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引人遐思的纯真呢喃,从 Lana Del Rey 字里行间瞥见优雅与哀愁

Lana Del Rey 以专辑《Born to Die》成名,引人优雅除了正规发行专辑外,遐思行间更于 YouTube 累积了许多未发行的真呢字里优秀作品,包含单曲〈Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd〉。哀愁十年过去,引人优雅她早已有了更多不同的遐思行间诗词与音乐风貌,作词人与诗人的真呢字里身分更有凌驾复古歌姬之势。拥有最长歌名的哀愁〈hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it〉问世后,新身分「吟游诗人」就此深植人心。引人优雅

引人遐思的纯真呢喃,从 Lana Del Rey 字里行间瞥见优雅与哀愁

Lana Del Rey 对诗与文学的遐思行间锺爱从出道时就能看出眉目:哲学系毕业的她受到不少诗人或作家作品启发而创作歌曲,例如她写出歌曲〈Lolita〉和〈Off To The真呢字里 Races〉的灵感多少来自俄裔美国作家 Vladimir Nabokov 的同名小说《萝莉塔》;〈Body Electric〉则来自美国诗人 Walt Whitman(惠特曼)的诗作〈I Sing the Body Electric〉。

正式戴上诗人的哀愁桂冠

出版诗集《Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass》并亲自朗诵,发行同名朗读专辑。引人优雅年过三十的遐思行间 Lana,心态更趋平静,真呢字里并将更多目光聚焦到爱情以外的地方:自身与家乡,也完成了一直以来都想书写的诗集。

她在第一首与书同名的诗中就宣告:「i decided to do nothing about everything」并于另一首诗〈SportCruiser〉中提到自己在三十三岁生日那天去上了飞行课,想成为自己的领航者而不必再从他人身上寻找方向。

▲ 于2020年发行诗集《Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass》并亲自朗诵,发行同名朗读专辑。

孕育作品的第二故乡

Lana Del Rey 虽出生于纽约,但大部分生活与创作生涯都在 L.A. 度过,可谓她的第二家乡与孕育作品之地,她也写了一首长诗给 L.A. 说道:「 LA, I’m from nowhere who am I to love you / LA, I’ve got nothing who am I to love you…」即使已是颇负盛名的艺术家,但置身于偌大繁华、给予自己创作养分的城市,Lana Del Rey 依旧深感自身渺小并以一种柔软的姿态重复诉说着对 L.A. 的爱。

▲ 即使已颇具盛名, Lana Del Rey 的作品中仍传递一种委身城市中的渺小与无力感。

专属 60 年代的风情万种

谈起 Lana Del Rey 的形象,总能从她身上联想到猫王前妻 Priscilla Presley 的风格影子,充满复古风情,甚至有人将她与 Marilyn Monroe(玛丽莲梦露)的照片合成合照,看来毫不违和,活脱脱是身处60年代的女子。

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她早年的歌曲总不离两个形容:歌词充满争议性(恋父情结、纸醉金迷与毁灭性的爱情等)与富含电影感(尤其专辑《Ultraviolence》的迷幻摇滚曲风)。但她其实早就尝试在歌曲中朗诵诗词或独白,以 Lana 因争议性歌词而非常着名的一首歌曲〈Cola〉为例,正式发行版中的前奏只收录音乐,但 YouTube 版本前奏加上诗词朗诵,朗诵的内容正是 Walt Whitman 的〈Song of Myself〉其中一段:

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,I play not marches for accepted victors onlyI play great marches for conquer’d and slain persons.

Have you heard that it was good the gain the day?I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I beat and pound for the deadI blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

献给黄金年代的輓歌

Lana Del Rey 唱腔多变,低音唱法尤因慵懒、性感而颇受赞誉;但当她说话或朗诵,嗓音却如来自稚嫩柔软的小女孩,带有一丝天真又似有若无的哀伤,彷彿在怀想或哀悼着她心中那些过去的黄金年代与艺术杰作。

Lana 的复古形象中一直存在着美国梦与爱国的心,也曾在单曲〈Looking for America〉中写道:「I’m still looking for my own version of America/One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly」在〈National Anthem〉MV 中以甘迺迪遇刺事件为主题,邀来歌手 A$AP Rocky 合作饰演甘迺迪总统,并且巧妙将自己饰演的 Jacqueline Kennedy(贾姬甘迺迪)与 Marilyn Monroe 融合成同个第一夫人的角色。

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在 MV 的最后,Lana 呓语般独白:

And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me.We both knew it, right away.And as the years went on, things got more difficult – we were faced with more challenges.I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it.When he walked in every woman’s head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him.He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn’t contain himself.I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him.

And in that way I understood him, and I loved him.I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.

And I still love him. I love him.

Lana 将自己当时的写作风格、感情观与她对贾姬情感世界的想像结合在一起,写下此段独白;同时她的音感、语感恰如其分地将独白与配乐调配成乐曲一般的存在,每个字和每个音符的配合都在完美的和谐中,有浓厚吟游诗人的身影。

YouTube 多达百首未正式发行歌曲

Lana Del Rey 深受歌迷喜爱的未发行歌曲不计其数,甚至有不少曲目被认为优于某些正式收录在专辑的选曲。如〈Fine China〉一曲为 Lana 作品中属恬淡旋律的歌曲,但歌词却不若音乐韬光养晦,第一句就毫不留情地直戳人心唱道:「I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby/For the birth of your son/On the same day, my husband-to-be/Packed his things to run」诗意的呢喃道出感情中的失意。

贯穿全曲的是淡然,却因淡然更让人撕心裂肺的「对比」:

Was bittersweet to say the leastOne life begins, one comes undoneI’ve always been a strong woman of faithStrong like a tree, but the unlucky one//接着,副歌以完好精美的瓷器与衣裳对照已经破碎的自己,恍若失神般重复轻声唱着:I’m going down now

With all of myFine china and fresh linenAll of my dresses with them tags still on themFine china and dull silverMy white horses and my ivory almonds

诗词与乐曲、经典与当代、另类与高雅,各式艺术之美的奇妙之处是各自独立为美,相互融合辉映也是美。在 Lana Del Rey 的作品中,是诗词成就了乐曲,抑或乐曲成就了诗词,或许人人会有不同说法,也或许无需探究答案,她彷彿一位现代的「吟游诗人」,同时透过歌曲和诗,传递她所受吸收、转化进而创作出的音乐与文学综合体,掳获也影响了许多歌迷与创作者。

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