Jay Chou overturned? The new album only has 6 new songs, fans have lost their followers, and Zhou deleted many dynamic posts overnight ——Introduction.
I never thought that Jay Chou, who is known as the "ceiling of Chinese-language domestic entertainment", would also have a "turnover" one day...
A few days ago, Jay Chou's new album's prelude song "'s greatest work " was released , it quickly and domineeringly occupied the top 10 hot searches on the entertainment list. This is definitely the "top of the top".
After 6 years, Jay Chou finally releases a new album!
Jay Chou's new album "The Greatest Work" is expected to be released on July 15. Starting from July 8, fans can pre-order the album at major offline record stores and online.
This is something that would make countless fans who like Jay Chou happy, but as great as their expectations are, they will be disappointed as well.
"You are arrogant and arrogant. Don't think that old fans dare not climb over the wall and scold you."
"Jay Chou might as well retire, which will make the fans cold."
"Isn't Jay Chou just showing off?"
Why have I liked Jay Chou for many years? "Fans" will be disappointed, and even quit fans to retaliate, causing Jay Chou to delete posts overnight and activate the comment review mechanism?
Reason 1: Netizens think Jay Chou is too perfunctory
Jay Chou's new album "The Greatest Work" actually only has 6 new songs?
It can be seen from a certain music platform that the new album contains a total of 12 songs. Excluding 1 piano song and 5 old songs, there are only 6 new songs, namely "The Greatest Work", "Still Wandering" and "Beauty Like Frost" "Missed Fireworks" "Pink Ocean" "Reflection".
According to industry rules, new albums generally contain about 10 new songs. This time, Jay Chou's new album shows 12 songs, but in fact only half of the songs are new songs. Netizens think that "Jay Chou is too perfunctory."
Compared with other singers in the same industry, even if it includes songs that have been released before, the new album released still contains more than 10 new songs, instead of just 6 new songs in the new album released by Jay Chou, just to make up the number of albums. .
The last time Jay Chou released an album was in 2016. It took him 6 years to give fans a "perfunctory" work. Some netizens believe that the "six years to sharpen a sword" advocated by fans is really a joke.
However, fans have something to say. Jay Chou has asked fans before: "I have already finished two songs. Should I release the album first or the single first?" At the fans' request, Jay Chou released the single first. The so-called "old songs from the new album" are actually new songs that Jay Chou released in advance for his fans.
This argument does seem to be seamless, but there are still doubts. Because some attentive netizens discovered that it was 2021 when Jay Chou asked fans for their opinions, and the old songs included in the new album "The Greatest Work" were all works before 2020.
" Waiting for you to finish class " in 2018, " If you don't love me, pull me down " in 2018, " Don't cry if you say yes " in 2019, " I believe in so much" in 2019 and "Mojito" in 2020 .
In other words, the new songs Jay Chou mentioned in 2021 are not the above 5 old songs before 2020, so there is no basis for this statement of fans.
Reason 2: Netizens believe that "Jay Chou cuts leeks"
Jay Chou's new album "The Greatest Work" is priced at 30 yuan. If you have previously purchased the singles in the album that have been released, you can deduct it. The discounted price of the album is 24 yuan. , so calculated, a new song in the new album sells for 4 yuan.
But fans think: 4 yuan to buy a song is not a good deal at all. Compared with the so-called "traffic stars" in domestic entertainment, what kind of bicycle do you need for 4 yuan of happiness? Just think of it as "money for milk powder for Jay Chou's children".
Some fans believe that "the new song is a benefit from Jay Chou to his fans. He is not short of money at all."
But Jay Chou can really make a lot of money by releasing a new album. Calculated based on 30 yuan for a digital album, there are more than 8 million reservations, 240 million...
In addition, Jay Chou's new album "The Greatest Work" It will be officially released on July 15, but pre-order mode is currently open. Although the new songs are not available to listen to yet, Jay Chou has already made money. Does this pre-sale model look familiar?
Last time Cai Xukun was scolded for "charging songs" for not delivering works during the pre-sale of his new album, and was criticized by the news. This time, Jay Chou's operation also made many netizens complain about double standards.
Jay Chou does not have a personal account in the mainland, only an overseas account, but he still pre-sales his new album in the mainland. Isn't this really "cutting leeks"?
Reason 3: Netizens believe that "Jay Chou has exhausted his talent"
Jay Chou's new song "The Greatest Work" is full of artistic flavor, and each lyric has a related artwork, but some netizens still think that it is nothing new.
"The first impression after listening to it is that it is like a formulaic work randomly generated by AI deep learning of Jay Chou's masterpiece." This netizen believes that every sentence of Jay Chou's new song is expected and there are no surprises.
In front of music, there is no new ideas and no creativity. Isn't it just "repetitive work of copying and pasting"?
In the eyes of fans, Jay Chou was once the "ceiling of Chinese pop music ", but now that he is over 40 years old, he is already very good at continuing to create.
"He has no obligation to release songs, and in terms of creative level, Jay Chou is really much better than those in the music industry."
Is this true? There are many singers older than Jay Chou, and they can still create amazing works, such as "Nail Flower" by Wu Bai , and "0" by Lin Yilian . What's the point of music if it's just for perfunctory fans?
The standard for judging music is "whether it sounds good or not", it is not because of the so-called "feelings". Times have changed, popular elements have also changed, and the industry has become more and more sophisticated. Jay Chou's style may not satisfy netizens anymore.
However, some Jay Chou fans on the Internet have formed a "fandom culture", and no one is allowed to criticize Jay Chou's music. If a netizen comments that "the new song is not good to listen to," a large number of fans will immediately respond angrily: " Are you a Jay fan? Are you a fan? Do you know music? ”
There are a thousand Hamlets in one thousand readers. Netizens can say, "Jay Chou's new song is not good, and there are no surprises." Fans can also say, "Jay Chou's new song is good, and the melody is good."
Whether you spend money for "quality" or pay for "feelings", everyone has their own choice, and any discussion can be supported.
But if you tear it apart like some fandom culture, it would be boring. Some irrational netizens rushed to the comment area of Jay Chou's account to conduct personal attacks and threatened to "remove Jay Chou from the circle", which is even more undesirable.
Jay Chou has been as popular as ever since his debut album "JAY" in 2000. It has been popular for 22 years now. The songs he created have accompanied the growth of countless people and are the youth of many people. This is obvious to all.
We also have to admit that after taking off the "youth filter", Jay Chou is also a human being, not a "god", and there will always be a day when he steps down from the "altar".
The main author of this article: Sha Sha
Editor: Cai Cai
