Jay Chou is a singer, who made many movies and TV series in 2009. For a singer who was asked by the masses to innovate and surpass the past, these things that have nothing to do with music should be done. Yoshito Usui had nothing to do to climb mountains last year, seeking inspiration for cartoons, but climbing mountains is too dangerous. Nokia organized Sodagreen, Ayue and Mc this year. Hotdog and other singers go around to collect ideas for creation. Art comes from life. If you live a high school life with a fixed trajectory every day, how can there be new transcendence? It's been a year, and he's back. It's really different. ?
In fact, he has long been different. At first, he was a street boy who sang bullfighting. Later, step by step, everyone sang songs written by him. He was the emperor of music. From a niche to an Asian king, if he had exhausted his talents in Jiang Lang eight years ago, what we are now popular with is the niche music eight years ago? ?
Playing electro-acoustic rock is cool across the ages, teaching videos for free, playing improvisational blues and teaching others to play guitar. Superman can't defend himself, but he directs and plays with a Chinese style, in which a small group of people wear sophisticated clothes, fireworks are easy to cool and things are different from those in the rain all night. This is not the repetition of Dragon Warrior, Red Imitation, Grandma, the opposite species, blue and white porcelain and thousands of miles away. Just like Qiao Feng's Mao boxing in Juxianzhuang, on the surface, it is the same as the Mao boxing of ordinary people, but Qiao Feng's internal force is profound, and he has been beaten to the extreme with his ordinary punches and feet. ?
Every year, Jay Chou's premiere star is turned against his eyes. Cowboys were very busy that year, Taoxiang that year, and Superman that year could not fly. For three years, I used this kind of topical songs as the premiere theme. Naturally, one of the main reasons is to grab enough entertainment news pages and let more listeners pay attention to the album. But if it's only for sales, why not use the songs with the best melody as the first wave, just like most other singers? Jay Chou's personality is far greater than that of other singers, which is the advantage of a singer. Songs can give full play to their own personality. Eason Chan waited a long time for a grandiose song, and Leslie Cheung's right-hand man was many years late, but Jay Chou's first album had a bullfight. Superman can't fly. Maybe it's not the best song in 1 1, but it's definitely Jay Chou's most sincere production. Every sentence is an inner monologue. It's better to be ugly and get attention first than to be really overwhelmed. This is the personality of a music player. Superman can't fly as a self-defense. He didn't criticize with the hip-hop style. Instead, he used the warm style that grandma listened to her mother's words, giving Superman a touch of sadness, like Spider-Man wearing a poisonous spider suit and kneeling in the rain at the top of the clock tower. Superheroes are only human beings, and they have their own feelings, crying and laughing, and their own silly self-confidence, just like Kick? Ass is the same. The injuries on Superman will never be seen by outsiders. The best self-defense is to touch others with true feelings. ?
Unexpectedly, a Chinese style was leaked before the second main title was published. In fact, this firework "Easy to Cold" was actually released by China Mobile Wireless Music before the second wave came out, and it was released with the correct lyrics. This is a very normal commercial singer's behavior. I don't know if there is any interest in transferring the right to start (professionally speaking, the right to publish) to a big company. There are two amazing things about fireworks being cold, one is arrangement, and the other is lyrics. The cold prelude of fireworks is played only by guitar and piano. From the first sound of the piano, the Chinese style is wonderfully displayed, lonely and sad. This is a great leap. The prelude of blue-and-white porcelain is drums, guzheng and other Chinese musical instruments, while the preface of Lanting is erhu and jazz drums, all of which need Chinese musical instruments to create Chinese style. However, the prelude of fireworks being easy to cool almost abandons Chinese musical instruments, and it is not progress to create Chinese style only by melody and singing. The first lyrics are, "Escape into an empty door" and "Break the evil spirit". An ancient style is blowing against my face, and fireworks are easy to cool. Draw the region and age of the song background for the audience in 15 seconds. And this time, vincent fang handed over a satisfactory proposition composition for us, and no one would doubt the connotation of the word "fireworks are easy to cool". Whether it is blue-and-white porcelain or Lanting preface, it starts with propositional materials (blue-and-white porcelain and Lanting calligraphy), and the cold fireworks aggravate the narrative elements. The opening is the protagonist's becoming a monk, taking the protagonist's experience from becoming a monk to secularization as the context, but writing about the rise and fall of Luoyang Buddhist temples in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The rise and fall of Buddhist temples is actually the rise and fall of the country. The country is strong, Buddhism is at its peak, and the hero leaves his lover to bid for a monk, but he never stops loving. "The old hometown is rich in vegetation", point out though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure in Du Fu's poems, and then use "lonely city" to correspond with it. "The floating pagoda? How many floors are broken "and" a remnant lamp? " The collapsed mountain gate points out that the Buddhist temple has been damaged. After the war, the country weakened, Buddhism declined, and the hero returned home, no longer seeing the old man, and returned to the Buddhist temple as a monk. "Let me wait? Historical turn? Wait for the wine to be mellow? Waiting for you to play a guzheng "three" waits ",in fact, the protagonist has been waiting for the day of secularization in the temple. The three "follow" of antithesis, "If you are following? Past lives? Follow the world of mortals? Follow me? Wandering all his life ",the protagonist would rather wander all his life than stay in the temple for comfort." It was not until the end that the title "Jialan Temple" was pointed out, which is not only a real Buddhist temple, but also refers to all Buddhist temples, implying the rise and fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty? Galand in Luoyang. It's really amazing. The failure of the whole song lies in that the melody of "Rain after Rain" and "I heard" is similar to the melody of "I can't see through" and "I can't guess" of the painting heart. As Wang Leehom said, like two or three sounds, this kind of thing is too easy to happen ... Zhou Caizi also followed in Wang Leehom's footsteps, which is tragic. ?
In the aspect of showing personality, except Superman can't fly, there is also a cross-era, the second wave of the main theme, which is also the album's title. Interpret the story of vampires with gorgeous electro-acoustic rock across the ages. It has been said that it is really a headache for Jay Chou to play this kind of electro-acoustic rock style that someone played thousands of years ago. It seems that Zhou's records should all be music styles that have never appeared in the world, including a Chinese style, a Beijing style, a northwest style and a Wuchang style. That would be the best. In fact, as far as the theme is concerned, the psychedelic and gorgeous electronic rock is just suitable for the vampire theme, and it is easy to bring the audience to a world where the undead live. It's really good to play the piano passionately in the middle. Rock shows off his skills. I wonder if the concert will be reproduced by Zhou Lun himself. And this slightly dark and gorgeous style just happens to be Huang Junlang's specialty. Last time he wrote a humble clown, this time he can finally write a noble role. "The clock turns against the clock" has the feeling of poking fun at vincent fang's old clock in the opposite direction, but it also brings out the vampire world that is not bound by time. "I humbly and quietly pray at night under the castle". When I am quiet, "he" is a humble gentleman, silent but kind-hearted. Vampires pray, which breaks the evil impression given by vampires and proves that "he" still believes in God and is still kind, which is obviously a portrayal of Jay Chou. But this is just a state of "depression", "and the organ key proudly says that it is just futile". As soon as the music starts, "he" will become a domineering king, which is obviously a portrayal of Jay Chou. "Tune the tone of dignity with loneliness", "don't need to be worshipped" and "only exist for eternal music" have always implied that no matter what the world faces, wherever there is music, "He" will be immortal. It's a stroke of genius to confuse the vampire who loves music with the arrogant Jay Chou now. ?
Free teaching videos seem to attract the most criticism, because this is the first time that Jay Chou has played the improvisational Blues style, and I think there are many places to communicate with the audience. The last album Jupao and Jay Chou told a cold joke at the beginning of Mr. Magic ("You will become an elephant"), but the beginning of this free teaching video is still telling a cold joke ("Pipa Guitar", poking fun at Wang Leehom's one? ), if you think that's all, you're wrong, and there's a funny joke in the middle ("baa ~ cow", moo). I wonder if Jay Chou was the first to insert cold jokes into the song. The whole song is an impromptu guitar playing and singing, with a short guitar Solo in the middle, and the string is broken in a funny way. Lyrics teach the audience how to play the guitar in a casual tone, which not only caters to the improvisational style of Blues, but also can interact with the audience. The live singing effect in a small venue should be very good. I really look forward to the MV of this song. Don't make it like Mr. Magic. ?
Fan Texi still leaked it 10 days in advance. At that time, the title of the leaked version was wrong, and the Magic Jiezuo was leaked half a month in advance. This is because the title and track number of the song are consistent with the official version. The leaked free teaching video, saying goodbye and leaking four days in advance all night in the rain, not only the title of the song is correct, but also the lyrics with a correct rate close to 100%. I have to admire the skill of the leaker, and I wonder whether it was leaked during the MV production. After all, it is hard to find a second person who can write Jay Chou's lyrics by ear alone.
Since it is Jay Chou, how can there be no piano to play and sing, so I said goodbye. The melody continues to be elegant and delicious, and there is a touch of sadness. The first few words of the lyrics actually rhyme with "le" just like saying good happiness. Should it be regarded as a companion piece to saying good happiness? Although there is suspicion of patchwork, the sense of picture in the song is not weak at all, and I have to admire Jay Chou. When the protagonist wakes up, his lover leaves, using "fallen leaves floating on the lake and falling asleep" as a metaphor for the scene the night before, the sadness of fallen leaves and the quiet lake, and writing the lonely and helpless situation of fallen leaves with the word "sleeping" is full of beauty. The last paragraph of the whole song, from "Your smile? At the beginning of "Hello", the violin suddenly accelerated, driving other musical instruments to accelerate, flashing back the Secret that the movie can't tell. Ye Xianglun sat in front of the piano and played the mysterious music secret, and suddenly turned the floor tiles and went back in time and space, returning to the place where "she" used to be. Why in "my hand? Can't you pull it? After the temperature of your hand, the rhythm resumed, and now, "heartbreaking all over the floor" tore my heart and cracked my lungs. This paragraph * gives a lot of points for saying goodbye.
There are two Chinese styles in an album that have appeared in Fan Texi. One is a simple Chinese style, and the other is a Chinese style in the Great Shanghai era. It should belong to the latter if it rains all night, and it is also a story of crossing. I have to admire Jay Chou's imagination. The first and second paragraphs are in modern times. Just like fireworks are easy to get cold, they start with a guitar solo, but the modern atmosphere is enhanced by street lamps, window, glass, driving, downtown and TV wall. Jay Chou's singing is also popular, but the melody is slightly Chinese. In the third prelude, Chinese musical instruments such as erhu and gongs and drums were suddenly used. When the tune crossed into the Republic of China, it seemed to be a festive scene. At the beginning of the chorus, only pipa and other musical instruments were used to play it gently, highlighting Jay Chou's crooning and retro singing, "little paper umbrella", "rhyme" and "rain falls and fog is boundless? Ask where the horizon is "depicts the scene at that time. Later, it became more interesting. "Ah ~ in the middle of the night? Are you hiding? Stealing secretly? Through the window? Candlestick? We are still thinking, "Jay Chou is still singing in a low voice, but we added a passage in which Jay Chou sang an octave higher in the back, which was very gorgeous and amazing, as if the hero and heroine were thinking about their future together. The next sentence "small sampan? Row and row? Small paper umbrella? Shade the rain and the moonlight ",but the chorus is a listless bass, as if the hero saw the heroine leave and suddenly collapsed." Then Jay Chou returned to pop singing, bringing us back to the present. Thousands of miles away, it is necessary to create a Chinese style by my little brother's bel canto. This time, Jay Chou's singing with himself is enough to achieve this effect. He uses four kinds of vocals to create four time points and take us through them one by one. The human voice in Jay Chou's hands has once again become a changeable magical instrument. ......?
Recalling the whole song again, vincent fang's story is very clear. The protagonist has been lovelorn for a long time. It is raining heavily this day. He wandered aimlessly in the street and walked into an alley. Suddenly, his head flashed back to the lilac girl with an oil-paper umbrella in the alley. It was a story long ago in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and it was also a rainy alley at night. She gently broke up with a small paper umbrella, and the drums in the background suggested that she was getting married, so the groom was naturally not the protagonist. The protagonist's eyes are empty, and he is immersed in memories, remembering that they once thought about their marriage together in front of the candlestick used for the wedding banquet. In a blink of an eye, only the protagonist was left. The heroine stepped onto the sampan, and house boat used sampan to meet her relatives. The bride opened a small paper umbrella? Shade the rain and the moonlight. Moonlight naturally represents the protagonist's yearning, but it is a pity that they are blocked by small paper umbrellas. The contrast between the two is sharp, and it implies the difference between the two people's feelings. In a flash of thoughts, the protagonist in modern times continued his solo in the rain lane. ?
In the future, the kings of Chinese music have to sing a song "Long time no see", Eason Chan sang a sad song, Jacky Cheung sang a song about catching up with old friends, and now Jay Chou also sang it, singing the apology of the young couple after the Cold War. To be fair, it's really a guava love song. At the beginning, the puppy has grown up, the scarf is still in use, and the photo is lost. Suddenly, I thought it was a couple who had broken up for a long time, and the last sentence just said, "The cold war is already out of fashion?" Come back to my heart as soon as possible. "In fact, the couple have only been in the Cold War for a few days, and they have been singing as if they had been apart for a long time. There is also a Taiwanese lyric inserted in the middle, which is more conducive to expressing the true feelings and being close to the public life in the dialect used every day. Only weirdos in Hong Kong will find singing in English more expressive. ?
It seems that Jay Chou has been infatuated with bringing new people with chorus, the Coral Sea brings LaLa, the sand painting brings Yuan Yonglin, and Yang Ruidai is a good brother, so it is not enough to bring them once with a wandering poet. This time, I will bring them again with a love flight diary. The diary of love's flight tends to be slow, and it is still the lyrics of Bale's love songs. It is imaginative to use the topic of "flying" to correspond to love, which is also the style of vincent fang school. ?
I shed tears? Emotional fragmentation begins with light rock, and then turns to piano playing and singing. The piano Solo in the middle has a slightly unspeakable secret shadow, which is obviously like Zhou's guava love song after saying goodbye. The tune is still based on sadness, but vincent fang shed tears for me? The words filled in by emotional fragmentary are obviously better than saying goodbye. "Emotional sentences are withered? Withered ","so I folded the poem? There are several feelings ","Cold coffee ... refills again and again ",and vincent fang's lyrics are very exquisite, and the scenes and things are integrated, so I have to admire them. Autumn, breaking up and love poems can be so beautiful. There are so many sad love songs in the world, but there are few repetitions. Our producers can always come up with unexpected new angles to write. I shed tears? Emotional odds and ends haven't exhausted Jay Chou's creativity, because self-directing and acting are even better. Self-directing and self-acting is the only RnB style in the whole disc, which is lighter than the previous distance and the time to give me a song, and closer to the long-lost clock in the opposite direction. The same theme is parting and driving, which is more worth pondering than drifting and journey to the south in those days. The first sentence of the lyrics, "The wound flicks its tail and leaves behind the familiarity of the past", is full of imagination, with a taste of stream of consciousness, which matches Jay Chou's good humming. "The distance between you and me is like a drift after slipping", "I still care when the lights flash", "I will leave when the horn is honked twice" and "the sound of the roaring engine? Shuttle in the city into a fantasia ""wiper? Like memories? Or waved to me "and so on, everyday car language has become a specific thing in the lyricist's pen, and the protagonist's every move in the car is a reflection of his past feelings. In addition to writing emotions, the poet did not forget to tell the story, "I saw you get in his car" and "You lost your temper? Say ... I won't stay here ","Let me pretend to be moved by the loud music "and" You don't have to direct and play your own heartache if you are happy ". The light tunes are all for speeding up on the road, shaking the tail and forgetting the pain. Jay Chou did not forget to insert engine sound and horn sound into the song to match the development of the lyrics. A long time ago, someone used to record the sound of playing basketball on the basketball court and insert it into songs. That man has stopped bullfighting now and turned to driving a high-end sports car. ?
Hip-hop stewardesses were not included in the mainland version of the cross-era because they could not pass the examination and approval. It's not because my grandfathers think that such a noble job as a stewardess can't be hip-hop, but what Jay Chou is writing about in this dance music. Originally, dance music was a comparison, and Jay Chou also used such hot lyrics. It seems that he is determined to be international and in line with Gaga and others. ?
Most of the songs on the album are in perfect harmony with lyrics and singing, especially the cross-era, fireworks are easy to get cold, free teaching videos, rain all night, self-directed and self-performed, and Superman can't fly six songs. What you sing is what you want, Jay Chou with changeable style and changeable ci style. There is no doubt that Jay really came back with a masterpiece of sincerity.