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翻譯：Tyler Smith

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You’ve no doubt heard this already: Lady Gaga’s new single, “Born This Way,” sounds more than a little bit like Madonna’s “Express Yourself.” But given that Madge’s vocals have rarely sounded as rich and soulful than they do on that song, this will probably be one of the few times Gaga’s?voice?sounds like her idol’s.?Hey, hey, hey.

你一定聽過這樣的言論：Lady Gaga的歌曲“Born This Way（生來如此）”聽起來像極了Madonna的“Express Yourself”。但考慮到Madonna很少像她在這首歌里唱的那樣豐富和深情，所以這可能是為數(shù)不多的Gaga的歌聽起來像她偶像的歌的時候，正如歌中的“嘿，嘿，嘿?！?br/>

“I?consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry. I consider myself to be one of the greatest songwriters,” Gaga says in the latest issue of?Vogue. This is, perhaps, the only area where she strays from the template designed by Madonna, who has often said that she’s more interested in provoking thought and empowering people than with attaining technical perfection. But as ever, where the Queen of Pop’s messages have typically originated from a distinctly female perspective (and then been applied to or adopted by other minority groups, most famously the gay community), Gaga goes straight to the source—despite a “Vogue”-style rap that also makes reference to race and the disabled. Machine’s “There But for the Grace of God Go I” meets?Glee.

Gaga在一期《時尚》雜志上這樣說：“我認為我擁有這個行業(yè)最美的聲音之一了，同時也是最優(yōu)秀的作曲者之一。”這也許是她偏離麥當娜人設(shè)模板的唯一地方，因為麥當娜經(jīng)常說，她更感興趣的是激發(fā)思想和賦予人們權(quán)力，而不是達到技術(shù)上的完美。但是，和以往一樣，流行天后的流行靈感通常來源于一個明顯的女性視角（然后被應(yīng)用到其他少數(shù)群體，常常是同性戀群體），盡管“Vogue（Madonna的一首著名的贊美同志的歌曲）”風(fēng)格的說唱也提到了種族和殘疾人問題，但Gaga還是直奔源頭。Gaga的表演就像是Machine的“There But for the Grace of God Go I”（一首經(jīng)典的迪斯科歌曲，其中也提到了黑人，同性戀等弱勢群體）遇上了Glee（歡樂合唱團，一部音樂喜劇，劇中有許多對當紅流行歌曲的成功翻唱）。

“Born This Way” is an unapologetically queer anthem, one you can already bet will be pumping from floats up and down every gay pride parade from San Francisco to Berlin this summer. It’s also hard not to imagine the track playing as the cheesy opening theme to some kooky family sitcom about a brood of dysfunctional misfits. The lyrics, widely snickered at online when Gaga leaked them late last month, work better in this catchy, disco-trash context, but “Born This Way” is still dripping with schmaltz.

“Born This Way”是一首同性戀者自我肯定的圣歌，毋庸置疑的是，在發(fā)行那年的夏天，從舊金山到柏林的每一場同性戀驕傲游行的旗幟上都少不了這首歌的歌名（生來如此）。但是，這首歌也很容易讓人聯(lián)想到家庭情景喜劇中那些缺根筋的古怪角色的開場白。Gaga首次發(fā)布這首歌的歌詞時，網(wǎng)上的人紛紛竊笑，然而歌詞與洗腦的迪斯科環(huán)境結(jié)合時又相得益彰，但不過仍然充斥著各種感傷。

In a savvy move, Gaga premiered the single at six a.m. this morning so that all of her “l(fā)ittle monsters” could hear it before crawling out of their dens and putting on their armor for another day of battle. In the?Vogue?piece, Gaga says she doesn’t want them to see her as “human,” as if that would break some sacred monster bond. But to that point, “Born This Way” isn’t about?her?emotions, or what?she’s?going through. It’s about her fans. Which raises the question: When the adoration fades, which it inevitably will, what’s going to fuel her? Gaga has set up a creative apparatus that’s inherently designed to break down. Until then, though, there’s a sense, listening to the song, that Gaga has tapped into something truly special, maybe even important. The song’s message is certainly one that the world’s youth needs to hear now more than ever. And I can’t think of a better messenger.

Gaga考慮得很周到，她選擇在早上六點發(fā)布新單曲，以便小怪獸（Gaga粉絲的別稱）們可以在全副武裝出門趕赴一天的工作學(xué)習(xí)前聽到這首歌。在一段《時尚》雜志的采訪中，Gaga說她不想被認作“人類”，因為這樣就似乎打破了他與粉絲間神圣的“怪獸”聯(lián)系。“Born This Way”便體現(xiàn)了這種聯(lián)系，這首歌無關(guān)乎她的情緒，也無關(guān)乎她的經(jīng)歷，而是關(guān)于她的粉絲的。但這也衍生出了一個問題，再狂熱的崇拜也會有消退的一天，到那時又有什么來激發(fā)Gaga的靈感呢？Gaga創(chuàng)造性地給自己設(shè)定了一個定時炸彈。不過，在炸彈爆炸之前，在聽這首歌的時候，我們能感受到Gaga加入了一些獨一無二的，甚至還可以說是十分重要的元素。這首歌是一個絕佳的信使，它所傳達的信息是全世界的年輕人都需要聽到的，在如今的時代更是如此。