NetEase Cloud Music's "Re-listening to the Ring of Years" has launched Zhao Naiji's reinterpretation of "A Game and a Dream", when the work spanning 35 years and encountering the new sounds of this era, the game has long had a different way of playing, and the dream has also changed its original appearance.
Listening to Zhao Naiji's "A Game and a Dream", the most intuitive feeling is that the clouds are light and the wind is light, and under the accompaniment of fresh and concise folk guitars, Zhao Naiji's singing voice even reveals a little warmth.
For the old fans who have been accustomed to Wang Jie's classic version of "A Game and a Dream", this may need to have a process of adaptation, because the song they are familiar with has always been associated with images such as desolation, sadness, depression, resentment, etc. This is Wang Jie when he debuted at the beginning of the year, with an extremely distinct temperament in music, such a song is imprinted in the song "A Game and a Dream", and since then there has been a style called Wang Jie.
But the charm of music lies in the fact that it can stimulate different possibilities, the same melody, the same theme, under different arrangements, different interpretations, often can have a completely different direction. Just like the same interpretation of "A Game and a Dream", Wang Jie's singing voice focuses more on "you should not be in the world of two people", while Zhao Naiji emphasizes "there is still no you, I am still myself".
One is endless sorrow, the other is the freedom to let go, one theme, two kinds of imagery, but each has its own world, each has its own wonderful.
Of course, when it comes to the song "A Game and a Dream", it is still necessary to start with Wang Jie, because this is Wang Jie's famous song, and it has even changed the fate of many people...
"A Game, a Dream" is a song that does not use real instruments
Life is full of many accidents, and Wang Jie's music career is a collection of various accidents.
Before entering the music industry, Wang Jie did a lot of low-level work and also worked as a film stuntman. But out of his love of music, becoming a singer has always been an obsession of Wang Jie.
The turning point of Wang Jie's life occurred in 1987. This year, his creative work "Only for Me to Love You" finally had the opportunity to be selected by Qu Youliang and included in the latter's album "Reluctant to Be Separated" in the same year. At the same time, Li Shixian, a musical friend who suffered with him, also introduced Wang Jie to Li Shouquan, a famous musician in Taiwan at that time.
Although Li Shouquan did not think about whether to sign a contract with Wang Jie at the first time, because he was responsible for the Chinese album case of Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung at that time, he also recommended "Love Punk" jointly composed by Wang Jie and Li Shixian to sing for Jacky Cheung. Although this rock style work is not very suitable for Jacky Cheung, it allows Wang Jie to finally alleviate his own survival crisis with his creative income.
In the end, Li Shouquan signed Wang Jie to his music label "Rio Music".
When preparing his debut album, because Wang Jie's personal creative works were not enough, Li Shouquan also found Wang Wenqing, a new creator who was equally depressed at the time, and Wang Wenqing also selected some for Li Shouquan from his own works that were rejected by singers such as Huang Dawei and Dolls, including "Forget You, Forget Me", and also "A Game and a Dream". These two songs later became the eponymous songs of Wang Jie's second and first albums, respectively.
In order to make his newcomers popular, Li Shouquan also spent a lot of money to invite gold medal musician Chen Zhiyuan to arrange the entire album. Since he thought of letting this album be released simultaneously in Taiwan and Hong Kong at the beginning, Li Shouquan also hoped that Chen Zhiyuan would give the title song "A Game and a Dream" and first produce a Demo version to facilitate him and the Hong Kong distributor to negotiate cooperation.
Therefore, Chen Zhiyuan at that time was in the studio, completely using synthesizers and computer programming, and completed the arrangement of this song by himself. Unexpectedly, after Li Shouquan listened, he praised this version, and even hoped that Chen Zhiyuan would use this version as an official version. On the basis of this demo, Chen Zhiyuan later added some cello sounds simulated by synths, and finally completed the formal arrangement, that is, the most classic version of "A Game, a Dream" that we now hear.
So, the drum beats and strings you hear in the 1987 version of "A Game, a Dream" were actually simulated by a computer, and this song was the only non-band accompaniment on the album at that time. At that time, the accompaniment band of this album was also the "Big Four" led by Chen Zhiyuan, and the other three members were drummer Huang Ruifeng, guitarist You Zhengyan, and bassist Guo Zongshao. In addition, the album also invited the famous Hong Kong guitarist Su Dehua to participate in the performance.
Before completing the arrangement of the song "A Game and a Dream" and the album was officially launched, the song was preemptively heard by fans. The reason is that Zhang Aijia, who finished filming "Yellow Story" at that time, because of the jump ticket of a well-known singer, resulted in the ending song being lost, so Li Shouquan recommended this "A Game and a Dream" as the ending song.
As a result, the movie didn't get much attention, but the song "A Game, a Dream" went viral.
Frustrated people meet frustrated people, collaborators who have never met
A song "A Game and a Dream" allowed Wang Jie and Wang Wenqing to complete a mutual achievement between a singer and a songwriter, and also let the two former frustrated people in the music world embark on the right track of their careers.
Especially in the first three albums that represented the first peak of Wang Jie's career, Wang Wenqing wrote ten songs for Wang Jie. Like "A Game and a Dream", "Remembering This", "Saying Cherished", "Forgetting You, Forgetting Me", "You Are You and I Am Me", etc., have become Wang Jie's eternal masterpieces.
△ Teacher Wang Wenqing served as a keyboard player at Qi Qin's concert, which is also one of his few public appearances
In addition, the Cantonese version of "A Game and a Dream", "A Little Sad and a Little Crazy", also gave Wang Jie a foothold in the Hong Kong music scene. And "RememberIng These Things" was adapted into "What to Ask for in a Lifetime", which became the most important masterpiece of Chen Baiqiang's career in the middle and late stages, and it is also an outstanding classic in the history of Hong Kong music. Another song, "Say Precious", interpreted by Ip Siu-man into the Cantonese version of "Precious", also swept the Hong Kong music scene in 1990.
However, as such an important music career partner, Wang Jie and Wang Wenqing have never officially met. According to Wang Jie's personal recollection, when he was recording the album "A Game and a Dream", he was taking the elevator upstairs to the company, and when he got out of the elevator on the company's floor, just one person entered the elevator and went downstairs, and later the company said that it was Wang Wenqing who rubbed shoulders with Wang Jie at that time. This was also the only time Wang Jie and Wang Wenqing met, but there was not a single word left.
After 1990, Wang Wenqing reduced his cooperation with Wang Jie, and he himself joined Qi Qin's "Rainbow" Orchestra during that period, becoming the second generation of keyboard players in the history of the orchestra.
At the "Wild Ride" concert in 1991, Qi Qin once introduced Wang Wenqing to the audience, which was also the only public appearance on the stage of Wang Wenqing's music career.
Since then, Wang Wenqing has also written songs such as Jackie Chan and Zhao Chuan, and Peng Ling is the most important co-singer in the later stage of his musical career, of which the album "My Eyes My Tears" has written eight songs in one go.
Later, Wang Wenqing disappeared from the public's field of vision, but what is more confusing is that some people continue to expose the news of Wang Wenqing's "death". Because there is no news from Wang Wenqingfang even to refute, coupled with his loss of contact with the music circle, many musicians can not confirm, so this news is also false, and finally became a "fact".
However, in 2016, Jiang Jianmin, one of the founding members of the "Rainbow" orchestra, announced through social media that Wang Wenqing had only withdrawn from the music circle, but he was all right and served on the management committee of a building in Taichung City.
Wang Wenqing was finally "resurrected".
Wang Jie covered Wang Jie, several versions of "A Game, a Dream"
In the 35 years since the song "A Game and a Game" was published, countless singers have sung covers, including Qi Qin, Chen Chusheng, "New Pants", Cai Qin, Qian Zhenghao and other new and old singers, who have left some classic versions or famous scenes.
Many people will also take a lot of cover versions to compare with Wang Jie, most fans because of preconceived reasons, many times will also think that Wang Jie's version is the best version.
However, when it comes to Wang Jie's "One Game, One Dream", from a rigorous point of view, it cannot be simply said that Wang Jie's version of "One Game and One Dream" cannot be simply said, because even Wang Jie himself has recorded the official versions of multiple recording studios. And these different versions actually witness the change of Wang Jie's singing voice and mood.
In 2000, Wang Jie, who had already signed to "Emperor Entertainment" at the time, reinterpreted this old song from thirteen years ago in his personal album "From Now on".
This version is arranged by american musician Tim Heintz, the music is more American, more foreign, Wang Jie's interpretation in addition to the more soothing rhythm, the overall and his eighties interpretation, the difference is not very big, but this version of the music, indeed more in line with the millennium of the international sense of listening.
I don't know if it is to "respond" to this new album, Wang Jie's old owner "Warner Records" (which had acquired "UFO Records" at that time), eight days after the release of the "From Now on" album, also launched Wang Jie's "Best (2000Th century selection)", in fact, also included the song "A Game, a Dream".
This version, on the other hand, is an unplugged version, with a folk melody of guitar and small hits, returning to the most essential lines of a work. Wang Jie's interpretation in this version also weakens the sense of sadness, and the overall is clearer and clearer.
Three years later, Wang Jie sang this famous classic of his own fame again in his self-selected collection "Love Me I Love Wang Jie". It's just that wang jie's voice line in this version obviously has some problems, combined with the career troughs and life changes he encountered at that stage, this 2003 version of "A Game and a Dream" also has an unprecedented desolation, and even a trace of despair in it.
Which version of "One Game, One Dream" do you prefer?