Chang Shilei brings "Bay": the songs that can be handed down are full of youth

On the evening of September 19, the full lineup of the "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film and Music Gala was officially announced, and 100 filmmakers and musicians will gather in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on September 21 to sing the song of the full moon. Among them, chang Shilei, a post-80s musician, will bring the theme song of the evening "Bay".

Chang Shilei was a member of the music production team for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, pushing "Me and You" to the Olympic stage. This time, when he was invited to sing "Bay" at the party, his first reaction was "cordial", because it was a song closely related to himself, "I was born and raised in Guangzhou until I was 13 years old." I know it's delicious and delicious, I know the beauty of it, I can also speak some Cantonese... I feel like home."

"Bay" borrows one of the lyrics of the famous Guangdong nursery rhyme "Moonlight" - "Moonlight, Illuminating the Ground", written by Wang Pingjiu and composed by Chang Shilei.

"When I was writing songs in college, I was more about pleasing myself and feeling that I was swimming and enjoying myself in the ocean of music. When my music gained some recognition, I slowly felt that it was not only a hobby or a job, but also a mission. Chang Shilei said, "So, I prefer that the song is simple and easy to understand, and I hope that everyone can sing along with it, at least the first ear to hear is a very beautiful thing." ”

In Chang Shilei's view, music has always been a natural necessity in people's lives, just like water and air, bit by bit is playing an invisible and powerful role, "music is music, music does not need anything else, but people need music."

Chang Shilei believes that the fate of each song and people, just like the fate of people and people, needs to be favorable to the time and place, but a song can be sung, and there are necessary prerequisites, such as good melody, such as telling the story of ordinary people, "many songs are about ordinary people in life, expressing ordinary life, no need for publicity, it is fire."

In the "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film And Music Gala, there will be many classic songs that are familiar to the post-80s children. "To be honest, I didn't feel it before, but when I get older, I really feel that youth is in the songs, because these songs accompany you to grow up." And the songs that can be handed down are also written with two words - youth. Chang Shilei said.

Source: China Youth Daily client