, more virtuosic at shaping them into songs in the key of her own damn life. It’s her toughest, most powerful album yet. “All love is devout,” Adele declares in the magnificent “Cry Your Heart Out,” and she walks it like she talks it. She travels her own Via Dolorosa, walking a treacherous path of heartache, motherhood, boozy despair, and loneliness.
她从未像30一般凶猛——对自己的感情表达更加生动，在将其塑造成歌曲的技巧方面更加精湛。这是她迄今为止最艰难、最强大的专辑。“所有的爱都是虔诚的，”Adele在壮丽的“Cry Your Heart Out”中宣称，她走路如同说话一般。她穿过自己的受难之路，走在心痛、母性、醉酒的绝望和孤独的危险道路上。
This is her first batch of songs since the collapse of her marriage — as she summed it up, “Divorce, baby.” But it’s also her turning-thirty album, so she’s navigating a host of turbulent emotional transitions. Which makes it … an Adele album. Let’s face it, she’s never been shy about facing her messiest feelings, but time just makes her bolder. As she confides in the album’s centerpiece, “Hold On,” “Every day feels like the road I’m on/Might just open up and swallow me whole/How do I feel so mighty small/ When I’m struggling to feel at all?” There’s a lot of that going around lately.
这是她婚姻破裂后的第一张专辑——正如同她“离婚了，宝贝儿”的总结。但这也是她三十岁的专辑，所以她正在经历一系列动荡的情感转变。这使它成为......一张Adele专辑。让我们面对现实吧，她从不羞于面对自己最混乱的情感，并且时间只会让她更加勇敢。正如她在专辑的核心曲目“Hold On”中倾诉的那样，“Every day feels like the road I’m on/Might just open up and swallow me whole/How do I feel so mighty small/ When I’m struggling to feel at all?”最近有很多这种情况。

果然，我之前尝试翻译了一下开头就放弃了，和吧主基本天差地别

“Strangers by Nature” begins the album with a Fender Rhodes keyboard hook and jazzy torch-ballad melodrama, like a mix of Portishead and Lauryn Hill, setting a tone for the whole set. The music is steeped in time-traveling R&B flourishes, going back to Old Hollywood for “Love Is a Game” and 1970s soul for “Hold On.” “All Night Parking” is a duet with the late jazz piano legend Erroll Garner, who died a decade before Adele was born.
“Strangers by Nature”以Fender Rhodes键盘hook和爵士torch-ballad情节剧开始，就像Portishead和Lauryn Hill的混合，为整张专辑定下了基调。音乐沉浸在穿越时空的R&B蓬勃发展中，回到旧好莱坞的“Love Is a Game”和1970年代的灵魂乐“Hold On”。“All Night Parking”是与已故爵士钢琴传奇人物Erroll Garner的二重唱，他在Adele出生前十年去世。
You wouldn’t think it was possible, but her vocals have gotten even more expressive. Adele’s voice is a tank division that can tap dance — the more mature she gets as an artist, the more finesse and tact she brings to the microphone, without sacrificing any of the primal firepower that made her famous in the first place. It’s all there in the single “Easy on Me,” where she pauses midsong to linger on the first note of “easy” so long that you feel like you might pass out, even though you can tell she isn’t breaking a sweat.
你或许认为这是不可能的，但她的歌声变得更加富有表现力。Adele的声音是一个可以跳踢踏舞的装甲军队——她作为一名艺术家愈加成熟，她对麦克风就愈加灵巧，同时不会牺牲任何让她成名的原始火力。这一切都在单曲“Easy on Me”中体现出来，她在歌曲中间停顿，在“easy”的第一个音符上逗留了这么久，以至于你觉得你可能会昏倒，尽管你可以看出她没有出汗。
On her blockbuster Sunday-night CBS concert special, she introduced the world to “I Drink Wine,” a career highlight that indeed takes inspiration from Elton John and Bernie Taupin, a piano rave where Adele has to play both Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowgirl. She grapples with feelings so fierce, she can’t share them with anyone except the mirror, the couch, the second or third empty bottle of the night, a gospel choir, and a planet full of sentient humans wired to every tremble of her voice. 在轰动一时的周日晚CBS音乐会特别节目中，她向全世界演唱了“I Drink Wine”，一首生涯高光，这首歌确实从Elton John和Bernie Taupin那里获得了灵感，这是一首钢琴狂欢，但Adele必须在其中同时扮演Captain Fantastic和the Brown Dirt Cowgirl。她如此强烈的捕捉到感情，除了镜子、沙发、那晚的第二个或第三个空瓶子、一个福音合唱团、以及整个地球上对她任何一个颤音都为之感动的任何人，她无法与其余人分享。
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She goes forwild-ass humor in this song as she sings, “When I was a child every singlething could blow my mind/Soaking it all up for fun, but now I only soak upwine.” But she also asks herself tough questions with no answers: “Why am Iobsessing about the things I can’t control?/Why am I seeking approval frompeople I don’t even know?” By the end, she’s wishing peace and happiness forher ex, but with no regrets about saying goodbye, because “sometimes the roadless-traveled is a road best left behind.” What a a song — one of the mostambitious feats she’s ever attempted.
她在这首歌中唱着狂野的幽默，“When I was a childevery single thing could blow my mind/Soaking it all up for fun, but now I onlysoak up wine.”但她也会问自己一些没有答案的棘手问题：“Why am Iobsessing about the things I can’t control?/Why am I seeking approval frompeople I don’t even know?”最后，她希望她的前任和平幸福，但对告别并不后悔，因为“sometimes theroad less-traveled is a road best left behind.”多么美妙的一首歌——这是她尝试过的最雄心勃勃的壮举之一。
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“Cry Your HeartOut” is another career highlight, with sped-up cartoon-chipmunk voices givingway to a seething reggae skank, girl-group hand claps, and Hammond B-3 organ. “When I wake up I’m afraid at the idea of facing the day,”Adele confesses. “I would rather stay home on myown/Drink it all away.” But — typically on a breakup album with no goodguys and bad guys — she doesn’t blame anyone else. As she sings, “I createdthis storm/It’s only fair I have to sit in its rain.”
“Cry Your Heart Out”是另一个亮点，加速的卡通花栗鼠声音让位于沸腾的雷鬼音乐、女团的拍手声和Hammond B-3风琴。“When I wake up I’m afraid at the idea offacing the day,”Adele承认道。“I would ratherstay home on my own/Drink it all away.”但是——通常是在一张没有好人和坏人的分手专辑中——她不会责怪任何人。正如她唱的那样，“I created thisstorm/It’s only fair I have to sit in its rain.”
That even-handedtone is one of the most striking things about 30, considering it’s a divorcealbum — Adele has zero interest in cheap score-settling. She doesn’t default tothe petty payoffs of finding villains to demonize for her emotional chaos; theway she tells the story, it’s all on her. She keeps making you wonder: How canso much drama come from such a well-adjusted, civilized adult?
考虑到这是一张离婚专辑，这种不偏不倚的语气是30最引人注目的事情之一——Adele对廉价的分数结算兴趣为零。她不会为了微薄的回报来寻找恶棍，只为了妖魔化自己的情绪混乱；她就是以自己的方式在讲故事。她一直让你想知道：这样一个适应良好、文明的成年人怎么会有这么多戏剧性的事情发生？

她的合作者既有常规僚机Greg Kurstin，也有Ludwig Göransson、Tobias Jesso、Max Martin和Shellback的灵巧作品。对于伦敦制作人Inflo来说，这是一个造星时刻，他成为聚光灯下的焦点，比如风情万种的原声吉他作品“Woman Like Me”和独奏表演“Hold On”，有点像Ghostface Killah与Mary J. Blige90年代的催泪嘻哈，“All That I Got Is You.”它从稀疏的钢琴开始，直到爆炸成弦乐和现场乐队；从制作人名单来看，合唱团是“Adele的疯狂朋友们”，这听起来很对。
Adele fiends for love in all its various forms, from the carnal cravings of “Oh My God” and “Can I Get It” to the maternal pangs of “My Little Love.” But she hits new highs in “To Be Loved,” just a vocal fireworks display, with a piano to guide her. Adele breaks down and admits, as if under duress, “Let it be known that I cried for you.” And then she punches the word “known” over and over until it gushes blood. It’s an exhilarating moment — like the rest of the album, it’s the sound of a woman who suffered through a horrific crisis without losing her soul, her passion, or her sense of humor. And all over 30, you can hear her sense of triumph that she made it all the way through. Hello, from the other side.
Adele对各种形式的爱充满了恶魔，从“Oh My God”和“Can I Get It”的肉欲渴望到“My Little Love”的母性痛苦。但她在“To Be Loved”中创下了新高，这是一场声乐烟火表演，并有一架钢琴引导她。Adele崩溃了，像是受到了胁迫版承认道：“Let it be known that I cried for you.”然后她一遍遍地敲打着“known”这个词，直至鲜血淋漓。这是一个令人振奋的时刻——就像专辑的其余部分一样，这是一个经历了可怕危机但没有失去她的灵魂、她的热情或她的幽默感的女人的声音。整张30，你都能听到她的一路旌歌。Hello, from the other side.

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