Once, Luo Dayou posted: Among the songs I have written, I hate the song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" the most! Everyone wondered, this song is so well created, why does Luo Dayou hate it? It wasn't until many years later, when Rolling Stone Records quietly released the original manuscript of the song, that everyone understood.
I believe that many people do not know that the song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" was created by Luo Dayou, right? After all, this positive and sunny song and the creative style of luo dayou, the godfather of music, can be said to be 108,000 miles apart, and it is completely impossible to go together.
Luo Dayou has written many classics for many singers, which have become an indelible mark of the times. For example, Zhang Aijia's "Childhood", Feng Feifei's "Dream Chaser", Pan Yueyun's "Wild Lilies Also Have Spring", Guan Zhengjie Zhen Ni's "Pearl of the Orient", Su Rui's "If The Wine Is Sold Without" and so on.
The song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" was also composed by Luo Dayou in 1985. A year ago, after Luo Dayou released his third album "Home", he left Taiwan and went to the United States.
Luo Dayou recalled: At that time, my heart was very complicated, and at that time, I wrote some songs that were not very happy for some people in Taiwan, which caused them extreme dissatisfaction, plus I was difficult to choose between my personal feelings, medicine and music, so I chose to leave.
Half a year later, the world set off a wave of public welfare songs, and with the 1986 World Peace Year approaching, Taiwanese artists inspired by "We Are The World" also wanted to create a public welfare chorus. At that time, Zhang Aijia was the general convener, because she was not only famous, but also familiar with the stars of Hong Kong and Southeast Asian countries.
So, when everyone was discussing who to find to create this song, Zhang Aijia's first thought was her ex-boyfriend Luo Dayou. Although the two have just broken up because of their emotional discord, Luo Dayoulai's creative ability still has nothing to say.
Therefore, Wu Zhijing, the chief planner of the project, called the transoceanic telephone, "Xiao Yi Dayi, Enwei and Shi", and Luo Dayou finally agreed. However, at that time, everyone knew that Luo Dayou's creation had a deep melancholy color, so Zhang Aijia specially set a sunny "Tomorrow Will Be Better" title for him.
It is reasonable to say that with propositions to write, there should be no deviations, right? Who knows, Luo Dayou still does not change the gray, he only retains the title of "Tomorrow Will Be Better", but the content of the lyrics seems to say: This world is not necessarily better.
Gently stroke the numb body and helplessly close your eyes; This absurd world is still turning black and white, and the spring breeze has dissolved the style, stinging the girl's heart... This is the beginning of Luo Dayou's first edition of "Tomorrow Will Be Better", which can be said to have nothing to do with Sunshine's positivity.
This lyric, as a public welfare song is certainly not appropriate, so the producer had to invite Zhang Dachun, Xu Naisheng, Qiu Fusheng, etc., a number of songwriters, brainstorming, on the basis of Luo Dayou's original version, adapted the current classic version of "Tomorrow Will Be Better".
However, what Luo Dayou did not expect was that at the end of 1985, this song "Tomorrow Will Be Better" became the propaganda theme song of a certain party's campaign on the island that year. For this reason, Luo Dayou suffered from misunderstanding and criticism from society. This is also the reason why he went to Hong Kong to develop later.
Years later, recalling the song "Tomorrow Will Be Better", Luo Dayou still had a fire in his stomach: "Of all the songs I have written, I hate this song the most!" I just want to express a yearning for tomorrow, but the result is a tool that is used by the political zhi, will you still like it?"
It wasn't until, on October 25, 2019, that Rolling Stone Records quietly uploaded a 34-year-old MV of "Tomorrow Will Be Better" and attached the first manuscript of Luo Dayou at that time, that everyone understood the reason, and it was no wonder that he was angry that he was used.
The following picture is attached to the original lyrics, you can try to sing with the original version, see if there is a different feeling. What do you think of the lyrics?
