Speaking of Faye Wong, I think everyone knows it. As one of the iconic figures in the Chinese music scene, Faye Wong has made outstanding contributions to music. Faye Wong is well-known in Asia and the Chinese world with her unique voice and "Philippine singing". She has successfully implanted alternative female voices, Brit Pop and other elements into her works, which has subverted Hong Kong pop music to a certain extent. Order. No matter what type of song Faye Wong performs, it will have a distinctive taste.
And Faye Wong’s achievements in music, this question cannot be clarified by some simple content, because her music is Tai Chi, more like some philosophy books, it is difficult to be in a short time It is thorough, and many works have no sense of time, and are even obviously separated from the same time. Maybe in 20 or 30 years, some people who study will discover new subtleties.
So, how about Faye Wong's music? Let's analyze it together!
New Yibao Record Period: Broaden the development path of popular music and create a popular pattern of "alternative mainstream"
In 1993, Faye Wong launched Cantonese album " One Hundred Thousand Whys" , seems to have become the benchmark of Hong Kong-made pop records that year. As Faye Wong's more controlled album, this album has a significant turning point in her singing career. It is also the first time she has embraced Western alternative music with a high profile, and began to separate from Hong Kong's over-commercial mainstream music.
She participated in and led the design, styling, makeup of the album, and has independently created lyrics and music. She gradually changed her real name from Wang Jingwen back to Faye Wong, indicating that she has begun to find the direction of her efforts in music, no longer simply following the arrangements of the record company, but dominating her albums with her own personality and musical touch.
The singers or groups she admired are mostly excellent singers who are "win-win" in terms of commentary and audience, such as Sting, Tori Amos, Queen, and Sinead Oocnnor. "One Hundred Thousand Whys" as an album that expresses Faye Wong's "self", it can be said that the selection of songs is very thoughtful, and it has developed the mode and standard for the production of Faye Wong's later. That is, the basic model of alternative + mainstream + style.
The opening song of the album, CYKong’s original work "Liu Fei Fei" is just like the trendy dance style of E-Mix. The melody is attractive and the arrangement is excellent. It can be said to be a trendy Hong Kong product. A masterpiece of dance music. Later, Lei Songde, Wang Shuangjun and others followed suit with different successes and failures, and led a copy of the British trend, which contrasted with the American RNB style represented by Lin Yilian. And finally caused the decline of Cantonese RNB and Lingge.
Nowadays, R&B is on the island of Taiwan, but the trend is obvious. "Fang Sheng Fang Die" is something to follow. C.Y.Kong started with Faye Wong's "No More Fools", which has attracted much attention. "Liu Fei Fei" strengthened his position on the list of Hong Kong creators.
and eventually developed into one of Faye Wong’s most important partners, and became a member of the Alvin Leung-C.Y.Kong-Adrian Chan-Alex San team. They are of great significance to Faye Wong’s success. Faye Wong's interpretation of the first Allegro work is quite excellent, which can be seen in comparison with Wang Xinping's cover version. The interpretation of dance music tends to emphasize the rhythm and lose its indulgence. The mechanical pause of the latter is more unrestrained than the former, and you can't help but bow your head.
EMI Recording Period: Independently leading alternative pop music, can become the queen of pop without catering to the market
For a long time, the definition of pop singers is nothing more than Almost the “popular idol creation” market has given birth to a view, but this does not work for Faye Wong. What motivates her to become the queen of music is not the result of following the market, but the reason for leading the trend. In 1996, the album "Impact" completely completed the combination and transformation of root rock and British rock. The
album has been streamlined repeatedly in the lineup of production staff.
Zhang Yadong was able to participate in the work of the album due to Dou Wei's recommendation. When Dou Wei first recorded songs for Faye Wong, Zhang Yadong played the guitar for Faye Wong and wrote a few songs. Faye Wong felt that Zhang Yadong was okay, so he had the intention of cooperating on the album. Cocteau Twins from the same company is Faye Wong’s British teacher, and Faye Wong often discusses music with them in private. Later, Cocteau Twins wrote two songs for Faye Wong, "Split" and "Disappointment".
and "Impermanence" has bright music and a light and comfortable tone, but the whole is like meditation wrapped in an eggshell, which is all Dou Wei's feeling. "Impy" is a simple song. This song relies on the arrangement, one tight and one relaxation, changing in turn, without loss of change, and not monotonous.
In "Fall", the word "Yah" of "Come on, come on" can best reflect the taste of depravity, like clouds and mist flowing deep into the valley. The chorus is high, floating, almost falsetto, but it is the taste of Cocteau Twins.
In "The Doomsday", Faye Wong adopts the sing method of every word. Originally, this kind of singing would seem abrupt, but when Faye Wong sang, he specially dealt with it, lengthening the last word of each sentence, or processing the first word first, to bridge the awkward gap. In the lyrics, Faye Wong personified abstract nouns such as "ideal", "confidence", "beauty", "desire" and so on, reminding people of the early civilized dramas in Europe.
"Where" and "Imagination" are songs without words, and Faye Wong's interpretation is more of chanting. The syllables of the song are few, simple and easy to pronounce. Faye Wong highlights several vowels such as "咿", "ah" and "oh", which are clear and rounded, supplemented by fuzzy teeth, giving it a matte effect. The tune was rushed, accelerating the blurring of the sound, and the airflow at the pitch seemed to be forced out of a narrow hole, a kind of misty drifting away from the sky. If you fill in the lyrics, it is difficult to achieve a pure effect.
Sony Record Period: The pinnacle of Chinese music
Who can lead the trend in the Chinese music world today? Who can stick to oneself? Who can keep talking? Who can stay popular? Who can master Asia? Who can conquer Japan? There is only one common answer, only Faye Wong! The first major event in the pop music world in 2002 is that the Chinese queen Faye Wong will release her first collection of the century since she joined EMI on March 5.
"You Faye Wong, So I, Faye Wong" includes the best of Faye Wong's five championship albums "Faye Wong", "Singing Tour", "Only Love Strangers", "Fables" and "The Flowing Years" released by Faye Wong in the past five years at EMI The 24 representative works of the company are released as a double-CD deluxe version. Although there have been many compilations of Faye Wong's fried cold rice in the market in the past, it was only after joining EMI that Faye Wong was able to make full use of his talents and make his own Filipino music style.
In this one-of-a-kind collection, you can have the lyrical "I don't want to be this way", the "boring" of rock, the experimental "face", the popular "moon at the time", the electronic "Chanel ", the playful "only loves strangers", the avant-garde "open to Tumi"...16 classics in Mandarin + 8 golden songs in Cantonese, have been selected for 5 consecutive years in the best edition of Faye Wong's Top Ten Mandarin Albums.
has always been looking forward to and cannot be replaced. There is no suitable adjective to describe her music, style and acting style, because the word "Faye Wong" is a unique adjective and has become an important music in this era. Mark.
In addition, the 2003 "Love" album incorporates more genres, including Latin exoticism and trip-hop, folk, electronic music, etc.
The title song "To Love" was composed by Faye Wong. On the surface, it was written that her relationship with Nicholas Tse was like a war, but it was actually emphasized that the prejudice of the outside made them physically and mentally exhausted. Originally, love was pure, not It should be mixed with other things. She sang with a strong force, majestic and powerful arrangement, and changes in her vocal tone. She used air-to-tone conversion in many places to create the atmosphere of the song, which was different from her previous songs.
and "Not Staying" was composed by Faye Wong, the lyrics laid out a series of opposites or related things, in "you" and "heHe kept giving, as if to split everything he had into two parts. After a long period of "giving", nothing was exchanged, nothing was left, nothing was left, let me listen. The reader instantly has a sense of loss and emptiness.
The song "No Stay" is a trip-hop style, giving people a refreshing feeling.
Return to the music world: Extremely high musical literacy, diverse and flexible techniques
Music literacy refers to the singer’s ability to sing duet, because after the lyrics and music are created, the song is like a “rough” without clear singing and sound effects , The singer needs to interpret the singing method according to his own skills and understanding of the song. Simply put, Faye Wong’s most outstanding ability in singing is: What artistic conception a song should be, she can interpret what with voice Effect, and even produce unexpected better results.
So many people put forward the "Philippine" singing method, this statement is a generalization of Faye Wong’s music literacy and skills, not that her voice is single, but It means that her sound effects are rich enough, and there are many song styles that can be controlled, which can be elevated to a broad concept of "Philippines".
Faye Wong’s vocal singing method is extremely excellent, her head cavity resonance skills are proficient, and the true and false sound is converted. Freedom; in addition, the technique of vibrato and dragging has unique styles; the lazy and delicate singing method has become a weapon to capture many listeners; the perfect interpretation of broken sound (open to Tumi); the perfect combination of bel canto and pop (face), etc.
And during the comeback period, Faye Wong also had a different musical composition.
For example, singing the theme song of the romance film "Follow Love to the End" with Eason Chan "Because of Love" 》.
This song is the first chorus of Eason Chan and Faye Wong. Faye Wong’s voice is ethereal and gentle, while Eason Chan is relatively high-pitched and warm. Their chorus has a rich emotional level, with both youthful feelings and years. The songwriter Ke Zhaolei said, “This is a song that travels through memory, and it is also the simplest love song. I hope to give everyone the most true touch. "In the beginning, Ke Zhaolei prepared two tones for this song, and Faye Wong chose a higher one. "
and the theme song "to youth" which sang the romance film "To our dying youth" .
The lyrics of "To Youth" tells the passion and fragility of youth, the comprehension after youth, with a sense of sadness. Six keywords are used in the song for the characteristics of youth: crazy, tired, pained, laughed, screamed, and gone, describing it as a comedy on earth, but youth is bizarre.
And the sentence in the lyrics "this youth is gone, I understand the time" expresses the nostalgia and melancholy of the lost youth. Faye Wong’s singing voice is ethereal, weakening the ending of each sentence, making the whole song sound full of "Fairy" flavor, a bit of the shadow of the "Fable" album.
Most of the listeners were moved by "To Youth". When they saw the lyrics, they thought of their years in school and couldn't help but sigh. The last sentence of the lyrics is the finishing touch.
一首 "The Hurry That Year" even won the Golden Melody Award of the Eastern Fengyun Chart, the Best Movie Song and the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards.
Faye Wong’s touching voice is accompanied by touching lyrics, and every note is striking the heart of the audience, deducing the touching plot and touching scenes in the movie, which is moving.
The lyrics of "The Year in a Hurry" poked people, and the MV poked tears, which directly aroused the collective resonance of the audience for youth. Some netizens couldn't stand calling friends and friends, and met together to cherish youth. The song and the movie have the same name, seamless docking The theme song's artistic conception closely fits the movie story and hits people's hearts directly. This is the biggest advantage of "The Year in a Hurry".
Finally, a song "岁月" is the stream of consciousness of Faye Wong and Na Ying after twenty years. This song is a picture scroll, which is woven into a picture of the passage of time by the two queens’ perseverance and unique timbre.Juan: Behind the light clouds and light winds, there is the complex smoke and dust that has gone away, the noisy red dust that cannot be sought but avoided.
I have to say, apart from all external evaluations, Faye Wong is definitely an outstanding singer and musician that has been rare in China in recent decades. Whether in terms of melody, production, rhetoric, interpretation, genre, or artistic conception, they are all of the highest overall quality in the Chinese music scene. Sometimes I hear a "refreshing" song, but Faye Wong's 20 years ago.
"Let’s listen to the eternal melody of the years, and always accompany the journey of gathering and scattering. I have a door open in my heart, waiting for the return of eternal youth..."
