"A long-planned escape." This is a sentence in the copy of the song "White Night" by Kiki Fuyan. Quite brilliant.
More than ten years ago, Kiki, who was still a high school student, only regarded music as one of his many hobbies, but unexpectedly was photographed by the modern sky, as a milk coffee group, and became a symbol of youth and dreams in the mainland music scene in the next ten years. Today, I still vividly remember the song "Only We Know" in the Modern Sky 5 compilation album, Kiki's clear and determined voice, and their debut in Burn! The childlike 8-Bit cover of "Little Universe" is full of innocence. At that time, the album also included many small stickers, but now there is nowhere to be found, and the lead singer Kiki, who sang "The Older and Lonely" all the way, used picture books and creative workshops to fill the gap encountered by growing up. Two years ago, Kiki sang "The Last Day of Summer" with the simplest acoustic guitar pluck, similar to her favorite The Cure song "The Last Day of Summer", and the infinitely elongated adolescence finally came to an end.
(On my record shelf, I still have the same look as when I first met Kiki))
Thus, there is now this song "White Night".
Inspired by Keigo Higashino's most famous novel of the same name, "I Just Want to Walk Hand in Hand in the Sun", the story of Ryoji Kirihara and Yukiho Nishimoto in the original, such as the beautiful flowers in the ice cave, Kiki accurately captures the emotions in the writer's worldview, creating this song that is very different from its previous "little fresh" style. Kiki, which used to appear as milk coffee, has a musical expression that is direct and sunny, even if it is about loneliness, anxiety and other emotions, it will also use a very inspirational orientation. Not so with White Night. In order to show the meaning of "wanting to warm up with you in the coldest winter", Kiki uses a harmony full of suspense in the song style. Usually mainstream pop music, especially love songs, the ending sound of the song will fall on the main tone of the song, giving people a sense of beginning and end, but Kiki deliberately let it deviate from the course and create a wanderlust like a derailed life. In that passage , " A Chorus That Doesn't Sound like a Chorus "The Heavy Metal Chords Played on an Electric Guitar Doubles the Tension of the Song Again, Kiki Develops New Vocals that Emphasize the Mysterious Atmosphere through Sound. Song producer Hu Hao has played impressively in several of Wang Sutaki's records in recent years, and his rendering of wind music is a must in the circle, this time in Kiki's "White Night", he uses the chromatic pentatonic scale in the traditional Japanese mode, with the two unstable tones of Fa(F) and Si(B) to write the strings, together with Kiki to create this thrill.
In the creation of the lyrics, Kiki is also not caught up in the "after-reading" imitation of Keigo Higashino. She extracted the emotions of the novel rather than the specific plot, and this synaesthesia re-creation allowed the song "White Night" to have a broader applicability scene. Even if you don't know what's going on between Ryoji and Yukiho, you can give your ears to Kiki and find your own plot in the flickering shadows of words. It can take place in a small alley in Tokyo, Japan, in the deep sea of Houmen in "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds", or even in the Republic of China complex on Hankou Road in Huangpu, Shanghai, where a spy war movie is being staged. "We must escape the night", Kiki connects it all with her courage to break through the oppressive skyline.
In many experiences and evaluations about "White Night" on the Internet, everyone is talking about the change of Kiki Fuyan. But after listening carefully to and digesting her music, I felt that kiki had been there since her debut, and the core essence of being a "human" had always been there. Many years ago, Kiki wrote on his blog (and there was a blog at the time): "I would be confused, and I could feel that my confusion was the confusion of an entire childhood—we lived in this era of rapid consumption, we were consuming our lives fast, we were looking for more and more vague dreams in the city... If happiness can be transmitted, I really hope that I can burn myself and pass on one more point to others, no matter how hard it is. As the Spanish philosopher said: Put away your wounded fingers. This is what milk coffee is going to do, it's what I'm going to do. ”
And now, day or night, twenty or thirty, that's still what Kiki is doing.
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