When you mention the four words "Attack on Moon", what will you think? Is it a burning and bloody secondary two new fan, a new Internet buzzword, or a celestial phenomenon in the night sky?
To this question, the original musician Zhao Lei's answer is: this is his first solo creation album, but also a new self.
He is not just the white moonlight in the audience's impression, but the Zhao Lei who attacked.
Attack On Moon begins with The Manifesto and ends with Rustic Theater. The former is Zhao Lei's breakthrough attitude, and the latter is Zhao Lei's own dream-fulfilling moment.
The closing song of the new album "Rustic Theater" is a new song that Zhao Lei and ai Yiliang, the best female singer and best composer of the Golden Melody Award, and Chen Jianqi, the best producer of the Golden Melody Award, are working together. The whole song depicts a rustic love affair with pure voice.
On Sunday, when he talked to well-known music critic LiuShui Ji Lianmai, Zhao Lei talked about the reason for the name of the album, saying that most of the audience's impression of him probably came from the clear and transparent "White Moonlight" on the stage of "Creation Camp". After one song, his singing voice, along with his human prefix, was "bound" to the white moonlight.
But in his heart, the white moonlight can also have a sharp edge.
In the filtered moonlight, the invisible moonlight guards the silent night all night, relying not only on gentleness, but on the strength of the attack.
Since his debut in 2016, Zhao Lei has been debuting for six years and has been in a group twice, but the public's personal understanding of him is still in a relatively vague state. So Zhao Lei, who has been accumulating strength for his musical dreams, decided to give everyone a "breakthrough point" to understand him through this album.
This is also the reason why he said in the live broadcast that he did not consider the market, environment and other factors, but did the album according to his own ideas. In Zhao Lei's view, if you can express yourself without restraint and simply and directly, it is already a very frank and natural state.
So for this album, Zhao Lei is fully engaged in business and actively cooperates with various publicity, and this effort has indeed not been disappointed, and many viewers have their own feelings after listening.
It is no secret that The South Wind has mixed feelings when he sees these words that fit the bits and pieces of life, and then matches the melody in "Attack on the Moon".
In fact, Zhao Lei did not rush to immediately reverse the public impression, but chose to use musical works to justify his name, waiting for the audience to explore. Just like opening a blind box, the audience never knows what the next opened Zhao Lei will look like.
Speaking of this "surprise", in fact, the first time Nanfeng noticed Zhao Lei's small thoughts was because he sent a few microblogs before the official release of the new album.
The expressions of these moons were confusing at first, but after reading them, they found that each of his microblogs was stuck with the moonrise time of the day.
"Attack on the Moon" and the moonrise time, the so-called romance of musicians is nothing more than that.
The design of the new album is so ingenious, after the release of the MV of the "Declaration" of the title song of "Attack on the Moon", Nanfeng found that this album not only recorded the true state of Zhao Lei for a period of time, but also witnessed his changes and breakthroughs.
At the beginning of the "Declaration" MV, Zhao Lei, imprisoned in the bathtub, is like a fish trapped in a fish tank, wrapped in many controversies in the outside world, and the invisible pressure makes him breathless, eager to be released and saved.
His spiritual world became heavy, he wanted to vent but had nowhere to escape, and he could not find an exit if he wanted to shout for help.
At this moment, Zhao Lei suddenly fell into a new world, and a beam of light pierced the darkness and shone on him, as if it was the hope that appeared at the end of the darkness. He reached out to embrace the warmth, but he was also burned by the temperature of the light.
Zhao Lei said during the live broadcast that when people are looking for high ground and looking for direction, they may have lost a lot. You're always trying to find and at the same time keep losing. As the lyrics say, the last bit of warmth is a match lit in the trenches.
Growth is usually accompanied by gain and loss, and Zhao Lei obviously understands this truth.
I fight for what? Zhao Lei asked himself what he should fight for outside of rules and constraints. He looked around the imprisoned area and began to resist and attack, choosing to be himself.
If you want to get out of this bound "Truman world", you must not break it.
Whether it is a troubled teenager struggling in the water, or a self awakened by growth, or a warrior wearing armor and preparing to attack, it is Zhao Lei's declaration of attack to the world, because he found a reason to fight.
I fight for what?
For world. For seeds. For hope. For love.
Emotion is transmission, music is the carrier, the audience can get the emotions that Zhao Lei wants to express so closely, because it records the transformation of Zhao Lei's mental journey since his debut, implying his self-redemption and self-healing along the way. And on the basis of this emotion, Zhao Lei also made a rich musical style.
The "Declaration", which allows the mind to explore freely, integrates the three styles of rock, classical, and electronic[1], corresponding to the battlefield filled with gun smoke, the chaos of the outside world, and the sharpness of the heart;
"Sunset Hug" shuttles with the promotion of brightdouble bass, and the introduction of wind music also pushes the emotion to the most comfortable sound area, completing a hug under the sunset;
The Italian song "Non Sei Tu", Zhao Lei invited professional teachers to learn and master the Italian language, and chose piano and string quintets in the arrangement configuration, elegant but not light.
Under the shuttle of people, Zhao Lei, as the whispering and chanting person, stood quietly in the underground passage with a fine light on his body, and came to a conversation with passers-by.
It can be said that whether it is from the song style or the level of singing, Zhao Lei, as an original musician, has his own musical attitude. And this sincere and advanced expression has also been recognized by music critics and audiences, and it is just the right style to show.
In the highly competitive music market, Zhao Lei is clearly exploring his own musical style.
In fact, if you expand Zhao Lei's personal resume, from his debut to the present, he has brilliantly completed the transformation from a group member to a new generation of original musicians, and has always insisted on talking to the audience in a musical way.
In August 2020, Zhao Lei released his first solo single "Breathe", the song opened with a light breathing sound, telling the transformation and bloom of life; in March 2021, the gentle and warm "Breeze Blowing" was launched, and Zhao Lei was full of story as soon as he opened his mouth; in October 2021, the full open wheat live Shenzhen solo concert, the stage was as stable as ever...
Every time zhao lei sang on the stage, he gave the audience an excellent enjoyment.
On the day when he couldn't meet everyone because of the epidemic, he sang his favorite songs to everyone online in the form of vlogs;
In tribute to the classic cover, songs such as "Don't Think of Me", "There Are Lovers in the World", "Kill the Wolf" and so on, he sang both personal characteristics and restored classic songs, and each capital is full of penetration.
In "Lost and Found City" cooperated with the predecessor Zhang Shaohan, the mysterious mood and double treble created by the two can directly overturn the Heavenly Spirit Cover.
Trying different music stages and collaborating with a variety of singers, he completed the process from graduating from the boy band to finding his own position step by step. In this process, Zhao Lei's stunning and eye-catching performance has broken the prejudices of many people.
After all, the big vocal Live who can not love !!!
From the personal concert to today's first solo album, the audience may also find that not only the change of identity, Zhao Lei is trying different musical styles and firmly walking on the path of music he chose.
Zhao Lei has a clear plan, and the company has also given him a high degree of freedom and support, respects the ideas of artists, and hopes to stimulate the potential of artists and show diversified development.
This cooperation with Ai Yiliang, the best composer and best female singer of the Golden Melody Awards, was agreed by the company and vigorously promoted.
The company respects the ideas of artists, artists also have their own thinking, in such an interaction, Zhao Lei can go higher and more stable, personal labels will be more obvious.
As Zhao Lei himself said, "Be a singer with personality."
New songs, do your best to complete each stage, do your first solo concert, produce an original new album... At this slightly impetuous moment, Zhao Lei's progress bar seems to be a little "slow", but he himself feels that this is the best display of trying to seize every opportunity to seize.
Recalling the experience of participating in the "Creation Camp", Zhao Lei frankly said that "it is to be 'seen'".
"Being seen" is actually a very pure answer, and for this he must find a way out and make a choice.
Whether it's the entertainment industry or elsewhere, being "seen" is an important ability. Especially for artists, first "seen" by the audience, there are more possibilities for the work to be "heard" by more people.
And "whether you can let more listeners hear" is a matter of time, place, people and people.
As a singer, Zhao Lei wants more people to remember his voice, wants to create more music of his own, and hopes that someone will recognize his voice because he hears a certain song, which is the goal and pursuit he has set for himself. So in order to achieve this goal, he did not take any detours in the "people" aspect.
Because of hard work and talent, Zhao Lei has gained a lot of glory along the way, and the goal of "letting more people hear his music" is moving forward step by step by himself.
He describes himself as dust, feeling that there will be more memories worth making in the future, believing that as long as he "expresses what he wants to express and does the music he wants to make, there will always be people who follow him." So he has always unswervingly followed the path of an original singer, using his fingertip music to depict a brilliant future.
Zhao Lei used "Attack on the Moon" as a gift to tell everyone that there is nothing wrong with encountering life resistance in life, and the darker the night, the brighter and more powerful the moon and stars.
A singer who can carry the moon must have the power to attack himself.
Zhao Lei, who adheres to the original intention of music, deserves a better tomorrow. The young star is frank, and the excitement has just begun.