Ride the wind and wander in the blue sky
A cloud fell in front of me
Pinch into your shape
Follow me with the wind
Eat your sorrow one bite at a time
What is so light to be able to wander in the wind.
How can the clouds in the sky shake in front of me?
With just two lyrics, Jay Chou created a surreal fantasy picture for us. It wasn't until the two verbs "pinch" and "eat" appeared in succession that I realized that this cloud was a marshmallow.
It's hard to imagine how Jay, who lived in Alpha's recording studio of a few square meters, wrote such unrestrained, light and agile melodies and lyrics.
This song "Xingqing", which is included in the first album, is written and composed by Jay Chou, and written and recorded by harmony.
When I was in high school, the first time I heard the sentence "Wandering in the wind and looking at the sky", I thought of Li Bai's sentence "Dapeng rises with the wind one day and soars up to 90,000 miles." ”
No one expected that many years later, Jay Chou's achievements were really worthy of Li Bai's poem, and he really spread his wings and threw off the 90,000-mile distance of many singers in the Chinese music scene.
Carrying you is like carrying the sun
Everywhere you go, it's sunny
Butterflies fly freely, and flowers are all over the sky
One by one, it smells because of you
Trying to make the sunset fly
Take you and me around nature
Embrace the wind and start spending each day together
Carrying you is like carrying the sun, this sentence is very freehand.
The sun and the wind are weightless, and adolescent boys, when they meet the girl they like, are not as useful as stimulants. At this moment, he was carrying the girl, and he was in such a happy mood that he didn't feel the burden of the back seat at all.
In addition to the lightness of the sun, it also symbolizes health. As many years later, Jay Chou wrote in another song "I Want Summer":
Don't be afraid of tanning to look healthy
The girl by the pool smiled very sunnyly
So I guess she in the back seat should also be a wheat-skinned girl.
Carry you, no matter where you go, it's a sunny day. Jay Chou's later "Sunny Day" is raining throughout the whole story, and this song is a veritable sunny day.
Jay Chou's full lyrics use the rhetoric of synaesthesia to the extreme, which is also a feature of stream-of-consciousness writing.
Butterflies fly freely, flowers are also all over the sky, and one by one is fragrant because of you. The next sentence reminds me of two words by MUJI, one is called "Around", and the first two sentences are:
Sitting next to you is a satisfying experience, watching what you see over the time you have passed.
The sky is clear, the flowers are blooming, the breeze is intoxicating, and although you don't speak, you have already spoken a thousand words.
The other is "I Miss You More Than I Imagined" after the solo flight:
You're enjoying the sun
My cloudy day will be clear
...
I started to like the vulgar fonts of Kanban
I also feel that the customs are more beautiful than the ocean
I love to breathe the air in the cabin
Because one more flight
will smell you
Because you have no definition of beauty or ugliness
As long as it's relevant to you
Everything is already fine
Because of your existence, I have seen the beauty of this world, even if these beauty has always been there, but without you, everything is meaningless.
Do you know who the lyricists of these two songs are?
The former song is Li Zongsheng, and the latter song is Lin Xi.
Try to let the sunset fly and lead you and me around nature. These two words are even more flying, how can the sunset fly? But if clouds can fall in front of you, why can't the sunset fly?
If you say "carrying you, it seems to be carrying the sun", it is like the feeling of a teenager taking a stimulant. So, these two sentences, I exaggerated a little, and even wrote a feeling of being in a state of drug use, a view under hallucinogens.
recall how love songs were sung before 2000, such as Teresa Teng's "Sweet Honey", such as those songs of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong. It is no exaggeration to say that the advent of this song "Xingqing" opened the 2.0 era of Xiao Tiange's creation. No wonder even the singer Jacky Cheung later covered this song. Although it seems that the subversiveness of the times of "Xingqing" is not so exaggerated, it is because the later Jay Chou constantly refreshed the limits of our perception of this type of work, and continued to create incredible works like "Simple Love" and "Garden Club". It was time for Xiang Fang to interpret "Simple Love" and write: I thought that "Xingqing" in the first album was the ultimate in pure romance in love, but I didn't expect that in just the second album, Jay broke our cognition.
Hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, looking at the sky
Look at the stars, one, two, three, four, in a line
Back to back, silently make a wish
See if you can hear the stars in the distance
Hand in hand, one step, two steps, three steps, four steps, looking at the sky
Look at the stars, one, two, three, four, in a line
Back to back, silently make a wish
Look at the stars in the distance if you can hear them
It must come true
These lines in the chorus of "Xingqing" are also in the forefront of Jay Chou's own creative sequence. Xiang Fang has praised more than once, Jay Chou used a few simple quantifiers to depict the shyness, innocence, and romance in love in an unconventional way. The picture and the mood are so full.
Using the superposition of homophones to express the layers of emotions is Jay Chou's tried and tested trick. For example, the sentence in "The End of the World", "Will the sky be gray and gray, will make me forget who you are", such as the sentence in "In the Sunny Day", "Once upon a time, someone loved you for a long time, but the wind gradually blew the distance away". For example, the sentence in the later "Where is You", "Familiar is no longer familiar, but the clarity is still the same".
Writing this, will you still say that Jay Chou's lyrics are not good?
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