How to evaluate Liu Ruiqi's cover album "Looking for Jay Chou Again"?

The first time I heard Liu Ruiqi's voice was in "China's Strongest Voice", Liu Ruiqi's performance at that time was very tight, always felt that she could not open it, and the number of singing paths she chose was not dominant, the players in the top 12 of the strongest voice in that session were still quite distinctive and powerful, and Liu Ruiqi, who was too popular and too dependent on his own tone, did not gain too much so-called authoritative recognition on this stage (although the popularity of the Internet is not low).

Later is the music festival, it must be admitted that Liu Ruiqi's Live can still be listened to, although it is called "academic" by Luo Dayou and the media, but she does not belong to the genre of brushing gold songs, soaring high notes, playing jazz, her strengths focus on the singing transformation of pop (R&B), through her own understanding to revert to the original version, such as her earliest translation of Wen Lan's "Summer Wind", imitation traces are very many (who is Wen Lan ah? ）

Liu Ruiqi's problem is also here, the original competition and later turn live are eating the "imitation traces are too heavy" loss, although the imitation is not bad, although the timbre is also very good, but you imitate to imitate, did not sing their own taste, if the cover song did not turn out their own feelings, it is equivalent to swallowing the left ear of the jujube into the right ear out, nothing digested and nothing absorbed.

Maybe it was also later realized that there was a studio version of "Looking for Jay Chou Again", and again, this is a cover album of the studio, and each song has been rearranged, which is not the kind of "cover song" that we used to talk about with the original accompaniment + vocal recording.

It may take a long time to make an original album (score filling and mixing), but it is basically not difficult to remake a cover album with "Jay Chou" as a gimmick, why? Because everyone is too familiar with Jay Chou's works, what "Sunny Day", "Qilixiang", "Simple Love", "The Longest Movie", only need to pay to throw the case and demand to XX Studio, their living efficiency is very high. For example, Liu Ruiqi (the team) proposed that the speed of "Sunny Day" should be slow, the prelude replaces the guitar with a piano, and the vocals are highlighted to reduce the background noise, which is completely different from Jay Chou's original "Sunny Day", but the original prelude guitar is moved to the interlude part.

Other examples are roughly like this, such as the intro to "Peninsula Iron Box" has also been modified, the interlude part has added a violin and "Tornado" piano loop, which are very typical fan adaptations, and there are many such mix methods in the folk. The advantage of this remake adaptation is to weaken the proportion of drums, and to make the song more elegant and lighter with the violin and guitar, which is a wonderful adaptation strategy, which is very suitable for literary and artistic young women.

Like the prelude to "Qilixiang", the adapted team chose to subtract on the basis of the original version, removing a lot of the atmosphere of Zhong Xingmin's shop (summer feeling), the first A-section arrangement and "Sunny Day" and "Peninsula Iron Box" The idea is no different, may be to avoid too thin, so the strings were added, the interlude part is still copied from the essence of Zhong Xingmin, this song I think the change is too rough.

"Rosemary" and "Black Sweater" both make the same mistake as "Seven Mile Fragrance", adapting to subtract, but this subtraction also subtracts too much... Under normal circumstances, if the arrangement is minimalist, then the vocals must be able to hold up the scene, but it is a pity that Liu Ruiqi's song is not very good, flowing in the form of making a fuss in some details, a little flattering and lazy suspicion, excessive laziness lost the deepest value of the song. "Saying Goodbye" is also the same as the above songs, the piano prelude is copied, the strings are a bit stiff, but Liu Ruiqi's singing is in place.

The adaptation strategy of "The Longest Movie" and "Sunny Day" are reversed, the prelude tone is replaced by guitar decomposition + strings, when entering A2, it is changed closer to the "bar pub taste", the whole song gives me the feeling that when eating in a restaurant bar, there is a small band on the middle stage singing this song, well, basically this sense of vision, visual feedback is still very strong, but the sense of quality is obviously not enough.

"Princess Disease" has also been changed to a fresh version of literature and art, the original version is faster, one is to echo "Sunshine Otaku", and the other is to reflect the rhythm of the song, giving people a feeling of jumping. But it is more difficult to sing fast songs like Liu Ruiqi, so it can be understood to adapt it into this way, just like many girls do not sing the original version of "Little Apple", but they like the small and fresh version of the guitar.

Liu Ruiqi's advantage is the vulgar texture of the timbre, the popular song has a certain ability to dismantle and reshape, aside from the range pitch, Jay Chou's song you may follow 100 times is not a problem, but, when it comes to the change of timbre and singing style, and then look at Jay Chou, you will know why Jay Chou is Jay Chou. The same tone and the same way of singing I'm not sure if you can stand it, but anyway, I will inevitably cut the song when I listen more.

Summing up Liu Ruiqi's "Looking for Jay Chou Again" is a good fan cover album in the past year, the new arrangement plus Liu Ruiqi's vulgar textured voice makes the whole album have a new feeling in the sense of listening, of course, the most important thing is that the translation is Jay Chou's classic...

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In fact, I still miss Wang Jinmei's skewer adaptation and cover of Jay Chou, when girls translated Jay Chou's "Black Humor", "Shanghai 1943", "Jay + Fantasia + Qilixiang" Rap skewers are extremely rare, basically can be regarded as the first in Jay Chou's mainland fan girl cover songs.