Allow me to make this slightly subjective comment – a musician or I prefer to call them works. It's rare for me to write a long review specifically for a musician, and in fact in recent years I've rarely been able to concentrate on listening to a musician's songs, but this time, I've experienced -- some simple persistence and touching, and I think he deserves -- writing.
I remember a few years ago, Huang Yida with "That Girl Said to Me", it seems that there was a short period of time, at that time I did not pay attention to this Singaporean singer, a young man with long hair in white clothes, I thought it was just an idol singer - the music world has never lacked varieties, often like meteors bloom and then fall. Until this year, I happened to see him live at the Strawberry Music Festival. I was surprised that it turned out that he had been a singer-songwriter all along. I was shocked
Surprised, it turned out that he preferred rock and roll. I was amazed that he could be so relaxed and light singing sad rock ballad. When he returned home, he began to look for his music to listen to, and the refreshing feeling once again proved that it is impossible to look at people - to understand a musician requires time and heart.
A lot of people like his first album title, "Blue Sky."
"Love Under the Microscope", but my favorite is a rarely mentioned "Go away", a rapid drum beat and a cold chanting style, the drum beat mixed with the tone of the piano, very Huang Yida's work. I remembered that I had also run desperately with love and finally fell to my head on a sad night. It seemed that the night was clear and windless, it seemed that I pretended to be calm and called him to meet for the last time, it seemed that I had eaten a dinner that could not taste anything - all the red and green food stuck in my throat like garbage and could not breathe, it seemed that I listened to all what he said but did not listen to it, it seemed that I said a lot of irrelevant things but did not dare to mention a word of sincerity, it seemed that I cried for a whole week and became the world
In the second album, the song is about "That Girl Said To Me" that really made him popular, but in fact, this song cannot be regarded as a very Huang Yida-style music, because it was written by his teacher Li Kaisong. But this song may cover too many people's memories and emotions, and it is almost a reserved track for every live chorus. Strawberry day, I'm sure I cried when I saw a buddy huddled next to me singing and singing. Later, more and more music related to "that girl" appeared in Huang Yida's work I - he seemed to really love a girl, and seemed to remember every day of love and every detail of the breakup after a long, long time. As late as 2008, in the autobiographical classic < "I'm YiDA," he was singing: I'll send you to your doorstep, in the blink of an eye
They all understand that sometimes, they sing love and write love, but in fact, they are all loneliness that has nowhere to tell and loneliness that is not understood and other irrelevant.
Market positioning is sometimes simple and sometimes difficult, so there will be an album with a completely blank cover called "Undefined". Say he's popular, he's not exactly popular, he's niche, he's in the pop line again. Making music is most afraid of not relying on both sides, neither compromising to the market, nor being able to be completely yourself, sandwiched in the middle. In 2007, around the time this pain was about to reach its peak, "I don't know what my music is? They will say that I am a powerful faction, and the other will say that I am an idol faction, and there are too many opinions to understand. His music was frequently revised by the company, and he was asked to write catchy KTV ballet music, "I'm not selling music, I'm making music." That year, Huang Yida began to work as a producer, producing the "Complete Performance" album, but his album sounded more and more like a work written by a mentally ill person who fought with himself and himself. He sang in "I Understand": "Reality I understand cruelty, I understand, I will carefully survive in this steel jungle." Indifference, I understand hypocrisy, I understand the rules of the game, I try not to make mistakes" He sang again in "Complete Performance": "I perform, the pain ends I am exhausted, I don't care at all that I will end up alone." In fact, during that time, he began to show signs of depression.
In 2008, Zhang released almost all of his own songwriting and production albumSWriting to Himself, which featured two songs that are highly recommended: the album's eponymous song "Song Written for Myself" and "I'm YiDA". As for "Set Me Freel", a very Huang Yida rock work, I personally think that for him, the nature of experimentation is greater than the musicality itself, and there is an element of showmanship, although it is a good work, but it is not as direct as the first two songs. The arrangement of "Song for Myself" is very simple and clear, vaguely carrying the shadow of the mainland folk music of the 90s, he sings his own story in a hoarse voice, sings his loneliness of leaving home at a young age, sings his thoughts about his family and the pursuit of dreams. After watching a video of him, it seems to be a recording tidbit, in the dim recording room Mr. Huang happily recalled the experience of the teenage group, recalled the first song written at that time, and then said very sincerely, there are dreams must be insisted, some people insisted on a year, two years to give up, but I insisted for more than ten years to achieve their dreams, if Huang Yida can do it, you can also.
"I'm YiDA", a ten-minute autobiographical song - a multi-minute female monologue opening, a simple entry into the guitar noise, a repeating chorus, a clean and long ending on the piano, clean and straightforward lyrics, very Huang Yida's work. I even think that this disc is completely enough even if it is only this song (in fact, the premiere of this album is "Love To Understand", - a love song that I don't really like, although the melody is good).
"I have worked hard personally, I have not given up and have not flinched, my friends are envious of me, in fact, the person who envies them is me." 」 Have you ever experienced a moment like this? You live the most decent life, you say the most decent things, and everyone thinks you deserve to be happy, but only you know that what you are holding in your hand is actually something insignificant, and what you really desire is difficult to get.
"I'll send you to your doorstep, -- in the blink of an eye is ten years from now. All these years write about my pain, and every note speaks. "I should salute Mr. Huang's persistence in taking off the hat, if + years are singing the same - a girl, I really think you are paranoid to cute." But through the lyrics, I see a music creator who is struggling between dreams and reality, what kind of music should be created to be the real self? What should or should not be compromised? It is said that people who are sensitive and pursue the extreme are easy to create extraordinary works, but
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Taking it back is also a knife. "Please give me one minute to finish this song." I sang songs that no one wanted, but I was happier than anyone else. In view of the poor sales of "Complete Performance", many music critics believe that Huang Yida did this album as the last - zhang, so anything that should be said should be said, and anything that is not sung must be sung. I would like to say that the music market has nothing to do with me, the record industry has nothing to do with me, I am just a listener who is happy to appreciate, I will give you this minute, let you sing this song.
If I were a person who loves tragic beauty, then this music review could end here, and I can say lightly that this is the last song of a paranoid young man of music, who sings songs that no one wants, and does not seem to be happier than anyone. But life often gives us more beautiful sequels.
In 2011, Huang Yida, who transferred to Orange Sky, brought his most recent album "Shimmer". Halfway also with a piece of news of practicing in Thailand, in fact, I really don't think that the practice is any big news, if you have to go to the gang on the line of the pull, this year I also practiced in the Tianmu Mountain Zhaoming Temple (of course, not as formal as in Thailand to shave my hair), I also lived in a very simple squatter's room, ate a very simple meal, dressed in Haiqing at 3 o'clock to get up around the Buddha, listen to the evening class at night to read confessions, although because of physical reasons did not back the mountain practice, but the partners who went with me carried dozens of pounds of heavy objects several times a day to help the construction of the temple and the supply of materials. I often think that there are two things that can make busy, anxious, and tired modern people really alive, one is love, and one is practice. The former makes you live a wonderful and warm life, and the latter makes you live tolerantly and indifferently.
Huang Yida, who cut off a long hair, seems to look more energetic, he said that he began to feel the slight beauty of life, he said that he used to think that the outside world was too noisy, now he knows that he is not at peace, he said that he is no longer in a hurry to slow down, he said that the space for the company to make music is very free, he said that because the heart is put down, he can make more no---like music Sounds like everything is a good thing, the young man with a depressed temperament in white has become a man with a firm smile and a gentle smile. Just like the mv-- of "Shimmer", or the coast of "Blue Sky", although it is still a gloomy tone, I see him with his favorite guitar began to slowly walk forward, because of the shimmer in front, so ready to pack, still with courage and dreams, the traveler who chased a dream continued to move forward.
I've been listening to rock since middle school, and I've been obsessed with it – two idols, I often wonder what rock is? Is the manic metal that must be roared out? Is the radiohead's bewildered and turbulent chant? Is sigur ros as cold as an ice river? Is it Cui Jian, who wears a red hat, who sings coldly to make me sprinkle some wild in the snow?
Maybe it's just a little bit of a young man's obsession with his dreams. Let me end this long music review with this sentence: I will give you this minute and let you finish this song.