"MV" in my opinion, is still a very important composition of musical works, especially in the hot short video at the moment, we should actually calm down, to appreciate the visual arts and musical connotations of the MV works, feel the singers and teams with images and stories, to dig deep into the expression of the music theme - looking back on the past year, Fat Shu Huang carefully selected ten MV works worthy of everyone's repeated appreciation, leaving time for a song, listening to the world together, and caring for our hearts.
Let's follow the inventory of Fat Shu to review the annual top ten MV works! (In no particular order)
"Ai Yiliang / "How Much I Want to Be Her"
The second title song of Ai Yiliang's new album "Partial but I Remember" "I Want to Become Her" is impressive, not only because Ai Yiliang once again brought a tear-jerking and affectionate intimate love song, but also because of the picture impact and story immersion brought by the MV, as if after watching a sad literary and artistic movie, after losing sorrow, continue to move forward under the comfort of Ai Yiliang's singing.
The MV invited the director of the movie "When Men Are in Love" Yin Zhenhao to guide, as Ai Yiliang sang and spoke, the curtain of a "love triangle" story slowly opened. The heroine of the story entered middle age, lost her initial enthusiasm for marriage and love, and fell into endless quarrels and cold wars with her boyfriend, suddenly a young and beautiful girl appeared to break the calm, the girl and her boyfriend lit a fire of love, and the heroine became an outsider on the stage, and the three of them jointly starred in this absurd love drama.
Until the end of the story, we find that the girl who looks like a third party is actually the heroine herself when she was young. "I want to become her" on the surface refers to envying the latecomer in love, but in fact, it is envious of the self who was desperate for love, Ai Yiliang cleverly exposed the private and fragile inner world of women, and there is power in sadness.
"Wang Jia'er / "Wang Jia'er"
After a year, I heard Wang Jiaer's Chinese new song again, called "Wang Jiaer", Wang Jiaer himself took over the songwriting and production, telling the story of a boy named Wang Jiaer, how to "walk and walk" step by step, but there is not much so-called dramatic turn from the ordinary and "ten thousand people's attention", what attracts me the most is that Wang Jiaer conveys in this song sometimes confused, sometimes fragile, very warm, very real.
The MV is also presented using hand-drawn animation, from Hong Kong-Seoul-Beijing to the final TEAM WANG, which is cleverly conceived. In the background of the night with purple and blue as the main tone, Jia'er in casual clothes walked on the streets of Hong Kong with light and shadow, with the development of the story of the lyrics, the boy waved goodbye to his parents who accompanied him all the way, and went to the unknown world for the sake of music dreams; and then the street scene slowly changed into a strange and familiar Seoul, the hard work in a foreign country is always too difficult, in order to eat hometown dishes to come to a foreign restaurant, the kindness of the strange aunt makes Jia'er moved, "The tears fell on the way home, the weather was very cold but my heart was very warm that day", As I went farther and farther, the stage became bigger and bigger, "the sword I originally held in my hand became a microphone", this boy named Wang Jiaer, who used to be a fencer, continued to grow, traveled all over the corner of the world, and finally came to Beijing to establish TEAM WANG, "No matter where I am, I hang all this in my arms", from a small family to a larger world, after grinding, I realized the sublimation of "everyone", which is the story that Wang Jiaer told with "Wang Jiaer".
And to my surprise, there is also the "open interaction" left by Wang Jiaer at the end of the song - "This is my story, what about you", after he said this sentence in his iconic low magnetic voice, the next paragraph was 16 beats empty, there was no word only melody, I think he just left a word space for everyone to sing their own story and voice, because the story of "Wang Jiaer" actually has its own version for every young person who is struggling, on the occasion of the arrival of the Lunar New Year, Just listen to this song by the musician Wang Jiaer, it will not be so bad, it will not be sad, and we will welcome another beautiful spring.
"Cai Xukun / "Feel Her"
After listening to Cai Xukun's new song "Feel Her", you can feel more and more the distinct personal style belonging to Cai Xukun, "Feel Her" seems to be the continuation of "Lover", elegant and intellectual jazz retro tune fusion psychedelic electronic sense of atmosphere, Cai Xukun's sexy voice is like a feather scratching on the heart, want to say rest, want to talk and stop, everything seems to be in the unspoken.
This time on the new album, Cai Xukun has a large proportion of lyrics, independent producers, and directed the MV for the first time in the album, which also allows us to see more of his ideas on music and video. The MV of "Feel Her" will fully express the imagery of the song in the picture, and during the viewing process, we can substitute more blank imagination space -
The bar on the street corner is foggy, the light and shadow are hazy, jazz music flows slowly, and a young and beautiful man in the center of the stage, holding a blue rose in his hand, whispers lonely, telling a sad and beautiful love story: meet her, miss her, feel her, and then quit her.
"Xu Song / "The Crow"
Majestic, deep and indifferent, the MV uses symbolism, flashbacks, montages, streams of consciousness and other expression techniques to tell the growth story of an unsociable ethnic minority boy, seemingly obscure, but full of deep meaning.
In the MV, Xu Song is both a bystander and a "crow" who accompanies the little boy with a similar fate, and even the little boy himself. The "crows" who are looked at by many colored glasses are persistently and bravely spreading their wings and flying high. The unpleasant "darkness" in the world's eyes is actually soft and flawless "purity".
"Yuan Yawei / Dancing on the Moon"
An MV suitable for insomnia night enjoyment, like the English name of the song "EMO WHISKEY", drink a glass of whiskey full of emotions, take a short break after midnight revelry, hazy and confused, half dream and half awake, thoughts turn into a galaxy.
Tia sits in a small boat, like the mythical Siren, the song confuses the sailors on the shore, the middle saxophone solo makes people's minds take off quietly and wander in the milky way, and the moon composed of chairs in the back section is romantic and imaginative, Tia incarnates as the legendary Chang'e fairy, and the whispering chant is dangerous and charming, exuding a fatal attraction. Let our minds also can't help but dance mysterious and magical steps on the moon.
"Xu Jiaying / "None of the Above"
LALA Xu Jiaying's new song "All of the Above" tried to break through the previous new style, this time Lala returned as a producer, throwing the audience a new issue, as an artist, how to balance external doubts in creation, subvert the self and get a new life.
The MV is full of atmosphere, the visual shape of the dark system, the distorted and deformed lines, and the exaggerated lens language, so that the whole MV presents a strange beauty.
The MV is not only produced using 4D Views technology, Lala also spent 5 hours to make up, the contrasting facial makeup of red and white paints, with Lala's emotional interpretation of pulling and relaxing freely, under the very three-dimensional sound effects, showing Lala's mental journey as a musician from "destruction" to "reorganization" and finally "rebirth".
"None of the above" is to destroy and destroy, and "all of the above is right" is to sublimate and reset. Under pull dualism, suffering itself is the ultimate rebirth, rightly or wrongly.
"Lai Mei Yun / "Under the Winter Sky"
Lai Meiyun's first solo album, which was planned by Fat Shu, every song is still fresh in my memory, especially the MV "Under the Winter Sky", as the "resilience song" in the album, it has undergone countless revisions, but everything is worth it.
The story of the four ordinary people in the MV is like ourselves, the lonely sad Post-it note girl, the boy who endures the violence and bullying in the school, the dream dancer who falls on the floor again and again, the takeaway uncle who is tired of running for his daughter, under the winter sky, in the cold current, above the dream, between us, he or she, at a certain moment, will always take a brave step because of the dream, running to the sunrise and sunset.
"If Lai Meiyun says yes, you have no reason to say no", to everyone who embraces blood in ordinary life and is trying to sprint for the extraordinary!
"Zhan Wenting / "Burning Wind""
Zhan Wenting's new album "Faye Zhan Wenting Dancing on the Clouds Twitter" can be said to be a surprise in the Chinese music scene at the end of 2021, after leaving the F.I.R Orchestra, four years after the release of her first solo album, Zhan Wenting returned with a new image and style, as if it was a nirvana rebirth.
Whether it is the first title song "Yong Ai" or the newly released "Burning Wind" MV, it is full of extreme beauty of different colors and alternatives. In terms of musical style, Faye boldly tries psychedelic electronics, ambiguous and witty, and the MV picture uses visual techniques such as negative film, overexposure, and superposition, as if the ashes after burning dance with the "burning wind", feel it together.
"Wei Ruxuan / Transformers"
Wei Ruxuan's new album "Have A Nice Day" is an album that must not be missed this year, and each song is full of imagination and ingenuity, continuing the doll's consistent style, warm and healing and flexible and playful.
The song "Transformers" is a true portrayal of the newborn mother's doll Wei Ruxuan, in this MV full of retro feelings and childlike elements, Wei Ruxuan transforms into an omnipotent superwoman, is a thousand hands Guanyin, is a Transformer, is a seemingly weak girl on the outside, but also a tough and strong mother inside.
"You long for hands to offer, you are afraid of a second to lie down, you want to fly sit on my shoulders, I am your mother Transformers." The funny and humorous lyrics and the playful and vivid interpretation of the doll make this song full of energy and healing power, thank you for the "Transformers" who have been guarding us, let's say we love her!
"Guo Caijie / "The Oak Tree in February"
Guo Caijie's new song still continues the independent and bold personal characteristics, the MV uses the formal sense of retro film, as well as the aesthetic style of symbolizing stream of consciousness, with "ugly duckling" as the clue, showing the bond between parents and children, the joy and curiosity of the chick molting, and the difficulty of growth and full wings.
The small train in the MV carries the toy duckling forward, and the ugly duckling slowly fades its shell and regenerates, repeating the cycle, symbolizing the awakening of self-consciousness, just like the chicks building their nests for the first time, understanding themselves, accepting themselves, and loving themselves.