After falling in love, we all hurt
The pain points are connected into a lonely shape
Wandering around inside and searching
"The only person who wants to know"
Chen Shian served as the production coordinator of the album
Explore your heart with a variety of new genres and recreate the pinnacle of music
Look at each emotional slice through the lens of "pain"
Capture the brightest moments of pain when in love
Chen Shi'an's "The Only One Who Wants to Know" CD
Formal pre-sale launch
Chen Shi'an, born on June 4, 1984 in Malaysia, is a male Chinese pop singer, film and television actor. In 2010, the song "Queen of Heaven" won the on-demand champion of Taiwan's KTV chart for more than 130 weeks, and emerged in the Chinese music scene; In November, he won two awards, the Top Ten Golden Songs and the Best Mini Album of the Year at the Malaysian Entertainment Association Awards, and was known as the "King of R&B Love Songs".
Chen Shi'an spent nearly two years preparing this album, and devoted himself to the whole process of writing and production, not only heart-wrenching sad love songs, but also hoping to bring different musical elements and layers to the audience. In terms of musical style, with lyrical R&B as the main axis, integrating folk, psychedelic, EDM, and Urban, the ten songs are like short stories, laying out the "pain points" of people's hearts through Chen Shian's "first-person" perspective;
In the singing part, Chen Shi'an is different from the previous passion, this album has more recoil, listening to the light wind chanting, but in the listener's heart is deeply aroused wounds, engraved pain, as if to endure the pain points in the heart, slowly press and knead, and finally release like ripples, becoming a healing journey.
The only person who wants to know may be a lover, a loved one, or oneself, following the pain point through pain, losing thoughts, and finally returning to the place that belongs to each other, so that love can find the place where it belongs. The album interprets the process of finding and enduring pain, connecting each "pain point" and depicting the path of "understanding", where the heart goes, the answer is in you & me.
The main visual of the album is Chen Shi'an standing in a transparent acrylic board, without any emotions, he is like a hidden doll, enduring the pain of loneliness, silently looking at the outside world, trying his best to awaken his heart.
And in the post-epidemic era, under self-isolation and cloud connection, we must complete big and small things in one space, adding a lot of alone moments, and in the process of talking to yourself, do you know yourself better? Or is it constrained by space and time?
The album uses the concept of "music realization" to find pain points from songs, find clues in comics to find paths, and finally string three time and space from the "Easter egg" picture hidden in the first three waves of MVs.
This time, a cutting-edge cartoonist who integrates aesthetic and funny styles was specially invited to create five music short stories for Chen Shi'an, tailoring the love aesthetic story belonging to the two-dimensional of the song, especially using real places in real life (such as record stores, aquariums, squares) to depict, close to the real sense of life, and the MV plot intertwined with each other, presenting a new cross-dimensional music experience, and designing a series of "offline fan interaction activities", and offline map activities "out of the lonely shape" before the release of the albumLet the whole album be full of Easter eggs waiting for fans to discover.
I also hope to convey the abstract concept of the album "The Only One Who Wants to Know" with this novel and unique interactive activity, and in the process of finding Easter eggs, it is as if looking for your own Easter eggs in your own heart, and at the same time find a way to settle your heart, and gain the sympathy between music and activities. It's not just the feeling of listening.