On May 25, "This! It is the final of "Original" as scheduled.
Unsurprisingly, Deng Jianchao successfully defeated three of the top four and won the championship strongly.
As early as the fourth episode of the show, I predicted this result (you can flip through my other article).
It is not so much that he stood out with the song "Orange" in the finals, but rather that he has already laid the foundation for winning the championship because of his previous amazing creations:
"Okay Good Night" and "Women's Book"
One is the bitter outline of urban love, and the other is the magnificent cultural tension. Two very different styles, Deng Jianchao has done really good. This good contains at least two levels of excellence: one is that the song is good and can infect people, and the other is that the word has connotation and has the pleasure of interpretation.
Deng Jianchao's excellence is exposed, his songs and the audience have no distance, the audience is easily infected by his emotions and ideas, he put the best two creations on the stage at the beginning, so that others are daunted.
The other player, on the other hand, took a completely different route. He continued to export his life emotions, the concentration gradually heated up, and finally handed over the best work in the finals.
Yan Zehuan
A song "Butterfly" made the public look at him with admiration.
I selfishly thought he was the best one to perform on the stage of tonight's Finals.
Deng Jianchao's championship brilliance cannot hide his excellence.
For this song, he didn't arrange the songwriting. Instead, I chose a poem that I felt and composed the right song. A seamless "Butterfly" was born.
This way of creating is not new today, and the Classic Arias have also adopted this form. In order to make the classic ancient poems more familiar to more people, the singers composed songs for each ancient poem.
A good melody will add points to the original poem. There is also no shortage of masterpieces in "Classic Arias", and the most impressive one is a song "Momei" composed by Liu Zhou and sung by Tan Weiwei, which sings the fresh and elegant in the original work with full charm.
Gong Linna also took the musical path of composing music for ancient poems, but the new folk music created by her husband Lao Gong was still a little high and low for the current audience, so the degree of singing was not high.
Unlike them, Yan Zehuan did not adapt an ancient poem, but chose a modern poem. The lyrics come from one of Hu Shi's earliest vernacular poems, "Butterfly".
Two yellow butterflies, both flying into the sky;
For some reason, a sudden fly back.
The remaining one, lonely and pitiful;
Nor is there a heart to heaven, and heaven is too lonely.
Unlike many confusing poems, this poem is easy to read. Simple lyrics, simple melody. But in simplicity, there is a strong emotion, a lingering sadness.
In the interpretation of the whole song, Yan Zehuan just repeated these four sentences over and over again, but the emotions were different each time, and the moving power accumulated thicker and thicker, and finally spewed out. The simple story is interpreted into a thickness that is not simple.
Special guest Li Yuchun liked it.
Mentor Wang Jia'er loved it even more, and seriously pointed out one of Yan Zehuan's "shortcomings": you don't know how good you are.
I was also awakened by Wang Jia'er's words. Yes, not only Yan Zehuan does not know how good he is, but many viewers do not know how good Yan Zehuan is.
Why is that?
The main point is that Yan Zehuan is too low-key.
He will only speak with works, never to render his talents, even if he comes up with the most sincere works, he always looks like a breeze and communicates with others with great modesty.
His songs are not as high-pitched as the other singer-songwriters, and most of the time they are somewhat calm, but beneath the calm surface are hidden turbulence. It is a work that sounds very ordinary at first glance, but has great staying power.
This may also explain the reason why he almost did not get the ticket to the show when he was in the audition.
A song "Fault" was missed by Xiao Jingteng.
Missed by Chen Grain.
In the end, he was recognized by Wang Jia'erhui.
And in the PK with Liu Liyang, the flag was victorious.
Speaking of which, there is another vignette.
After listening to Yan Zehuan and Liu Liyang's singing, Wang Jiaer was ready to choose one to advance.
Liu Liyang suddenly jumped out and said such a sentence: Otherwise I will give him the opportunity.
Are you kidding me ?
What makes you give him the opportunity, obviously people are better than you, he deserves it?
She added: Maybe newcomers need more opportunities.
I was really embarrassed at the time.
I didn't expect that the third runner-up of Supergirl would say such a stupid thing.
Yan Ze smiled happily. The meaning of this laugh is obvious: I really don't need you to give, I can take it back myself.
At that time, Yan Zehuan's creation was better than yours, not worse than yours. You take out a work that is not particularly shocking, and say such a big sentence, what else can you get but to black yourself?
Wouldn't you be naïve enough that Supergirl Third place would guarantee that your work would be excellent?
This is not Zen concession at all, but a manifestation of disrespecting the opponent and punching yourself in the face.
This is obviously the fear of losing, and then give yourself a step down. But this one is really not a step, but a cliff.
Wang Jia'er obviously thought of this too, and did not directly puncture Liu Liyang's embarrassment, but made clear his firm position.
The meaning is already obvious, you Liu Liyang is indeed a famous singer, but on today's creation, you are not as good as Yan Zehuan in front of you, we have to compare the works, not the past qualifications. So without your concession, it is still Yan Zehuan who has advanced.
After "Fault", Yan Zehuan has successively come up with more original works with different faces, each time feeling different, but there is a common style. It only belongs to Yan Zehuan, whether a singer-songwriter can survive depends on whether he has enough personal characteristics.
One of the songs that is most special to Yan Zehuan is his "Lifetime" series:
"Corner"
This song was written by Yan Zehuan during his lowest period.
He shut himself in a room and painted a vivid picture of the depression and despair trapped in the house.
The home in the house corresponds to several relationships in which he is located. The sofa, chair, and table correspond to family, friendship, and love, respectively.
He longed for these relationships to communicate, and eventually found that all he could do was go to the corner. So the corner symbolizes himself. Loneliness, loneliness, marginalization, the feeling of being abandoned by the world, was completely released with his rushing crying.
He wanted to leave this song on the stage while he could still feel the pain, which was actually a kind of bravery, to be able to uncover the scars of the past again for the sake of the work.
With the passage of time, he may no longer be able to have the mood he has now, so he must present the song in time, even if he may cry and the performance stops, he still has to do it.
From the beginning of this song, my impression of him has developed qualitatively. Until "Butterfly", every time he came up with something that had weight, it seemed that there was an inexhaustible treasure.
Such an original attitude is actually extremely lacking in the Chinese music scene.
It's time to share his treasure with a wide audience.