In recent years, Lu Jiaxin, who has developed in the film and television and drama circles, finally launched his second album "Falling Generous" in the second half of 2019. In this behind-the-scenes list of hard-won works, there are old friends such as Wu Qingfeng, Zhang Zhenyue, and Wu Yukang, as well as the blessings of their mentors, as well as the joining of new partners such as Ai Yiliang, Xie Zhenting, and Li Yu, and at the same time, they do not leave Lu Jiaxin's own self-expression. In an exclusive interview with the Beijing News in Beijing, Lu Jiaxin was full of enthusiasm and brilliance when mentioning "Falling Generous" - behind the birth of this extremely "intimate" musical work is the internalization and explosion of the singer's own lifeline.
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1. Settle with the flow
In 2002, Lu Jiaxin released her first album, You Don't Understand. Shortly after the album's release, Lu Jiaxin's career as a singer came to an abrupt halt due to problems with the record company itself. And this stop, that's 17 years.
In the past 17 years, although Lu Jiaxin has slowed down her pace as a singer, she has never given up her passion for music. She once briefly formed a double orchestra called "lupe" with her friend Shen Simple Shen (easy shen), and would also release singles out of her own pocket, and when it came to the release plan, Lu Jiaxin bluntly said that everything was about chance. "Because I am a person with a more casual personality, going along with the trend of life, quiet, I will not let my pace be too busy." This time, it was because I suddenly felt that I had something to say, and I had accumulated a lot of lyrics, so I suddenly felt as if I could publish them, and I had the result of such an 'impulse' birth. ”
2. Stage and stage plays
Before standing on the stage of a solo concert, Lu Jiaxin is more familiar with the stage of drama. In 2011, after Lin Daiyu's role in Lin Yihua's "Jia Baoyu" and the stage play, Lu Jiaxin successively starred in a series of works such as "Detective of the Heart", "The Successor of Liang Zhu" and "Liaozhai". After a long period of rehearsal and touring, Lu Jiaxin has formed a deep friendship with the directors and actors of the same crew, and has also further improved her emotional expression and interpretation ability.
When the album "Falling Generous" was launched digitally, Lu Jiaxin happened to catch a rehearsal of "Liang Zhu's Successors", "At that time, before the rehearsal, the actors would try their microphones on the stage first," she laughed and recalled the scene at that time, "When it was my turn, our stereo released "Eclipse of the Sun", and then everyone applauded me to sing, but because I was shy, I didn't sing, but I felt very warm. People will share with me how they felt when they heard the album, and when I was at the Taipei concert, director Lin Yihua actually flew over from Hong Kong without me! He later told me that this was a historic moment in my life that he didn't want to miss. I was really impressed. ”
When the drama "The Successors of Liang Zhu" came to an end.
3. Former roommate" Wu Qingfeng
At the concert in Beijing, everyone was asked how they knew themselves, and the alternative options were new albums, stage plays, gossip, "Kangxi Lai", and Wu Qingfeng. In this album, Wu Qingfeng and Lu Jiaxin collaborated to write the important title song "Eclipse of the Sun", and more than a decade ago, when Soda Green had not yet stood on the little dome, just a very popular "underground orchestra" in Taiwan, Lu Jiaxin and lead singer Wu Qingfeng met by singing on KTV and became a roommate. "I was about to move out of my parents' house, he graduated from college and wanted to move to a little bit of the city, so we decided we wanted to share a room."
In Lu Jiaxin's memory, this shared experience is very beautiful, the two personally painted the walls of the room green, and the two night owls also like to go back to their rooms to sleep after watching an episode of "Cherry Pills" together at dawn, "We also like to sing KTV, at least three or four times a week, when one person sings, the other is eating." These are all things that are difficult for us to repeat when we grow up. ”
Lu Jiaxin told the Beijing News reporter that when she gave her first album to Qingfeng, she wrote a sentence on it: "I like your creation very much, and I hope that one day I can also write a song for you." When Qingfeng took the initiative to mention this matter in the preparation of "Falling Generous", both of them were deeply moved, and finally realized this agreement that lasted for more than ten years in the name of co-creation of "Eclipse of the Sun".
He shared the stage with Qingfeng at the Eclipse Concert. The picture is from the artist's Weibo
4. "The Elephant Sits on the Ground"
Lu Jiaxin graduated from the department of Chinese and is a full-fledged literary youth. One day, after watching the movie "Elephant Sitting on the Ground", Lu Jiaxin suddenly had the inspiration to write "Manzhouli": "There is a feeling of stubbornness that has always remained in my heart, very deep. However, the song "Manzhouli" actually has little to do with the movie itself. The picture that Lu Jiaxin had in mind was of a hospital.
As her parents grew older, Lu Jiaxin had to often accompany her to and from the hospital for physical examinations, "No matter when she went, on holidays, on weekdays, there were always so many people queuing, taking medicines, registering... Many people are hanging a little drip, or sitting in a wheelchair looking out the window. When I see these images, I wonder what they're thinking. Are they happy or not? Do they want to stay? If they want to stay, why do they work so hard to stay? With this stubborn imagination of life, Lu Jiaxin created the lyrics of "Manzhouli" and invited Ai Yiliang to compose a song, "When I invited her, I was actually very nervous, because we didn't know her." But unexpectedly, she said that she liked the lyrics of "Manzhouli" very much, and even quickly wrote the song. After she handed over the song, it was really very much in line with my imagination of "Manzhouli". ”
Album art
5. Future challenges
In "Falling Generous", Lu Jiaxin cooperated with ai Yiliang, Xie Zhenting, Wei Lian and other musicians she admired, and as for the future hope of cooperation, she said the name of "Chen Shanni", "Teacher Shanni has a very special feeling for the production of female singers, and is looking forward to cooperating with her." ”
Now returning to the music scene as a singer, Lu Jiaxin admits that he has not yet imagined too much about the future musical path, "because I usually suddenly feel that I have something to say, I will do it, and I will not especially want to maintain a hair volume." Lu Jiaxin said with a smile that in music, the things he wants to challenge in the future are to cooperate with Qingfeng to make an album, and the other is to write songs for others, "Because I haven't done this thing, I feel as if I can try it." The text thing is very private, but it is very free when it comes to secondary creation, so it feels like it is very interesting. ”
Beijing News reporter Yang Chang
Edited by Tian Kaini Proofreader Zhao Lin