Last year's "Children of Tomorrow 2", Tian Yi's cold and warm noodles once left a deep impression on me.
"Warm" is based on Tian Yi's unique and beautiful warm male vocal. In singing, he is not known for his technology, but the texture and moving degree of his voice are definitely the best, such as "Me and Me", "Call by Your Name", "Door", etc. all extend the warm masculinity in his personality, and the songs and personality are unified. If you have to use an analogy, Tian Yi's singing is like a quiet glimmer in the dark night, with a soothing miracle effect.
The faint voice line, the gentle and long voice quality, and even the sound has a spotless "sense of birth" - pure kindness, fresh and lazy, but also warm and powerful.
But more often, it is Tian Yi's "cold". For example, the change of warm winter and cool summer presented by the pond water in the season, Tian Yi also has a cold side.
If the presentation of sound is warm, then the accumulation of emotions inside is cold. "If you want to get a hug, you also want to give people warmth", this kind of sensory emotional two-way interaction is rare and valuable, and it also leads to the cold and warm side of Tian Yi.
When I first heard Tian Yi, I was attracted by his warm expression, and his singing was very spiritual. Of course, it is impossible to ignore the loneliness, shyness and caution that he has suffered. These "funerals" are condensed from his soft personality and become the musical commonality that needs to be cared for the most inside.
To dismantle his works, perhaps because he has experienced too much loneliness and grievances, he can always warm the world in a friendly way through music.
The change of hot and cold is just like the change of seasons of water temperature, and the solid-liquid conversion is the medium transfer of water. Therefore, it is not surprising that Tian Yi's first single is named "Cold", and it is completely reasonable that the new ep revolves around "Can I Be Your Water".
From the single "Cold" to the figurative "Water" in the EP to a broader concept of the entire album, this at first glance is a process of throwing bricks and stones, but it is a progressive perspective migration, making the release model of the entire "single-ep-album" more profound.
Take this ep "Can I Be Your Water" as an example, as a precursor ep before the personal album, a primer, on the one hand, it is testing the acceptance of Shuitian Yi's music to the market, and on the other hand, it has also completed a formal construction project.
Three songs plus a demo connect the past Tian Yi and the current Tian Yi, but either one is as crystal clear as water, soft and warm, sensitive and delicate, and extremely malleable. The cold and warm sides of his body were released without reservation, and the notes were used as the condiment to transform into a water-like teenager.
I have to say that in this ep "Can I Be Your Water", Tian Yi's personality and music have completed a seamless connection.
Water can be classified by hot and cold, and naturally can also be divided into soft and hard.
In addition to the soft and warm side of Tian Yi itself, then the behind-the-scenes lineup, especially the musicians who cooperate with this ep, are solid and tough quality assurance, and their cooperation with Tian Yi makes "Can I Be Your Water" truly achieve both soft and hard, as free as water.
First of all, it is inseparable from the strategic cooperation between Sony Music and Wow Wow Wow. The linkage between music companies and labels has successfully helped in terms of resource tilt, planning a&r, artist image packaging, and even publicity, from the competition to truly facing the double test of the music world and the market, Tian Yi's music is inseparable from these supports.
Secondly, from the production level, Tian Yi has cooperated with a number of excellent musicians. Ep's three songs, "Cold" led the chairman of this Golden Melody Awards and the outstanding producer chen Shanni in the music industry as a producer for him, and there is and just appeared in "This! It is "The Man on the Car" cooperated by Fan Yitang, a talented musician who has won a large number of fans, and "Hello" with the predecessor producer Uru Transnational, and the three songs correspond to different aspects of the musical lineup. The strong combination of musicians can be described as full of sparks.
In addition, some avant-garde or well-known musicians in the industry have also appeared in the ep, becoming an indispensable color. The composition of "Hello" is Tomoyuki Uchida from Japan, and the harmony is The Chinese up-and-coming creator Zhong Wanyun, who once composed the song "Moon Bend" for Chen Jieyi; "The Man on the Car" In addition to inviting Fan Yitang to be the arranger and producer, Bespen Fei also has a great talent, and was the arranger and producer of the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong" the blockbuster ost "Calorie".
The opening song "Hello" for the entire EP is an excellent example of a multinational collaboration between Tae and the well-known Japanese composer Tomoyuki Uchida and producer Uru.
Tian Yi's words no longer choose the dark tones and melancholy temperaments that are inclined to past cover works, but instead turn out a rare tenderness in the direction of emotion, just like the scene of greeting at first sight. This, coupled with tomoyuki Uchida's melody, guitar and string timbres, collides with harmonies that breed empty and distant effects, and spread out a bright atmosphere of warm colors, achieving a kind of personified musical boundary.
The texture of the extension of "Hello" is not the sense of atmosphere set by piano ballad, but brings out the complete musical picture of Tian Yi's whole person - warm and simple, warm and quiet, "Hello" is a good musical outlet for Tian Yi.
In a way, "Hello" is like Tian Yi's mood to meet everyone after the competition with his debut album.
The work "Man in the Car", which has been sung at the birthday party, is not unfamiliar to fans, and it is also the most popular and recognized work since the debut of "Children of Tomorrow".
Lyrics Tian Yi, lyrics creation is very graphic, the inner regret, self-reflection, struggle, loneliness and encounters are all buried in the song, "The Man in the Car" has a very strong resonance factor - our life is like a car, we are all people in the car, will encounter all kinds of unfathomables.
In the creation of the whole song, we can see the personified musical embodiment of Tian Yi, and the potential temperament of the whole ep is unified. The water is shuttled, just like the people you meet on the way.
This version of "Man in the Car" has been newly arranged and produced by musician Fan Yitang, and the outline of the whole song is wrapped in the skeleton of the folk rock, and the modification of guitar, saxophone and strings makes people open up.
Different from the conventional pop song style, the progress of the whole song has gone through several stages, the beginning is the concept of throwing out, "the person on the car", "the lamp outside the window" and other descriptive confiding, the emotion is contained; the middle section is further transitioned, to the successive release of emotions, with doubtful questioning, the singing of this stage has a rich beauty of change, depression and frustration; the end is piled up with a little rock imagery, and the pattern of the whole song is completely established here, echoing the beauty of the beginning to form a confrontation.
Tian Yi's creation, and even the modification of Fan Yitang's arrangement, is streamlined and unconventional, making the song's listening sense quite rich, sinking into this picture in one fell swoop.
The other two, the first single "Cold" released earlier, completed the avant-garde sense of Tian Yi Music under the packaging and guidance of Chen Shanni, creating a self-dialogue. In the deep connotation of this song, "cold" is also to hide the warmth in the body, which looks cold, but people who encounter the same frequency will shine and heat.
The demo "Everything in the Daylight" in the sense of "Easter egg" records the cooperation between Tian Yi and another mysterious female voice in a length of only one minute, and the English words are added to the small talk dialogue, creating a sense of white space. If the water will flood out, the song will also throw more suspense to the next full album.
After listening to the four songs along the prelude, the concept of "water" was slowly established through the songs. And the cold and warm Tian Yi, also incarnated as a water teenager with musical notes, satisfies our appetite.