During this period, many people in the circle of friends have been sharing a new song about the five people - "Give You a Bottle of Magic Potion". A few years ago, the five people were still on my treasure band list, but now their songs have become Internet songs without realizin

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During this period, many people in the circle of friends have shared a new song about the five people - "Give you a bottle of magic potion".

A few years ago, the five people were still on the list of my treasure band, but now their songs have become Internet divine songs without realizing them. The lyrics of

are a bit indescribable and wonderful: "I don't care about the interestingness of the universe..." The melody is also very brain-catching, the overall quality is pretty good, and it has various elements that can become popular.

#STEP 1

Five people have been cheated and reported to them all the way

5 Five people (English: Accused), from Yilan, Taiwan Province, was first established in April 2017. The current official members are male lead singer and guitarist Pan Yunan, female lead singer Quan Qing and drummer Zheqian . Why is such a strange band name as " sue five people "? There is no special meaning behind it. It was just because when they were initially named, the team members randomly pointed out one word on the court notice board downstairs, and after rearranging the order of the words, the name of the five people was sued.

then sued the five people all the way. Their development strategy is very clear, which is to release albums, play charts, and tour on a large scale, without stopping, endless cycles.

released its first EP "Son of the Mist" in October 2017. The tour started immediately after .

Son of the Mist

won the Golden Sound Best Newcomer Award

I must have said I love you hundreds of years ago

Wherever I go, it is full and it is hard to find a ticket.

At the end of 2020, the five people never tiredly released their second album "Luck is like nothing".

. Then they organized a larger-scale tour called "Meet You in This City", with their footprints spread throughout mainland China.

is amazingly popular, and the ticket price is directly sold to 380. The top mainland Chinese stars, , , new pants, ... The ticket price is not more than 300.

Mayday, Jay Chou , SHE, Eason Chan can enter at a minimum of 280.

tickets are so expensive, they are still full of

asked everyone why they love this song very much. In addition to the lyrics, many people also mentioned: the melody and rhythm sound very comfortable.

Let’s talk about the most important factor that made this song popular quickly

spread

—a high-quality and smart composition.

#STEP 2

"Potaste" composition analysis

From a style perspective, the main tune of tells the five people is psychedelic rock music , and it is accompanied by the British, independent and alternative style.

"Give You a Bottle of Magic Potion" is the structure of the prelude - the main song - the first pre-recitation - the first chorus - the interlude - the second pre-recitation - the second chorus - the transition section - the last chorus. The

song has a total of 4 paragraphs: main song, pre-chorus, chorus, and transitional section. Among popular songs, it is a relatively rich paragraph content, and the same paragraph also changes accordingly in different positions.

1. Main song: Give you a bottle of magic potion~ body freezing

Composition highlights: A large number of rhythm designs using syncopation and pre-revealed sounds

main song is more stressful. We can see from the score:

a, first appearing sound is used (red)

main song part has 6 verses, of which the ending sounds of 5 verses are used.

b and are used to split sounds (cyan)

is also used in these 6 phrases, and the position where the cyan circle is drawn is used.

's designs of pre-revealed and syncopated sounds give the rhythm a strong sense of fluidity. This is also a more personalized way to deal with the five people in terms of rhythm.

2. Pre-chorus: Gently recite the mantra you know~ Let's go to space together

Composition highlights: The use of first-acting sound and syncopation, the processing of melody tail and chord direction makes the connection between paragraphs smoother

The rhythm still follows the design of the main song's first-acting sound (red) and syncopation (cyan) .

melody, the final ending fell back to major lead 1 on (blue) . Among the songs with pre-recitations, the ending notes of the pre-recitations are often 2, 3, and 5, and very few fall on 1.

Since the overall melody of the chorus of this song doesn't fluctuate much, the minimum interval span of 7 to 1 in the pre-chorus will not give people the feeling of "the climax will have to go big and big ups and downs", taking into account the melody characteristics of the chorus. In addition, these two melodies are written using the same 4536 chord direction as the chorus, which will make the connection between the two paragraphs more silky.

3. Recital: Fun in the universe~ The courage given

Composition highlights: slightly change in simple and regular rhythm and melody, the subtle balance between popularity and personality

chorus can be clearly heard and the contrast between the main song part.

First of all, is the rhythm. The rhythm of the main song is complex and changeable, so the chorus is much simpler and more popular. Except for the two sentences that draw the red circle, which uses the quick switching sixteenth note , all other phrases are almost all quarter notes and eighth note , and most of them are the regular shots, which is very stable and regular.

Secondly, is a melody, and in addition to the two sentences that draw red circles, the overall feeling is particularly in line with the downward mode of the harmony cover. If the personalized processing of the red circle restores the original melody characteristics, the first two sentences should be like this:

Simple downward mode progress + completely consistent rhythm. This will not be unpleasant, but it will have a strong sense of harmony routine. Listeners who listen to more songs will easily guess and will appear to be innovative. So the band of five people has become the rhythmic melody in the red circle here, using the fast sixteenth notes and the octave upward jump melody to break the audience's inherent expectations. It's a very smart approach.

Secondly, in this song, the number of bars in the chorus accounts for 46 bars, while the number of bars in the main song + two-pass pre-chorus + transition section is 36, which adds up to less than the chorus.

So we can see that this song is a work that emphasizes the chorus, and the highlight is that it is simple and catchy.

Its rhythm is easy to master, and the melody is also within the expectations. In some places, the five people were reported to be personalized, which slightly enriched the content, and found a good balance between the popularity and personality of the song.

This is also why this song can be popular quickly, but the popularity is still good and not completely vulgar.

4. Transition section: Where you go in the end ~ is biased

Composition highlights: The freshness of the materials that have been repeated processing

The final transition section (former) is actually similar to the starting melody of the previous two pre-choruses (the latter). , but it only slightly changed the rhythm, which immediately gave the audience a different feeling. This is probably the whole song of

, and the four paragraphs have their own highlights. Even the chorus that sounds a bit popular at first glance actually implies the personalized design of the five people.

#STEP 3

How is the collection of "Rose Vouchers"?

This song "Give You a Bottle of Magic Potion" reported to the five people is from the collection of "Rose Vouchers" released in June this year.

—issued by Galaxy Ark Company, 8 bands were invited to create and produce music works.

overall feels pretty good. Apart from "Give You a Bottle of Magic Potion", several songs from other bands are also worth looping. I would like to recommend it to you here.

Last night party was among so many independent bands, among the popular song system, melody writing is the most eye-catching.

Party last night

Their melody has never been the kind of opening and closing. They are all very gentle and confiding, and they often use some external voice and external chords in the song to enrich the content of the work.

For example, in this song "Please fly to the mountain that belongs to you", there is a sentence in the transition section: or reach out to touch the starlight, melody is 1123♭2112, and the 3♭ external voice appears. The chords here also use the 4th level chord E♭m outside the tune, and in the subsequent phrases, it turns back to the 5th level chord inside the tune, which gives a sense of change of starlight flashes.

, Chair Band "One of them"

Chair Band

overall temperament of this song is relatively retro. Of course, it would be better if there were more orchestrations in the main chorus two times after the interlude. The melody writing of the main chorus of

is pretty good.

Landlord's Cat This time the rhythm of choosing the chorus writing is also quite smart. They used a very classic and easy-to-write rhythm.

lander's cat

Mayday wrote the chorus of contentment with this rhythm.

Jay Chou wrote the main song of code using this rhythm.

soda green uses this rhythm to write the pre-chorus of story .

This rhythm is very comfortable for the density changes in the length of notes. Fill in the melody into it as long as you don’t deliberately ask for strange things, it won’t be unpleasant.

The song "Gentle Relationship with the Universe" is the same technique, and the melody is more memorable and easier to win the audience's favor as soon as possible.

Ideal bastard

The chords of the main song are used beautifully, with a hazy color of memories.

chorus itself is good, but it may be because of the lyrics word count, the rhythm design is a little dense and sounds a bit rushing. It might be better if you leave more space.

The other bands are all fine, of course there are some problems.

Like the first song of Black Room Band "I Want to Hug You" has a nice sound, but the melody material and direction of the main chorus are too similar, so there is no sense of change overall.

Black House Band

Coms 's "Say You Will" chords are quite colorful, but the melody is too popular and old-fashioned, very similar to the pop songs that are not the main position in the singer's album more than ten years ago.

coms

#STEP 4

#STEP 4

From "Potaste", Douyin Culture

In fact, many people don't have a high evaluation of this album. One of the reasons is that it is produced by Douyin.

distribution company Galaxy Ark is a music brand under Douyin

Of course, due to the differences in music aesthetics, there is a different understanding of the bands included. But I still want to say a few words to my friends who sentenced this collection to death because of Douyin:

There are indeed some works that we think are too shoddy in our opinion, but only venting their anger on the work itself because of their likes and dislikes of the distribution company. This is unfair. This behavior is no different from fans who many people dislike only look at idols and not works.

Some Douban netizens who are open-minded

Overall, "Rose Voucher" is considered a good album. It is popular, but it is not as completely as the so-called Douyin divine song. It sounds nice and balances the musicality and the band’s personal characteristics, and the production level is also online.

The most popular song "Give You a Bottle of Magic Potion" is a microcosm of the above characteristics.

Maybe this is a signal.

Douyin may also be looking for a path to make music more refined, or to use better and better music works to gradually improve the aesthetics of Douyin users. When users' aesthetics improve, the so-called Douyin divine song will no longer occupy such a huge market, and listeners will usher in more and more truly good songs.

As independent rock , it is reported that five people can pull 20 million in the oil pipe to play

If it can really form such a virtuous cycle, plant more roses and a few more bottles of magic potion to drink?