Last week, "I Want to Sing with You" came to an end, with the finale of "I Want to Sing With You" featuring Zhang Xinzhe, Elva Hsiao, and Han Lei. The real kings and queens formed a lineup, and their performances were completely worthy of the finale. "The Most Familiar Stranger",

"I Want to Sing with You" came to an end last week, with Zhang Xinzhe, Elva Hsiao, and Han Lei coming to close the show. The real kings and queens formed a lineup, and their performances were completely worthy of the finale.

"The Most Familiar Stranger" co-produced by Elva Hsiao and Ayunga, the praises of "kneeling down", "kneeling down", "elva wants to rejuvenate" are all over Weibo. The OS in my heart is: you are now Just then I remembered that Elva Hsiao sang well?

I have watched this performance several times. It is not that this version is good, but that Elva Hsiao, who has a good voice, has really not sang well for a long, long time.

The gifted "good urban voice"

I believe that many people fell in love with Elva Hsiao starting from "The Most Familiar Stranger". Anyone who is in love and breaks up will look like "the most familiar stranger" when mentioning his ex. "human" appearance. Yao Qian fully exploited the texture of Elva's voice, making her different from the "bitter love songs" of the same era. The slightly magnetic mezzo-soprano has a sense of loneliness and alienation of urban people.

I didn't start liking her from "The Most Familiar Stranger", I started liking her from "Suddenly Thinking of You". The intro was extremely fashionable, but the result was a sad song. Although I was still a child at the time, I didn't like her in the lyrics. The state of "A person's night alone, where should I put my heart?", special curiosity and yearning, feeling lonely is a very urban and fashionable state, but in fact it is just Elva singing very fashionably.

After growing up, living alone for a long time, I can really feel it word by word: "It's all because of the light bulb. Suddenly it flashed, so I thought of you and was afraid of you. I haven't rested yet."

Daniel Wu performed " His and Her Story"

Later "Kiss", "Rose", "I Love You So Much", "The Wrong Person", "The Weather Outside the Window", "Be Your Girl All Life", "His and Hers" "Story", "Lights Out", "Similar to Love", "Not Far Away", which one does not sing all the lingering and sadness about love between urban men and women.

I once saw a music critic write about her. The general meaning is that Elva Hsiao is a unique "urban voice" in the Chinese music world. This sentence explains that a singer must have at least two conditions to be popular: uniqueness and style.

Indeed, the texture of her voice is full of "urban feeling". Because I am not a professional music critic, I can't analyze it from the perspective of music theory. I think 's so-called urban feeling means that when you hear her speak, you will feel I am an injured person who turned off the lights late at night, couldn't sleep, ran to the balcony and looked at the bright city.

She is particularly suitable for the loneliness after singing and dancing.

It’s not that we don’t understand, it’s that she is too avant-garde

It is precisely because Elva’s voice has a unique urban feel, and it is also the reason why she can make good works in electronic dance music. This modern sound is quite harmonious with electronic music. .

To be honest, I used to think that electronic dance music was really low and a bit rocky. I watched Elva change from a high-quality diva to the album's main dance music, and half of the album was electronic dance music. I watched her shake her hair and abandon the "urban aloof literary youth" and rush all the way to the "dynamic dance queen". I feel like I can’t even catch up.

Nowadays, electronic music has begun to sweep across China. Leehom Wang and Jiangsu Satellite TV have collaborated on the EDM program "Unparalleled Music". Various electronic music festivals are emerging one after another. There are waves of party animals getting high in electronic music bars every day. Jolin Tsai has The dance album won the Golden Melody Award for Best Album.

Elva, who was the first to make electronic dance music, is no longer the same as before.

Regarding the flop caused by Elva's transfer, you can search on Baidu. The key words are "Elva Hsiao, Chen Zeshan, Jolin Tsai". Because of this turmoil, Elva only released "1087" three years later. It was almost the most popular and wanted to be blocked. God's words were suspended for three years. This incident should be the beginning of a fight between fans from both sides.

Now, when I look back and listen to "1087", I think it can be regarded as a milestone record for Elva. It is not an excellent record in terms of quality, but a nirvana in temperament."1087" has layers, attitudes, and feelings. It also left behind dance music classics such as "Confession", "L.O.V.E" and "Speaker", as well as love song legacy such as "Not Far" and "Lights Out".

At that time, every dance Elva Hsiao performed was a trend setter for fashion, from the earliest "One Person's Wonderfulness" to the smash hit "The Title Song of Love" to the dance-like "Miss Chic". It has set a new standard for singing and dancing in the Chinese music scene.

Some knights may not be convinced, Linlin is the standard for singing and dancing. To be honest, although I also like Jolin Tsai, before her, it was Elva.

On the stage of "I Want to Sing with You", Liu Wei mixed up elva's dance music and danced it again. He sighed that these dances still looked so fashionable. As for, he suddenly recalled the era when these songs were popular, elva I have so many golden songs in my hands!

0 Golden Melody Award finalist diva

Among the new forces in the Chinese music scene in 2000, among the singers who have already become kings and queens, only Elva Hsiao is still a 0 Golden Melody Award finalist. Every time the Golden Melody Awards list is announced, fans always shout angrily and quarrel with Jolin Tsai's fans.

elva has so many dance songs that are so popular that they are so popular, and love songs that are so classic that they are engraved in your heart. However, she has never been nominated for the Golden Melody Award. At that time, "I Love Me" was once considered by music critics to be her high-quality work in recent years, but it was still ignored by the Golden Melody Award. There were widespread voices questioning the discrimination against dance music singers.

But elva, why do you position yourself as a dance music singer? As long as you are willing, becoming a soul singer is within your reach!

Some people think that you need to be recognized by professional awards to be considered a diva. Of course, there are some singers who have won professional awards and are excellent musicians, but they are not queens. Although she was "disliked" by the Golden Melody Award, Elva Hsiao was the only singer to receive IFPI sales certification from the International Phonographic Association after Jacky Cheung in the second year of her debut. She did not receive the professional award, but the sales award is very valuable.

So, how to be considered a queen?

In my opinion, can become a symbol of an era, a memory of a generation, and an idol that will be imitated and chased over a period of time. For example, imitates Wang Leehom's ABC style, imitates Stefanie Sun's nasal voice when singing, imitates Jay Chou's unclear speech, imitates Jolin Tsai's exaggerated crystal nails, and imitates Elva Hsiao's plastic surgery to become an Internet celebrity.

Around 2000, it was really the last golden age of the Chinese music scene. The newcomers at that time established a classic with their super style on their first album. Leehom Wang won the Golden Song King in 1999, the third year after his debut, and won the title for the second time in 2006. Jay Chou won the Golden Song King in 2002, Stefanie Sun won the Golden Song Queen in 2005, and Jolin Tsai won the Golden Song Queen in 2007. Only Elva Hsiao’s achievements are comparable. Rather embarrassing.

I have always been particularly fond of these five singers. Among the female singers, if I had to rank them, in my mind they are Stefanie Sun, Elva Hsiao, and Jolin Tsai. I like their distinct styles and works branded with their own names. Some people may say that their early works were extremely commercial. In fact, in my opinion, it was the major record company's accurate grasp of the singer's characteristics and in-depth marketing. It is difficult to reproduce the grand occasion now.

I like the unique temperament of the three of them, and I also like their distant but close relationship. They have transformed from "little diva" to "diva" together. They have also experienced their own downturns, but they are at the top of the entertainment industry, but It is rare to have a harmonious relationship (ignoring the rumors on the Internet for now that they are not in harmony, Shopkeeper Wang's wish is world peace) and to encourage each other.

I believe Elva Hsiao is extremely looking forward to the Golden Melody Award, so it’s time for her to work hard again. It’s time to put aside her sweet shell and once again arm herself with her “urban sense” and “fashion sense” to make a record. .

Shopkeeper Wang’s non-professional comments about singers

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