You listen to loneliness singing, gently fierce, the singing is so cruel, people can't help but burst into tears...
A sad and heartbreaking female voice came from the earphones, it was Asan's voice.
Low-key and idyllic, lonely and strong, plain with a seemingly landless pathos, easily set off a wave.
Asan's singing voice looks like a cup of tasteless white water from a distance, and after taking a sip, he finds that the sweet, sour, bitter and spicy are all in it.
In her songs, there is no hoarse chanting and shouting, and there is no pretentious feeling.
Every song is being spoken, and she sings it with the cleanest voice, which makes people's hearts sour.
Although Asan's songs are heartfelt, they are all very good and have a high degree of singing.
At 8:30 a.m. on April 6, 2009, 34-year-old Asang died at Tzu Chi Hospital in Xindian Hospital.
For fans, the idol of healing the soul is lost;
For the music scene, a treasure singer was lost;
For the world, a gentle voice came to an abrupt end.
Today, Ahsan has been away from us for exactly 14 years.
But as long as I heard her singing, I was still touched by the familiar tenderness.
It always felt like she had always been there, never far away.
In the Chinese female voice, sexy and husky like Mo Wenwei, clear and ethereal like Faye Wong, sweet and deep as Xu Meijing, lazy and sensual like Cai Jianya... Asan is not the most outstanding one.
She is not tall, ordinary in stature, and plain-looking, but she is one of the few singers who wins by her voice.
In the impetuous entertainment industry, staying away from all gossip is just singing quietly.
Therefore, I prefer to focus on her music.
I had a hard time finding a suitable adjective about Asan's voice.
Compared with many people with a special timbre, her voice is not too recognizable, and if you really want to dig deeper, she can only rap uniquely.
Dumb, dull, miserable, mournful... Listen to Asan's songs and you will find that most of her songs are about sadness.
Or lonely, or hurt, or embarrassed, like a desperate woman crying about her heart, which also allows her songs to convey strong emotions through breath even without too many melodic ups and downs.
"Gentle Mercy" is a typical song that expresses emotions with sound.
Tender Mercy Music: Asan - A little hurt
There are no outrageous high notes, no heart-rending roars, no falsetto that is difficult to distinguish between true and falsetto, and Ahsan only uses a little crying and unadorned natural muteness to shape this heartbreaking love song.
This song was included in Assan's 2003 album "A Little Hurt", and I especially want to talk to you about this album.
2003 was a time period of pop music explosion.
That year, Jay Chou launched "Ye Huimei", and songs such as "In the Name of the Father", "East Wind Break" and "Sunny Day" in the album set off a lot of musical storms;
Female singers Jolin Tsai's "Look at My Seventy-Two Changes" and SHE's "Super Star" have also injected a fresh and energetic blood into the music scene.
It can be seen that most of the music styles at that time were dance music, with a relaxed, energetic, passionate sense of rhythm as the mainstream, but Asan's debut album "A Little Hurt" was unusual.
The album was released in the fall of 2003 and was produced with only two words: feelings.
"Autumn is here, please grieve", this sentence also clearly points out the production intention and product positioning of this album.
Because Asan's voice is naturally husky and magnetic, it is very suitable for inciting sadness in listeners, so the company unanimously decided to abandon the current pop dance music elements, and finally produced this "very sad" album.
Listening to her songs does not require any disguise, because it is finally possible to grieve and cry as much as you like.
Someone Asan is quiet and restrained, but in that calm voice without waves, I can clearly hear the waves of the whole world.
Asan's songs are all very good, but lonely people can't listen to them more.
As an active singer in Taiwan, there are many reasons why he can still be remembered by many people after so many years of death.
In addition to the excellent works being loved by everyone, there is another reason, which may be that Asan's tragic life is particularly pitiful.
Happy people are healed by childhood all their lives, while unhappy people heal childhood with their whole lives.
Asan grew up in poverty, and his parents were discordant.
Asan's childhood was often spent amidst the quarrels of his parents and the chasing of debts by creditors.
The tragic experience of childhood became a shackle, and until adulthood, her heart seemed to be covered with a heavy background, and music seemed to become the only bright color in her life.
Asan once said, "I was tired of that unhappy life, and the way I found to escape was to sing to make myself less depressed."
That's why, I can always hear the bitterness heavier than lead in Asan's singers.
And I believe that many people around know Asan through the song "Always Quiet".
Always quiet music: Asan-Lonely singing
The song was first released as an episode in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and was later included in Assan's 2005 solo album "Loneliness is Singing".
This is Asan's second album and the last of her life.
The love for you has always been very quiet, except for the tears on my face willful, it turns out that fate is used to illustrate that you suddenly don't love me...
The lyrics of the song "Always Been Quiet" are very delicate and heartfelt, and the melody is also very soulful and catchy.
The music matches Lin Yue's heart journey in the play, which is unbearable and indescribable, and this song can be said to be one of the most successful cases in the history of TV soundtracks.
But in my opinion, even if the TV plot is aside, "Always Quiet" is still a rare and peerless love song.
Asan's husky and gloomy voice is the soul of this song, and anyone who sings it may be able to sing this song on fire, but no one can sing the taste of Asan.
Some time ago, I learned that "Immortal Sword" is going to be remade, not to mention what it can be filmed, even if all the original people and horses are collected and filmed again, there is no Ah San to sing the theme song for us anymore.
If I were to praise how good Asan's singing skills were, I really couldn't boast about it.
From a professional point of view, Asan's songs actually have many small flaws caused by unstable breath.
But the flaws are not hidden, and perhaps it is precisely because of regret that we are willing to ignore the imperfections in the song.
Yiren has passed away, and this song has finally become an elegy for herself.
"Loneliness is Singing", "It's Always Been Quiet", "Leaves", "A Little Hurt" ...
There are many good songs from Asan, but I never dare to listen to them in the middle of the night.
Leaf Music: Asan - A little hurt
A Little Hurt Music: Asan - A Little Hurt
After the lonely night is immersed in Asan's song, it seems to instantly lead me into the abyss of loneliness.
If I were to choose a title song for Asan, many people would probably nominate "Always Quiet", but my favorite is "Leaves".
After listening to "Leaves", many people say that Asan is the only singer who can sing loneliness to the fullest.
And my feelings for this song are also very special, I always feel that it has the magic of healing the dead heart.
Just by looking at the title of the song, you will think that this is a small fresh song.
The intro is very simple, without overly ornate chords, but as soon as Asan's slightly crying voice appears, the whole song is covered with a melancholy mist.
Loneliness is the carnival of one person, and carnival is the loneliness of a group of people.
I went on a meal trip and stopped everywhere, and I also read and wrote letters alone, and talked to my heart.
Many people listen to this song for the first time, and they are defeated by the lyrics in it, the last line of defense in their hearts.
The loneliness sung in the song is actually the norm in life.
In busy days, every passer-by in life can only walk with us for a while, and eventually have to leave.
This cannot escape and cannot escape the loneliness, like an incurable addiction, some people enjoy it, others avoid it.
In the song "Leaves", Asan creates an atmosphere of huskyness, choking, and sobbing by adjusting the breath and bubble sound.
Like a song like a cry, it makes people feel sad.
Chen Xiaojuan, who won the Golden Melody Award for Best Composition, later said to Asang happily when she sang the new version of "Leaves" for Asan:
"In the past, my songs were sung popular by the queen of heaven, and my sense of achievement was not so great, because the queen of heaven was already very popular; Yezi, this song I love so much, I really feel a sense of accomplishment to be sung by your newcomer."
Asan, who sang "Leaves" at that time, was 28 years old, but he was still a newcomer in the music industry.
From the perspective of age, she did not have an advantage in the Taiwanese music scene at that time, but she relied on her melancholy voice to break out of her own world.
Some people sing songs for a lifetime, but it is difficult to have a big hit out of the circle.
Some people have released two albums in their lifetime, but the first boutique has become a classic that is difficult to surpass.
He became famous at the age of 28 and died at the age of 34, which is really a pity for Asan.
She hasn't held a concert, she hasn't released too many albums, she hasn't won the Golden Melody Award...
She hasn't sung enough, and she left this world forever.
I tried to find a hint of warmth in her own sad vocal range, but I found only a bunch of sighs.
Perhaps, while singing the silence to everyone, she also brought sorrow into her life.
May heaven be safe and without sentimentality.
May you remember a singer named Asan.