At the beginning of the article, the author wants to make a clear attitude: I have always been negative and even disgusted with the "humming" rap RAP music style represented by Jay Chou and others!
However, after listening to Jay Chou's latest album "'s greatest work ", the author absolutely recognizes Jay Chou's status in the field of rap RAP music without changing his original negative attitude towards the rap RAP music style. As a king artist, I also deeply admire Jay Chou's unparalleled musical talent and unyielding creative attitude in the field of rap music.
matters must be discussed separately. We must have our own fair and equitable views on things and people. This is the author's consistent attitude. Jay Chou has been popular for twenty years, and it’s not without reason!
So, why is it said that Jay Chou and are under the ruthless attack of two major eras? Because Jay Chou debuted in 2000 and became famous in 2001, before his unique rap music style, there was a great era of narrative, lyrical and inspirational positive energy first-generation pop music represented by Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Beyond. After his unique rap music style, there is the end of the pop music era, full of vulgar and inferior brainwashing fragmented music suitable for short video style. In the minds of supporters of these two major eras, the rap style music represented by Jay Chou is either too rebellious and jerky or too old-fashioned! In addition, in the past ten years, the frequency and quantity of Zhou's creations have been greatly reduced compared to the first ten years! In the eyes of supporters of each of the above two major eras, this is more like a sign that the rap music style represented by Jay Chou has been gradually phased out by the times!
Jay Chou’s fan audience mainly comes from a small number of people born in the 1970s, a large number of those born in the 1980s, a huge number born in the 1990s, and a growing number of people born in the 00s. Among them, Jay Chou's staunchest supporters are undoubtedly the large number of people born between the 1980s and 1995s! The period from 2000 to 2010, when Jay Chou made his debut and peaked in the number of his works, happened to be the entire adolescent period of this group of people! Jay Chou's songs also have the most profound impact on them!
In the same way, the opponents and dissidents of Jay Chou's music style also come from those born in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s! Especially the people born in the 1970s to the 1980s and the people born after the 1995s to the 2005s. The former is a die-hard fan of the first generation of narrative, lyrical and inspirational pop music represented by Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng and Beyond, while the latter is a die-hard fan of the pop music era that was brainwashed by inferior short-video divine songs.
Under the ruthless attack of two different music eras before and after, Jay Chou's music audience and sources of dissidents also show this kind of contradiction and coexistence! I have to say that Jay Chou really has a special sense of existence that is struggling to survive!
It was under this situation that on July 6, 2022, Jay Chou went against the will of heaven and released "The Greatest Work", which can be regarded as his pinnacle and testament! After watching the preview MV of this work, the author was really impressed and must give it high praise!
Note: This is the author’s comprehensive evaluation after taking into account all aspects of singing, singing, lyrics, artistic conception, connotation, luck, and painting!
Take a closer look at this preview MV, and as soon as you listen to it, you can hear the "humming" style of rap singing that has always been the most annoying thing for me. It is vague and unclear, just like chanting sutras! This must be a major drawback for the author.However, when I hold my heart and feel the singing voice other than Jay Chou's singing style, I can still appreciate the stability and smoothness of his singing voice that constantly fluctuates! This is a manifestation of superb techniques in breath and vocalization, which is based on Jay Chou's powerful and profound singing skills! This must be liked! The first paragraph of the lyrics of
: Brother is wearing a retro suit...holding a cane...playing magic music...walking in...Samaridan...a time renovated by the years...an empire with no borders...use I use the keys to travel through the throne made of notes... The immortality I missed in 1920... This series of cool and handsome lyrics with great literary talent instantly outlines the rhyme! After a very smooth jazz style introduction, the lyrics came out of Jay Chou's mouth! Of course, it is still like chanting sutras, but the overall rhyme and rhyme of the music are like a flowing brush, which suddenly puts people into the musical realm that Jay Chou fantasizes about!
The finishing touch of an all-too-familiar Jay Chou joke: Jay Chou sat down and played the piano! Under the special effects, the musical energy triggered by Jay Chou's touch of the keys began to flow, even causing the surrounding time and space to distort and travel through time! Is this a very familiar picture? It reminds me of the final climax of the movie "The Untold Secret", and it's so similar!
has traveled through time! Jay Chou traveled through a hundred years and met Rene Magritte (modern and modern Belgian master of surrealist painting), Salvador Dali ( modern Spanish surrealist painting master), Sanyu (a great Chinese painter who combined Eastern freehand brushwork with Western abstract paintings in modern times), Claude Monet ( a great French Impressionist painter), Xu Zhimo (an analysis of the inner world in Chinese "spiritual" style) The cross-border encounter between these great artists (the great poets and writers)! Resonate artistically with it! It shows Jay Chou's artistic and spiritual fantasy: music can be connected with art forms such as painting and literature!
The entire MV combines classical, hip-hop, rap and pop! Jay Chou tried his best to express his love for music and his desire to use the energy of music to empathize with the ancient and modern art sages !
At this moment, Jay Chou's music and artistic realm have really been greatly sublimated! He is no longer just a representative of rap music, he has escaped from this relatively narrow realm and entered a deeper and broader realm of art! Enlighten the Great Way and prove it! Yes, "The Greatest Work" is a work that reflects Jay Chou's thoughts and understanding of music and life in the past twenty years!
To be honest, this is the first time in more than ten years that I have seen and heard a pop music MV with such depth and texture! Although it is still flawed, it is based on the "humming" rap style! But its artistic scope and creator’s connotation and spirit must be highly affirmed! The overall quality can be called the best in Chinese pop music in ten years!
It is said that the great road leads to the sky, but although all dharmas have different paths, they ultimately lead to the same goal! As an artist, Jay Chou has been constantly using his method (rapping and rapping) to seek an artistic path in the past twenty years, and then using his method (rapping and rapping) to realize and prove the truth! Continuously improving yourself is called enterprising spirit! And achieved a great success, creating "The Greatest Work"! This in itself is a big achievement! At this point, I must give Jay Chou a thumbs up!
Therefore, I would like to say to Jay Chou fans: Your Jay Chou is no longer the rap music that is equivalent to rap music! But Jay Chou is already greater than and beyond this concept! If you love him, you should evaluate this singer and his works from a higher and newer perspective.
So, I would like to say to those who want to listen to and learn rap music: Under normal circumstances, don’t do these things! If you must do it, then listen to Jay Chou and learn to sing Jay Chou.
Jay Chou created "The Greatest Work"! You are a legend!
