Recently, the "Praise for Songs" program is in full swing, with the strength of the singer Hu Yanbin, the hall-level musician Liao Changyong, the creative ghost Taiyi... And other musicians joined, the lineup continued to strengthen, but also added a lot of highlights to the show.
Among the well-known singers, the name "Jude" is slightly abrupt, because he is unfamiliar to many people. As an independent musician, Jude rarely appears in the public eye, and it is normal that he has not heard of it.
However, the absence of a popular discernment base does not mean the absence of strength. He was shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award last year and has previously written and produced songs for well-known singers. Many works are worth listening to, so this post-90s treasure musician should be seen.
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Rui xin singer-songwriter
In the latest episode, Jude brings an original work "Old Antique". The song was included on his debut solo album.
This time on stage, it was his TV variety show debut, although the stage experience was slightly insufficient, slightly nervous, but he used a rich and transformative singing voice, as well as quite infectious notes, weaving a stage play. Some viewers described it as "building a literary theater with music".
Melodies sound, jazz is overflowing, and Broadway-style musicals are singing in a unique texture. Some music critics said, "He is very similar to Eason Chan in the mid-00s, as an independent original musician, he has the singing ability to match the mainstream strength singers." ”
The intention of the whole song is also very different, as a song written for the father, using "old antiques" as a metaphor. The lyrics of the whole song do not mention the father, but the image of the father jumps out of the eye.
"Who stole time from him"; a burned out cigarette, a rickety line"; "He finally said willing to accept this ordinary world" The short lyrics depict the fathers of most ordinary people in three dimensions. Bit by bit of life, the side of the side of the father's unkind love. Sincere and true emotions, straight to the heart of the public.
Good at musicalizing the story and repertoire, is Jude's unique musical language. More than this "Old Antique", in his musical world, we can clearly perceive his new and unique creative talent.
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Visualize the music
"I imagined myself as a truthfully recorded videographer, picking up the camera and pointing it at these nine unrelated characters, aiming it at myself, and taking the most ordinary and realistic freeze-frame."
His debut solo album, I'm going to be absent when the awards are presented, contains ten songs and tells ten stories. Including the award-winning self, the father of the "old antique", the "Rebecca" who seeks herself, the Hokkaido lover, the street artist and so on...
He said: "Behind each song is a film picture that belongs to the protagonist, who has their own life trajectories and emotional states, making completely different choices, but from the moment I created it, I was connected with them. ”
"Rebecca" tells the story of a girl who walks through the lights and has two kinds of life. The stage-style opening is mixed with the jumping sensation of Japanese instruments, and the melody is very attractive.
"Every penny she saves is spent looking for her inner way", and the curtain opens: Rebecca tells her real name to the cherished flower, and as the flower withers, she loses her name...
Some people say that the bitterness hidden in the cheerful tune is the ultimate killer of this work. The slightly sad story, but unfolding with a pleasant melody, forms a dramatic conflict, whether it is the melody itself, or the story with artistic overtones, can make people reminisce for a long time.
Lin Qingxuan once wrote in "Cold Plum Boiling Snow": "Legend has it that people in the Arctic froze because of the cold weather, and as soon as they opened their mouths, they froze into ice and snow. The other party couldn't hear it, so they had to go home and slowly bake it to listen. When you encounter love and love, first use love poems to cut ice, cut into fine pieces, and add wine to cook..."
This song "Lovers of Hokkaido", Chinese the translation of the phrase "sentences that you don't want to hear, freeze it", has the same magic. The gentle sound of the piano and the clear melody are like putting people in the silver and white world of Hokkaido in winter.
The most beautiful part of this song lies in the artistic conception, but also in the imagination space left by the creator for us. At the end of the song, it is like enjoying a beautiful pure love movie...
The melody of "The Ship Doctor of the Mobius" is slowly unfolded, and the slightly deeper voice swims out the romance that belongs to the loneliness of the sea. Calm, circuitous, yet free and unbridled. No better than those neat singing voices with round words, the slightest wandering vocals make it difficult for you to predict the melody of the next sentence.
"The vast sea fog, the unending journey, many nights he sat between a pile of injections and yarns, taking care of other people's wounds in great detail, but he couldn't find a way to stitch himself up." The poetic core of creation has aroused the audience's thinking about the philosophy of life.
The ten songs on the album have their own characteristics, and each character has a plump and three-dimensional image, but I will not repeat each of the stories here. The reason why these works are moving may be that the creator has a strong empathy ability, and the insight beyond ordinary people, through delicate brushstrokes, weaves an infinite reverie space, so that the listener can find his own small world here.
Interestingly, the album cover is printed with nine portraits of people with different styles and different background colors, and a closer look reveals that each character is Jude. Just like the songs on the album themselves, each capital comes from him, but it gives you a rich musical imagination in the very different melodies...
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Absentee awards, but not absent from the future
Back in time to last year, the shortlist for the 31st Golden Melody Awards was announced.
At that time, the name "Jude" was almost no concept for the public, even through the few information on the Internet, for Jude, there was still no reference gripper. However, he is the only mainland singer shortlisted for this year's Golden Melody Awards.
Although he ultimately failed to win the award, his avatar appeared on the screen at the same time as Wu Qingfeng, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Zhenyue and other senior singers during the broadcast of the awards ceremony, which has a unique meaning.
What kind of singer can compete with the veteran seniors for the award?
However, with "I'm Going to Be Absent When The Awards Are Awarded," Jude was shortlisted for Best Chinese Male Singer. In the album's intro copy, it reads: "When the winner read out the winner's name in surprise, the eyes of the audience focused on me, and before I was caught by the crowd, I turned and escaped." ”
Coincidentally, jude was absent from the awards ceremony, as the song's name suggests, but that didn't stop people from locking their eyes on him through the highly anticipated ceremony, and he and his work began to be "captured by the crowd." The most notable sign is that almost every song he has reached 999+ in the comments section.
After receiving the award, Jude focused on her creation. He has also written the title song of the new album for two golden song queens, namely Wei Ruxuan's "April is a Day Suitable for Lying" and Peng Jiahui's "Too Hard to Sing", which shows its creative strength.
And at the beginning of this year, in a musician support program, Liu Huan also used "outstanding, elegant and exquisite" to describe Jude's music.
In the song review area, a music fan said: "Jude is not only a singer, but also a music producer with a continuous spirit of innovation, the composition is not a song with a set of directions, each capital has its own characteristics, he will not let you listen to it once, but it will make you more interesting the more you listen." ”
Indeed, as a musician, he pursues innovation in creation, is refined and mature in singing, and he constantly sings stories to us with the unique language of musical theater...
Even though Jude's exposure is small, as a treasure, it does not prevent us from capturing him.