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Six years ago, Hua Chenyu posted on Weibo: "The flowers will bloom in spring, and I will go out to deliver food." Apparently he was playing on his nickname " Huahua ".
Who knew that six years later, there would really be a program called "Spring Flowers Will Bloom"?
I have reason to suspect that the program team is playing tricks, but why is it that this program actually features a folk song singer?
Immersed in listening to folk songs, but I became a fan of teacher Lei Jia !
In my impression, folk songs are far away from us.
asked the audience, and the response was probably this: basically no one around me listens.
"My impression of folk songs is that the teacher asked me to listen to them in class;" Some young people said that folk songs are "non-mainstream" to them...
I don't think they are "non-mainstream", no matter how you say it. I grew up listening to my parents hum these songs, but for this reason, folk songs are roughly equivalent to "the songs my parents love to listen to" in my mind.
If there was a folk song competition, I would imagine that the contestants would sing loudly as soon as they started singing, with a lot of twists and turns, and a strong sense of age... Generally speaking, it has nothing to do with the "stage" that young people love to watch.
But "Spring Flowers Will Bloom" is still quite acceptable.
Contestants are generally very young and friendly. ↓
Yang Chen Xiuyi, I classify her performance as "immersive folk song singing". "Dongting Yumixiang" sung by
starts with a bit of jazz style, and then slowly rises, as if a picture has been spread out, with lakes, rice flowers, white sails, carp...
has Chinese and Western elements in the song The music is integrated and some electronic music elements are added to reduce the sense of the times and sound quite comfortable.
Therefore, despite some minor flaws in the performance, the audience still gave this contestant great encouragement -
blossomed and advanced.
Yes, the scene is divided into three audience groups: the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. They will vote on the spot after listening to the song. If the support rate reaches more than 60%, they will be promoted.
There is also a competition format that makes the contestants highly nervous. The "Bo Orchestra" (Tan Weiwei, Lei Jia, Hua Chenyu) "picks the generals" on the spot, and whoever is picked will go on stage to sing.
So in second place, Tan Weiwei chose an original song. She said that she had been moved by that song.
Sure enough, the contestants sang and Tan Weiwei cried while singing...
The name of the song is "The First Son".
That's right, it's "The First Son" that was sung by Yang Kun in "Singer" in 2019. The original singer is here.
Ji Hu, the original singer, looks a bit shy, but I didn’t expect that his voice is very textured when he opens his mouth, and he has a gifted voice.
A piece of Yi language was added to the middle of the song. The level of singing gradually increased. It was a little more subdued at first, like a mother's "whispering", and then it was "released" later. Although the language was incomprehensible to us, the meaning in it was Emotions can be felt by everyone through music.
So Tan Weiwei cried. The moment she heard this, she felt homesick.
Aori Group sang the classic old song "Olive Tree" with a different flavor.
A Mongolian musician plus a Uighur musician must come up with some new tricks. Humai was put into the song, and the crowns of the olive trees seemed to dance, like a canopy. Open.
You thought it was a rough "olive tree", but it turned out that Ao Riqi was stunned and very gentle when he opened his mouth. The word "flow" sang like floating clouds and flowing water, and everyone in the barrage area said "flows to the heart."
But then, Mai Mai also started singing. Together, their voices had the roughness of the prairie. You can think of the sky, horses, and wild grass from their singing... until the final explosion... the barrage area : Suddenly I got folk songs!
There is also contestant Dai Xin Monroe, whose face is shocking.jpg
This one is a familiar face. I have been on "Girls Are Afraid of the Dark" before. I thought I would stop doing and rap because I would sing folk songs. I didn't expect her. He boldly grafted a piece of rap onto "The New Merchant" to create a Northeastern hodgepodge with a sense of joy, and the scene instantly became heated.
Seeing this, many people in the barrage area became confused: Are adapted and subverted folk songs still called folk songs?
But the good thing about this program is that the famous singer Lei Jia is present.
Teacher Lei Jia is so fun, teaching speaking art + folk song knowledge points online:
Milk band adapted "Swan Goose" too "Western". Several musicians felt that the adaptation was not on point, but considering that the lead singer is Malaysia People can also understand.
Regarding this, Lei Jia first told them the background of the song, telling them that "Swan Goose" was originally a toast song, and it became what it is now through the herdsmen singing it. Through this, she also told the band about the adaptation and inheritance of folk songs, which not only encouraged It has improved the players' knowledge and also made the audience in front of the TV more knowledgeable.
What’s even more amazing is that Teacher Lei Jia is also involved in rap.
After listening to Dai Xin Monroe's singing, she said that the music used to sell goods was rap in ancient times, and later included Shandong Kuaishu , etc., which all belong to the art of rap, and there is also a god to describe it:
"Vendor" is "the hawker who shouts along the street", while Dai Xin Monroe sang it as "the new human being who sells goods live" - I compared the original version and then listened to Dai Xin Monroe's "Big Stew", and it turned out that It feels right.
To sum up, the difference between my parents and me is really only one variety show. Once you get folk songs, you can also get your parents’ happiness. As for breaking the "folk song knowledge point" barrier, I'm afraid it will have to be done by Teacher Lei Jia, Teacher Lei yyds.
Another "window" has opened. Will folk songs be the new "traffic password"?
However, for elders and people who like the "original version", it is still difficult to accept the adapted version of "folk songs" -
The question is, what standards should we use to treat "folk songs"?
Just as teacher Lei Jia said, folk songs come from many sources. folk songs , labor chants , toast songs... can all become folk songs in the process of being sung.
Due to different regional cultures, various folk songs full of regional customs have evolved. "Dongting Yumixiang" is a Hunan folk song , and everyone is familiar with " Liuyang River "; when going to Jiangsu, there is "Jasmine" "Flower" and "Song of Four Seasons" are minor full of Jiangnan heritage, Shaanxi has " Xintianyou ", Henan has "Little Baicai"...
As for "Olive Tree" covered by Aori Group, what does it belong to?
In fact, it is also part of Taiwan's "campus folk song wave".
We have said before that in the early years, audiences in Taiwan Province listened to Western songs, but a group of students felt that we must have our own Chinese songs. Many people wrote to the radio station to contribute, and some outstanding creators gathered to sing Chinese songs on campus... Only then did the "folk song movement" rise.
And "Olive Tree" is a lyric written by Sanmao after reading the work "The Little Donkey and Me" by the writer Jimenez. The original word is "For the Little Donkey in Spain"... ...But the composer Li Taixiang thought it was a bit strange to use a little donkey, so he changed it to an olive tree. However, he was not satisfied with the song no matter how he wrote it, so he put it aside.
A few years later, I met Yang Zujun, who had returned from the United States, and found this song to communicate. Yang Zujun had an idea and changed the middle part to "For the birds flying in the sky, for the clear streams in the mountains." After that, she sang the song on campus but did not record it. The song
spread on campus, and more and more people heard it. Finally, in 1978, a girl took this song to the stage of the Golden Rhyme Awards and won first place.
She is Qi Yu, and "The Olive Tree" has become her famous work.
So, when "Olive Tree" appears on a stage like "Spring Flowers Will Bloom", how to judge the attributes of the song?
In essence, it does conform to the characteristics of folk songs. At first it was taught orally, and after a long period of testing, the song itself has high artistic value, both in terms of lyrics and music.
But the song also incorporates the "pop" elements that we are familiar with now - in your mind, is it a folk song or a pop song?
Taiwan's folk song trend has actually been popular for almost twenty years. Later, because the content became more and more vague, it was gradually replaced by pop songs with richer musical styles.
As for the folk songs that their parents loved, young people don’t like to listen to them. According to Lei Jia, there is a “gap” in everyone’s cognition.
Therefore, to popularize folk songs, we must first tell the audience what "folk songs" are, why some songs can be passed down, and what are the stories behind them;
Secondly, let young people perform it and let them use their own Understanding is expressed, although this understanding may not always be accurate.
For example, Zheng Chuang changed "The Sun That Rises and Never Sets on the Prairie" into a rock version, which was too popular and lost the original flavor of the folk song;
The popular version of "The New Merchant" by Dai Xin Monroe was recognized instead , because she somewhat retains the original rhythm, which is pleasing to the ears.
Therefore, how to determine the degree of "adaptation" is a technical task for the players.
But something that is considered "disconnected" must first be "seen" and accepted by more young people before it has the opportunity to talk about inheritance and innovation.
Waiting for the flowers to bloom in spring
Watching the program, I suddenly understood the meaning of the program name "Spring Flowers Will Bloom". This program is more about emphasizing the "vitality" of music.
Young people are expressing their own musical ideas.
Yang Chen Xiuyi's version is not as vast and fiery as the Dongting Yumixiang sung by senior singers, but it is equally gentle and moving.
She is actually a coloratura soprano who sings operas. She can also write soundtracks and composed many songs for the drama "Mulan". As an independent musician, she naturally has more choices, but when it comes to singing folk songs, she is undoubtedly the "music maker". An attempt to "experiment" may not necessarily be well-received, but the courage to innovate is commendable.
There is also Jihu. Some people think that "The First Son" is too "popular", but I think it is good because it belongs to "this era" from the subject matter to the form, but it retains the charm of old ballads.
When the eldest son bids farewell to the grain piles, starry sky and mother in his hometown, who will he go to the distant place and become? He has to endure the loneliness and longing in the city, and share the loneliness of modern people... This is beautiful. Of course there must be mountains, forests and rice fields in our folk songs, but it can’t just be mountains and distant places.
Besides, in this era, original folk songs are really rare.
Music must have the reality of the times and life. Only by truly contacting the audience can there be emotional resonance. This kind of music is alive.
As for Milk, who was on the hot search for being too subversive, everyone thought their singing was too popular, but the foreign audience present liked it very much. In their opinion, it is more acceptable to use Western instruments and add some blues in folk songs.
These differences from the original work may be the vitality of the music.
Folk songs have never been a kind of singing style, but a local sentiment that has been constantly changing for thousands of years. From Qu Yuan 's " Nine Chapters " to Yuefu Songs , the outer shell of folk songs has changed, but the depth inside The soul is always the lowest emotional resonance of a person.
Young singers sang "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" and "New Merchant" on the stage... These "classic old songs" were not old at all when they were popular, and they were even the real frontier of fashion. Our parents were also following the trend of the times. For those who listen to music, these songs are really not vulgar.
It’s just that the times and audiences are different now, and everyone’s music aesthetic orientation is also different. If you want to sing the soul of old songs, you don’t have to stick to the way they were in the past.
Therefore, this stage actually takes some pressure off the singers, allows for modification, and encourages originality. Young people can put their own musical "experiments" in folk songs, which are the "seeds" left by ancient inheritance in modern life;
and our expectation is that the seeds can take root, sprout, and bloom, so that folk songs not only become Chinese music makes the world understand it even more -
Those young people on the stage came precisely to fulfill such ambitions.
E sister’s conclusion:
"The river is flat and motionless at dusk, and spring flowers are in full bloom. The flowing waves are leaving the moon, and the tide is bringing in the stars." What Yang Guang saw when he wrote "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night" was a star-moon night with abundant spring flowers, and flowing water. The moonlight in it represents the "old days", while the starlight means "new life".
This is the case in every era. The seeds planted in the past will bloom in the mountains and fields in the next spring.
The moonlight of the old days is of course beautiful, otherwise Zhang Ruoxu would not have said in another song "Moonlight Night on the Spring River" "We have not heard of each other at this time, and I hope that the moonlight will shine on you"; but if it is too If we are addicted to the old times and always regard Yang Guang's poems as beautiful, then how can we embrace the solitary poem of the future, "The tide of the spring river reaches the level of the sea, and the bright moon on the sea rises together with the tide"?
I believe the same is true for music. It relies even more than culture on a close connection with society and the audience.
We must sing profound songs that inherit the vast spirit of past creators; we must also sing songs of the present, songs that everyone can understand, empathize with, and laugh and cry in the melody.
The seeds of folk songs have been planted in the past, but now it is just the beginning of spring grass and the beginning of spring forest. Just like the name of the program, "Spring Flowers Will Bloom" -
hopes that the seeds in people's hearts will grow naturally, because people with love and dreams will always sing freely.
They sing about wild geese, flowing water, and their own lives; they stick to their love and always believe that the next spring will be more beautiful than this spring.
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