Singer Cui Zige's Cantonese song "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep", with lyrics by Lin Ruoning, Zhang Jiacheng's songs, the whole Hong Kong music team, coupled with her flawless Cantonese interpretation, makes many music fans think that "Hong Kong has a new singer again". But in fact, Cui Zige is a northern woman: originally from Inner Mongolia, grew up in Xinjiang, but from an early age, she has a special love for Cantonese pop songs. When Hong Kong stars "went north" to sing Chinese songs, Cui Zige did the opposite and made a Cantonese song album. In an exclusive interview, she confessed that she has a deep affection for Cantonese songs...
Text/Li Weidong
Singer-songwriter Cui Zige
Representative works: "Can not be said", "Bu Gua", "No longer contact", "Wife max"
Introduction: She is known as the "OST Queen" because she sang songs from many popular film and television works such as "The Princess Promotion", "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Was Round", and "Splendid Wei Yang". Composed and lyrics by her, "The Wedding Veil of Flowers" (the theme song of the Taiwanese drama "The Wedding Dress of Heaven") won the Taiwan Golden Bell Award.
A little girl singing "Rouge Buckle"
How popular have Hong Kong and Taiwan stars ever been? "Post-85" singer Cui Zige is very emotional. She grew up in Xinjiang in the great northwest, far from the coastal areas, but at that time, her family TV set the Hong Kong drama "The Legend of the Eagle Hero", and her parents listened to the pop songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers such as Zhang Guorong and Mui Yanfang.
Cui Zige, who couldn't understand a word of Cantonese, would already sing a whole song of "Rouge Buckle" with Mei Yanfang's tape, and even sang it in a local children's singing competition, winning the third place, while the other children sang children's songs at that time, "The judges all felt very strange, how could this child sing Cantonese songs?" In fact, I don't know what the lyrics say, I just listened to the back, I didn't expect the voice to be very mature, singing especially like Mei Yanfang. ”
In addition to liking Mei Yanfang, Zhang Guorong and Beyond are also Cui Zige's "childhood idols", and some point to Cui Zige is also the president of the "Beijing Zhang Guorong Fan Association". These top singers from the Hong Kong music scene gave Cui Zige the earliest enlightenment of popular music and set an example for her to learn from. "If it wasn't for them, I don't think I would necessarily be a singer now. When I was a child, I fantasized that if only I had my voice in Cantonese singing films. Cui Zige said.
Realizing your dreams also requires capital
This desire to "sing Cantonese songs" has always been accompanied by Cui Zige. Although Cui Zige later became a singer and let fans know her and recognize her through Chinese songs, she did not let go of her feelings for Cantonese songs. However, to sing Cantonese songs and make Cantonese song albums, it is not an easy thing for Cui Zige, who cannot speak Cantonese. In addition to learning Cantonese lyrics with the teacher, you must also strive for support. After all, today's Cantonese pop songs are not as popular as before, and even Hong Kong singers have sung Chinese songs, and at this time, spending money on Cantonese song albums will definitely not be able to play. Therefore, when Cui Zige proposed a Cantonese album to the former company, it was rejected.
Today, her wish has come true, and the album is still paid for by her self-reliant portal. Cui Zige described: "The investment is big, but I want to do it. In fact, I have been brewing this matter for all these years, and I have sung a lot of film and television drama songs and more grounded songs before, until I have a masterpiece and make money, I have money to do what I like. In addition to the dream of the move, as a singer who grew up listening to Cantonese songs, Cui Zige also hopes that fans can hear the charm of Cantonese songs, "Many of my post-00s fans have stopped listening to Cantonese songs, which I think is a pity." ”
The Internet Divine Comedy was changed to a Cantonese version
As the first Cantonese album in his life, Cui Zige wants to sing a lot of songs, in addition to original songs such as "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep" (lyrics by Lin Ruoning), "The Fruits of the Troubled World" (the Cantonese version of the theme song "Can Not Be Read and Cannot Be Said" of "The Promotion of the Princess Princess", lyrics by Zhou Yaohui and Wang Leyi), "Fate, Origin" (chorus with Xia Shaosheng), etc., and will also cover beyond the classic Song "The Great Wall", "but will adapt music and add some electronic elements".
Among the more than ten songs on the album, there are also some works that surprise Cantonese song fans - such as the Cantonese version of "Wait a Minute" and "Love Sale", which are some very grounded mainland Internet celebrity songs. Cui Zige said it took a lot of effort for them to win the copyright to these songs and then adapt them into Cantonese songs. And her "Billion Network Divine Comedy" "Wife Max" was also handed over to "Beyond Royal Lyricist" Liu Zhuohui to refill the Cantonese lyrics and included in the album.
Although these songs are put into the same album, it feels like a "hodgepodge", but Cui Zige has a very clear goal, that is, he hopes that different types of fans can "take what they need" in her album, and also hope that everyone can understand each other's musical preferences, "I sincerely hope that I can become a 'bridge' for northern fans and southern fans to deepen their understanding, in fact, whether it is Chinese songs and Cantonese songs, there are places worth appreciating." ”
▲ He has a mentor-apprentice relationship with Li Xiaotian and has also been on the "50 Years of Popular Classics" program hosted by the other party. Cui Zige said that at that time, the program team wanted her to sing Chinese song, but she wanted to sing Cantonese songs more, so she sang "Vulnerable Woman".
▲ Cui Zige has a very large mass base among Chinese fans, which is her album Chinese promoted in Taiwan this year, and took a photo with veteran music critic Huang Ziling.
▲ He has a good relationship with Beyond's royal lyricist Liu Zhuohui, and this time he came out with a Cantonese album, and the other party helped a lot.
The album's title song "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep":
See how Lin Ruoning describes emotional wounds
"The Man Who Pretends to Sleep"
Composer: Zhang Jiacheng, Lyricist: Lin Ruoning
Rain outside the restaurant door No matter how ferocious it is
Share literary works hobbies and dinners
The door blew all over the typhoon
We still can't blow away the candles
The power outage is extremely psychedelic, half realistic, half dreamlike
* Love Long Dream More Please blow up this bubble to charm me
Listen to one of my fictional love songs
Blowing spring breeze chasing kites and burning fireworks in the park sit together
* Nothing to ask for, no need to remind me of the truth
This illusion does not want to be broken in a word
I want you to live in my dreams and dance tango together
Open your eyes and dream of you, no matter how absurd
Hold up the wrecked umbrella and dance with you in the water
Wet towels and shirts
Love is intact in the eye of the typhoon
Sweet but like a thunderstorm, it has nothing to do with reality
(Repeat * lyrics)
...... Is a couple a hypothesis?
Long dreams are completely broken after waking up
Can't wake up to happen but the vortex
One day the light opens and the window is clear, and it is extremely helpless
Nothing to ask for, no need to remind me of the truth
Only by pretending to sleep can you really live
Even if you suffer from thirst and sleepiness, you don't want to be too much
Whoever found the wind got me one
【Song Background】
To complain about how bad a man is, you can directly confess his guilt, but "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep" retreats to the rear and does not directly criticize, but instead describes the heroine's pain in the love injury. Through the immersive lyrics, the audience's emotions fluctuate with it, and suddenly substitute the grievances of the heroine who can only "pretend to sleep" to heal. Therefore, Cui Zige laughed and said that "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep" is actually a "toxic" love song - the so-called "poison", that is, it curves and spits on the scumbag, and it spits out very fiercely.
The Cantonese lyrics of the song are written by Lin Ruoning, the "apprentice of Lin Xi", which also surprised and satisfied many listeners. Cui Zige said that it was the producer Zhang Jiacheng who invited the other party to write lyrics. The song also has Chinese version of "You Can't Wake Up a Man Pretending to Be Asleep", written by Cui Shu, and is an episode of the drama "Mr. Love" starring Jin Dong.
【Music fans' feelings after listening】
● DzVin: Anyway, the first time I heard it, I didn't feel it, she was a northerner, and she felt that Hong Kong had a new singer.
● Be a quiet rich woman: Cantonese people indicate pronunciation standards, Cantonese people pronounce it.
●He Nibao: CompleteLy Hong Kong Music Bandi!
● Sunset Endless: Is this the same person as the one who sang "Wife Max"? (Yes.) ）
(Review source: NetEase Music Cloud)
▲ Cui Zige (left) came to Guangzhou to promote the new album, just when the temperature in Guangzhou fell to about 10 ° C, she said: "I grew up in Xinjiang, and I have been to the northeast, there is no cold, when I came to Guangzhou, I had a heavy cold, it was too cold!" Cold to the soul! It seems that the north-south debate about whether Guangzhou is cold at 10 °C has come to fruition.
【Hard practice Cantonese】
Cui Zige can't speak Cantonese, this time out of the Cantonese song album, the lyrics of each song will take a long time to learn Cantonese pronunciation, but also to turn over and over record, recorded to the Team of Cantonese and Hong Kong people can not hear the flaws, she only received the goods. Therefore, some songs on the album, in addition to the songwriters, also appear "Cantonese Teacher". For example, the "Cantonese teacher" of the song "The Fruits of The Troubled World" is The Foshan musician Lai Weifeng, who also participates in the production of the album songs.
【Hong Kong Music Bandi】
Before Cui Zige became a singer, she had been a contracted composer of Hong Kong's "Emperor", written songs for Yong'er, Chen Weiting, etc., and many Hong Kong music connoisseurs have cooperated with her so far. Therefore, this time she released a Cantonese album, and also invited many local old friends to help organize the class, such as "TVB Music Royal Producer" Zhang Jiacheng, "Beyond Royal Lyricist" Liu Zhuohui and so on.
【Song Selection】
The new album covers idol Beyond's "The Great Wall", rather than Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang's songs, Cui Zige explained, because he is familiar with Liu Zhuohui, the lyricist of "The Great Wall", compared to Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang's songs, the copyright of "The Great Wall" is easier to get. If she has the opportunity to cover her brother and Sister Mei's songs in the future, she hopes to sing "Monica", "Heartless Sleep" and "It Seems like the old man is coming".
▲Earlier won the "Global Chinese Golden Melody Award".
▲ There are many loyal fans at the signing party.
▲Solo film and television concerts tour the country.
▲ "The Man Who Pretends to Sleep" shoots the song MV.
▲ "Wife Max" is a popular square dance song.