Continuing the topic of "maturity" in the previous song, ah yan and Xu Jiaying's second first line of music, "Nevertheless, still", focuses on the late maturing crowd over thirty years old.
At this age when they were supposed to be stable, they seemed to have just stepped into "post-adolescence", and the passion to overthrow life rose in vain in their hearts, trying to maintain the balance in the game of dreams and reality. The blunt lyrics tell an inner monologue in the guitar's idyllic melody. Those fantasies and unreasonable complaints that everyone thinks are out of date are cathartic in the songs, not ostentatious, and not pretentious. Ah Yan's voice is clean and natural, retaining a little girlish frankness; and Xu Jiaying's affectionate and delicate voice is full of feminine soft strength. Like lost companions in a crowd, they rely on weak radar signals to find each other and comfort each other - the confrontation between "ideal" and "reality" is a subject that everyone must face in life. When you are young and crazy, you may be able to stand firmly on a certain road with a lonely courage; but when you enter the stage of thirty and standing, the choice becomes difficult because of countless concerns. But because of this, we should remind ourselves that there is no standardized life in the world, and do not be ashamed of the burning heart of the naked child because of the gaze of the masses. Like Maugham's Gauguin, who was full of sixpence, he looked up and saw the moon.
With her unique way of expression in music, Ah Yan revealed her "popular physique" in the music world very early. In 2016, Lin Youjia presented Ah Yan's hit single "To You Who Is Late", bringing a single music fan a single and expectations for love; in 2017, Guo Caijie sang the golden song "The Other Me in the World" with Ah Hao, and the two showed the innocent friendship between the girls to the fullest; and in recent years, Ah Yan on the variety show, with Wu Qingfeng and Zhang Shaohan, have partnered.
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Such a "physique" also attracted Xu Jiaying. After listening to Ah Yan's songwriting demo, she happily agreed to the cooperation. Ah Yan and Xu Jiaying are also rare singer-songwriters in the music world, a unique and unique person who has a keen perception of the voice of contemporary urban people; an all-rounder, who is a songwriter who has won the Golden Melody Award many times. The tacit understanding of one shot is not only due to the mutual appreciation between the two people, but also the sympathy between female musicians.
They are not the same in personality and experience, but when they enter similar stages of life, they can find the focus of overlap in each other's life course and feelings, and jointly deduce the complex choices faced by women when they move towards the mature stage. In the precipitation of the flow of years, they finally gained the courage to accept themselves and a strong heart to support their "still growing" dreams.
Even if the restless dreams have stirred up the ordinary life, it is better to continue to maintain the status quo;
Do your best (jìn) to do so, just enjoy the process of pursuit to the fullest, or follow your own will and heart.
A small change in tone of voice symbolizes two very different lives. However, as Ah Yan said, there is no such thing as a perfectly correct choice in life. I hope that you, who are making decisions and hesitations, can get the answers you want when you hear this song, and firmly believe that it is not shameful to be such an adult at a mature age, having childish dreams. "Break into the world, big kids, though."
Ah Yan's latest album "It's Not Shameful to Be Such an Adult" will be released on November 8.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Shou Penghuan
Editor/Bow Lifang