Before officially talking about the new specialty, we may as well take the timeline back to the beginning of most people's understanding of Deng Dian -
On the stage of the second season of "Children of Tomorrow" in 2018, Deng Dian first sang the famous song "Mercy" by American female singer Duffy, and the pitch, rhythm and singing skills were affirmed by everyone present, and they were given such as "singing textbooks" and joined the magic music track.
In the subsequent program, Deng Dian continued to highlight the siege step by step through the accumulation of works and scenes. "Perfect", "All Of Me", "Dreams" let us witness his strong Vocal strength, "Love You Want", "Suddenly", "Is There", "Baby Sorry", etc. are personal redefinitions of popular songs, and the cooperation stages such as "The Prince's New Clothes", "Color" and "Tough Lover" lead to the inclusiveness and sense of cooperation of his music... Taking stock of the stage at that time, artistry and popularity were both, and Deng Dian surged with multiple possibilities of music.
This point, throughout most of the music is extremely lacking in this type of singer, is irreplaceable, Deng Dian can be said to be the most unique representative. In the past two years, he has always insisted on using his own undefined expression to interpret various genres, and has shown his musical nature with the understanding of personality and unique singing expression with the public.
At the end of last year, the Mini Album "Pupil" was launched, and this year's release of Deng Dian's first personal official album "Contrived", the album works are "plus" on the basis of the original, not only including the tracks in "Pupil" and "Don't Want to Wake Up", but also adding two previously unexposed tracks "Don't Stop" and "Cry", the volume and arrangement of ten songs constitute a new, in-depth and textured new album.
This is equivalent to directly answering the original vow, "I will tell you what DDstyle I am interpreting." Deng Dian not only told everyone what a DD style is, but also used this D.D.Album to prove his overall view of music. Such a deep transition also makes Deng Dian's music more charming.
And when it comes to album titles, on the one hand, this is The Title of Deng Dian Wechat; on the other hand, these four words can be used as an interpretation of his consistent appearance in music - this personalized D.D. Album, the cold temperament and de-mainstream expression of "contrived", is the musical label he put into practice.
Pop, Jazz, British retro, electronics, Ballad, etc., all in line with the international vision. The album's ten songs are completely unrestricted in terms of style, but they abandon the traditional creator thinking inherent in most albums, and construct the unique temperament of his music with a new approach, calm, cautious, lazy, playful, artistic... You can find many key words from this album, but all the points are Deng Dian's "true colors" expression.
The use of "contrived" in the setting is an uncommon setting that challenges the mainstream and proves that the choice of emerging musicians can constitute another causal link. Planning, partial single dispersal production, and even the entire behind-the-scenes team's landing packaging of the song are all good guidance and shaping of the song's outer core.
Outward is the industrialization and system process, inward is the introspection and creativity of music. Deng Dian's music belongs to the interpretation of the original self, and the song highlights the album ideas of the musician's characteristics, and supports the whole picture of the album with unique musical gameplay.
If each work is a role created by the record company and many musicians for the singer, then "Contrived" is Deng Dian's best appearance in this period.
This is to split the album into four parts in turn: one is the attitude, the second is the definition, the third is the vision, and the fourth is the future. The four parts constitute independent and interrelated, constructing the complete form of "Contrived", which is also the true color of Deng Dian's completion through specific works.
The two songs most closely related to attitude are the first two songs on the album, "Don't Stop" and "Don't Want to Wake Up".
The attitude of the former is more direct, which can be reflected in the title of the song, and the true and undisguised personality is fully expressed in this song; the latter is through an indirect means to trigger thinking, and the emphasis of "not wanting to wake up" is to live with their own determined attitude. The so-called "contrived", which is deprecating and praising here, is nothing more than an attitude that the singer tries to convey, a posture that seeks comfort in life.
The retro-style "Don't Stop" opens the album as the opening chapter of "Contrivance", kicking off the entire album. Its strong sense of rhythm, high-end, electronic accessories produce a psychedelic mood in the entanglement, which sets the tone of the entire album from the atmosphere. Usually the first song is ear-catching and guiding, which makes people interested in this work and makes it easy to find the musical recognition that Deng Dian is most familiar with. Of course, it is also a song born in the music creation camp, not only the largest number of people involved in the songwriting of the entire album, but also a song that Deng Dian participated in the creation, which ensures the output of attitude from the originality.
Immediately after the R&B style of "Don't Want to Wake Up", the production is biased towards laziness, the instrumental configuration is a good optimal combination, and the singing is closely followed by the song in the singing voice, and the sense of connection of the whole song covers people's emotional senses. Deng Dian also deliberately hid the part of the release when singing, and formed a kind of free and independent expression in singing, the sense of flattery and contrivance of the work, a large number of false tones, but also returned to the expression of comfortable unfolding, Vocal is quite charming.
These two songs are different from traditional songs, and are a kind of electronic power and beauty, which directly brings out Deng Dian's attitude in music.
The "definition" that follows is more of a definition of the genre, the definition of the sound line, and the definition of the self. In the album "Contrived", the album is naturally indispensable to the traditional balled lyrical and free-roaming R&B style, and he still uses his unique true color performance to give the song a different way to open.
The temperament of "Unique" and the imagination space left by Song Nianyu's "Enigma" composed by Song Nianyu actually echo the keyword of "definition" very well. In these two songs, Deng Dian's ability to control the voice is more highlighted, and you can hear the singer's rich singing skills and the roundabout extension of emotions, and infuse the song with spirituality into a different experience.
In particular, this "Enigma", composed and produced by Gu Zhaoyu and song Nianyu, in the framework of popular POP, integrates electronic EDM and PB-R&B, rhythm dominance and atmospheric output, Deng Dian perfectly shows his ability to vocal tension and relaxation. The answer to this song is unknown, and it also happens to be the endless musical possibilities in Deng Dian's body.
The Urban color on these two songs may cause many people to want to add a label definition to Deng Dian, but they don't know that the answer given by the song is that he is not defined by his personal characteristics. He did not pursue popularity, but created it himself.
The next four songs, "Negative Film", "Tragic Bliss", "Freud" and "Pupil", can all be attributed to "vision", they are born from art, embellished with electronics, reflecting the dynamic balance and development of Deng Dian in music.
"Negative" related to the theme of photography, electronic synthesizer music intertwined with Aoustic instruments, guitar string blessing and the final stroke of the cello solo, the sound is more and more unique. But at the same time, the confrontation and cruising, image and negative film that collide with this song, with Deng Dian's large number of true and false tone switches in this song, have sorted out a charming personal temperament.
The next song, "Sorrowful Bliss", and "Negative Film" have a philosophical level of binary opposition, the arrangement is very good to help this song, but the emotion is extremely personal, and even its vision is towards the inner emotion. Deng Dian's singing has a sense of picture, and uses the warmth of his voice to interpret this sad theme into another vision.
As for Freud and Pupil, the configurations used are completely different. "Freud" is based on complex scenes, creating the appearance of future experiments, and the song has multiple deconstructions of human nature; "Pupils" outlines a moving story in simplicity, Zhong Wanyun's lyrics, and the production of Arai Eleven, all of which make the scene of this song particularly rich.
In the singing of these songs, Deng Dian distilled personal colors in art, and sang ideas, aesthetics and expressions with his true colors.
In the last two songs, what I saw was the future possibility of Deng Dian - how to find a balance between the public and art, to use music to get out of his confusion in cooperation and independence, and what is his "true color".
In "Cry" created in the creative camp, Deng Dian participated in the songwriting part, and the arrangement was the musician Yang Xinyu. This song adopts a band configuration, which guides the flow of the song well from the atmosphere, and the sense of space is just right. While Alternative R&B, and adding certain trapp elements, the song finds a symbiotic state in virtual reality.
And ending with a song like "Aurora", "because the real ideal is a ray of light" is an echo and more power. This song has very three-dimensional and layered retro sound effects, but Deng Dian's voice is clean, and the treatment of the song makes me naturally think of his unchanging disposition in the big environment. This contrast is particularly rare.
In this album, the four parts are sorted out in paragraphs. And when we put the question back to the beginning, what is the "true color" to play, I think, insisting on self and not being defined is the true color of Deng Dian, he uses himself as a model to define his popularity.