【渣翻】pitchfork乐评 Eminem2010专辑《Recovery》

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The rapper's next comeback LP, this is meant 

to trace Em's journey out of depression and 

drug addiction and back into the peak of his 

powers.

这位rapper的又一张复出专辑，讲述了自己走出抑郁和毒瘾，重回巅峰的历程

Watching Eminem attempt to re-situate himself in the pop landscape the past year or so has 

been a bizarre spectacle. He roared out of his 

post-Encore slumber in early 2009 seeming 

almost puppyishly eager to rap again, 

spitting verses for anyone who put him in front of a mic with a desperation that suggested he 

was making up for lost time. Relapse, his 2009 comeback album, found him trying to scratch 

and claw his way back into the body of 

1999-era Slim Shady, but the effect was similar to Metallica trying to revisit their thrash years 

with 2008's Death Magnetic: The sound was 

there; the fury, long gone. No matter how many starlets he tortured and killed in his lyrics, Em 

couldn't rewrite the intervening years and the 

enervating effect they've had on his spirit.

看着Eminem在过去的一年里试图重新定位自己在流行乐坛的位置属实是奇怪的景象。2009年初，他在<Encore>发行后的沉寂中咆哮起来，强烈地渴望着重新开始说唱，用近乎绝望的口吻向麦克风前的人们喷吐自己的verse，这也表明他正在弥补失去的时间。<Relapse>，他在2009年发布的专辑，那时他试图回到1999年左右的Slim Shady时期，但效果就像Metallica在2008年发布的<Death Magnetic>想要让自己回到从前一样：声音还在，但他的愤怒已经远去，无论他在歌词里折磨，杀害了多少名人，Em也无法改写那段岁月，以及那对他的精神的削弱。

So now he's back again, with the follow-up to 

Relapse, and as its title suggests, Recovery is 

meant to be triumphant, tracing Em's journey 

out of depression and drug addiction and back 

into the peak of his powers. Out of all the 

depressing aspects of Recovery, the worst is 

the realization that for listeners the album takes the opposite arc-- the more he motors on about having reclaimed his passion for hip-hop and 

finally figured out who he is, the more draining 

the album becomes. Eminem has never really 

known who he is, which has resulted in one of 

the most wildly erratic discographies of any 

major rap artist; at this point, the number of 

times he's sounded rudderless on record are 

catching up to the times he's sounded alive.

At his best, he has always made a fascinating 

scramble of his internal turmoil, but the guy 

rapping on Recovery just sounds devoid of any noticeable joy, personality, or wit.

Not that he's not trying. As on Relapse, Em 

almost passes out showing us he's still got it, 

rapping in double and triple time, piling tricky 

syncopations on top of each other, constructing whole verses with end rhymes buried in the 

middle of phrases-- basically any kind of 

pyrotechnical trick he can think of to wow the 

kind of rap listeners who venerate technical skill above all else. And yet for all the 

rattling-around-inside-the-beat syllable 

pileups here, there is almost nothing worth 

quoting. He reels off an astonishing amount of cringe-worthy lines, on the order of, "Girl,shake that ass like a donkey with Parkinson's." On the menopausal, Diane Warren-esque uplift 

anthem "Not Afraid", he actually strings 

together the excruciating lines, "Okay, stop playin' with the scissors and shit, and cut the crap/ I shouldn't have to rhyme these words in a 

rhythm for you to know it's a wrap." Eminem 

spends nearly half of Recovery insisting he's 

the best rapper alive, but for the first time in his career, he actually sounds clumsy.

所以现在他回来了，带着《Relapse》的续集，正如标题所示，《Recovery》意味着胜利，Em从抑郁和毒瘾中解脱出来，回到他力量的巅峰的旅程。在《Recovery》所有令人沮丧的方面中，最糟糕的是，听众们意识到，这张专辑走了相反的道路——他越是极力宣扬自己重新找回了对嘻哈音乐的热情，并最终弄清楚自己是谁，这张专辑就越让人感到精疲力竭。Eminem从来也不知道自己是谁，这也让他成为了所有rapper中最疯狂，最古怪的一个之一，在这一点上，他在歌曲中听起来没有方向感的次数正在赶上他听起来还活着的次数。在他的最佳状态时，他总是能让自己内心的混乱变得迷人，但在<Recovery>这张专辑中，他听起来并没有明显的快乐，个性或是智慧。

这不是说他没有付出努力。在<Relapse>，他用尽浑身解数向我们证明他依然保持着最高水平，用两倍甚至三倍的节拍（大概在说bpm）说唱，富有技巧性的切分音，用隐藏在短语中间的押韵构造整个段落——基本是他想能到的所有戏法，让崇尚技巧高于一切的说唱听众惊叹不已。然而尽管这里有那么多在段落里打转的音节，却根本没什么值得引用的金句。他一口气说出了一大堆让人难堪的歌词像是“姑娘摇晃你的屁股就像得了帕金森的驴子”（“Girl, shake that ass like a donkey with Parkinson's.”）关于更年期，在戴安·沃伦式的昂扬颂歌“Not Afraid”中，他实际上只是把折磨人的词句串了起来，“Okay, quit playin' with the scissors and shit and cut the crap, 好吧，我实在是不想和他们浪费时间，浪费口舌，I shouldn't have to rhyme these words in a rhythm for you to know it's a rap, 

是应该好好唱歌了。”（这是个…..对他来说有点尴尬的wordplay）。Eminem在《Recovery》的近一半时间里都坚称自己是世界上的最好的说唱歌手，但在他的职业生涯中，他第一次听起来有些拙劣。

原文地址：https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14380-recovery/