In the past two years, Zheng Xiuwen's work has focused more on movies, and she has made four films in two years, which can be described as quite prolific, and now she has shifted her focus to music and recently launched a new musical work "A Thousand Years like a Day".
When listening to "A Thousand Years like a Day", you will naturally think of Zheng Xiuwen's classic work "Don't Alarm Love", this is not a coincidence, the composer of "Millennium Like a Day" itself is Gao Haozheng, the original creator of "Don't Alarm Love", and in terms of creation, Gao Haozheng is also intentional to let "Millennium Like a Day" continue the aesthetics and soundability of "Don't Alarm Love", and further sublimate the emotion, in other words, "Millennium Like a Day" is the sequel to "Don't Alarm Love".
However, Gao Haozheng's "A Thousand Years like a Day" was not originally written for Zheng Xiuwen, but was intentionally sung by Xu Zhi'an. Many years ago, Gao Haozheng wrote "Don't Alarm Love", which was based on his own personal emotional experience, and then was accidentally covered by Zheng Xiuwen, and the result became a golden song heard in the streets, when many people thought that Zheng Xiuwen was the original singer, even Gao Haozheng himself was surprised. After "Don't Alarm Love" became popular, Gao Hao was writing "A Thousand Years like a Day" many years later, which was actually a gift to his wife, recording the experience of his love and marriage with his wife, originally just wanted to keep singing for himself, and later decided to leave it to others to sing when he was suggested by his friends.
Speaking of which, Gao Haozheng decided to give Xu Zhi'an at the beginning because he felt that Zheng Xiuwen had sung "Don't Alarm Love" red, and as the sequel to this song, "A Thousand Years like a Day", it was most appropriate for Xu Zhi'an to sing, because at that time, Zheng Xiuwen had not yet reunited with Xu Zhi'an when he sang "Don't Alarm Love", and the feelings and mood of the song were quite consistent with Zheng Xiuwen at that time, and now Zheng Xiuwen and Xu Zhi'an have walked together, so this song symbolizes the perfect ending of "A Thousand Years like a Day" It is only natural to leave it to Xu Zhi'an to sing.
Therefore, Gao Haozheng gave this song to Zheng Xiuwen and asked her to give it to Xu Zhi'an, how to expect that Zheng Xiuwen liked it very much after listening to it, and finally decided to sing it himself, of course, in this process, Zheng Xiuwen also informed Xu Zhi'an, Xu Zhian also felt more suitable for Zheng Xiuwen's interpretation after listening to it, and finally there was today's Zheng Xiuwen version of "A Thousand Years like a Day".
Zheng Xiuwen's "Millennium as a Day" once broadcast, it has received praise, the song Zheng Xiuwen's emotions are delicate, gentle, with deep affection, singing is the "like a thousand years like a day" to express the emotional state of "as the first sight", singing sensuality, gentle, comfortable, emotional state is full but not head, full of appeal, plus Gao Haozheng's melody is written extremely smooth, pleasant, listening to it once can already grasp the heart.
However, after the publication of "A Thousand Years like a Day", it also fell into the storm of suspected plagiarism, of course, the plagiarism referred to does not refer to whose creation Gao Hao is copying, but refers to the arrangement being copied. In fact, arrangement plagiarism is rare, and this judgment is more difficult than melodic plagiarism. It was also in Hong Kong musician Jim Ling pointed out that Zheng Xiuwen's version of "A Thousand Years like a Day" was exactly the same as the arrangement of his previous version of "A Thousand Years like a Day" written for Gao Haozheng, while the arranger of Zheng Xiuwen's version did not write his name, he was very dissatisfied with this, and felt that he was not respected, in other words, he meant that since he wanted to use his Jim Ling's arrangement, why did he not look for him to arrange the music, but chose other musicians.
After this incident, the company with relevant copyrights issued a statement saying that the song "A Thousand Years like a Day" was composed and sung by Gao Hao in 2017, and was sung by Zheng Xiuwen in 2018, and the arrangement part was responsible for the male version by Jim Ling and the female version by Johnny Yim.
Frankly speaking, this statement is not useless, but it has not solved the problem in essence, the key to the problem is that Jim Ling believes that Johnny Yim copied his arrangement, which is not a statement that who is responsible for the male version and who is responsible for the female version can be solved, as to whether it is really plagiarism, or just a coincidence that everyone's methods are the same, then it can only depend on how to define.
Speaking of which, Zheng Xiuwen is the biggest victim, originally "Millennium like a Day" after the broadcast of the praise, is likely to become another of her golden songs, can not think of provoking this storm, can only say that the behind-the-scenes team is not strict enough, even Zheng Xiuwen was accused by many netizens who have nothing to do, fortunately the full support of fans.
As for Jim Ling's point that his arrangement has been copied, it should also be emphasized that it is understood that after any song in Hong Kong is bought out of copyright, the record company is free to choose whether to use the original arranger or the newly appointed arranger to re-arrange the song, in addition, for the use of the arranger version, the record company also has the right to follow the original arrangement or another version. Therefore, if there is any misunderstanding in this middle, it needs to be understood by the record company and then explained.
In any case, I hope that this storm will pass soon, so that an excellent work should be heard by more people, rather than caught in this endless storm.