Less than a month before the release of the EP album "Noise", Dai Xiaoying launched a new song "Let's Two". Suddenly sighed, even in this traffic era, there are still many excellent singers who have been writing songs in a down-to-earth manner, and only write songs for themselves, the real ones who write songs.
When talking about this song with Dai Xiaoying, I said that this song has a little taste of Li Zongsheng. And Hua Hua herself said that she has many friends, and has even called her "female version of Li Zongsheng".
We are all talking about Li Zongsheng, but when we talk about Li Zongsheng, we don't really mean the same thing.
When I say something like Li Zongsheng, I actually have two meanings, one is the form of half-reading and half-singing, which sounds a bit similar. But what I understand, like Li Zongsheng, is more of another layer of meaning behind it.
The meaning of this layer means that a music creator, after having a certain amount of experience and accumulation, will use a looking back, open-minded, and transparent way to write songs and sing songs. This process is synchronized with the soul, with the heartbeat, and with the breath.
Or Dong Yufang's words, Dai Xiaoying's own song, a simple song title, just "We Two", just sing our story. But after listening to this song, I clearly heard a life, a whole human world.
Judging from the expression of the musical text, "Let's Two" is indeed a love song, but carefully tasting, the flesh and blood in it, the pain in it, stems from love and is not just love.
In my opinion, "Let's" is really a song that can be compared to "The Hill", because these two songs, at a certain level of expression, do have similar situations.
"We Two" is a retrospective work, many retrospective works, most likely will be written into memories, and in the way of carving, those past imprints, carved into a flat, from then on solidified.
On the contrary, the creation of Dai Xiaoying and Dong Yufang, coupled with Dai Xiaoying's own interpretation, although there is a perspective of looking back, but scenes such as "two pairs of fierce eyes that speak harshly" have a vivid vividness.
For me, the biggest experience of listening to this song is to experience another love and killing, a mandarin duck to break the intestine, and even from these cold or hot "plots", but also experienced the pre-life, pre-known after death.
Although the theme and content are not the same, when listening to this "We Two", I also thought of Mei Yanfang's "It seems that the old man came", the ups and downs that rolled in the world and carved the seal, and really only music can restore the complex emotions of hot, desolate, helpless, warm, hope and despair one by one.
Who is not a "noisy, stumbling" life, walking through the world of "too confused, crazy too crazy"...
Although it is a song to look back on, a work that can only be written and sung after experiencing the ups and downs of life, "We Two" is not full of thoughts, just as many people like Li Zongsheng's "The Hill". What they like is not just the end of the hill, but the unfinished business until death.
The same is true of "Let's Both", even after thousands of hardships, the flesh and blood in the work are still hot. Although there are all kinds of unsatisfactory results, but the back and forth saw, and even tossing and turning together and parting, is not also the meaning of love, or the meaning of life?
I have to say that this time Dong Yufang's words have given us the impulse to love, "Without you, where is there any universe", perhaps an immature impulse, but it is also a loving instinct.
After Dai Xiaoying's arrangement, the back of the lyrics of the paragraph "the fans are too fanatic, the crazy too crazy, and the Mandarin ducks that can't be broken with a few sticks" are more like an anti-traditional ending. It's not like the usual ending, which can be settled safely, but it is more like an unknown starting point. This open-ended ending is enough for people to guess, associate and imagine, and also makes a work have a charm that needs to be continued.
Finally, I still have to talk about Dai Xiaoying's interpretation.
The composition and singing of this song seem to me to be inseparable, one, you have me, I have you. This melody is sung by another person, absolutely no longer that taste, and only when Dai Xiaoying sings it herself, will she find that there is her soul in the melody, and there is a melody flowing freely in the song.
This is also the performance of the singer-songwriter's unity of song, the melodic line becomes an extension of the narrative, and those rhymes contain not only musical notes, but also emotions, temperature and breathing.
And it just so happens that this song can really hear Dai Xiaoying's breathing. Especially in the second segment, the slightly trembling throbbing sound, although sometimes can be heard in some scenes, but in a studio work, it is really rare to be able to fully retain this true emotion.
This kind of rarity is precisely Dai Xiaoying's aesthetic attributes and her understanding of music. Just like this song "Let's Both", Dai Xiaoying needs the expression of pulling out her heart and lungs, rather than the so-called perfection that is extremely precise and watertight.
Imperfect love, imperfect life, because it is not perfect, but let people have countless shocking beauty in life, just like in this "We Two", hearing that slight throbbing, but let me think, this is the real perfect song.
#Pity off the line #, Dai Xiaoying's new song is online, such a staggering, but also like the encounter of life.
Of course, what I want to say is that the singing that Dai Xiaoying has always insisted on has nothing to do with acting and youze songs, or getting more exposure through cross-borders, etc. The creative style that has become self-contained, the kind of free chanting, the profundity contained in the simplicity, the kind of craft brewing that is not pretentious, has a personality, and has an aftertaste, is definitely not something that speculative artists can do, and it can even be said that they can't do it.
On the one hand, it is in front of the screen to interpret the tragic and joyful life, and on the other hand, it uses music to express the cold, warm, sad and joyful life. Although from the perspective of a singer, Dai Xiaoying is really an obscure name, it is also a name worthy of more people to know.
If the music world is such a singer, with such a mentality, and the attitude towards music, to write songs, to sing, this should be the best universe.