In the hearts of many fans, in a good song, the most brilliant is the singer, but the composition is the soul of the song, the filler is secondary, and the arrangement is the icing on the cake.
The importance of composition is unquestionable. The importance of arrangement is actually seriously underestimated, songs without arrangement, just like closing all the soundtrack and harmony, let the singer sing alone, in addition to Teresa Teng, Chen Shuhua, Zhang Qingfang, such natural singers, can resist singers without arrangement oratorio, it is very few.
Speaking of the importance of filling in the words, good lyrics will enhance the texture of the song and make it easier for the song to be sung. For example, Rene Liu's song "Later", this melody comes from a Japanese song, if there is no wonderful lyrics by Shi Rencheng, there is no "Later, I finally learned how to love, but unfortunately you have long disappeared into the sea of people." Later, I finally understood in tears that some people are not there once they miss it, "These words, will people cry in the song of milk tea?"
In the Chinese music scene, there is also such a song, because of three different lyrics, so that this song with the same melody has become the representative work of the three singers, it is the Original Japanese version of "Thousand Thousand Que Song", this work of Yasuji Ma No, filled in by Lin Zhenqiang, Chen Huixian sang into the "Thousand Thousand Que Song" that tells the parting of sorrow; Lyrics by Chen Shaoqi and sung by Mei Yanfang into the "Song of the Sunset" with the ups and downs of life; Filled in by Lü Guoliang, Li Yijun sang into the "Promise in the Wind" in which the love of impermanence of mountains and seas could not be matched.
There are so many such examples that the editors only want to argue for their personal point of view: the role of filling in words in a song is also very important.
In Taiwan UFO Records, there is a production group of "Five Chen And Two Lee", which has already said "Two Li" and "Four Chen", and today I came to talk to my friends about the remaining musician - Chen Lerong.
In the "Five Chens and Two Li", only Chen Lerong is a musician who is not familiar with composing and arranging music, but he may as well exert his lyrics skills to the extreme. Chen Zhiyuan's songs and Chen Lerong's lyrics are the guarantee of the quality of Chinese music in the 80s and 90s, although there are more cooperation with Chen Zhiyuan, but Chen Lerong is defined as the "royal lyricist" of the flying saucer, and his words, Chen Zhiyuan, Li Ziheng, Li Shouquan, Chen Yaochuan, Chen Dali, and Chen Xiunan are all competing to use.
There is no shortage of good professional fillers in the Taiwan music scene, women include Chen Jiali, Ding Xiaowen, Li Manting, Xiao Xuan, Li Gedi, Shi Yilang, dolls, etc., men have Yao Ruolong, Yao Qian, Fang Wenshan, Xu Changde, Liu Yurui, Li Anxiu, Li Zhuoxiong, Lin Qiuli, Yi Jiayang, etc., and like the "Three Godfathers of Rolling Stone Music" Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Xiao Worm, etc., it is even more songwriting and singing.
However, compared with the "generalists" in the Hong Kong music scene such as Huang Xia, Lin Zhenqiang, Xiang Xuehuai, Chen Shaoqi, and "Erpan", these musicians in the Taiwan music scene are more or less "partial", Xiaoxuan is partial to folk songs and folk songs, Li Manting is partial to martial arts and urban women, Li Zongsheng is partial to pondering, Yao Ruolong is partial to life scene portrayal, and Fang Wenshan is partial to rhetoric.
Only Chen Lerong's words can reflect society, love, urbanity and other aspects, he can be very Chinese, can be very inspirational, can be very entangled, can be very innocent, can be very vicissitudes, can be very universal. Chen Lerong's words can write all the wind, flowers and snow, can be all-encompassing, and let fans taste the world in his lyrics.
Chen Lerong from 1987 to 1996 Warner UFO officially merged after fading out of songwriting, his development in the music world, it can be said that there are only ten years, but he has brought a lot of changes to the flying saucer and the Chinese music scene.
Graduated from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan (remember the editor's favorite of the earliest online writer "Pi Zi Cai" is graduated from this university, I don't know how many readers and friends remember him), has a deep literary foundation and excellent planning and publicity ability, Wang Jie's "yesterday's prodigal son, today's superstar, tomorrow's legend" The positioning of the song world comes from Chen Lerong.
At the same time, Chen Lerong is also a person who makes the copywriting of the record to the extreme, at his insistence, many songs in the albums of many UFO records have a beautiful text packaging or keyword foil, such ingenuity and meticulousness, and later imitated and followed up by many record companies in the music industry, and many record company magazines sold better than albums.
In the ten years of Chen Lerong's music industry, he has written a total of about 500 songs, compared with Chen Shaoqi's nearly 3,000 songs, Chen Zhiyuan's more than 2,000 songs, Huang Xia's more than 1,000 songs, Chen Lerong's output is not too high, but in these more than 500 works, it carries the best growth trajectory of fans of an era.
Today, walk into the music world of Mr. Chen Lerong, select a few songs from his representative works, and see what classics this well-rounded music lyricist has brought to the music world. In the order of the field distribution of the works, there is no distinction between good and bad.
1. "Dashing Walk Back" Ye Qianwen, 1991
In 1991, Warner's first sister Ye Qianwen followed in warner's second sister Lin Yilian's footsteps, released the Chinese album "Dashing Walk Around" in Taiwan, the title song of the same name was composed by Chen Dali and Chen Xiunan, he Guojie arranged, the melody is very atmospheric and happy, the arrangement adds Yangqin, Erhu and other folk silk bamboo music, the taste of Chinese style is very strong.
This song will definitely be on fire, but depending on how far the fire is, it is almost the east wind of filling in the words. Therefore, Chen Lerong, the head of the UFO record, wrote the words of "Dashing Walk Back", and later the fans all knew, saying that it was the hottest song in the Chinese song market in 1991.
In 1993, Li Manting filled in the lyrics for Chen Shuhua's song "Laughing Red Dust"; In 1995, Huang Xia filled in the lyrics for Zheng Shaoqiu's song "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds", as well as songs such as "A Laugh in the Sea" and "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", because of the beautiful melody and wonderful filler words, the song has a timeless charm.
2. "Looking Back Again" Jiang Yuheng, 1989
"Looking back again, the clouds obscured the way back; Looking back, the thorns are thick... "When such melodies and lyrics sound, people who have experienced the cold and warm of the world want to cry in the song!
Jiang Yuheng is a singer who is highly valued by UFO Records, and the weight of UFO is not under the "first brother" Wang Jie, because Jiang Yuheng has a gentle and elegant personality, and colleagues in the company are also very good friends with him.
In UFO Records, the company's positioning of Jiang Yuheng is "the melancholy prince", so many of his songs such as "Moving Heart", "A Life of Love", "Many Years Later" and so on are labeled with melancholy, and as soon as Jiang Yuheng opens his mouth, the persuasiveness of the song comes.
In the song "Looking Back Again", Lu Guanting's song, Jiang Yuheng's voice, plus Chen Lerong's finishing words, a song with a sense of vicissitudes and thickness conquered the hearts of fans.
The original song of "Looking Back" is Su Rui, and Li Yijun, the "Love Song Singing Queen", also sang with Jiang Yuheng at the same time, but in terms of singing degree, only Jiang Yuheng's voice and song title complement each other.
3. "Today" Andy Lau, 1995
In 1995, after 15 years of hard work in the entertainment industry, Andy Lau became a chinese entertainment industry film and television singer, and he was entitled to say that he had achieved a certain degree of success.
Although Andy Lau is no longer the singer of Warner Records at this time, in his debut album "True Forever" after joining The Art Energy, fans still see the figure of the creators of the flying saucer. "True Forever" is a high-quality album, many songs have become the classic "Liu's love songs", in addition to the title song "True Forever" and "Love Burns Endlessly", the most well-known is the song "Today", this inspirational song is like Zheng Zhihua's "Sailor", inspiring many people to face difficulties.
"Who has not been hurt, who has not shed tears, why should he hide in the darkness, self-suffering and self-pity", how empathetic this lyric is; "If you want to fly high, you should forget the horizon", such a word, how philosophical. The melody of "Today" is very good, but the most brilliant author thinks that it is still the lyrics, and the lyricist is Teacher Chen Lerong.
In the author's cognition, Andy Lau has two songs that the author does not dare to sing, one is "Boys cry is not a sin", because the author is not working hard enough; One is "Today", because the author has not achieved any big success, so I can't sing it.
4. "Grateful Heart" Ouyang Feifei, 1994
The song "Grateful Heart" is a song full of great love and universal thoughts, which can be heard in many charity evenings or disaster relief activities in the Chinese world.
The song was composed by Chen Zhiyuan and is divided into two versions, Chinese and Taiwanese, the Taiwanese version is sung by Li Bihua, and the lyrics are well-known lyricist Lin Qiuli; Chinese version is sung by Ouyang Feifei, and the lyricist is Teacher Chen Lerong. Because of the locale, of course, the Chinese version has a greater impact.
Luo Dayou has "Tomorrow Will Be Better", Guo Feng has "Let the World Be Full of Love", Lin Zhenqiang has "Earth Chorus", and Chen Lerong has "Grateful Heart".
Before the UFO Record was about to "break up", the UFO stars recorded the song "Blind Love", which was composed by Chen Yaochuan, and the lyricist was Chen Lerong, and the warmth of the lyrics of "Blind Love" needless to say.
5. "Asking For Affection" Cai Xingjuan, 1992
Qiong Yao opera is a very popular hit drama for a long time, such as "I am a cloud", "Wan Jun", "Qingqing Riverside Grass", "Plum Blossom Three Alleys", "Huan Zhu GeGe", etc., along with the popularity of Qiong Yao opera, Qiong Yao opera songs have also become popular songs. In most Qiong Yao opera songs, the lyrics are Qiong Yao himself, and the lyrics are also you and me, lingering pity, the most representative sentence is "You are the wind, I am the sand, entangled to the end of the world."
And writing such lyrics, Teacher Chen Lerong is also unambiguous, "Joke about Qianlong" is a popular series in the early 90s of Taiwan's China Television, and the theme song "Asking For Love" has been sung for a long time like "A Thousand Years and One Time".
This song "Ask for Love" sung by "Little Teresa Teng" Cai Xingjuan, its lyricist is Chen Lerong, such as "the sea never dries, the sky can not be seen through, the red dust smiles and wanders with you" and other lyrics, is not there a fight with Aunt Qiong Yao!
6. "Friends Don't Cry", Lu Fang, 1995
Friendship and brotherhood have always been a particularly shining emotion in the world of feelings, and the songs about friendship are really numerous. The songs named after "Friends" alone include three versions of Tan Yonglin, Zhou Huajian and Zang Tianshuo, as well as Ren Xianqi's "Brothers", Pang Long's "Brother Hugs", Xiao Shenyang's "My Good Brothers", Li Xiaojie's "Friends' Wine" and so on.
Among the many songs that sing friendship, there is a very simple and sincere but also very touching, it is the song "Friends Don't Cry" sung by Lü Fang in 1995, that sentence "In the sea of people, there are rarely a few real friends, this love, please don't care" is not easy to poke in the tears, friends do not have to be more, confidant one or two is enough. The lyrics of the song "Friends Don't Cry" were written by teacher Chen Lerong.
Teacher Chen Lerong is a very comprehensive lyricist, for Li Ziheng to watch the little tiger team growing up hand in hand, he can write a song like "Getaway" that suits their temperament according to the characteristics of three people. For Wang Jie, the "prodigal son" of the music world, listening to his story, Chen Lerong can immediately write "Annie"; For the creation of Wang Jie's "prodigal son" image, he immediately wrote the song "Do I Really Have Nothing", which wrote only one thoroughly about Wang Jie's wild and unruly and single shadow. For the grasp of the psychology of junior high school and high school students, he can write student love songs such as "Thinking of You Every Day" for Zhang Yusheng. For Lin Zhiying, the student idol who succeeded the Tigers, Chen Lerong only used one song "Not Every Love Song Has Good Memories" to make him a "little whirlwind in Asia". For the flying saucer to set off the Atmosphere of the New Year and create a New Year song, Chen Lerong threw up his hands and wrote the song "Happy New Year" for the sad party.
It is said that when Li Zongsheng was making the album "Talk to You, Listen to You" for Chen Shuhua, in order to get Chen Lerong's participation, he composed the lyrics song "Just Leave Me" for Ye Huan in exchange for Chen Lerong's lyrics for Chen Shuhua's songs "Love Walks Through Summer Street" and "I Can". This move shows that the Taiwanese music scene recognizes Chen Lerong's lyrical ability.
In 2011, a generation of composers and arrangers Chen Zhiyuan died, as his old partner, Chen Lerong chose to release the tears in his eyes in no man's corner. This pair of former golden partners, with their golden decade, staged a modern story of a lasting alpine flowing water to find a voice. Chen Zhiyuan is like Yu Boya, and Chen Lerong is like Zhong Zi Period, who can always hear Chen Zhiyuan's voice and match his voice with the best lyrics.
As the second youngest musician in "Five Chen Er Li", since the official acquisition of Flying Saucer Records by Warner, Chen Lerong has faded out of the music scene, focusing on script writing and book writing and publishing. Since then, the Writers' Association has had more powerful authors, and the music industry has lost a master lyricist.
In this article, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude and deepest remembrance to Chen Lerong, the top lyricist in the Chinese music scene. May I work twelve points to exchange your attention and likes. Come close to me and follow me to learn the anecdotes of the music industry!