For "Mizuki Nianhua", from "A Lifetime with You" to "Grateful For Life", it is a reincarnation, a node from the starting point to a reincarnation, and a new starting point of another reincarnation.
The musical allegory of "A Lifetime with You" has long been self-evident today, twenty years later. Whenever the melody of this song sounds, many people will think of the youth of gardenia blossoms, and will return to that simple and beautiful time. More importantly, after the passage of time, more people still hear the weight of life and the warm healing from this work.
"A Lifetime with You" is an excellent folk song, and "A Lifetime with You" is also a poem with a sense of gratitude, the text is fresh but profound, the writing is concise but the emotion is timeless.
Twenty years later, "Thank You for Life", from the first moment of encountering it, you can feel that it is no less timeless and powerful than "A Lifetime with You". It can also be said that this is another iconic high-level work of "Mizuki Nianhua", especially on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of their group, which has a special symbolic significance.
There have been so many changes in twenty years, including the environment in which we live. To stick to your faith and original intention for twenty years, it is easy to say and too difficult to practice. The work "Thanks for Life", to a certain extent, is the result of "Mizuki Nianhua" and the creator Lu Gengzhi sticking to the ideal.
Regardless of the wind and rain outside the window and the change of tide, "Mizuki Nianhua" still uses the most simple melody and the freshest poetry to compose the hymn of life, between change and invariance, with invariance to calmly cope with various changes, so the music has a rigid bone, as well as a wind bone.
This kind of persistence is actually not an immutable stubbornness, a kind of old decay that does not want to make progress. In the work "Thanks for Life", you can actually hear the vitality. This vitality comes from the vitality of life growth, from the vitality expressed by the singer through creation after thinking, and also from the dynamics it brings that can purify people's hearts.
Purification, indeed, is the song "Thanks for Life", which has a very unique function in this era. A lot of songs will give you stimulation, some songs will give you a shock, and some songs will activate your tear glands and make you cry because of the resonance.
Listening to the song "Thank You for Life" can wash away people's hearts and purify your and my souls. In music, we are born, we grow, we go out and wander through mountains and rivers, we live strongly, and finally feel the connotation and meaning of life.
The phrase "thanks to life" contains life and growth, and contains open-mindedness and calmness. If love songs only give you "what a painful realization", then "Thank You for Life" allows you to complete a very relaxed and comfortable realization, from then on the sea and the sky, infinite freedom.
Don't think that the lyrics of "Thank You for Life" are plain, it is precisely in it that I read the taste of those classic masterpieces in the most brilliant years of modern Chinese poetry in the 1980s. The text is fresh and capable, the brushstrokes are innocent and flawless, and the gaps between words are not filled by rhyme and showmanship, but by imagination to extend and expand space.
Therefore, the lyrics between the square inches of "Thanks for Life" have heaven and earth, life, and world, they are even more vast than the ocean, and they are more vast than the grassland. It was a beautiful time, but also an era that was gradually forgotten, but this time it was re-reproduced through the words of Lu Gengzhi and Nobrange.
In fact, "Thanks for Life" is indeed a work related to the world. Just like the creation of "A Lifetime with You" was influenced by Yeats's poem "When You Are Old", the inspiration for "Thank You for Life" also came from a South American folk song.
This is not a reference and imitation of the pop music industry, this is precisely the eternal and eternal charm of folk music, that is, through generations of creators, through the integration of music in different countries and regions, so as to complete the vertical and horizontal dissemination. A ballad seed was picked and watered with a new one by another author, and the seed grew another fruit.
What remains unchanged is the original intention of the folk song, about life, about gratitude, and forever "grateful for life".
It is worth mentioning that although it is a very simple folk song work, Lu Gengzhi has completed just the right "carving" in the work of "Thanks to Life", which is a kind of ingenuity, and thus makes the music three-dimensional.
"Thanks for Life" is a work with a small span of main songs and choruses, from A to B, there is a very natural connection and excess, which also makes the work not like many industrial songs, there is an excessive blunt and deliberate progression trace.
But on this basis, Lu Gengzhi has played a deeper level for the whole work through a transition section similar to a boat song and like a certain tribal folk song, just like injecting an ancient energy into the work, pushing life forward continuously, endlessly and endlessly.
From "September" to "Thank You for Life", Lu Gengzhi is a personal voice and has reached an optimal state. The more magnetic and thick vocal lines, coupled with the high range span of bass to treble depth, also allow the work to reflect the distant and desolate mood at the same time.
Of course, Miao Jie's harmony still gives the works of "Mizuki Nianhua" a unique sense of standing. And this time this work is even more different, in addition to joining a new member such as Tsinghua small alumnus Chen Qiuhua, the whole work is also presented in the form of a Full Band, Lu Gengshu is responsible for the electric box piano, Chen Qiuhua plays the electric guitar, Miao Jie plays the bass, plus the harmony of the Trinity, a new "Water Year", which is also online twenty years later!
Thanks for the music, thanks for life!