滚石杂志真的很护妮耶 XD 大赞 Brit版 Telephone大赢 GaGa版的～ Britney Phone Home: Why Spears' "Telephone" Beats Lady Gaga's By a Robo-Mile Ever since Britney Spears' demo version of Lady Gaga's "Telephone" leaked this week, fans have been buzzing. Producer Rodney Jerkins quickly confirmed that it really was Britney singing, but any seasoned Britneyologist could already identify it by ear within a couple of bars — nobody else pronounces the consonant "r" or the long vowel "e" like our girl. It has all the distinctive vocal tics of Britney, or at least the laptop that does her singing. At this point, I've come to love Britney's demo even more than Gaga's already-brilliant hit version. Even though it's a more bare-bones production, it amps up all the seething rage in the song, stripping it down to the killer combo of a plucked harp and a jaded party girl strung out on Auto-Tune and paranoia. 提到在还没证实是 Brit Brit唱的时候， 死忠歌迷就应该要听出来了，因为 Brit Brit很多咬字跟发音很好认呀! "Telephone" actually sounds a lot like Britney's 2007 hit "Piece of Me," proving yet again how much impact Britney has had on the sonics of current pop. People love to make fun of Britney, and why not, but if "Telephone" proves anything, it's that Blackout may be the most influential pop album of the past five years. The demo is lighter than Gaga's production, cutting out all the rock bombast, but that just makes the song more linear and urgent. It reduces "Telephone" to a drum machine, that harp, a magic box of vocal effects, and the concept that a girl's soul and a magic box of vocal effects can sometimes be the exact same thing. 觉得 Telephone很像 Piece of Me, 证明 Brit真的对现在流行音乐影响很深。 认为 Blackout是过去五年来最具影响力的流行专辑。 Brit版 Telephone虽然是 demo, 後制还很简陋，但反而让这首歌更流畅。 觉得 Brit的声音灵魂就可以抵复杂的後制了。 Britney uses Auto-Tune the way Bob Dylan used his harmonica — for punctuation, for atmosphere, for an alienatingly weird sound effect. It's a blast of vocal distortion, harsh on the surface, but expressive, capable of sounding wildly funny or abrasively pissed-off or seductive. In "Telephone," as in "Piece of Me," the Auto-Tune does for her voice what the harmonica does for Dylan's in "It Ain't Me, Babe" — a way of telling the world to keep its hands off you. Britney is talking to her phone, talking to the boy who keeps calling, talking herself out of compulsively checking her phone. The way her voice fades in and out of Auto-Tune — mostly in — is totally brilliant. Like Bob Dylan (and I swear this is the last time I'll mention his name right now, despite the millions of things he and Brit have in common) Britney loves to cross-fade between a human voice (hey world, take a look at me, I'm a star, I'm somebody, pay attention) and a machine voice (hey world, fuck off, you can't reach me, I don't believe you, you're a liar). 这段是在说 Brit Brit是用 auto-tune的超级大行家。XD The point isn't whether Britney is punching the buttons herself. (When is that ever the point with a pop star?) It's the romance going on between the voice and the machine. Part of what makes Britney the perfectest of perfect pop stars is the way she expresses her personality most passionately when she's turning herself into a machine — surrendering to the beat, disappearing into the thrill of the pop moment, singing like a robot. That's what makes her sound so human after all. In "Telephone," she doesn't want to think any more, talk any more, feel any more — she just wants to hit the floor and dance to the rhythm machines until she turns into a machine herself. 觉得 Brit跟 auto-tune的结合就像完美的恋情。XD 特别在这首歌之中呈现出来，毕竟歌词讲了: doesn't want to think any more, talk any more, feel any more... 所以用机器音更能表现出这种感觉。 Nothing could express the Britney cosmology like a phone song, since phone songs are usually a place where singers distort their vocals to sound like they're on the line — my favorite might be ELO's "Telephone Line," Kraftwerk's "The Telephone Call," or maybe Missy Elliott, Timbaland and Nicole Wray's "Make It Hot." But it's ideal for Britney — especially when the phone song doubles as an "I'm out on the club jumping on strange boys" anthem. She's kind of biz-zaaay. She's kind of biz-zaaay. You can't hurt her, can't even touch her, because she's kind of biz-zaaay. Call all you want but she's not at home, and you're not gonna reach her telephone. 因为是电话歌，所以你本来就要能听者感受到电话的感觉。 反正就是继续称赞用 auto-tune让这首歌昇华。 I'm definitely not disparaging Gaga's version — I couldn't live without it, especially not her Beyoncé video epic. But "Telephone" has so much Britney in it, it's no big surprise to learn that Gaga may have written the song for her. Since Britney is the perfect pop star, and songs about telephones are always excellent, it's a just plain mathematical fact that Britney's "Telephone" is a perfect pop song, and the world is an infinitely better place because it exists. 当然文章作者也很爱 GaGa版的 Telephone, 但没办法这就是一首 Brit Brit的歌， 因为 Brit Brit的完美的 pop歌手。 Bizarro note: despite all the advances in phone technology over the past 25 years, both versions of "Telephone" end with the same recorded message from the Replacements' 1984 punk rock classic "Answering Machine." That Britney — she is so punk. 真的是捧翻天。XD 虽然我这阵子也完全只听 Brit版的 Telephone了啦～～～ >////< 真希望 Darkchild流出完整版。 >"< -- 她笑了，政客们跟着笑。我克制住自己，保持正经的脸色。 天啊！这可真是个欢乐的地方。 　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　- 战前酒 --

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