With 80 percent of Lee Da Ben's sincerity, |" Fatal Series"
For most people who focus on real life, change itself is an unsolvable problem, it is difficult to trace and plan: memories are always uneven, and the future is never exhausted. Therefore, almost no one will care what kind of self you see in this moment become. Different from the universal concept of "change", Li Daben, in his self-built world, as a musician, accurately conveys the definition of "change" - keeping the original intention, handing over 80% of himself, to face the real life.
The Lunar New Year has not arrived, and the crowd mentions 2021, which has already been carried out for one-twelfth, with the words "next year" interspersed with the words "next year". But in early 2021, I will meet with everyone with the new special "Fatal Series", which seems to be declaring "to greet the New Year with a good work, the beginning is good luck, and there will be more, better and smoother things next." ”
In the new album "Fatal Series", a total of ten songs are included, and the creative cycle spans 2020 to the present. If you taste it carefully, you will definitely be able to feel the true feeling that the work covers the brewing time, and you can also feel the changes of Li Daben before and after this year. When asked, "How your state when you write a song is different from your state in life," he said, "The self I express in the song is the real self." But this album only expresses 80% of Li Daben, and the remaining 20% is the part that cannot be exposed. ”
This is also the so-called unsolvable problem - change. In the face of real life, only you know which part is constant and which part is unconsciously changed when cultivating life.
/ "Let's take a given scene and a time"
In parallel with the album "Fatal Series", there is also its physical album. As we all know, art student Li Daben was very competent in his previous album planning. The physical special of this "Fatal Series" is still infused with the creative concept of Daben himself.
Presenting the vision of the entire album in the form of an alien magazine, with the advancement of time points, forming a series between all the songs. The physical special " face-to-face will make it easier for people listening to the song to enter the drama and even empathize through scene-based interpretation. For example, "Dog Man" is a vague backseat at four o'clock in the morning; "Don't be sad, you don't smoke enough" and "WANG" are the stage time at eight o'clock in the evening, and with the stage, Da Ben can become himself; With a stage, you can meet with fans and give them comfort; With the stage, we can use music to establish an emotional connection with the audience and listeners in the most direct way.
The established different scenes, corresponding to different tracks, through the display of various different emotions, let the people who read this magazine and listen to the entire album feel the symbiosis from the music, as if Da Ben is handing over an invitation, filling in the place and time in a correct font, you just need to be there on time and meet him.
The diverse "Fatal Series" is also a change in the framework and tries new things on the basis of retaining his own creative grid. Trap, Hiphop, Brit Pop, Pop Rock, Funk and other genres of music have appeared in the production of this album. At the same time, he also cooperated with different arrangers and producers, combined with his own self-tensioned lyrics creation⻛style, "Fatal Series" expresses his own attitude at the same time, as if it is also a cool drama that can bring people a pleasant feeling.
/ Music is a way to export oneself for good use
"Occasionally witty, occasionally romantic, always speaking out, expressing bluntly, never sinking", the above can be collectively referred to as "Li Daben's ⻛ grid".
Like "Dog Man", which was released a few months ago, he used to combine topics with relaxed and interesting tunes, and visualized misunderstandings and biases, expressing his struggles in the predicament, while also exporting his own personal views; For example, in "Don't be sad, your smoke is not enough", he retains his outspoken and straightforward attitude, and the reverse proposition proves the concept of "the more straightforward, the more comforting to people"; In the love songs of "For You" and "A Cat for Two People", the strong output of the romantic force that continues to run, listening to the sound mixing rhythm and melody, as if you are in a closed room before going to bed, receiving a gentle embrace that can be enjoyed exclusively.
It is worth mentioning that the song title of this new album is also very interesting, including "LOVE THUG ROSE", "Bed, Floor, Sofa" and so on. Da Ben said that his habit is to think of the song title before writing the lyrics, the song title is the theme of the song, and it is interesting to determine the theme, so he will continue to write the whole song smoothly. As for the lyrics part, it is generally written while standing or writing lyrics in front of "grams", feeling that your state is more urgent in these moments, so the lyrics will be more infectious.
In the recent stage of Li Daben, the exposed emotions still retain a straightforward personal personality, but they have converged on a strong personalization. However, what makes the people who love him and his music most pleased is that when the young people in the circle are eager to export their self-attitude, he is always peacefully exporting himself in the way he is good at. He has less anxiety and eagerness of his peers, and perhaps as he himself said, the state of urgency is left to the moment of creation.
/ Accept life and continue to express
Bidding farewell to 2020 and officially beginning in 2021, the seams between new and old are not just a countdown across Chinese New Year's Eve, it is more solemn for the current Li Daben. This is just like the album "Fatal Series", putting aside the written concept statement, Ben sincerely said that he has experienced a lot of things back and forth in the past two years, just like the current album, which has also changed a lot of things. In the face of different people who have come and gone, in the face of the different songs he has written, he can see that many things are indeed changing, but he also knows that two things have not changed: the East he wants to express through music, and the original intention of music conveyed in his album.
From da Ben's songs, it can be seen that he is a very vivid young creator. "I've been expressing what I want to express, such as the anxieties, hearts, love concepts, dreams of our generation of young people." This is also evidenced by his choice of the opening words of the new book, Fatal Series, from Alain de Botton: "Immature love is a story that oscillates between idealization and disappointment, a feeling of ecstasy, happiness and drowning, and an unstable state of incomparable hatred." Before reading this sentence, he had been writing it down in a notebook. When planning the album, I felt that the concept conveyed was very similar, so I used it here. He felt that in the "Fatal Series", he also hid an immature love, in other words, an immature self, which is undergoing change and continuing to progress.
Through musical works, you can find a harmonious way to present yourself, although it is a skill of the creator, it is also a fortunate thing. Looking at Li Daben from the "Fatal Series", you can find that he is more open, as if a planet is rising behind him, although the surface of the planet still has uneven surfaces, but the large area of green vegetation and bright colors are enough to fill people's curiosity about what is on the planet. In this way, it is connected to Da Ben himself, which means that the sense of romance, youthfulness, tension, self-attitude, and vividness conveyed to the outside world through music have been conveyed, and there is still a small part of him that is left to himself.
Only Li Daben himself knew what the remaining twenty percent of himself was, except for this eighty percent of the exposed.
Perhaps that part is not changed, but still with the real life of the progress of the self, always persistent, his musical heart.