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小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：影视英语 超级碗中场表演 反映美国歌坛阴盛阳衰 TGiven the agonizing over air pressure that has racked the N.F.L. in recent weeks, it was appropriate that the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl XLIX was Katy Perry, a queen of our deflated pop times. 鉴于最近几周来国家橄榄球联盟承受着极度痛苦的压力，因此超级碗XLIX的中场娱乐由凯蒂·佩里(Katy Perry)出演便也顺理成章，因为她是我们这个娱乐疲软时代的女皇。 Ms. Perry is a Technicolor cipher, a singer who takes on the shapes and tones she is given with aplomb and cheer but maybe not wit. That hasn抰 hampered her success ?her 揟eenage Dream?of 2010 (Capitol) was the first album by a female artist to land five songs atop the Billboard Hot 100, and her 2013 album 揚rism?had two thunderous hits. Ms. Perry is a pop perennial, one of the few left. 佩里是个是色彩鲜艳的小角色，她的形象和与生俱来的声音源于自信与欢快，但或许不是源自才智。但这并没有影响到她的成功——2010年，她的《青少年梦想》(Teenage Dream, Capitol)中有五首歌都打入“公告牌100首金曲排行榜”，这对于女性艺人来说还是第一次。2013年，她的专辑《棱镜》(Prism) 中有两首大受欢迎的金曲。佩里堪称是流行乐界仅存无几的常青树。 And the Super Bowl halftime show is a massive stage, one that requires the sort of pop stars that aren’t being minted regularly anymore, ones with wide cross-demographic appeal. In this environment, Ms. Perry will do. 超级碗的中场演出是个巨大的舞台，需要的是那种现在已经不是那么常见、能对广泛的各种人群都有吸引力的歌手。佩里很适合这种环境。 During her 12 or so minutes on the University of Phoenix Stadium field on Sunday, she held her own, navigating a handful of her smashes and three wardrobe changes in a performance that resisted bad mood, spanning all of Ms. Perry抯 modes: the triumphant 揜oar,?the spooky 揇ark Horse?(sadly without the rapper Juicy J), the chipper 揅alifornia Gurls,?the beacon of pure uplift 揊irework.?星期日，在凤凰城大学体育馆，她的演出大约在12分钟左右，其间她保持了自己的风格，唱了几首她的代表作，中间换了三次衣服，为这场拒绝坏心情的盛会带来了饱满的情绪：欢欣鼓舞的《咆哮》(Roar)、略有怪异的《黑马》（Dark Horse，很遗憾说唱歌手Juicy J没能加入），活泼的《加利福尼亚女孩》(California Gurls)，以及纯粹欢快的代表作《焰火》(Firework)。 Ms. Perry generally doesn’t move much onstage, so she was presented in a series of setups that masked that fact — atop a pseudo-tessellated mechanical lion, among a sea of dan