Since 12 o'clock on July 6th, Jay Chou 's new song "The Greatest Work" has been released, and the entire Internet has started a heated discussion. The discussion has remained high, including the controversy about the word "most" and the style of the song itself. Controversies are endless. So, has Jay Chou, the leader of Chinese music scene , "exhausted his talents" again this time?
Jay Chou's "The Greatest Work"
"The Greatest Work" Traveling to 1920, I saw Magritte 's green apple, Dali's surrealism, Sanyu 's thighs, Monet of water lilies, Xu Zhimo's poems... He said that the "greatest work" is not his own song, but the greatest work of art in the world.
I don’t know if you all feel the same way. The first few times I listened to it, I didn’t find it surprising, but the more I listened to it, the more I became obsessed with it. Now that I listen to it again, I think this song is not just a song, but a work of art.
Nowadays, some people say that the new album is not as good as the previous one. That is because the starting point of Jay Chou's previous album was too high and too advanced. One of the reasons why they think the previous album is better is that the previous album has emotional points. This new album is now at the top of Chinese music. To be honest, Chinese music has fallen into disrepute in recent years. It cannot be compared with the Chinese music scene in the 2000s.
Back to the work itself, it is still the iconic "Zhou's first wave" style. Jay Chou will bring an arrangement structure from simple to complex, starting with a "single instrument" such as piano, and then gradually adding various orchestration lines. In the closing part, it is a reverse process. Within this framework, "The Greatest Work" continues the "first-wave hit" theme of almost every previous work. The incremental orchestration parts coexist very harmoniously, maintaining a fairly unified overall listening experience.
What's even more remarkable is that compared to "standard works" such as " Extra Large Shoes " or " Bedside Stories ", this time Jay Chou has obviously incorporated more styles, arranged in different themes. Song and bridge part. Such "complex" structures have also appeared in Jay Chou's other previous creations. Their style, atmosphere, and texture, each with its own independent voice arrangement and melody design, have their own characteristics, and seem to correspond to the corresponding era, country, and individual sung in different passages.
Jay Chou's "The Greatest Work"
I think the quality of this song surpasses his early works such as Night Seven, In the Name of the Father , etc. It can be heard that Jay Chou has worked hard to absorb a lot of things behind the scenes over the years. The details are exquisite, complex but not showy, more like gorgeous. It has a profound sense of tranquility and originality. From the perspective of a musician and lyricist, it is another song that raises the ceiling of the Chinese language.
It is not about small love, it praises big love, which is the epitome of everyone's loneliness in this era of lack of love. Human beings are destined to be lonely when they are born. Everyone is just a passer-by. After all, one person comes and one person leaves. Even if we understand that people are destined to be lonely by birth, we still look for love.
The tone of the whole song can be described as classical luxury. Jaylen is now at this age and likes this kind of rich culture. The final part of the lyrics is an analysis of himself, which means looking inward. The feeling presented in the MV is also the more advanced pursuit of beauty by middle-aged people. Middle age is a beautiful period in life. It not only accumulates the understanding of life in the previous decades, but also extends and looks forward to the following decades.
Jay Chou's "The Greatest Work"
Thank you Jay Chou for bringing these advanced and rich beauties to us. We ourselves are overwhelmed by the daily necessities of life, flooded with all kinds of negative news and news, and dominated by Ordinary people like us who are enslaved by others rarely have the opportunity to feel the beauty of these arts. Thank you Jay for using music to let us feel that there is still such a thing as beauty in this world. Poetry and distance may be far away for us ordinary people, but they can also be very close to us. A song is enough.
