迪士尼童星的轉型 青春期後走上流行音樂之路

It’s kind of eerie how Selena Gomez’s and Demi Lovato’s careers have been similar to one another. Both were born in 1992 in the US. Both appeared on Disney Channel sitcoms and went on to launch careers as pop singers.

賽琳娜.戈麥斯和黛米.洛瓦託的事業軌跡驚人的相似。她們都於1992年在美國出生，同樣從迪士尼影片出道，之後又走上了流行歌手的道路。

Last month, within a week of each other, they released new albums, entitled Revival and Confident respectively. The albums are seen as attempts to bid farewell to the stars’ Disney pasts. Music sales will determine whether Gomez and Lovato can succeed on their own terms.

上月，兩人在一週之內相繼推出了最新專輯《重生》和《滿懷自信》。這兩部專輯被視爲她們告別迪士尼歲月的一種嘗試。專輯銷量將決定她們是否能夠成功轉型。

It’s not uncommon for Disney stars to “break free” from their carefully manicured pasts. A generation ago, Disney alums Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera pioneered the formula for transitioning from teen idol to mainstream icon: a clean-cut artist develops a devoted teen fan base, and then declares independence.

迪士尼明星掙脫曾經精心打造的形象，這並不少見。多年前，小甜甜布蘭妮和克里斯蒂娜?阿奎萊拉開創了青少年偶像向主流明星轉型的先河——以特點鮮明的藝人特質積累衆多青少年粉絲，再走上獨自發展的道路。

The declaration often involves getting a statement haircut and recording songs about busting out of chains, cutting strings and stripping naked.

宣告擺脫過去常常伴隨着換髮型，錄一些以打破桎梏爲主題的歌，爭取主動，當然還不能穿太多。

Gomez and Lovato are undergoing the same kinds of transformation. However, their works transcend those paradigms, according to Inquisitr. Theirs is a more mature reinvention, one that details their personal struggles.

戈麥斯和洛瓦託正在經歷相似的蛻變。可是她們的作品，按美國新聞聚合網站Inquisitr的說法，超越了前輩的範例，是更加成熟的轉型，細緻地刻畫了她們的個人歷程。

Neither Gomez nor Lovato was a perfect fit for Disney’s good-girl mold, even at the height of their teen idol days. Gomez has had turbulent relationship with fellow pop star Justin Bieber. She has tried to emerge from Bieber’s shadow by releasing her own string of hits: Come & Get It, The Heart Wants What It Wants and now Good for You.

即便在她們是當紅青少年偶像的時候，戈麥斯和洛瓦託也不是典型的迪士尼乖乖女。戈麥斯曾和流行歌手賈斯汀?比伯有過一段混亂的感情，她用一系列的熱門歌曲，如《敢愛就來》、《心之所向》和現在的《天生絕配》，表明自己正在嘗試走出比伯的感情陰影。

Lovato, on the other hand, did stints in rehab for substance abuse and eating disorders. She recounts the experience in her power anthem Confident.

另一方面，洛瓦託則因濫用藥物進過戒毒所，還曾患上厭食症。她在自己的權力頌歌《滿懷自信》中講訴了這段經歷。

Their new albums delve into their personal lives in intimate, but not “adult”, ways. Gomez herself reflected on how she and her ex-Disney colleagues have evolved over the last few years.

她們在新專輯中探究了自己的私密生活，不過不是“成人”式的。戈麥斯反思了自己和其他前迪士尼童星過去幾年的蛻變歷程。

“Everyone has found their identity in a really interesting way,” Gomez told Refinery29. “We didn’t come out as these robots that looked and dressed the same.”

“每個人都以一種有趣的方式尋得自我，”戈麥斯對時尚資訊網站Refinery29說。“我們並不是長相和穿着都一模一樣的機器人。”

That pursuit of uniqueness is also reflected in their music. In Revival, Gomez sings about “empowerment as transcendence”, said The Atlantic in its review, before complimenting her “calm power”. Lovato’s Confident, on the other hand, is defined by its tone of aggression. Lovato is “sweating for self-determination”, according to The Atlantic.

追尋獨特性也反映在她們的音樂中。《大西洋月刊》在一篇評論文章中說，《重生》中，戈麥斯唱出了“賦權即超越”，還讚許她有一種“平靜的力量”。而洛瓦託的歌《滿懷自信》則充滿挑釁的語氣。《大西洋月刊》認爲洛瓦託“正在經過艱苦的努力爭取自主權”。

“Taken on their own, Gomez’s and Lovato’s albums aren’t breaking any radical new pop ground... But what’s most remarkable and exciting about Revival and Confident is how two talented women who may have seemed like carbon copies of each other at first are becoming individual artists. Not unlike Britney and Christina,” wrote Entertainment Weekly.

《娛樂週刊》寫道：“就她們個人而言，戈麥斯和瓦洛託的專輯並沒有徹底突破任何的流行音樂領域……不過《重生》和《滿懷自信》最非凡和激動人心的地方在於，兩位才華橫溢的女人突破了早前相似的人生軌跡，成爲了獨一無二的藝人。就像布蘭妮和克里斯蒂娜。”