Let’s talk briefly about Jay Chou ’s new song “’s greatest work ”
Recently, Jay Chou released a new song, “The Greatest Work”, all over the Internet. To be fair, when Jay Chou first released this song, when I saw the name, I felt a little nervous for him. After all, the word great is somewhat arrogant in the eyes of Chinese people whose traditional culture is modesty, and he even added the word "most", which turned it into arrogance. Jay Chou is only in his forties this year, and he can't be said to be an old-timer, so you can imagine how much controversy this album will bring to him.
However, after I listened to, or rather listened to and watched, the song "The Greatest Works" many times, half of my worries disappeared. The reason why it is half is because in this fast-paced era, many people will not calm down and appreciate a work over and over again.
When I first listened to this song, I didn't feel that it was amazing. It is true that the setting is very good and the music is also very good (I am an amateur in music to the extreme, so I can only say whether it sounds good or not). But compared with his previous songs such as "In the Name of the Father", it is at best on par. The lyrics seem very ordinary, not gorgeous, and I don’t understand them at first glance. And the first sentence at the beginning, "Brother is wearing a retro suit" almost sent me away. I think this is not a playful work, so such playful words should not appear, and the following sentence, "I asked Monet to help "Busy" seems to be no different from "meet Du Fu " often written in elementary and middle school, and it sounds the same as some parallel sentences.
This is the source of my worry about the other half that has not disappeared, because there are many things in this world that are very boring and boring at first sight. When I was exploring Jay Chou's song, I discovered many amazing things that I had never seen before. Stunning is not just gorgeous. Just imagine walking on a road. If there are too many bumps, you will naturally be amazed. But if that road is unparalleledly smooth, you will also be amazed.
My teacher taught me when I was in school that when understanding a work, the most important thing is to understand its background. If a person cannot even recognize all the people in the MV, then he must not evaluate the song. This song is about the protagonist traveling through time and space, meeting Marguerite, Dali, Sanyu, Monet, Xu Zhimo, and then returning to modern times to meet Lang Lang and communicate with these artists. matter. So after understanding the background, a lot of questions were clarified.
1. The seemingly incomprehensible lyrics in each verse are descriptions and tributes to the artist.
2. The greatest works refer to the works created by all artists in human history, not just Jay Chou.
3. The central idea of this article is to explore how to create the greatest work. The final conclusion is to be inspired (Dali), to be confident (Monet asked Jay Chou how to define himself), and finally, to be lonely.
Portrait of Dali (left)
4. Regarding the lyrics of Jay Chou, "The madman of the generation, the king of music", in fact, there is another sentence at the end: "The road is still going, and I am still creating." So the meaning of this lyrics is that I am confident that I can become the king of music, but I will not slack off because of this, and I will continue to work hard.
5. Regarding Jay Chou's arrogance, in fact, Chinese people are sometimes too modest, and there is nothing wrong with being a little arrogant.
6. Regarding the first painter Margaret, there is a lyric that asks you to remember that he is a painter and not a bartender. This lyric expresses the author's helplessness and criticism towards most people who only know the popular songs but not the masters. This kind of phenomenon also includes "Li Bai is an assassin"
Margaret's "Children of Men" original work (left)
7. The entire lyrics are plain, but very natural. Therefore, the sentence "I asked Monet for a favor" does not seem abrupt. The biggest difference from the student's composition is that this sentence is very natural in the lyrics and perfectly connects with the above and below.
8. Yu Jian, a Chinese poet , has a song "Reading Frost" that is very similar to Jay Chou's song. The poem is as follows.
.It is not easy to read his poems in his residence, which is only separated by a wall from the street.
At first, I heard visitors knocking on the door.
Hesitating whether to open or not.
Later, I went deep into his orchard alone. The sounds
They jumped on the trees and flowed in the water
I saw Frost chewing a red grass
I saw this old guy walking over triumphantly
He stepped on the mouth of the hoe and his nose was hit by the hoe handle
His way is fascinating.
Great wisdom does not seem so far away.
I decide to leave the city tomorrow.
Hiking in the wilderness.
With his little book under my arm.
I go out to check the sky. Snow Covered
The whole poem is also not gorgeous, but it does not prevent it from being a good poem.
9. From this song, I can feel that Jay Chou has begun to work hard to become an artist. He doesn't need too many people's pursuit, what he needs is to find his own inner joy.
10. My level is limited and I don’t like to spray lightly.
finally put the original lyrics!
The greatest work
Song: Jay Chou
Words: Huang Junlang /Xie Di
Brother is wearing a retro suit
Playing magic music with a cane
Walking in Samaritan
Time renovated by the years
Can't see the boundary The empire
A throne built with musical notes
I used the keys to travel through 1920 The immortality I missed
Ah, the paranoia is the apple that Magritte conjured by me
The surreal thing is that I am still the clown he originally wanted to draw
It’s not a pipe Pipe
The doves on his face did not fly away
Please remember that he is a painter, not a bartender
Who gave Dali his thoughts
I bent the spoon and borrowed your inspiration without giving it back to me
Is it the wall clock or the cheese that melts?
Lobster, you didn’t even answer me on the other end of the phone
Dissoluteness is the most free and uninhibited ink in secular paintings
The elegant legs in the flower city are a touch of the universe
The nostalgia of crossing the ocean is planted in the tenderness of nothing
The lonely branch Only the head can grow the flowers Sanyu wants
The boat goes back and forth quietly
The coast of Matisse
The night under the stars
Leave it to Van Gogh to light
Dreams are too short
Screaming on the Munch Bridge
The excitement in this world comes from loneliness
The flowing sunshine in the garden swayed with the fragrance of flowers
I asked Monet for a favor. Can I take a self-portrait
The master looked into the distance and studied the shape of colors
Suddenly turned around and asked me to tell me about my impression of myself
Generations of madness, The king of music
All things surrender to my music
The road is still going, I am still creating
The melody of the fingertips is longing for
The madness of the generation, the king of music
I don’t think I need a picture frame
It can’t frame the speed of the keys
All my notes are future art
The sunrise goes back and forth in the port of impressions
The light wakes up the sleeping flowers and leaves
The grass is joyful for a light rain
We love each other deeply in this world
The butterfly parked on Cambridge
Flying to the emerald green by the midnight river
Regret was accidentally hidden on the page of poetry
It is a world where even smiles cannot penetrate
Scale claws in Paris
Sentimental grammar needs to be read with music
Under the lamp of the evening breeze
Traveler's flower tea me After switching to coffee
he fell in love with the complex word bitter
Because this is what it feels like to wave goodbye to the clouds
The boat goes back and forth quietly
The coast of Matisse
The night under the stars
Leave it to Van Gogh to ignite the
dream Beauty is too short
Screaming on the Munch Bridge
The excitement in this world comes from loneliness
