In today's "Our Song" program, Lin Zixiang and Hu Xia sang "Digital Life", and after revisiting the most "strange" classic work in the history of Hong Kong music, they also need to review the album that contains this song - "Favorite".
"The Favourite" has a very warm cover, a peaceful scene of fatherly kindness and filial piety. Of course, it is said that Zixiao is a little earlier, because Lin Zixiang's beloved son Alex, who was on the cover at the time, was only one year old, far from the handsome Lin Dexin who also worked hard in the entertainment industry later.
Of course, the back cover of the album is still a bit naughty. I don't know if it was Lin Zixiang's instructions, or even personally, anyway, Lin Dexin, who was still a baby at the time, was actually hand-painted with four sets of different beard shapes. However, when lin dexin grew up, he did not follow in his father's footsteps and grew a beard, but a clean and handsome face.
According to traditional thinking, seeing the cover of the album "The Favourite", it is easy to think that this is an album about the relationship between father and son, if not all, at least some of it will be involved, but it is not. Aside from putting his son on the back and back cover, the entire album has nothing to do with Lindesen.
The most out-of-the-loop song on the album "The Favorite" must belong to "Who Loves The Most". This was also the theme song of the movie "The Favourite" directed by Zhang Aijia at that time and starring with Lin Zixiang and Miao Qianren. The work was composed by Lu Guanting, and later Lu Guanting himself also recorded several versions of "Who Is the Favorite", which is obviously the work of his personal creation.
"Who Loves The Most" is really like another expression of "Love of a Lifetime", compared to the interpretation of Lin Zixiang and Lu Guanting, in fact, two singers with different voices, when interpreting this work, the feeling is similar, it is that kind of tone and psychedelic tone, and the sense of time and space that is about to leave.
The other song, "Once Upon a Time", is an episode of the movie "The Favourite", composed by Lin Zixiang. In addition, "Cold Image" and "One Morning" are also works composed by Lin Zixiang. These three songs, together with "Who Loves Most" composed by Lu Guanting, also became the only four original songs on this album.
Therefore, this lin zixiang's early album, the focus is still on cover songs. And Lin Zixiang has indeed turned the cover song into his own classic.
Unlike the four original songs with lyrical themes, the seven covers in "The Favorite" are all rhythmic works.
Among them, "Digital Life" is another special cover song. The main melody of the song is actually derived from Bach's Small Steps in G major, which Quincy Jones once adapted into a jazz version, and Giorgio Moroder also changed an electronic version. The popular version of "A Lover's Concerto" was covered by The Supremes, The Toys and The Delfonics.
However, the subtlety of Lin Zixiang's version lies in Pan Yuanliang's filler words.
Using the stock code of the Hong Kong stock market as an important creative material, using these simple numerical codes to make people think of the ups and downs of life through the ups and downs of the stock market is really too clever.
The more clever place is that Pan Yuanliang also grasped the rhythm of the six tones and nine tones of Cantonese very well, so that the rhyme of this song almost became a living teaching material for learning Cantonese songs and filler words.
As for Lin Zixiang's interpretation, he used his ultra-high pitch and super-fast tone to make this work a nightmare in the history of cover singing. So far, Lin Zixiang's high pitch seems to have nothing to do with general vocal skills, more like Dantian's luck, a kind of kung fu from martial arts, so amazing.
"AH LAM Diary" is adapted from the Latin band Miami Sound Machine's work "Conga", the original song, and also once did the background music of the "This, Is Street Dance" program.
Although it is a work full of Caribbean charm, Lin Zixiang's adapted version of this song simply fills in the lyrics and changes it to a more colloquial Rap expression, which also makes this "AH LAM Diary" finally become the first Rap work of Lin Zixiang in history.
And another song, "Stallone Lambo", is also a classic in Lin Zixiang's fast song. This work is adapted from The Pointer Sisters' "Twist My Arm", look at the composition column and licensing information, it should still be the work of Queen Band. The first time I heard this song was in a string of songs by Chow Yun-fat, "Twelve Minutes and Ten Inches".
The arrangement of "Stallone Lambo" is Guo Xiaolin, and his most famous work is probably "No Heart Sleep" written for Zhang Guorong, and "Twelve Minutes and Ten Inches" is also arranged by him.
Other songs on the album, such as "Fight Evil", are adapted from Patti LaBelle's "Stir It Up", while "Pioneer" is adapted from Dire Straits' famous song "Walk of Life".
There are raps, there are digital songs, "The Favourite" in the history of Lin Zixiang's music, is also an early quite innovative album.
