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专辑名称: Hold The Girl
创作艺人: [Rina Sawayama]
音乐流派: ROCK|摇滚
专辑规格: 1碟13首
出品公司: Dirty Hit
发行时间: 2022/9/16
官方标价: £5.59 （会员免费下载）
域名语言: [en] （AI检测）
曲目介绍：
Minor Feelings
Hold The Girl
This Hell
Catch Me In The Air
Forgiveness
Holy (Til You Let Me Go)
Your Age
Imagining
Frankenstein
Hurricanes
Send My Love To John
Phantom
To Be Alive
详细介绍:
Like Lady Gaga, Rina Sawayama understands the beauty of camp and that there can be intensely real human emotion under all that artifice. On the British-Japanese singer%27s sophomore album, she presents a euphoric, glam country-pop stunner, This Hell—complete with neighing horses and a cheerleader chant, a Paris Hilton quote (a droll That%27s hot) and a Shania Twain tribute (the first line: Let%27s go, girls!), and topped with a thick slice of guitar-solo cheese. There are references to Britney Spears, Lady Di, Whitney Houston, The Devil Wears Prada and a thirsty Satan as Sawayama cheekily LOLs about being warned she%27s going to hell for liking girls—but, hey, This hell is better with you! It%27s the definition of gilding the lily, and it is glorious. Blinded by the disco-ball glitter of Catch Me in the Air—inspired by, of all bands, The Corrs—you might not realize the track is about her relationship with her mom, a single parent who didn%27t speak English while living in London, and the complicated support they gave each other as Sawayama was growing up. Or that the chill, early 2000s R&B pop of the title track is supporting a story about digging deep and reclaiming herself: Sometimes I just wanna run away/ Leave behind that old me, start again/ Then I%27ll remember who I%27m really made of/
And she%27s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone. Is it any wonder Sawayama wrote the song after a therapy session while working through some leftover teenage trauma? In fact, she has said the album was born of a more intensive therapy she%27s been practicing, focused on the notion of re-parenting yourself—in other words, figuring out how to provide what you didn%27t get enough of as a child. The dreamy Phantom is about realizing in adulthood that, as a girl, pleasing the world, dying to be liked, she weakened her own boundaries to please other people: Stickers and scented gel pens/ Give possessions, get friends … I%27ve been trying to find her since/ She gave a little too much away. Frankenstein is ultra high-tension, with Bloc Party%27s former drummer Matt Tong setting the 130-BPM pacing as Sawayama pleads for metaphorical reinvention: Put me together, make me better, love me forever … I don%27t wanna be a monster anymore. There are moments of Celine Dion-style grandeur (Forgiveness), and the float-like-a-butterfly, sting-like-a-bullet dichotomy of Evanescence (Your Age, on which the industrial music drops out and Sawayama intones: You fuck with my life). And Send My Love to John surprises with acoustic guitar folky tenderness, as the singer imagines a mom apologizing to a son—accepting him and his love, John, after a lifetime imagining her boy with a girl and hiding behind the bible rather than standing up for him.
