Written by / Wang Jingfan
In the winter of 2016, many people were addicted to a drama called "Lonely and Brilliant God-Ghost", and were touched by the love between Kong Liu and Jin Gaoyin. As an interlude in this play, Crush's lead singer's "Beautiful" also perfectly carries the core of the story of "Ghosts", revealing endless sorrow in warmth.
As for this version of Mika, it combines his own personality and some past experiences to reinterpret this classic in our minds from a different perspective. If Crush's original version is like drinking ice coke in the cold winter, Mika's re-singing version of "Beautiful" is more like a warm cup of hot coffee in winter.
Mika's "Beautiful" is one of the "retranslations" of Tencent Music Entertainment's special project "Homecoming". The most interesting point of the whole project of "retranslating" is that when each classic song in a different language is re-filled into a Chinese by the Chinese creators on the basis of the original meaning of the work, it often has a different look.
During the competition, we were often struck by Mika's "retranslation" of some classic works, and his interpretation of each song had his own rather unique way of dealing with it. By the time of this classic "Beautiful", Mika did not have any baggage at all, and he chose to sing his understanding of this story in a very suitable way for his own personality.
You know, Chinese is not Mika's first language. Therefore, the process of Mika's "retranslation" of the Chinese version of "Beautiful" actually coincides with the male protagonist "ghost" who lives in the human world in the play. Coming to a different world, crossing different cultural contexts, everything you see in your eyes is also new.
We've seen from some interviews that Mika is gradually adapting to this new rhythm of his life in China. In the past, Mika could only drive out, but now she has finally learned to use taxi software, and she can even order takeout for herself... Including singing Chinese songs, it is also a new experience that Mika has gained this year, everything is so Beautiful.
Singing Chinese song is fresh for Mika. He also brought this "new" to the process of "retranslating" the song "Beautiful". Whether in the song or outside the song, Mika's "new" just coincides with the mood of the "ghost" in the play when he faces true love in the world, which is the high degree of overlap between the singer and the work.
Yes, Mika, who is struggling to adapt to the context of Chinese, is not the male protagonist "ghost" in the play who is trying to adapt to the human environment? Mika's singing standards in the song "Beautiful", whether it is Chinese biting words, luck or emotional processing, have made greater progress than in the past, and his efforts in music are obvious to all.
Earlier, after the video of Mika singing "Beautiful" in the studio was exposed, it attracted many netizens to exclaim, saying that mika's warm and moving singing voice brought back to the time of chasing dramas in 2016. In fact, the reason why we are obsessed with "Ghosts" is precisely because this drama has made a kind of beautiful love that is difficult to meet in real life.
I still remember Kong Liu's affectionate line about Beautyful in "Ghosts": "The time with you is all dazzling." Because the weather is good, because the weather is bad, because the weather is just right... Every day, it was wonderful. "Whether it's good or not, as long as we're together, it's beautiful, and that's what impressed us most about Ghost."
And the reason why we like Mika so much is because in him, we see this heartfelt belief in good things. From Hawaii to Tokyo and then to Beijing, Mika has always adhered to her original beliefs on the road to chasing her dreams, and transformed all the things that are not beautiful enough into his own definition of "Beautiful" in his own unique way.
In Mika's voice, we feel as if we are in Hawaii with all seasons, basking in the warm sunshine on the beach in winter, just like the song "Like a breeze driving away the haze." Through this heart-warming "Beautiful", more and more passers-by fans are beginning to know that in addition to mika's handsome appearance, there is also a good voice that can sing.
In fact, each of Mika's songs has its own personality and is quite recognizable. Every time he covered someone else's song, he was always able to sing a style that was exclusive to Mika's own. So in this version of "Beautiful", Mika also sang the situation that only he can sing, that is, the uniqueness that belongs to Mika.
Looking back at Mika's journey on the road of singing, it is really not easy. As early as during the competition, Mika has countless fans with "So Sick", and the "Mika version" of "Input Method Playing Cute Press Fifth" and "Never Lose Love" has become a popular BGM on major platforms. However, Mika, who can sing so well, has never had his own personal single.
Therefore, "Beautiful" breaks through the circle of "out of the circle" explosion, more like a landmark existence, which proves that Mika's Solo singer road is preparing to set sail. Mika has embarked on a musical path that is completely his own, and he is gradually trying to slowly get rid of the previous boy band label, so that more listeners begin to realize his identity as a musician.
If "Falling in Love" with Shirinayi Gao is Mika's little test on the road to music; then this "Beautiful" will become Mika's iconic symbol as a singer. Next, more listeners will learn more about Mika through "Beautiful", and there will be a more brilliant music stage waiting for him.
Whenever the prelude to "Beautiful" sounds, those of us who stay up late to chase the show can seamlessly connect into the plot of "Ghosts" in one second. Many viewers will be moved by the heroine's sentence "every moment must desperately love, desperately live", and Mika's "Beautiful" is also the best interpretation of "desperate to love, desperate to live".
Beautiful may not be the norm in our lives, life is not satisfactory, the more beautiful things, the more unattainable. But it is precisely because of this that we must know how to cherish and remember those beautiful moments and live in the present. As long as you desperately love, desperately try to live, you can see your Beautiful.
The reason why "Mohe Ballroom" can become a popular national song last year is also because the song has its own story, which can impress listeners of different ages. In my opinion, This version of Mika's "Beautiful" also has a similar potential for popularity. A good song like "Beautiful", which can penetrate the inner world of listeners, is what is most needed in today's Chinese music scene.
People are born lonely, and even if they are fortunate enough to have met their lovers and friends in the journey of life, they will eventually be separated. "Ghosts" describes this "loneliness" of human beings into three points. How to face the unavoidable loneliness and learn to live with ourselves in loneliness is a common subject that Mika wants to explore in this song.
There is a lyric in the Chinese version of "Beautiful", which summarizes the plot of "Ghost" quite well: "If the tears are lonely ghosts, let me be your brilliant sea of stars!" This lyric was sung from Mika's mouth, and it was so appropriate. Perhaps, Mika is born with such a beautiful trait: with her own works, warm more people.
"Just when you have never left, let the sadness leave blank, reunite in the sea of people", Mika's unique and clean voice temperament makes him the best choice for the Chinese version of "Beautiful". Mika succeeds in singing the taste of mourning without hurt in the song, and at the same time gives the audience more motivation to believe that the rest of life will be more Beautiful.
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