How do you rate Ma Wei?
Some people say that Ma Pao's greatest contribution is to popularize the pronunciation of the word to everyone, and some people say that Ma Pao is the poet from afar who satisfies all his imaginations.
In theory, everyone understands that the same thing is difficult to please everyone, let alone a thing that originally thought of itself as a minority but suddenly went to the public.
Commenting on a singer, not saying that his songs are certainly inappropriate. To know Ma Wei, we have to start from "Nanshan South".
After "Nanshan South" was sung, it touched many people, and introduced a large number of people who did not pay much attention to folk songs into the folk circle, which was unexpected by many people, including Ma Wei himself. The song was written for about three years, and Ma Wei said that after accumulating the things he had written in the past three years, he gradually found that they naturally became a story, and it happened to meet a song at this time, and when the lyrics were filled in, it felt quite flavorful.
Yes, this folk song that makes many people tear up and feels amazing when it first enters the ear is not professional, but this does not prevent it from expressing the story that the listener wants to hear and the resonance that comes with it.
Someone asked: ""Nanshan South" is so sad, is there a story behind it?" Ma Wei smiled: "When you hear this song, it has nothing to do with me, and the tears you shed are the only stories you know." "The implication is that there's no specific story, I just want to express it."
Ma Wei often hummed a melody like this, and if he felt that he was good, he would consider filling in the words, and when it came to filling in the words, he would rummaging through the things he had written, collecting the words and phrases that fit the tone at that time, and then using them together.
This way of creating is reminiscent of the time when writing essays in middle school, filling in paragraphs for a topic, scavenging the good words and sentences accumulated in the stomach, the form is a pile of words, but in terms of content, only a few can become the best works of fan essays. Ma Wei is naturally one of the few.
"Nanshan South" MV, Song Dongye, Yao Thirteen assisted
However, on this simple basis, things get complicated when the author is labeled with a variety of labels and rises to the level of artistic creation. Some people say that the lyrics of "Nanshan South" are unclear, and some people say that the composition is average from a professional level, but this cannot erase the fact that a group of people have been crazy about the single Loop. Just as Gu Qiao replied: "In the end, what moved the fans of "Nanshan South", everyone's answer is different, as for why it did not move you, this is particularly related to my ass. ”
In the final analysis, music for ordinary people, can not be so professional and complex, "like" word, enough. When Ma Wei came to shanghai Repulse Bay Culture and Arts Center to give a speech, he consciously and automatically tore off all the packaging names: musician, label owner, "folk poet", etc., hoping that everyone would remember his identity as an ordinary person.
The blue hut of Ma Wei, calm, melancholy
He told stories and experiences that had never been mentioned in public, including a childhood that did not have much color, the fall of youth, the choice to embark on the path of music... The name obscured by the aura gradually became flesh and blood— sensitive, temperamental, with a sober and unique understanding of self and the world, and more persistent and tenacious than its peers.
In fact, the singer himself and his works are two concepts, and to put it more seriously, to go to his scene is to listen to the turmoil of youth approaching this age. Just in time for his southward tour, the whole journey of "Song of the Lone Bird" is of course not only "Nanshan South", listening to those melodies, feeling the words and phrases that are deeply influenced by Gu Cheng, Haizi and other poets in the 1980s, the ingenuity and sweat hidden behind the works, and the poet-like soul and talent of the poet who refines life into sentences.