I haven't seen the second season of "Children of Tomorrow", so I am almost completely unfamiliar with the name "Tian Yi", until he joined Sony Music, released the EP "Can I Be Your Water", and released the full album "Are You Thirsty", I began to listen carefully to his works.
This is also good – many people like me, who just want to discover new faces worth noting in their works, can enter the music world of Tian Yi without presuppositions. There are four fires in the name of the 98-year-old boy, from "Can I Be Your Water" to "Are You Thirsty", this contrast is interesting, implemented into the music, this boy conveys a kind of moisturizing and silent charm, worth immersing in and listening to.
The four songs first released by the EP, Tian Yi is involved in the songwriting, and in the process of working with different producers, as a creator and singer, he presents a unified temperament, but the details are different works.
"Hello", not a teenager simply expressing greetings to the world, but "waiting for the next part of life to arrive, calmly saying hello", the arrangement and production of Japanese musician Tomoyuki Uchida, under the interweaving of rock and roll and magnificent strings, brings an OST-like sense of drama, Tian Yi's singing, conveying the reluctance, entanglement, relief, and nostalgia after experiencing the "story", reminding us that this is a singer who needs to think and feel with heart.
After the grand narrative of the ocean like a thousand sails, Tian Yi's "Man in the Car" with lyrics and lyrics instantly turned him into a stream flowing in the life of Chengdu City, and the gentle song sounded, we followed him in the car, outside the window, in our minds, thinking about the relationship between self and loneliness and sadness, "Lonely, can you help me, or are you tired, sad, can you save me, or are you slow", such words are heart-wrenching, producer Fan Yitang through the prelude guitar, interlude keyboard, saxophone, strings, a variety of instruments skillfully took turns, Zhang Relaxed laid out the entire song level, maximizing the beauty of the details of Tian Yi's interpretation of this song in terms of biting words, breath, true and false tones, so that the tired and struggling self-doubt emotions lingered, until the end suddenly became fierce "Is it destruction, is it rebirth, is it complete death, is it a struggle, is it a waste, is it back to the starting point", a series of urgent questions from the eardrum directly to the heart, finally, Tian Yi sang "is it a similar pain" with a light and unwilling tone, that kind of pain, Instead, it continues to be infinitely magnified and pulled.
"Cold", like water Tian Yi began to condense into ice, "forget me, tear me, abandon me, and say that he missed me" - such a twisted sadness, and producer Chen Shanni polished a bright spark, indifferent electronic fragments throughout Tian Yi's seemingly constant temperature singing, interlude aria flower cavity rendered a strange and charming atmosphere, bringing an unconfigurable but charming imagination space.
The lyrics are himself, the producer is his favorite Chen Shanni, such a combination reminds me of Chi Li's novel "The Entanglement of Water and Fire" many years ago - Tian Yi's external temperament is psychedelic and cold, but through the chorus "Close to me, awaken me, embrace me, and then sink into me", the hot exudation in his bones comes to the face, his original melody and text expression are too much in line with Chen Shanni's same external cold and internal heat of musical personality, so "Cold" puts all kinds of wonderful and exquisite details in the Nordic electronic framework, I especially like the 2 minutes and 06 seconds aria harmony, constructing a kind of slow, dignified, to release, wild... Until there is no reservation to reveal the sense of emotional march of the self, Tian Yi neutralizes the clean tone, shows the color of softness and rigidity in the singing process, listening to such "cold", what you feel is not melting, it is a kind of burning, water and fire, cold and hot, all surging in ambiguity, climax.
In the full album, Tian Yi sang the creation of more other musicians, "That I" and "Like" with a simple piano and string ensemble, setting off the warmth and penetration of his voice, whether the atmosphere is sad or sweet, Tian Yi's interpretation has a beautiful poetry, showing improved singing skills, "What Goodbye Can Say Goodbye" Arrangement is further simplified, Tian Yi's true and false voice has a little more unexpected force at the last chorus, that kind of timid and resolute tone is very moving, these songs are depicting "self" and "lover" Between the subtle emotional changes, the melody is smooth, the text feels private, the producers Zhou Yili, Zhang Jian Junwei, Huang Yunren are all good at creating Chinese ballet love songs, and Tian Yi's performance is also very popular in the Taiwanese music scene in the 1990s.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an explosion produced by the further collision between Tian Yi and Chen Shanni, Chen Shanni's lyrics continue her consistent borrowing of ancient metaphors, and put spicy irony in the gorgeous text, "Demons and immortals, are undisguised, gods and ghosts, can speak eloquently, thousands of years of cultivation, the enemy can not refresh the lower limit, half evil thoughts, but in the blink of an eye" Tian Yi's voice state became wanton and sharp, playing in the mix of electronics, rock, rap, but not hysterical venting, but with a cold bystander's chill.
"Everything in the Daylight", the ice gradually melted, Tian Yi and the sweet mysterious female voice audition and dialogue in the demo, emitting a fresh feeling of "light and warmth", leaving a sweet imagination space, the official version revealed the answer, his cooperation with the personality singer-songwriter Qi Zitan is a surprise, "The last obsession is to look at your eyes, think more about you taking me away, farther away from here", the two people's equally slender and sensitive voices are like two butterflies chasing in the daylight, colorful and fragile.
I see "Winter Jujube" as the sequel to "The Man on the Car", hoping that people with heavy thoughts will re-enter the world of human fireworks that is not worth it and is incomparably vivid after getting off the bus, Wei Wei's production is full of fantastic ideas, and the bel canto chorus chorus chorus that is thick enough to catch people off guard is the first to grab people, and then Tian Yi's voice returns to the playful boy's true color, telling the wonderful interaction between him and the winter jujube who is regarded as "spiritual sustenance", like Liang Chaowei, who speaks to soap and towels in "Chongqing Forest", and is also a young man who is wandering outside. Trying to find some ways to decompress in the heavy life, the bel canto aria harmony interspersed in the middle, and the nonsense acceleration at the end of the singing, all make people can't help but be amused, although the melancholy that no one talks about is still faint, but there is always hope.
When hearing the last song "Water", Tian Yi's own lyrics, "is the weather when the smog dissipates, it is the giving that opens the heart, it is the bath that waits for the dawn, it is the tacit understanding of each other, it is the expectation of flowing happiness, it is the intimacy of whispering in the ear", the kind of simple and extreme childishness, let me go over the song sung by Tian Yi in the second season of "Children of Tomorrow", and also watched the interview with him in "Tune", a teenager who suffered from school bullying, from 180 pounds to some too thin teenagers, Step by step, as if the still water is deep, who has not had some dark and unspeakable encounters in the growth stage? In fact, some of the fragments that can be understated in the future may have been desperate enough to think that there was no end to the terrifying waves at that time.
So, in Li Yuchun, Zeng Yike, Zhou Bichang, Fan Xiaoxuan, Chen Shanni, Qiu Bi... In the songs of these people, he found a utopia that allowed him to escape for a short time, and was fortunate to become a singer who could compose, from other people's songs to his own songs, he used music to complete a redemption, but in Tian Yi's works, the loneliness and fear I felt, or everywhere, just like water, is the source of life, can also annihilate everything, "Are you thirsty, can I be your water, hurt you, nourish you, and complete myself", Tian Yi sang in "Water", all the "you" that I sang in the whole album, in fact, it was all "Myself", asking for help, in self-help.
So we heard Tian Yi, but also heard the unhappy self in adolescence, in the huge loneliness of almost drowning, trying to grasp something to save themselves, and the music that once let Tian Yi grasp the life-saving straw now has an incredible continuation in his works - I fully believe that his works can give more young people encouragement and courage. This boy in his early twenties, in his creation and singing, has a heart-wrenching "lonely" background, has a little nervous "uneasiness", and buries a huge enthusiasm for "understanding" and "hugging", such a fresh and introverted intertwined singer-songwriter, indeed like "water", not so many colors and bells, but there is infinite tolerance space, so that we can go with him to flow, rush, imagine more possibilities.
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