Hello everyone, I'm Yao Yanyan. Today we will talk about Jay Chou's new song "The Greatest Work". The song was launched for an hour, and related topics quickly rushed to the Weibo hot search list.
In the MV, Jay Chou played a piano to transform into a time and space traveler, instantly transferred to the 1920s, and met artists around the world, the style of music is ingenious and elegant, integrating classical, hip-hop, rap and pop and other musical styles, making his fans turn the sky again.
The new song "The Greatest Work" is a tribute song, which masters are paid tribute to?
The first is the Belgian surrealist painter Magritte, whose works are fantastical, terrifying, witty and bizarre. The lyrics "Ah, paranoia is Namaglit, the apple that I conjured up" are the characteristic embodiment, and "The Pipe That Is Not a Pipe", which comes from his classic 1948 masterpiece "The Rebellion of the Image (This Is Not a Pipe)".
The second is Salvador Dalí, a Spanish master of surrealist painting, who is known for exploring subconscious imagery. The lyrics "Dalí Hoo who gave him his thoughts, bent the spoon to lend you inspiration" is to describe Dalí. The lyrics "Is it the clock on the wall or the cheese that melts, you don't reply to me on the other end of the lobster phone," mentions two of his masterpieces, Eternal Memory, and the "Lobster Phone" sculpture.
The third is Chang Yu, a famous Chinese painter in modern and modern times, whose painting style combines Chinese and Western paintings. Wandering is the most free and informal ink in secular painting, and the elegant legs of flowers are a touch of the universe, this lyric mentions his work with Curved Legs.
The fourth was the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Van Gogh. The lyric "The night under the stars is lit by Van Gogh" refers to his most famous work, Starry Sky.
The fifth was the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edward Munch. The lyrics "Dreams Are Too Short" depict his famous work Scream on the Bridge.
The sixth was the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, known as the "Leader of Impressionism". The lyrics "I asked Monet for a favor, can you come to a self-portrait" is to describe him. The lyrics "The sunrise travels back and forth in the port of impressions, and the light awakens the sleeping flowers and leaves" mentions two of Monet's famous paintings, namely "Sunrise Impression", the founding work of Impressionism, and "Pond Water Lilies", one of the pinnacle works.
In the MV and lyrics, in addition to the painter, the figure of the Chinese Crescent Poet Xu Zhimo appears, and the lyrics "The butterfly that stops on the Kang Bridge, flying to the Emerald Jade on the Midnight River", is from Xu Zhimo's poem "A Night of Emerald Green".
In the whole MV, what is surprising is that in the middle, Lang Lang appeared in a slightly loose suit, and came to a "douqin" performance with Jay Chou, so that the attention of some netizens was attracted by Lang Lang's figure, and it was suspected that Jay Chou invited him to come in order to make himself "thin". "Lang Lang is fat" is even on Weibo hot search. At the same time, Liu Genghong is also busy choreographing fitness actions for this new song.
