Who is Jay Chou ?
Without thinking too much, you can name many works casually, and each one is a classic.
"Thousands of Miles Away", "Chapter 7 of Night", "In the Name of the Father", "White Windmill", "East Wind Break" and other works have long been familiar songs known in the streets.
However, since " Jay Chou's Bedside Stories " in 2016, Jay Chou has not released another album in six years.
always said it was too fast and released the pigeons every time. This gave him the title of Ace Pigeon and Master of Misconduct. Unexpectedly, this title was not abandoned until 2022.
However, this cannot be blamed on Jay Chou, because the popularity of " Confession Balloon " made him feel baffled.
Jay Chou is an epoch-making new generation of musicians. His creative style has greatly improved the stagnant situation of Chinese music.
It's just that after the album "Qili Xiang", Jay Chou's musicality became more commercial.
Even he himself said that he could not understand the current Chinese music scene . In "Jay Chou's Bedside Stories", his carefully produced " Bedside Stories " and " Turkish Ice Cream " were not popular.
Instead, the slobbery love song "Confession Balloon" became popular all over the country. It was passed down by word of mouth by so many people that it even became Jay Chou's masterpiece, so Jay Chou was confused.
This kind of confusion is not only angry at the overall decline in the level of the Chinese music scene, but also a lack of understanding of public aesthetics. No one listens to good works, and gossip songs are spread everywhere.
In fact, this phenomenon is no longer a day or two.
Zheng Jun once complained: "People around you tell you that this thing is popular because this person is popular, and then they think this song should also be popular, but when I heard it, this is shit."
Zheng Jun's words It shows that the Chinese music scene is on the verge of collapse, and this phenomenon is rotten from the inside out.
Popular singers’ songs have astonishing sales on major music platforms. Fans can easily gain both popularity and economic benefits.
And those older generation singers who constantly try to expand the Chinese music scene and release advanced or high-quality songs fail miserably in the face of data and no one cares about them.
After a long time, who is willing to work hard.
can easily go on a variety show and sing a few English songs that he may not understand himself, which can make fans crazy and make money boiling.
So it’s not that Jay Chou is willing to release an album soon, but that the music world has been poisoned by fandom culture, and the market dictates that he has no choice.
Fortunately, Jay Chou did not give up music.
After six years, Jay Chou, the madman of music, the king of the era, and the man who ended up directing the music traffic in the Chinese music scene is back.
plays songs one after another to show his diverse musical charm.
music style combines classical, pop, hip-hop, rap , and the MV content includes contemporary art such as painting, music, literature, and video. The core of
is his favorite magic and music. It seems messy and messy, but in fact it is full of ingenuity. It uses deconstruction and to create an artistic splendid song.
Jay Chou started with the piano and opened the door to time and space travel with a beautiful melody.
met many arts and artists he was familiar with, and then shocked everyone with his magic. He learned their expertise and integrated it into his own works to complete his greatest work.
So Jay Chou's new album is a work of heart, not a perfunctory one.
treats himself and his fans with a responsible attitude, which is why we are following him. He also told everyone with a prelude song that he is here, but he comes with good things.
After all, Lang Lang, Van Gogh, Monet, Xu Zhimo and other artistic masters have devoted their efforts to create it. How can Jay Chou's unique music be mediocre?
Moreover, Jay Chou adopted an unconventional structure in the narrative method and text design of the MV.
MV uses a flashback linear narrative to tell fans what classical art is in a postmodernist way. Painting, music, and literature are all arts that can be mixed and matched.
Instead of just admiring in books and museums, and not understanding the importance of inheritance, it is like magic that brings happiness to people and is a stage everywhere.
text design mainly contains three concepts.
First, philosophical thoughts. Jay Chou discussed the nature of art, the fundamental laws of development, and the fundamental relationship between human thinking and existence.
also uses easy-to-understand magic and music to teach fans about how people understand art and how to transform art, hoping that fans can apply what they have learned.
The second is semiotics . This is obvious in the MV, the piano echoes from beginning to end, and magic runs throughout.
The third is the deconstruction method. Jay Chou uses himself as the theme, communicates with art, and brings a feast to the fans.
This is Jay Chou, a music madman, the king of the times, a king who can direct the music traffic in the Chinese music scene as soon as he comes off the stage.
Some people say that in the adult world, emotions have long been abandoned, but memories will make you think about everything, and even bring back the regrets of the past.
Just as there is a time to be happy, there is a time to be sad; just as there is a time to be beautiful and there is a time to wither, things in the world come and go, but only youth is always fresh and true.
Time has turned the unruly young man into an uncle. He has accumulated more time, experienced the ups and downs of life, and witnessed the prosperous times he once experienced drift away like smoke.
had once been dressed in bright clothes and angry with horses, and had also seen all the prosperity. When he returned, he was already middle-aged. After all, milk tea was the only answer in his heart.
In a society characterized by class stratification and polarization between rich and poor, few people can live up to their younger selves.
Nowadays, Jay Chou has no worries about food and clothing. He can play around the world and be as lazy as he likes.
A happy life is the "grave" of artists, destroying all their inspiration. Suffering is the artist's best partner.
But Jay Chou never thought of becoming an artist.
What he does should be worthy of himself and the fans who like him, so when he sees the enthusiasm of the fans and they like those "bad songs", he no longer bothers to innovate.
So even though Jay Chou is no longer making money from albums, he is still working tirelessly to release new songs because he wants his fans to hear good works.
He still had thorns in his body, but when he turned around and hit reality, he learned to give in.
After all, life is really not as good as poetry. Even if the beautiful story is corroded, we cannot be presumptuous, but we can still hear that Jay Chou is already very happy.
