Although feelings are an overused word, it makes sense why people in this era continue to emphasize the word sentiment. For example, in the field of music, when the elements of timbre, rhythm, and style slowly become the master of a work, it is easy to lose the sense of truth.
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Until this era, there are still many new generations of singers who will cover the old songs of the eighties and nineties on various occasions, because these old songs have emotions, and emotions can stimulate the most beautiful melodies, which are precisely the most sought-after musical materials in this era.
For Zeng Zhaowei, in fact, it is not strange. As early as when she participated in the third season of "Good Songs of China", I was very impressed with her. Because in Zeng Zhaowei's works, you can hear the most valuable essence of folk songs, the kind of whimsical narration in a state of complete relaxation, and the full immersion in the world of self.
Just like the new song "Once Upon a Time", Zeng Zhaowei's creative intention also does not have that kind of breakthrough, it is a story about the past, about the past, about emotions, about worry. Many singers have written and sung, and left many classic works.
But so what? There are so many people who write love songs, but love song works are still constantly giving birth to classics, and sometimes the creation is not necessarily more than the concept, than the intention, than the angle, than the technology, it sometimes does not need to imagine the enemy, it sometimes needs only to release, release all the emotions of the creator, and turn the most delicate sincerity into empathetic resonance, which is enough.
For example, the song "Once Upon a Time"
Sometimes, whether a creator's work is good or not depends not on how complex the text is and how strange the words are. Good pop music does have many ways of presenting it, but in works such as love songs and emotions, the experience of ordinary people can be expressed in a highly condensed way, that is, excellent creation. Such a work, for those who listen to the song, is such a feeling, the song is written by themselves, but they do not have the ability to express it.
There is a saying called "derived from life but higher than life", which is actually this creative law and truth.
Like Zeng Zhaowei's previous works, listening to the song "Once Upon a Time" is like listening to a friend, girlfriend chatting, talking, and it is all her own true story.
Zeng Zhaowei is singing and sharing.
It is not easy for a creator to fully present his inner world. But in the world of pop music, this way of writing songs only for yourself can eventually become your own distinctive style. Like
Moreover, because of the differences in the experience and experience of different individuals, this technique can present the most individual recognition, which is also impossible to give by music technology. Just like Li Zongsheng, he has always been based on himself, using intuition and experience to write love songs, and eventually made love songs a style of self.
"Once Upon a Time" is also a de-technical work in terms of musical attributes. The simple folk guitar playing and singing style, coupled with just the right male harmony, the arrangement of the whole work not only maintains the primary color expression created by Zeng Zhaowei, but also has some three-dimensional layers of shaping.
But the seemingly simple arrangement still has enough detail. The performance of Li Yanliang, the top guitarist in China, not only has a simple but full sweeping string, but also modulates a tone similar to a mandolin, and also adds an ethereal, fine, but crisp and clean beauty to the work of "The Man Once Upon a Time". This atmosphere with a classical atmosphere, in turn, is also a shaping of the musical atmosphere of the past time, so that the singer can enjoy the memories, so that the listener can abandon the distractions.
This is also a high-level technique of de-skilling.
As for Zeng Zhaowei's singing, it is a primary color of singing, this kind of sound with a faint sadness, and a heartbeat and breathing, but also makes the singing itself, also an individual creation, and finally merges with the song and song to become an independent singing and composing work. Its biggest difference is that the same song, if someone else comes to sing, it is not Zeng Zhaowei's "Once Upon a Time".
But the song leaves these scenes behind, and even in "The Man Once Upon a Time", it will never disappear. This is the biggest charm of music, and it is also the charm of Zeng Zhaowei in this era.