Chapter 325:
"Wuhu, there's a good show to watch!"
"I wonder how this song "Dongfeng Po" compares to Zhang Yuanzhou's "Xifeng Po"? I'm looking forward to it!"
"Come on, Fengqi Wutong, hold on to the first row!"
Feeling the enthusiastic applause of the fans below the stage, Lin Zhixing and Song Ge, dressed in Chinese style, waved and came to the center of the stage and stood under the spotlight.
Judges' seats.
"This name is interesting!"
Li Zonghua likes Lin Zhixing's Chinese style songs very much. He found the lyrics of the song on the table and was full of expectations for this song.
Zhang Yuanzhou, who was watching the live broadcast, looked at Lin Zhixing on the screen, who was full of confidence in his gestures, suppressed his anger, and listened carefully.
It depends on whether he can beat himself in this song selection of the same type.
If today's "Dongfeng Po" is better than "Xifeng Po" which he spent all his efforts to create, he is willing to post a Weibo to publicly acknowledge Lin Zhixing's excellence.
Hua Futing, who was in the audience, looked at the two people who were confident and calm in the center of the stage. Thinking that they would ask him to go on stage after the performance, he was so nervous that a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
"Car accident scene, car accident scene, you must go to the car accident scene!"
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[Ding! ]
[System task of medium difficulty is opened. If you successfully stay in the first row of seats, you will be rewarded with a random song from Earth! ]
The system prompt sound suddenly sounded.
Lin Zhixing, who had prepared his emotions, opened his eyes at the right time and nodded to the stage music teacher.
As the play button was pressed, the notes flowed out of the speakers.
At the beginning of the piano, the electronic music rhythm was super strong, slowly pulling the audience into it.
"Wow, R\u0026B?"
Tao Ji, who was in the audience, was stunned by the tune. He never expected that Lin Zhixing would combine Chinese style with R\u0026B.
In his impression, there seemed to be no example of a music creator successfully combining these two elements.
"Is this a declaration of war on me?"
"A competition between R\u0026B begins from this?"
This song "Dongfeng Po" was really great back then. It was the first song to combine Chinese melody with Western classic R\u0026B rhythm. In that era when Western music was popular, it was not an exaggeration to describe it as unrestrained.
After this song, the Chinese music scene had the exact term "Chinese style" and set off a wave of Chinese style songs. While the singers competed, one after another popular Chinese style works were born, constantly refreshing the audience's understanding of pop music.
And Jay Chou followed the trend and strongly promoted a Chinese style song in almost every subsequent album, hoping to continue to lead the industry standard.
When Wang Leehom gave a speech at Oxford University, he listed "Dongfeng Po" as one of the top ten classics of Chinese music in the past 30 years.
Netizens called "Dongfeng Po" the prelude and peak of "Chinese style".
Singing this song on this stage, Lin Zhixing has absolute confidence to keep the first row seat.
With the audience's expectation, he slowly raised the microphone and began to sing.
"A lonely lamp of sorrow stands at the window"
"I pretend you haven't left behind the door"
"It's even lonelier to revisit the old place under the full moon"
"The candlelight awake at midnight can't bear to blame me"
The low and magnetic voice tells the story, and pictures are constructed in the minds of the audience, and they unconsciously enter the artistic conception created by the song.
"Not bad!"
Li Zonghua listened to the song and looked at the lyrics, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"A lamp" is used to describe a lamp. It is obviously a lamp, but it is written as a lamp of sorrow, reflecting the emotions of the people under the lamp on the lamp, making the abstract sorrow come to life all of a sudden, which is wonderful!
"The candlelight awake at midnight can't bear to blame me" is also well written.
It also reflects people's emotions on the candlelight. The awakening is because it is very sad to revisit the old place, and this sad emotion is so strong that even the candlelight can't bear to blame it!
In just four lines, the character's state and feelings are fully described. It's simply too good!
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"A pot of wandering wine is hard to swallow"
"After you left, the wine was warm and the memories were thin"
"How can time be stolen when the water flows eastward"
"The flowers bloom and mature once, but I missed it"
Song Ge raised the microphone to sing. She did not deliberately sing about missing and sorrow. But when the song sounded, the audience would have this feeling.
Close your eyes, the picture created in the song seems familiar, as if it was your experience in your previous life. The emotion caused by the long-lost old love and the change of things and people directly hit the audience's soul.
"This is the real Chinese style music!"
Li Zonghua sighed in his heart while appreciating it.
There are many "Chinese style" songs in the music market now. The lyrics are full of rivers and lakes, dust, and forced pursuit of gorgeous rhetoric. Pile up some ancient style words to become Chinese style.
He believes that qualified Chinese style songs must meet the "three ancients and three new", namely ancient poetry, ancient culture, ancient melody, new singing method, new arrangement, and new concept.
Lin Zhixing's "Chinese style" songs perfectly meet these six points.
The natural beauty is not artificial, not whining, not mysterious, not flashy, and the melody seems simple but is actually quite exquisite. There is no popular shell to fit the ancient style rhetoric, nor is there any deliberate ancient music that makes people embarrassed. It not only retains the ancient charm but also does not deviate from the aesthetic taste of modern people. It is just right.
Before hearing the chorus of the song, Li Zonghua thought that Lin Zhixing's "Dongfeng Po" was far superior to Zhang Yuanzhou's "Xifeng Po" which had been eliminated.
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When the chorus of the song came, Lin Zhixing and Song Ge turned to face each other and performed affectionately.
"Who is playing the song Dongfeng Po on the pipa?"
"The years are peeling off the wall and I see you when you were a child."
"I still remember that we were still very young"
"But now the sound of the piano is faint, and you haven't heard my waiting."
The song starts with the piano, turns the pipa, and transitions to the erhu. With the two people's characteristic singing styles, the sound of the piano and the human voice blend naturally. The feeling when singing is neither sad nor sad but not sad. It slowly pours out a sense of loneliness, and the audience is deeply involved in listening to it. All empathy.
"What a word!"
Li Zonghua heard that everyone was excited and applauded secretly in his heart.
Lin Zhixing's lyrics once again surprised him.
"Time" cannot be touched, but old walls can. An average lyricist stops writing when he writes, "Time is peeling off the wall."
But Lin Zhixing, a master lyricist, wrote that after the wall peeled off, through the cracks in the wall, he actually saw himself as a child! It connects space and time, and also echoes why the first half of the lyrics is called "Time Peeling Off". What a genius!
A top-notch piece of music must have excellent melody, artistic conception, and style, all of which must be integrated into a coherent masterpiece. This song "East Wind Breaks" has reached an extremely superb level in terms of artistic conception, melody and style.
Li Zonghua came to participate in this music Spring Festival Gala and listened to so many original songs. He would like to call this "East Wind Breaks" the best original song!
"East Wind Breaks" is called the "Chinese style" song in the current Chinese music scene and a graduation-level work.
On this track, they can dominate and no one can come close to them.
This lyric, which Li Zonghua praised so much, was even a popular joke back then.
Sun Wukong was pinned under the Five Elements Mountain. Patriarch Bodhi couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of his innocent appearance when he was a child. He squatted in the corner and dug at the wall in depression.
The disciple sitting down asked: "Master, why are you picking at the wall?" Patriarch Bodhi sighed and sang: "The years are peeling off the wall and I see the little stone monkey..."
the other side.
Luo De Sheng, who was sitting next to Li Zonghua, frowned.
He was worried for his apprentice Hua Futing.
If the apprentice is challenged by them tonight, there is a high probability that he will be eliminated.
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auditorium.
Xiao Lin, who came to watch tonight's game, broke up with his girlfriend not long ago. He didn't love her enough, and he has been trying to win back his ex-girlfriend. He just edited a long essay and prepared to send it to ask for reconciliation.
After listening to the song "East Wind Breaks", he suddenly felt relieved. Not only did he delete the edited essay, he also deleted his ex-girlfriend's WeChat messages.
The reason for relief is simple.
He heard this song and thought of his ex-girlfriend. As he listened to it, he suddenly realized that she was not worthy of this song.
off screen.
In a high-end apartment.
"You win, I am completely convinced! You are the synonym of Chinese style!"
After Zhang Yuanzhou lost to Lin Zhixing, he has been analyzing his Chinese-style songs recently, trying to find out where the gap in losing to him is.
After listening to the song "East Wind Breaks", he completely understood Lin Zhixing's creative techniques.
The reason why his songs create a grand and majestic listening experience is because the orchestration generally uses the four major parts of pop songs as the basic framework, and uses ethnic instruments to add the finishing touch.
In the climax of the song, strings are used to raise the mood, and coupled with the lyrics, it gives a sense of desolation under the dome.
The poetic lyrics of this song "East Wind Breaks", combined with the gentle and graceful melody, plus the fusion of Chinese style elements, is a masterpiece! It is simply not comparable to my own "West Wind Break".
If Zhang Yuanzhou had known the song "East Wind Break" many years ago, he would have balled up his "West Wind Break" lyrics paper and thrown it into the trash can.
After seeing through Lin Zhixing's style, he smiled bitterly.
So what if you know the structure of his songs?
Even if he wanted to break his head, he would never reach such a height.
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Player seats.
The sweat on Hua Futing's forehead slid down his temples and collected on his double chin.
Pressure came from all directions, filling every corner of his body, making him breathless.
Not only did they not appear at the scene of the car accident, they actually pushed the atmosphere to a climax.
"Will there be a miracle? Will tonight be my last concert on this stage?"
the other side.
"You are indeed very capable!"
It was the first time Tao Ji heard Fengqi Wutong sing an R\u0026B song. Although it was not a pure R\u0026B song, it was also combined with Chinese style.
But it can be heard from the songs that their R\u0026B singing is absolutely the same.
"terrible!"
Tao Ji's Adam's apple rolled up. It seemed that he had a tough battle to fight in the future!
After recording this program, I have to work hard. It would be tragic if I were to be stripped of my title like Zhang Yuanzhou.
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Gorgeous center stage.
"Who is playing the song Dongfeng Po on the pipa?"
"Maple Leaf dyes the story and I can see through the ending."
"I led you through the ancient path outside the fence."
"In the old days of smoke and grass, even breakups were silent"
Finally, with the graceful and beautiful chorus of Lin Zhixing and Song Ge, they ended their singing perfectly.
The audience was impressed by the song, applauded thunderously, and received rave reviews in the comment section.
"The beautiful sadness and strange words are really amazing!"
"It's so awesome. The lyrics, music, arrangement, soundtrack, rhythm, environment creation, and emotional mobilization are almost all impeccable in this song!"
"The erhu brought out the soul. It was like watching a conversation that traveled through the past and present. It was so enjoyable!"
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The host Wang Bing returned to the stage and introduced: "Okay, let's ask the five judges to rate the Fengqi Wutong combination!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, especially Hua Futing, who was so nervous that the shirt in his suit was soaked with sweat.
"excellent!"
Zhang Amei raised the "A-rated" scoreboard, gave a thumbs up and praised: "I think so far, you are the first to integrate Western music and Chinese music with Chinese style into one, and have a style of its own, which is mature and successful." singer!"
Zhang Wuying also raised the "A rating" scoreboard, "Borrowing classical instruments, blending ancient melodies with Western R\u0026B styles to form a natural melody, which is amazing!"
"I just heard the audience talking about which song is better, "Dongfeng Po" or "Blue and White Porcelain"? I personally think tonight's "Dongfeng Po" is better than your previous "Blue and White Porcelain"!"
After Li Zonghua gave the "A rating" evaluation, he expressed his opinion, ""Blue and White Porcelain" is a bit bourgeois. Recalling stories through porcelain, there is only the personal love between children and there is no grandeur of family and country."
"This song "East Wind Breaks" not only contains the love between children, but also has a kind of turbulence of mutual feelings against the historical background. It has a sense of drifting with the times, like the feeling of Gone with the Wind in the movie, and has a sense of majesty that promotes the historical process. Great atmosphere, very good. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the approving audience burst into applause.
""East Wind Break" Chinese style is invincible in the world!"
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After Wu Baqiang also gave Fengqi Wutong an "A rating", the camera showed Luo Sheng sitting in the C seat.
He slowly raised the "B rating" evaluation and said: "As the judges and teachers just said, the song is pretty good, but I think there are some flaws in the singing."
He didn't point out the specific flaws, just a perfunctory comment.
Center stage.
Lin Zhixing listened to Luo Sheng's comments without any emotion. He had already guessed that he would help his apprentice and target himself in scoring.
Four of the five judges gave it an "A rating", which means it has successfully avoided relegation.
【Ding! 】
[The system task of medium difficulty has been completed. Congratulations to the host for getting the song "Sunny Day"! 】
The system prompt sounded suddenly, and all the memories about the song were retrieved.
Jay Chou once asked Ai, "Which is my most popular song?"
"This may vary from person to person, but based on the number of downloads and plays, your most popular song dates back 20 years, to "Sunny Day" which was included in your fourth album "Ye Huimei" in 2003."
In Lin Zhixing's opinion, Jay Chou's strongest album is "Ye Huimei", which is far higher than the album "Fantasy".
There are the most powerful dark-style songs, "In the Name of the Father" which is hailed as the strongest rap by netizens, the systematic Chinese-style song "Dongfeng Po", and the popular Zhou love song "Sunny Day".
Not only did it undoubtedly win the Best Album at the 15th Golden Melody Awards, Jay Chou's music and mentality have both reached a real stage of maturity, and it is an album that truly establishes his status as the king of the music industry.
Lin Zhixing, who won the song "Sunny Day", raised the corners of his mouth to the base of his ears.