Hello everyone, here is Wan Qian, today to talk to you about Jay Chou's "The Death of Cessation".
"The Death of The War" is included in the album "Seven Mile Fragrance"
This is an anti-war song by Jay Chou and an example of the diversity of his musical styles. The song is set in the post-war Vladivostok and reflects on the issues of war.
A city in the midst of war
The ultimate value of any work of art is humanistic care. In popular music, Europe and the United States have done much better than we have. In the Chinese music scene where love songs are dominant, such thinking is rare.
Screenshot of the MV of "The Fall of the War"
Looking at this song again, the lyrics are all stitched together, light, chariots, dandelions... Scenes quickly pass by, showing us a bleak and desolate world after the war. And the damage of war to people is also huge, not only the hometown of the old home was destroyed by the war, people's hearts have also suffered great trauma, especially children:
Children in the midst of war
What shape is the hope in the eyes of the children
Do you wake up with bread for breakfast and drink a bowl of hot soup?
Even adults cannot bear the pain of war. The farmers took up their guns in despair, while the women gave up their resistance in despair:
War destroys farmland
The farmer burned the land and the village finally picked up the gun
She slowly got used to giving up resistance
Not a single word of the song is written about "anti-war", but the whole song is full of anti-war content. This is a very clever way of dealing with it. Jay Chou is also a song with anti-war content, and there is a "Last Battle", but compared with "The Death of the War", "The Last Battle" is very controversial.
Screenshot of the MV of "The Last Battle"
The Last Battle is a war scene throughout, interspersed with brotherhood between the warriors and memories of the carefree lives of the two men before they enlisted. The point of controversy in this song is that Jay Chou directly describes the war in the song, rather than opposing the war by describing the war like "The Death of the War".
"The Last Battle" was included on the album Octave Space
However, Wan Qian believes that although the song directly depicts war scenes, these scenes are all depicted to show brotherhood, which is a kind of background. And in the song, the war makes the soldier eventually lose his brother, which also has anti-war significance to some extent. The brothers in this song are based on Jay Chou himself and his friend Liu Qihong.
Jay Chou and Liu Qihong in the MV
In any case, the music scene needs to be innovative, it needs different musical styles, and I hope that more people will try to explore the style of songwriting. I am Wan Qian, pay attention to me, let's talk about the touch that music brings to us.