The Chinese music scene has been renewed, and the directivity feature of the replacement is to enter the era of technology. More and more newcomers, from the beginning, with their singing skills to suppress the whole audience, a blockbuster, a soaring sky, including many of that kind of juvenile genius. From the perspective of singing skills and technology, the current Chinese music scene is indeed more and more in line with the international music scene.
The high notes continue to rise, the technology continues to increase, but there are gains and losses, that is, many of the current musical works are generally lacking, even love songs are no exception. When most singers think about how to use their voices to conquer fans, the era of convincing people with emotions and moving people with emotions seems to be gradually drifting away.
But no matter in every era, there will still be those sentient singers, adhering to the bottom line of love songs and music, so that a song is no longer just a pile of notes and timbres, but becomes a real story, the singer is emotional, the listener is moved, the singer walks the heart, the listener goes to the kidney.
For example, Zhu Xingdong, and his debut album "Loneliness".
In fact, as early as the second season of "China Dream Voice" in 2014, Zhu Xingdong has already shown his talent for emotional grasp. Although he is also very good at singing and has the excellent skills needed by a contemporary singer, what attracts Zhu Xingdong is always the voice line full of vicissitudes, and the emotions that are about to come out, occasionally crying and weeping, occasionally like a heavy blow, and the song is sad with the sadness of the song content, joy and joy.
The selection of su rui, Zhao Chuan and Teresa Teng, the classic works of classic singers in the Chinese music scene, also gave Zhu Xingdong a kind of anti-era characteristics. Admittedly, this is an era of nostalgia and retro, and many newcomers will also choose classic songs to cover. But for Zhu Xingdong, those old songs of the last century are the fulcrum and coordinates of his music, because when he covers these songs, he does not just like the melody of these classic songs, but also has the most delicate emotions and storylines in these songs. It was the golden age of the Chinese music scene, and it also had the most stories, and the latter was the cornerstone of the former.
Cover singing is easy to sing hard originally. Many newcomers can call the wind and rain in the music reality show, but when they go out of the show, they are at a loss, which is precisely because these newcomers lack the fulcrum of music. And when Zhu Xingdong's music world has always been firmly committed to the goal of telling stories through music, coupled with the encounter with "simple happiness", a music label that provides him with production guarantees, everything becomes continuous.
So, "Loneliness" is a new album by a new artist, but it is also an album that can hear the traditional flavor. This tradition does not refer to the old, to the conservative, but to the most classic and fascinating part of the music— there is a story.
However, even in the music, there is a three-dimensional story. But Zhu Xingdong's "Feeling of Loneliness" is not a performance of pouring out, or even a recitation that is also sung and said. Taking the title song of the same name "Sense of Loneliness" as an example, from the low confession in the main song to the catharsis of the chorus, there is a strong tension, especially the sentence "Maybe you have long been accustomed to loneliness", Zhu Xingdong can show a rich sense of layering and a sense of vocal drama in just one sentence through rich but invisible sound skills, and even let the work have a strong sense of stage, which is even a skill that some old singers who can tell stories before do not have.
Can tell stories, more know how to restrain. Songs like "Wolf Heart And Dog Lungs", because of the "one defeat" ending, coupled with the rendering of British rock, it is easy for the average singer to be hot, impulsive and excited. However, Zhu Xingdong's interpretation has the most appropriate emotional moderation, so that the unwillingness of the "wolf heart and dog lungs" has not become a blind sprinkling of dog blood. The three-dimensional sense of emotion eventually makes the song also become layered. The so-called youth is precisely outside of this technology.
From a technical point of view, Zhu Xingdong in "Thirst" actually has a large range span, in order to reflect the content that breaks out of the cocoon, he even uses the singing method of death metal, which if it is changed more than twenty years ago, it is simply a deviant behavior. However, this treatment invisibly enhances the extension of the work, so that a story about fighting darkness jumps to the ear. From this point of view, a singer does not need to sing, but also can not be because some singers show off too much skills to go to anti-singing skills, singing is an important factor to increase the appeal of the work, the key is to be like Zhu Xingdong, let the technology be used in the right place. Then everything is right.
This album also has works that break through the impression of the love singer that Zhu Xingdong left behind during "The Voice of Chinese Dreams". A "hard shoulder", not only the song title is hard, the style is also very hard. And Zhu Xingdong's low magnetic voice line, in this tough work, also shows a very good bass dive, and the fullness of the voice also enhances the fullness of emotions, making the work sound more blood-boiling.
Moreover, this work, written by Zhu Xingdong himself and composed by Chen Xinghan, is also a song with a story. This is a song about Zhu Xingdong's own experience, telling the story of his days after the competition and before the release of the album for the ideal . The biggest charm of music lies in the truth, and with the injection of this real experience, zhu Xingdong's "loneliness" is no longer a "sense of loneliness" from concepts and packaging, but a lonely world in the true sense of the senses.
At the pop music annual ceremony on January 27, Zhu Xingdong also won the "Best Newcomer of the Year Award" for the album "Loneliness", which is an excellent reward for a newcomer, but it is also a reward he deserves. As the most storytelling voice of the new generation of singers, Zhu Xingdong integrates the sensibility and technology of music well, and presents the best stability, not to mention that this treatment is very sophisticated, in the world of music, using excellent voice lines to convey the story of resonance has always been the right way. Past, future, present, and forever.