"This land desire is only understood by you"

【The Ninth Batch of New Songs on the Theme of "Chinese Dream" (5)】

"This land desire is only understood by you"

——Interview with Xiong Wei, composer of "You Have Always Thought of Me" and deputy secretary general of the Chinese Music Association

Guangming Daily reporter Guo Chao

Great practice often contains rich themes of literary and artistic creation. There is no doubt that poverty alleviation has also spawned a magnificent literary and artistic work, among which songs, which are known as the horns of the times, will naturally not be absent. "Is You Always Thinking of Me" (lyrics by Huang Xiaoming, composed by Xiong Wei and Pan Qingbei, and sung by Shi Yijie) is an excellent representative of this. With the affectionate words "Is it because you have been thinking of me", the song expresses the heartfelt support and infinite love of the people who have lifted themselves out of poverty and become well-off.

At the foot of the Huangyang boundary of Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi, there is a small mountain village called Shenshan Village, which was once a typical poor village in the old revolutionary area. A few years ago, under the guidance of the national precision poverty alleviation policy, Shenshan Village not only took the lead in poverty alleviation in the country, but also became a model village for poverty alleviation in the country.

Composer Xiong Wei, Jiangxi composer Pan Qingbei, and lyricist Huang Xiaoming were commissioned by the Jiangxi Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature and the Jiangxi Provincial Music Association to go deep into the old revolutionary areas to collect style.

Jinggangshan is the cradle of the Chinese revolution, and the Shenshan Village here is the first in the country to get rid of poverty, which has special significance. They saw that Peng Xiaying, once the poorest villager in the village, turned the cordial concern of the Party Central Committee into a huge driving force for getting rid of poverty and getting rich, opened the first farm in the village, and led the villagers to get rich together. They saw that the party and the government are deeply concerned about the people in the old areas and the people in the old areas have deep friendship with the party and the government.

They decided to write a song from the perspective of the people of the old district. "I don't know how to say to you, honest words are always buried in the heart", which is exactly the words that flow from the hearts of the people in the simple old district. "The flowers of the mountains bloom year after year, and only you understand the desire for this land." The flowers of Jinggangshan are bright red rhododendrons, like the blood of martyrs. Indeed, no one understands the thickness of the land and the aspirations of the people better than the Communists. The purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly flows in the blood of communists.

"A thousand words praise the well-off, and sincerely praise the party's grace." Xiong Wei said that this is the foothold of the song, the lyrics of this song are vivid and simple, the melody is affectionate and atmospheric, touching and heartfelt, and the singing is eloquent and intimate.

New eras require new expressions. Xiong Wei said that it is necessary to use a novel musical language and romantic artistic feelings to express the main theme, so that the ideology, artistry and audibility are unified.

In the chorus part, "I did not tell you that you have been thinking about me" is the most touching sentence of the whole song, repeating the "no" and "always" in the original lyrics twice, playing an emphasis role by overlapping sentences and deepening the audience's memory. Many people reported that after listening to this song, they would hum this lyric.

It is worth mentioning that this song not only has a good melody and is easy to sing, but also has the characteristics of an art song. "Many art songs are prone to high and low songs, and ordinary listeners have thresholds for appreciation. We emphasize the audibility of the song in order to make it grounded and let more people be infected. Xiong Wei said.

Guangming Daily (07/17/2021)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily