Nandu News Reporter Ding Huifeng Intern Li Na "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film Music Gala, the high-profile theme song "Bay" was sung by Faye Wong, which is not only Faye Wong singing Cantonese songs after many years, but also a "love letter" to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Composer Chang Shilei said in an interview with Nandu that this is a song closely related to himself, "Because I grew up in Guangdong, grew up to 13 years old in Guangzhou, I can speak part of Cantonese, and when I received the task of creating this song, the first feeling is kindness, and beauty, there is a feeling of 'going home'.""
Faye Wong sang the theme song of the evening party "Bay"
In addition to composing the theme song "Bay" for the 2021 Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film and Music Gala of "Bay Area Rising Bright Moon", he also sang the song "Moon" in the second chapter of "Love Melting in the Greater Bay Area", and in the previous Greater Bay Area Shopping Festival, Chang Shilei also contributed a version of the piano self-playing and singing "Bay", and also borrowed the lyrics of the Cantonese nursery rhyme "Moonlight" in the Creation of the Cantonese nursery rhyme "Moonlight". Chang Shilei said that each song has its own destiny, "A song that can be sung sometimes needs to be good at all times and places, and it is also like the fate between people. A good song that can be sung is an ordinary person in life, and the expression of writing is also ordinary life."
Chang Shilei sings "Moon"
In the "Bay Area Rising Bright Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film Music Gala, "Boys Should Be Self-Reliant", "Real Hanzi", "What a Life", "Crooked Moon", "Late Autumn" and many other childhood familiar classic songs were staged, Faye Wong sang "Bay" in Cantonese and also evoked the collective memories of many music fans, Chang Shilei said: "To be honest, I didn't feel it before, but as I get older, I really feel that youth is in the song, because these songs accompany you to grow up." And the songs that can be handed down are also full of two words 'youth'. ”
Was a member of the music production team for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and composed the theme song for the "Bay Area Rising Moon" 2021 Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Festival Film Music Gala, as well as many times for heavyweight singers to create and produce, speaking of songwriting experience, Chang Shilei said that when he was writing songs in college, it was more to please himself, and he wanted to let himself swim and enjoy in the ocean of music, and many times it was an instinctive reaction. When his music was recognized, especially writing more and more songs for big scenes and big stars, Chang Shilei said: "Slowly feel that writing songs is not only a hobby or work, but also a mission. Therefore, I hope that the song is simple and easy to understand, I hope that everyone can sing along with it, at least the first ear to hear is a very beautiful thing, so I hope that everyone can understand. ”
For whether "Bay" can open up a broader time and space, Chang Shilei said that each song has its own life, "Music never needs to open up anything, music has always been a necessity naturally produced in people's lives, that is, just like the water and air in life, it plays an invisible and huge role in people's lives. So music is music, it doesn't need anything else because people need music."