We all know how important the lyrics are to the whole song.
Although the lyrics are sung, they also need the beauty of words.
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If the audience is not literate enough, it is difficult to understand. For example, "if the mountains do not turn, the water is turning, the water is not turning, the road is turning, the road is not turning, the wind is turning, the wind is not turning, and the clouds are turning." When I was a child, I didn't understand, I didn't understand why they were turning, I thought this was a "song of drunkards", and when I drank too much, everything was turning.
Growing up and experiencing some life changes, I understand the artistic conception of the lyrics, that is, time is flowing, the sea is vicissitudes, and things are different from people.
There is also Lin Junjie's song "Jiangnan": "Circle circles, circles, every day, every day, I look deeply at your face..." When I was a child, I really didn't understand what it meant. "Circle circle", goldfish spit bubbles?
Later, I checked it to know that the inspiration for this song came from a bridge in the comic "Fengyun" - Bu Jiaoyun lost his hand and killed his lover Kong Ci, buried her with his own hands, and "Don't cry death" Bu Jiaoyun actually shed tears at this time.
The lyrics correspond exactly to that scene, and "circle circle" refers to the gloomy weather at that time, and the rain fell on the surface of the water and rippled layer by layer. The lyricist did not write about ripples directly, but used "circle circle" to refer to it, which is very innovative.
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It is recommended that the lyrics should also be written in the future, using the method of writing papers, with obscure places marked (1) and a note after that: "(1) Refers to layers of ripples." ”
It's normal to make the lyrics poetic and obscure, but there are still a lot of lyrics, which are fine to listen to, but they can't be carefully analyzed, because there is a lot of information in them that goes against common sense.
"Little Swallow", which I always sang when I was a child, sang it for so many years without feeling anything wrong, until one day I suddenly realized: Isn't Little Swallow wearing a black and white tuxedo? It doesn't cost you. Turkeys, peacocks, and parrots are dressed well. Later, I checked carefully, although most of the swallows are black and white, there is a swallow with a touch of orange on its face, probably in the era when this song was popular, this was already very spent.
Li Yuchun's "Next, intersection, see", "It's raining in Tokyo, wetting Paris", how windy is this?
Jolin Tsai's "Prague Square" has a phrase "not far away you sing far away", is it far away?
Soda Green's "Little Love Song", "Can't stand to see your back coming, write my "Departure" that is difficult for years", how did the back come, is it backwards?
These are all classic songs that I particularly like, because I like them so much and listen to them so much, I sometimes think too carefully. It also tells us that writing lyrics is really a delicate job.
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Once Jay Chou released a new song, called "If You Don't Love Me, Pull Down", was "complained" by netizens for a long time, because the writing was too casual, many netizens left messages after listening to it: "Fang Wenshan, you come back and save Jay Chou." ”
Speaking of Fang Wenshan, someone said: "The lyrics he wrote are like a movie, the imaginative words seem out of tune, but they are extremely creative and imaginative, the picture jumps, the rhythm is tight, and people have a three-dimensional shock." ”
When Fang Wenshan participated in an interview program, he mentioned that the important thing in good lyrics is to find "memory points", and lyrics are not historical declarative sentences, but emotional catalysts, so there must be someone in it to pronoun - you, me, him.
I studied it along the clues and found that the lyrics he wrote were indeed regular: there was a non-marginal sentence in the front, which sounded particularly "tall" and a special literary and artistic scene description, and the next sentence suddenly closed, returning to a very delicate picture, this picture has me and you.
For example, "Azure and other smoke and rain", this sentence is very beautiful, and then the next sentence is closed, "And I am waiting for you", it is very delicate.
There is also "chrysanthemum residue, full of wounds", very angry, the next sentence "Your smile has turned yellow", extremely sad.
There is also the song "Love Before the Western AD", "The ancient Babylonian king issued the Code of Hammurabi, engraved in black basalt, more than 3,700 years ago", good literature, good atmosphere, and then the following sentence "You gazed at the words of the inscription in front of the window, but I quietly admired your beloved face", perfect!
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This is one of Fang Wenshan's routines for writing lyrics, full of dry goods, and you can use it now. I'll learn it casually, you can hear if this means:
Six hundred years of the Forbidden City was set the tone by the emperors of the previous life, but the corner tower magnolia enchanting but could not solve the ancient dullness of the red wall. In this life, you smiled charmingly at me in front of Yanxi Palace. And I said to you, Auntie come out, you haven't bought a ticket yet!
Author: Daming. Selected from The Reader (Campus Edition) Issue 10, 2023.
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