I remember that in this year's "The Voice of China" program, when Wu Keyue finished singing on stage, several mentors talked about Hong Kong style music, Li Ronghao said that he had always liked Hong Kong style music, and Na Ying also expressed doubts at that time. Li Ronghao directly revealed that there will be such works in his new album, and promised that "no hong kong does not want money"!
It turned out that what Li Ronghao said was true. Following the release of his seventh album's first retro Hong Kong-style single "Across the Sea" in July, he will recently launch another Hong Kong-style work on the new album, which is a cover of BEYOND's "Lover".
A few days ago, when the news that Li Ronghao will launch a new song "Lover" was just reported on the Internet, many netizens complained as soon as they heard the song title, how is it "lover", can you change a somewhat new song title? They thought That Lee Young-ho had written a new song called "Lover".
Indeed, there are a lot of works called "Lover" in Chinese pop songs, and I looked at the encyclopedia entry of "Lover", and there are 45 meanings, of which 26 are song titles. Peeling off the cover version, there are nearly 20 songs called "Lover" included here.
Most of them may not be familiar to you, such as Chen Baiqiang, Pan Meichen, Tan Yonglin all have songs called "Lover", and Xu Wei, Han Hong, Lin Yilun also have works of the same name, and some less famous singers. But in terms of singing, the most well-known to the public may be the following four songs:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > BEYOND's Lover</h1>
This time, Li Ronghao's cover is exactly this work of BEYOND.
As long as the song with "Lover" as the title, this love song attribute can not be too obvious, but BEYOND's "Lover", usually considered not to be a simple love song, at least from the lyricist Liu Zhuohui's side, he wants to write about the relationship between the two places across the land and Hong Kong. It is said that his original song was called "Mainland Lover" to write about the difficulties and barriers of a Hong Kong person falling in love with a mainlander in the early 1990s. In the end, it is still a love song, but it sets a specific era background.
But from the perspective of Huang Jiaju, who composed the music, it is more confusing, because there is no creative communication between him and Liu Zhuohui, and Liu Zhuohui can only represent his personal ideas. The song, like "Sea and Sky", was included in the last album of the four sons of BEYOND, "Music and Anger". As a legacy of Jiaju, it is impossible to understand what the original intention of his creation was. You can sing it as a pure love song, just like "Like You", or you can understand it as the voice of Jiaju dedicated to Hong Kong fans in a foreign land...
Whether it is a love song is actually not important, what is important is that this is a classic masterpiece, even if it is not a love song, even if there is no lyrics, we can also hear from the song that kind of resentment, love and difficult to gather the sad feelings, which makes people sad; and the lyrics "how many spring and autumn wind and rain change, how many rugged and unchanging love, how many sighs you are in the sea of people", then push this emotion to the climax, as if suddenly tears returned at the moment of laughter and turning around...
There are also lyrics such as "Even if I leave, in your sky, Woo ~ you know, who is willing to go back", which is the same as "I will be afraid that one day I will fall" in "The Sea and the Sky", which almost simply foreshadows the fate of the family colt.
BEYOND's "Lover" has a classic Cantonese version, but also a Chinese version (launched in 1998), I hope that this time Li Ronghao's cover is the Cantonese version. However, it is also a little worried for him, at present, the people who cover BEYOND songs, it seems that no one can surpass Huang Jiaju.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Du Dewei's "Lover"</h1>
One of Du Dewei's "Lovers" has also been widely sung, and it is a Chinese song he launched in 1999, which is relatively easy to hear and is also Du Dewei's most well-known representative work. As an old song, some people may not remember it, and the chorus part of the memory point is sung like this: "Lover ~ love but more, hypocrisy does not say, only with a true heart, silently love me", and the impression, right?
The song was composed by Lin Jianhua and written in the light, and came from the production of Rolling Stone Records, and was very popular as soon as it was launched. The simple touch in the song is worth listening to repeatedly, and it is still preserved in the playlists of many people.
"Lover" is of course a lyric song, and "99 Lover" is the whole album to create a "popular lover" who exudes different charms. But the style is a mature R&B that belongs to Du Dewei's pioneers, and it is also accompanied by dance. Now, Du Dewei was a very trendy singer at that time, many years before Jay Chou and they played R&B.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Daolang's Lover</h1>
Du Dewei's "Lover" came to 2004, Dao Lang's soaring "First Snow of 2002" album, there is a song called "Lover", and "Impulsive Punishment" and "The First Snow of 2002", which are the three hottest songs on the album.
"Lover" is written, composed and arranged by Dao Lang, and is particularly popular. About this song, in fact, the evaluation is quite divided. Fans who like Daolang of course think it is very good, the melody is catchy, the lyrics are straightforward and very grounded. But there are also many people who feel a little tacky, overdone, especially lyrics such as "use your fiery lips / Let me endlessly destroy my soul in the middle of the night", "Use your faint body temperature / Smooth out the amorous scars in my heart", simply don't be too shy, admire the knife brother!
Such straightforward lyrics, coupled with simple melodies and slightly rough production, can be welcomed by the broad masses of working people, I can understand, but at the same time, some people disagree with Daolang's work awards on the grounds of "lack of musicality", and I can also understand.
Of course, "Lover" is only one of Daolang's many works, and there are also many rich works in other works, perhaps this song was too hot at the beginning, but it lowered the overall impression of some people on Daolang. This is also why there are always people who love to add oil and vinegar between Na Ying and Dao Lang, "Dao Lang's songs are sung to the peasants", I think some people just want to blame Na Ying for what they want to say.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Cai Xukun's "Lover"</h1>
From 2004 to 2020, the singer this time is the well-known "traffic" representative Cai Xukun. Some people may feel disdainful, so many big-name singers in front of them do not say, but talk about this traffic singer.
Regardless of whether it is a strong singer or a traffic singer, a senior singer or a young singer, we only talk about the song "Lover" here. As we all know, Cai Xukun's "Lover" was quite popular last year, often covered, and it is a masterpiece that Cai Xukun participated in from lyrics to composition and production, why not it is worth saying?
The song was released at the end of May 2020 and won several charts on the day of its launch. Of course, Cai Xukun has a large flow of traffic, the list data is not nothing, but from the perspective of the degree of transmission we can see, over the years, the sales miracle created by the traffic singer to issue albums is more powerful than one, to say that the work is out of the circle but there are really few songs, and "Lover" has done it, which is valuable.
Judging from the lyrics, "My heart is bumping in the fawn / From sunset to the early morning moonlight / Holding you to dawn / You lightly kiss / I am crazy / The atmosphere begins to heat up / Dangerous and charming...", you will find that the content of the statement is actually the same thing as Daolang's "Lover", but the way of expression is different, this side is more euphemistic, with our Kun Kun's lazy and sexy singing voice, presenting a gentle and psychedelic romantic meaning.
The above four "Lovers", if put together and compared, are actually completely completely without contrast, representing four completely different styles: one is a Hong Kong style Cantonese classic, one is R&B popularity, one is a rural love confession song, and the other is an ambiguous enlightenment love song, which one do you like the most?