The new issue of "Do You Listen to My Music", have you watched it?
After several rounds of collaborative stage, this time back to independent performances.
To be honest, there is no work that detonates the whole network at present.
Each ensemble tried to create a blockbuster, but none of them succeeded.
Excellent works are continuous, and they can always stay in small circles.
Phenomenal works like "Rolling Bead Curtain", "Wild Son" and "Chengdu" are gone.
As a B station variety show, the natural discussion in the station is in full swing.
"Drama Song", "Score", and "Unloading" are very popular.
Yu Ziqi x Zhang Ziwei also became the most talked about contestant in the show with "Drama Song".
A song of "Drama Song" detonated station B.
It was played 2.71 million times and tens of thousands of people participated in the discussion.
In the latest episode, they brought the original "ShengSheng".
The popularity remained undiminished, and the number of plays exceeded 100,000 that night.
The style is as always, full of strong Chinese flavor.
The styles of songwriting, arrangement, instrumentation, costumes, and choreography are relatively uniform.
Barrage received rave reviews.
"I lean on, good cow."
"Tears in my eyes".
"It's amazing."
The wind direction in the comments section is also basically one-sided.
Judging from the current reviews, most people agree with this work, which perfectly fits the public aesthetic.
To be honest, I personally seem to have overrated it.
Compared with "Drama Song", this "Shengsheng" is much worse in audibility.
The visuals are brilliant, but the aural senses are not stimulated.
Among the many positive comments, Park Shu, as a flying guest, commented:
I think you guys work records, and I like that. But I don't think the whole song is enough to express your theme. ”
The implication is that form is greater than content.
The theme of the song is too grand, but the content does not fill the theme.
After listening to Park Shu's words, I felt the same way.
Yu Ziwei x Zhang Ziwei's music composition has always been characterized by grand themes.
"Opera Song", "Long Night", "Man in Song", "Life".
Each song can be linked to a grand philosophical proposition.
Let's start with their large, whole musical form.
In the album planning part of the program, they took "drama songs" as the core of creation.
On the one hand, it implies that music is full of dramatic creative techniques, and on the other hand, it shows that drama originates from life, but life is far more wonderful than drama.
Whether it is to keep the plain, to break through the shackles, in the face of the ever-changing world, we must keep that faith.
The red paper cut is the cover of their physical album.
The three flowers correspond to a lyric of "Life".
"Pick one, wither one, plant another."
Flowers and winding totems represent endless life.
If you look closely, you can also find surprising little ideas in "Songs".
The two mouths of the "song" character structure are replaced by their respective side faces, alluding to the high realm of the unity of human song.
In addition to the visual impact, they put a layer of incense on the physical album shell to unify the visual and olfactory senses.
The album packaging also has handwritten letters, letter signatures, seals, including some like mirrors, incense sticks and other peripherals.
Overall, this is a perfect album project.
Every detail fits the subject matter very closely.
The formal performance stage, the impact of the dance is also extremely amazing.
They wore dark ragged shirts, wrapped in vines all over their bodies, and transformed themselves into part of a plant.
Ritual-filled behaviors include lighting incense before singing, and the need for a connecting body between the two.
With the outer packaging almost perfect, let's look at the work itself.
The melody has a strong personal character.
Unexpected chord directions and upward melodic arrangements.
The main chorus is performed with 6243 chords, which is both melancholy in minor key and full of mystery.
After listening to it as a whole, it did not achieve what I thought in my heart.
Their front concept is too full, and the back is somewhat empty.
The content is distinct, and the melody lacks memory points.
As Park Shu said, the song itself cannot support a grand theme.
First, let's talk about the song structure.
Prelude - main song - chorus - interlude - bridge crossing - main song 1 - chorus 1 - bridge crossing 1.
The structure is much different from traditional pop music, that is, the ending is more special.
Songs usually end with choruses, which they end with a bridge section, or an extension of the chorus.
Although the chords of the main chorus are consistent, the melody of the main song is slightly less audible.
"In the midst of the fire, we should wait for flowers to grow, and hit the eggs with eggs to break the stone."
The melody is niche in the pop song framework.
"Flowers" uses a pure four and a small three degrees that continue to rise, and "Stone Breaking Heaven" does the next three degrees of rotation on the basis of the upward movement.
Although the melody trend of going up and down has long been the norm, the span design between the tones is out of the ordinary.
This is what makes them unique, but it also affects the sense of hearing.
For the melody of the last sentence, the sound gives people an unpleasant sense of viciousness.
The chorus part continues the main song, and the melody development is much smoother.
The opera added after the interlude is somewhat separated from the work, and it is suspected of being deliberate.
In response to this problem, the judges of the fresh listening group also gave corresponding suggestions.
For operas or folk songs added to music, it is necessary to study its own harmony and melody trend, and excavate the essence of creation.
Under the premise of mastering the main points, it may be more rooted in the work.
To put it bluntly, there are too many musical elements that do not blend with each other.
The theme is "Endless Life", but it does not feel a strong vitality.
It wasn't until the final chorus extension that it really broke out.
The tempo shifts from 6/8 to 4/4 beats, with faster speed and increased intensity.
The two shouted with all their might to really touch on the theme of the song.
This is also the only passage that Park Shu likes.
"The end of that song is very powerful."
Combined with video appreciation is slightly better, simply listening to the audio effect will be greatly reduced.
That's what they're missing.
It is still true after leaving the visual effects, and it is a really good work.
This may be the different perceptions of the work by the public and industry people.
"ShengSheng" is somewhat superficial, if you can strengthen the melody audible and internal and external compatibility, why worry about not out of the circle.
Looking at domestic music, there are not many styles like Yu Zizhu x Zhang Ziwei.
The works are said to be the national style at a smaller level, and the world music at the largest.
Don't look at the national style is very hot in recent years, most of the works are just wearing the coat of national style, small fights.
Serious music will also use pentatonic scales, ethnic instruments, correct lyric logic, some people directly copy and paste, assembly line production, lyrics and melodies are more uniform, unbearable.
After watching the performance of Yu Ziqi x Zhang Ziwei, the public may have a new understanding of the national style and even world music.
The visual impact of their stage is undoubtedly shocking.
If they can strengthen the melody creation, they will set off a new round of national wind boom.