2012年11月25日

Lana Del Rey: The Paradise

第二次在這兒寫上Lana Del Rey,相信大家對這個名字已經不陌生。Born To Die大碟好評如潮,我也聽了不下百次。不過好評是指歐洲吧,美國人仍然不怎麼為她著迷,就是那麼一次的SNL失準便置她於冷宮。我想她對於唱現場的非議是滿不在乎的,她對SNL抨擊的反應是"I look beautiful and I feel fine"。我也不太在乎,因為我對Lana Del Rey的偏愛仍然持續。這精緻的外表,卻有著Hollywood sadcore,正中我下懷。
 

唱片公司為打造Lana Del Rey的強勢,今年緊接推出Born To Die的Paradise edition。這次EP收錄的歌曲,部份是來自Lana仍名為Lizzy Grant的遺珠作品,部份是翻唱。個人覺得這EP太出色了,比大碟還要動聽。喜歡她,是因為那電影式的氣氛,大碟每首歌曲也能讓你想起那些黑白畫面。這種戲劇音樂出自Lana口中卻有一股淡淡的爵士味,再次佔據你的聽覺。
 



看track 8 Bel Air。沉淪拉扯的歌詞呈現眼前,也許會被嫌棄不夠深度,不過喜歡Lana Del Rey就是喜歡她的自我、她的氛圍,大抵許多的旋律都是我們心底裡的情感反射。

專輯內我最喜歡的是track 7 Yayo,記得上一張專輯一句"Heaven is a place on earth with you"太令人著迷,到現在Yayo裡一句"Hello, heaven"也弄得我很敏感。說她不能唱的人大可聽聽Yayo,她絕對是位唱將。track 5 Blue Velvet短短的,我也很喜愛,總覺得velvet的質感完全符合她給我的感覺,不太流行不太老舊,恰好有一點姿態。
 

Lana Del Rey也是時裝界的寵兒,今年除了拍攝 H&M 廣告外,兩度登上Vogue的封面,也成為了Versace的代言人,看見她出席活動笑得高興的樣子我有點溶化了。
 



最後,其實主打歌Ride我喜愛得不得了,10:10的微電影滲透濃濃的美國西部味道,意識大膽,畫面非常到位。這個女孩究竟在想什麼,透過剖白式的對白我們已經知道
我一直好想整段放上來,看到她說"I was a singer, not a very  popular one"就有點想哭的感覺她這一路走來並不容易,看她訪問,說起話來靦腆,絲毫沒有鏡頭前那自信、傲氣的感覺。其實她也只是一個小女孩。

"I was in the winter of my life — and the men I met along the road
were my only summer. At night I fell asleep with visions of
myself dancing and laughing and crying with them.
Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour
and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me,
and my only real happy times.

I was a singer, not a very popular one,
who once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet —
but upon an unfortunate series of events,
saw those dreams dash and divided like a million stars in the night sky
that I wished on over and over again —
sparkling and broken.
But I didn’t really mind because I knew that
it takes getting everything you ever wanted
and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing,
how I had been living — they asked me why.
But there’s no use in talking to people who have a home,
they have no idea what it’s like to seek safety in other people,
for home to be wherever you lie your head.

I was always an unusual girl,
my mother told me I had a chameleon soul.
No moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality.
Just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
And if I said that I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way,
I’d be lying — because I was born to be the other woman.
I belonged to no one —
who belonged to everyone,
who had nothing —
who wanted everything with a fire for every experience
and an obsession for freedom that terrified me
to the point that I couldn’t even talk about —
and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people —
and finally I did —
on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore
— except to make our lives a work of art.

Live fast. Die Young. Be Wild. And Have Fun.

I believe in the country America used to be.
I believe in the person I want to become.
I believe in the freedom of the open road.
And my motto is the same as ever —
I believe in the kindness of strangers.
And when I’m at war with myself — I ride. I just ride.

Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you’re free to experience them?
I have.
I am fucking crazy.
But I am free."

1 則留言:

  1. 給你一個贊! 我也是粉絲…ride是大愛沒錯,可是不能不提backfire啊

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