The most popular lyrics at the beginning of 2020 is the 1996 "So I close your eyes temporarily". /"Want to see you"
On the one hand, there are creators who are eager to achieve success, and it is difficult to settle down to write songs, on the other hand, the external soil is getting thinner-the world is bright and dark, life is bitter and sweet, except the sun If you don't want to see, you will eventually become blind; if you don't want to hear anything except beauty, it's no different from a deaf person.
A few days ago, the blogger @柳飘飘 really fluttered and sorted out some "lyric castration" cases, which caused a lot of netizens to anger and resonate deeply.
is mainly music programs broadcast by TV stations. When the singer sings a song, for various reasons, the producer will make a knife on the original lyrics, such as replacing "Lonely Soul Wild Ghost Tianya" with "Lonely Man Tianya" and "I guess there is a bastard" with "I guess Someone panicked"......
The most puzzling thing is "compete to be a slave", in which the word "slave" has been replaced with "effort", using positive words to pile up a sentence Unintelligible lyrics.
The lyrics are changed randomly on the TV screen, and the song listening software chooses to code the lyrics. No matter which music app you use, you will always find that some words in the lyrics are not displayed when you listen to the song. Instead, the mysterious symbol-"*" is used.
One of Zheng Jun’s masterpieces, "Naked", can it be released as it is today?
The title song of the same name of Zheng Jun's first album "Naked", the title of the song is bold and straightforward, and the lyrics also directly write "That fucking meaningless".
In the distant 1994, such a song caused countless waves. Someone invited Zheng Jun to sing, but he also had to say: "Don't sing "Naked"." The
dispute did not cover up "Naked". Wherever it is, it still has important significance for Zheng Jun himself and the Chinese music scene.
Regrettably, Zheng Jun could sing it unscrupulously on the stage in 1994. By 2020, even the complete lyrics will have to be cut apart.
Folk, rock, and rap are the most frequently played music categories, but popular songs are not immune. The scope is so wide that all songs, old and new, both at home and abroad, are inevitable; the mystery of standards is never known which word can trigger the sensitive points of the program group.
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It’s not that the lyrics are too sensitive, but you are flammable and explosive.
In 1985, Li Zongsheng created the famous Taiwanese music concept album "Busy and Blind" for Zhang Aijia. The album's title song "Busy and Blind" has the original lyrics: "There was a dinner and a bed/when and where and which object/I have forgotten."
But this version failed the review standard , The last thing people heard was: "There was a dinner and a dream."
This past event was later recalled and vigilant in the music world. Unexpectedly, 35 years have passed. Music creators We still have to face the same problems, even more difficult.
"Inflammable and Explosive" is the hardest hit area for lyrics castration. This song has a unique style, and the spicy lyrics and the singer's crow voice are very popular with the audience, so it frequently appears on Chinese music programs. It's a pity that the frequency of being cut is as high as the frequency of appearances, and the sword technique is not the same.
Take the cover version of Hua Chenyu in "Singer 2018" as an example. The first line of lyrics at the beginning was tragically plastic surgery, "I hope I am crazy" becomes "I hope I am crazy".
"Frivolous and mean" was replaced with "Frivolous and casual", "Sultry for me" changed to "Intoxicated for me", "Eloped with me" changed to "Run with me"...Sing it all , Surprised as an eunuch.
"Ten steps to kill one person", should I change it to "10 steps and a cold noodle"? / "Singer"
The most ironic thing is that Hua Chenyu chose to sing "Inflammable and Explosive" in the show, just to commemorate Shang Mendi, one of the song writers, who died in February 2018 .
Under the name of paying tribute, but changing the hard work of the person whom he respected beyond recognition, Shang Mengdi knows how to feel it?
These messy changes not only changed the original intent of the work, but also couldn't be formed into sentences at all. It's like putting peppers in a bowl of noodles. Some people like to eat and others don't. Those who don't like should order individual dishes, but now it is directly forbidden to appear in all bowls of noodles.
But you should know that the peppers in the world will not disappear because of a delicate tongue. The glass heart has been changed again and again, which has harmed the integrity of the work and the dignity of the creator, and there are no rules to follow.
The same sentence "Love me purely and still love me naked", "Also see my eyes waved in ecstasy", in the program of this TV station, "naked" must become "magnanimous" and "ecstasy" must change Become a "lost soul", and change to another show on another TV station, but you don't have to change it.
So, are those lyrics really "out-of-date", or are some people just too worried about them?
In the absence of rules, the creators each tried to figure out the invisible mysterious line of fire, carefully driving themselves and the audience crazy.
Does "Nothing" not allow "Nothing"? /图虫创意
We often attach too much importance to the enlightenment of artistic works. For this reason, we do not hesitate to use swords for classics and dress for sculptures. However, is it the dross in the art or the art itself that the mosaic hides?
Cut out all the words that are "not positive enough" and leave only safe and plain saliva. Even the best lyrics cannot withstand such "purification".
You must know that all resonant creations will surely find a reflection in reality. The pain, struggle, decadence, and sorrow that are roughly deleted in the lyrics are the reasons why a song really moves people's hearts.
Creation is a process by which creators self-confess and output. If starting with the purpose of enlightenment, it becomes a process work that has nothing to do with art.
What's more, the prerequisite for enlightenment must be inner touch and approval. Great works of art tend to moisturize everything in a silent place, rather than like a monkey eager to express, whose faces are full of flattery and desire.
has amorous feelings and tears, and also wrote famine and war, will it be bad tomorrow?
Who draws a moon for the lonely music scene
Some netizens suggest that in the future, the lyrics creation will learn from the rice circle, using various abbreviations, the singers are interested, the listeners are interested , In your writing I guess, complete the great harmony of art.
The same word has countless meanings. What context and combination can create different meanings. This is one of the most wonderful things about Chinese characters.
But nowadays, the rough castration of formalism makes the unique beauty of Chinese characters weaker and weaker. It is not only the singing that is interrupted, but even the daily users often touch thunder in inexplicable places.
Absurd segmentation and association not only ruin the lyrics. How boring is it to think about "bending down", "relying on yourself" and "white day"? Who would think that the words "David" have a hidden erotic meaning?
What's more sad is that the lyrics being casted is just one of the reasons for the bleakness of the Chinese music scene. Those songs that have been repeatedly covered and changed indiscriminately on various programs are almost the only face of the Chinese music scene.
In 2014, Liu Huan praised the original song at the show site of "Good Songs of China", and he praised the lyrics with his "stroke from the gods".
This song is "Painting", the author is Zhao Lei, and later it became popular in the streets and alleys because of the song "Chengdu", But never wrote "Draw a moon for the lonely night sky."
Netease Digital Reading has done a statistics. They captured the lyrics and music information of 400 Chinese singers on music platforms such as QQ Music, Kuwo Music, Netease Cloud Music, and found that the top 50 lyrics were written on the lyrics list. There are 26 people from Taiwan’s pop music scene.
At the same time, the main force of outstanding lyricists is still born in the 60s, with an average age of 51 years old. The 80s are quite rare, let alone the 90s.
Are young people not interested in writing words? Maybe not, they are also writing and singing, but the ones that were finally allowed to be presented were all kinds of fast food and fast food routines, love, various onomatopoeia songs of learning cats, dogs and chickens, or maybe XXX is really amazing, XXX is so beautiful.
Today, when listeners feel increasingly that there is no music to listen to, the output of music works has not actually decreased, or even increased faster than before. Only the threshold of creation and the bottom line of aesthetics are lowered.
At a forum in 2014, Ma Shifang shared the manuscript of "Songs for Myself". Everyone knows Li Zongsheng's lyrics, but few people understand it. It turns out that he grinds it out like this. The situation of
lyrics is actually very embarrassing. It is not as professional as composing and arranging. It is a literary form, and it is not as systematic as poetry. In my country, apart from a few colleges such as the China Conservatory of Music and Tianjin Conservatory of Music, there are few specialized music literature majors.
In the line of lyrics, many practitioners are halfway through their careers. Huang Zhan, who is a copywriter, Li Zongsheng, who is an album producer, and Xu Song and Wu Qingfeng, who are good singers and composers, have produced many masters. Mixed into a lot of strange "literary lovers".
Writing lyrics seems easier than composing music or writing novels, essays, and poems. Anyone who can tell a few limericks in the circle of friends feels that they can occupy one-third of acre in the pop music scene. However, the lyrics can not be sung by just rhyming, or the random splicing of idioms and poems.
In the past two years, the patchwork pie represented by Hua Porridge "The Thieves" was once very popular, "Heavy rain in the middle of Sichuan continues/the corpses are everywhere/you are like a smile Vicious dog/crashing my heartstrings", any literary and archaic style, no matter how you sing. More recently, the popular trend of lyrics has become meow meow meow, barking, and cuckoo.
I used to do my best to pretend to be educated, but now I go from one extreme to another, desperately proving that I am grounded and authentic, and care about "brother's chest muscle" or "net celebrity cat" like everyone else .
is still a good old song
Ten years ago, Li Zongsheng sang a work that hadn’t been named yet at the Zongguan line’s farewell concert. I simply used the name of the folder in my computer-"Songs for Myself".
Ma Shifang recalled that moment in the book: "I was there that day, and I was fortunate to witness the grand occasion of the first appearance of "Songs for Myself"-the audience followed a paragraph of lyrics and burst into waves of applause and cheers Everyone here knows that they are witnessing the birth of a classic classic."
"The sunset of swallowing wind, kisses and rain has never been hesitated, nor is it desperate."
In 2017, Zhou Huajian sang again From this song called "The Hardest to Sing Cantonese Songs", the general is old, his mood and singing speed are no longer at the beginning, but there is still a long-lasting craze for cover singing.
Judging from the lyrics, "The Sutra is Difficult to Read" is really a very difficult sutra: "Who will sail together with the sky, broad, broad and snowy? I will teach that daughter’s love to be buried.”
has a chivalrous character, and every sentence gives birth to passion. After decades of years, the artistic value of "The Difficult Sutra" is still not worn out.
China is now the seventh largest music market in the world. However, there are fewer and fewer lyrics that resonate with each other over time. There are all kinds of glass hearts waiting to be cut. Looking at the creators inside, there are too many people who have already masteredMovement slumped.
The "2019 Music Listening Report" (Music Listening 2019) released by the International Association of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) shows:
"Oldies" is the top ten most popular music genre among Chinese listeners. Second place, ranked above "Chinese Pop" (C-Pop), "Folk" (Folk) and "Rock" (Rock). The "Singer-songwriter" (Singer-songwriter) ranked ninth, only higher than "Beijing Opera" (Chinese Traditional Opera).
Apart from the music charts dominated by fans, what songs are really popular?
Last summer, people sang the song "Take it easy on WINDOWS98" 20 years ago. This spring, the whole world was humming "So close your eyes temporarily" which is older than "New Boy".
I’m afraid that people who haven’t seen various versions of "Kiss Everywhere" are on a fake website. Recently, Luo Jin's popular search "Want to Sing Me to You" is still young, but it is already ten. Old song from years ago.
Everything can be "everywhere". / Bilibili
Looking around, there are no new buds in this piece of music, so people have to sigh, alas, old songs are still good.
In 2012, Huang Lei wanted a CD of Li Zongsheng. Li Zongsheng wrote in his words: "Brother Huang Lei, please advise. The really good songs have not come yet, so please listen to them first."
According to Li Zongsheng's standards at that time, looking at today, good songs may really not come.
On the one hand are creators who are eager to achieve success, it is difficult to settle down to write songs, on the other hand, the external soil is getting thinner-the world is bright and dark, life is bitter and sweet, I don’t want to see anything except the sun, it will eventually become Blind; he doesn't want to hear anything except beauty, so he is no different from a deaf.
Black*** past-the dark nightclub past. Where is spring, where is spring?
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