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凯蒂·普洛克特发现放手的力量:“我给自己施加了很大的压力。”

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2024年04月16日

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In hindsight, Katie Pruitt’s decision to name her debut album Expectations was either brilliant or crazy — or both.
事后看来,凯蒂·普洛克特决定将她的首张专辑命名为《期望》,要么是明智的,要么是疯狂的——要么两者兼而有之。

After its 2020 release, it did everything to live up to its name. Critical praise showered like confetti: “genius,” “dazzling,” “earth-shattering.” On tour after the COVID quarantine lifted, Pruitt was rewarded with worshipful crowds who sang back every word of her sharp lyrics. The warm reception gained her spots on "ones to watch" lists, opening dates with Brandi Carlile and a nomination for emerging act of the year from the Americana Music Association.
在2020年发布后,它尽了一切努力来实现它的名字。批评之声如五彩纸屑般纷至沓来:“天才”、“令人眼花缭乱”、“惊天动地”。在新冠肺炎隔离解除后的巡演中,普鲁伊特得到了崇拜她的人群的回报,他们唱出了她尖锐歌词的每一个字。热情的接待让她登上了“值得关注”的榜单,与布兰迪·卡莱尔一起登台演出,并获得了美国音乐协会的年度新人奖提名。

The response was so glorious that all Pruitt could feel, as she approached album No. 2, was — here it comes — expectations. And, no, the irony isn’t lost on her; there’s not a lot that gets past her acute mind.
当普洛克特即将发行第二张专辑的时候,她所能感受到的只是期待。而且,不,她并没有忘记这种讽刺;没有什么事能逃过她敏锐的头脑。

“I don’t know if I expected” — she laughs, catching herself on her word choice — “it [the album] to do what it did and to have the reaction that it had.” Once it did, though, says Pruitt, “I was putting a lot of pressure on myself the second time around to outdo the first record. I was really trying to rush it, and I was trying to force myself to be inspired, and it was hard.”
“我不知道我是否期望”——她笑着说,她的用词选择让她自己明白了——“它(这张专辑)能做到它所做的,并有它所引起的反应。”不过,一旦打破纪录,普鲁伊特说:“第二次我给自己施加了很大的压力,要超越第一次的纪录。我真的很着急,我试图强迫自己受到启发,但这很难。”

How much pressure? Enough that it took her four long years to finally release her sophomore album, Mantras, out this month. It’s a sublime collection of worth-the-wait music, brimming with Pruitt’s rare artistry, her relentless drive to self-explore and her insistent urge to take listeners along for the ride. Her journey, though, first had to push her through a therapist’s door and past the “mental roadblocks” — just to get her going again. (“Shout-out MusiCares!” says Pruitt, namechecking a mental health service for the music community.)
多大的压力?以至于她花了漫长的四年时间,终于在本月发行了她的第二张专辑《Mantras》。这是一本值得等待的音乐精选集,充满了普鲁伊特罕见的艺术才华,她对自我探索的不懈追求,以及她坚持不懈地带着听众一起上路的愿望。然而,她的旅程首先必须推动她通过治疗师的门,越过“精神障碍”——只是为了让她重新开始。(“服务奖颁奖礼!普鲁伊特说,他正在查一家为音乐界提供心理健康服务的机构的名字。)

The pressure finally diminished, she says, once she understood “that I can’t control any outcome ever … All you can control is yourself. All the love and attention and detail that I pour into the songs is just like you’re throwing it to the wind. And there’s sort of a freedom in that. There’s a freedom of giving up clinging so tightly to all those aspects you can’t control.”
她说,当她明白“我永远无法控制任何结果……你能控制的只有你自己”后,压力终于减轻了。我在歌里倾注的所有爱和关注和细节就像你把它扔到风中。这里面有一种自由。有一种自由,可以让你放弃对那些你无法控制的方面的执着。”

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