What exactly does a cover song mean? In the past, on the stage of "The Voice of Heavenly Gifts", Xin had expressed his opinion and once denied the cover. But is there a contradiction between cover and originality? Singers, their job is actually to sing.
More often, on stage, it is enough to cover a song and let more viewers hear the song. Zhou Shen, on the other hand, has recently done a very good demonstration.
1. Zhou Shen & Hu Mengke, "Under Investigation"
To tell you the truth, I hadn't heard "Under Investigation" before Zhou Shen sang this song. Although I had seen "The Beginning", I was only watching the show at the time, and I didn't pay attention to the OST of the show.
The cooperation between Zhou Shen and Hu Mengke, first of all, I will first talk about Hu Mengke's voice, from the perspective of singing ability alone, the gap between Hu Mengke's singing ability and Zhou Shen is very large. The former has done a great job, and the latter still has a lot to improve. Hu Mengke's voice is thin, which is more suitable for singing some popular lyric songs, or modifying the voice later after singing in the studio.
But! Must be praised is Hu Mengke's arrangement, many friends may not have noticed, the arrangement of this song is Hu Mengke alone to complete, although there is the original song as a reference, but the addition of fresh things need to have their own ideas to do. Hu Mengke is a musician with ideas, which makes the rhythm of the second half of this song stronger, and it is more suitable for the two to sing together.
For me, this song is in the final part, zhou shen's bel canto is humming wordlessly. A large number of tones hovering in three groups of small characters, the melody of this section is very beautiful, really allowing the listener to enter the emotions that the creator wants to convey.
Overall, a perfect song. At present, Zhou Shen & Hu Mengke's "Investigation" soared to the top of the list and ranked first!
2. How strong is Zhou Shen's ability to lead songs?
I actually wrote before that "The Voice of Heaven" chose Zhou Shen correctly, because Zhou Shen has a strong ability to sing.
Take the data of previous programs to speak, Zhou Shen's singing of "Rose Boy" has become a well-deserved hit, in addition, Zhou Shen and Chen Hongyu sang "Crying Sand" received a lot of listening; Zhou Shen and Liu Fengyao sang "Cold to the End", not only for Zhou Shen himself to bring high heat, but also let Liu Fengyao also gain more attention!
Of course, all of the above, for Zhou Shen, is actually just a cover singer, what should be done, Zhou Shen's strongest ability is not only to make his version gain high heat, but also to make the song itself catch fire.
For example, in this "Survey", while the Zhou Shen version ranks first, the original version is currently ranked fourth in the hot song list, and such a sudden surge can only be caused by external thrust.
And Zhou Shen and Hu Mengke sang this song in "The Voice of Heaven", which is a kind of thrust, adding a force to this song!
3. The meaning of cover songs
In fact, this is the meaning of cover songs!
Many songs, perhaps enough fire, may not be fire, cover singers can give new meaning to the song on the stage, at the same time, use their own ability to make the song more heard by more people.
As far as the song is concerned, it has gained more attention, and the original version will naturally be discovered by more people.
"Investigation" is the simplest example, and the two can be said to be a win-win situation.
Of course, adaptation is not a blind fabrication, and not every singer has such an ability. In the next show, I only hope that Zhou Shen can sing more blockbusters! I don't know if you like Zhou Shen and Hu Mengke's "Under Investigation"?