text | Linghu Boguang
Jay Chou new album " The greatest work " has been released for a while, and it has been settled. But some time ago, "The Beauty of the Shuang" released the MV again, but as a result -
Originally, there was a lot of controversy about Jay Chou's new album. This song "The Beauty of the Shuang" is already a relatively popular song in the new album and has a relatively high popularity. Everyone naturally has expectations for the MV of this song, but the quality of this MV is really indescribable.
netizens didn't mention it when they scolded me. The most common sentence is: If you really don't want to take pictures, you can not take pictures.
"Beauty Like Frost" MV is really bad. I won't mention this person wearing a mask dancing with Chinese style. The music production in this MV is also terrible, and there is no way to tell what attitude he has. It's really indescribable. This is the same as Jay Chou's album "The Greatest Work". If there are many songs on the album, some of them have highlights, but this song is like most songs on the album, and it is not in a position to be bad. How bad is the MV of
"Beauty Like Frost"? When we look at this new album, we will know what the difference in the MV of the song
? Perhaps ordinary audiences only know that there is no change. There is also a group of dancing dancers wearing masks that are not matched with Chinese style. In fact, those who understand music a little know.
"Beauty Like Frost" was originally in Jay Chou's Chinese-style song . The melody can be said to be moderate and listened to. The lyrics are not the pinnacle of Fang Wenshan's 's career. You can see it by looking at the singing level. The biggest problem is that it is like this album, which is particularly perfunctory in the arrangement and production.
arrangement uses a very low tone, and there are drum beats. Let’s see how the previous works of Jay ancient style have such drum beats like shaking legs. It’s stinging, and the same drum beats as Canadian electric eels. . Screenwriter Huang Yuxun The arrangement of "Fireworks Easy to Cold" in the past is really amazing, but now the arrangement technology may have declined to a greater or lesser extent -
In general, "Beauty Like Frost" is quite nice, but it is not as good as expected.
Why does Jay Chou’s new album "The Greatest Work" come to mind? This situation is also the same as "The Beauty Like Shuang". In addition to the decline in Jay Chou's own ability, including the decline in composition ability and the decline in voice singing ability, there are two biggest problems.
The first one is the arranger. The producer and Jay Chou fell down. Huang Yuxun felt that it was really not good. Jay Chou’s classic albums were so good in the past. Jay Chou composed the songs, Fang Wenshan, lyrics by Huang Junlang , and then to Zhong Xingmin , Hong Jingyao arrangement and production are inseparable.
Maybe many people don’t know how important it is to arrange and produce? Let's say so.
From a technical point of view, arrangement is difficult to compose, and there are too many things to consider, orchestration, harmony, polyphonic , musical styles, etc.
Here is a simple example. Jay Chou’s music still emphasizes good vocals, harmony, easy-to-understand lyrics, as well as brainwashed melody and rhythm commercial pop music.
In the past, due to cultural environment in the mainland, the music written by everyone did not take care of the market so much, and it all relied on arrangement. At that time, it was not very good to do it due to the conditions (because your equipment is poor and the mixing is poor).
For example, Xu Jingqing The theme song " Yungong Xunyin " created for "Journey to the West", has no voice at all, and then the expression of others is in line with the TV series Journey to the West. As a result, I listen to this song now. The arrangement, instrument arrangement, orchestration and creative concepts are all very awesome, and I listen to it now out of date.
Jay Chou’s previous arrangements, Zhong Xingmin, Hong Jingyao and Lin Mike.
For example, " In the Name of Father" "", " Huo Yuanjia ", "William Castle", "Dragon Fist", "Three Years and Class 2" arranged by Hong Jingyao for Jay Chou.
For example, the works arranged by Zhong Xingmin for Jay Chou include " nunchao ", " Qilixiang ", " Nights of the Seventh Chapter ". Even if it is the same Chinese style song.
Zhong Xingmin's arrangement of " blue and white porcelain " and " Chrysanthemum " and "beauty like frost" are compared with the arrangement of "Beauty like frost".
Mike Lin is not listed. Jay Chou is actually good at melody creation, especially melody creation with different music styles in Chinese music scene is definitely a genius level, and it is also nice and does not repetitive. Of course, Jay Chou can also arrange the music, but like writing lyrics, professionals can solve it more.
Huang Yuxun's arrangement is really not good. Of course, it is not stable to be precise. Later, I don't know if it was just like Jay Chou. The arrangement of many songs is similar, and even if you listen carefully, there is a sizzling noise that is so harsh. For example, "Hearding the sound of rain", " If I don't love me, I will pull ", "The rest of the summer", etc., have overwhelmed the lead singer's voice.
I personally feel that the problem with Huang Yuxun is that the arrangement emphasizes musicality and technicality (showing skills), which leads to lack of spirituality. This is the limitation, which leads to serious patterning of arrangement routines and modes. The creation does not have a natural feeling. Music creation requires spirituality, and lack of spirituality is the biggest gap between him and the three giants of arrangement. I haven't seen spiritual creations in the works he arranged for Jay Chou, which leads to a low limit, but a high limit is not high.
Except for Jay Chou himself, all the collaborators around him are "showing it off"? Jay Chou’s new album is not working. I found the reason for finding
From listening to "JAY" in 2001 to now, I concluded that all the feelings are different, and there are two reasons: primary and secondary.
Main reason: The arrangement is gone without Hong Jingyao and Zhong Xingmin, with Huang Yuxun as the main and Lin Maike as the auxiliary. Hong, Zhong and Zhou are perfectly matched and are suitable for Zhou's style music. Huang Yuxun's style is like Zhou himself writing lyrics, and is only suitable for side dishes. One is Huang’s ability problem (really not as good as the first two), and the other is style problem.
Huang Yuxun’s arrangement ability is really unstable. The compilation of “ Bedside Story ”, “ Daoxiang ”, “ Piano Injury ” are OK, and the others are average. Jay Chou’s early arrangements were relatively stable, including “ Cute Women ” “ Clock in the opposite direction” “ Terraced ” “ Her Eyelashes ” “Grandma” and so on. The songs of
prove that Jay Chou is fully qualified to arrange the work, and it is also good.
But the arrangement ability of the five of them is generally Zhong>Hong>Lin and Zhou>Huang. Now it’s all handed over to Huang Yuxun. One album accounts for 1 album and will make you feel lit up. If there are too many, the whole table of dishes will be the same. Are you not tired of it?
times because: Jay Chou’s environment and era background are very different. At first, he had to make a living and earn a living in the middle, but now he basically only has to play. Of course, it is part of the reason for the expectations of fans. It will take some energy, but it will definitely not reach the height of the decade at the beginning of the century.
After all, Jay Chou started to show off his bad luck.
I think Jay Chou’s voice was not that great in the early days, so several arrangement masters could have their own way of playing, which would add icing on the cake to the whole song. In the later stage, Jay Chou's status was getting higher and higher, and he might not want others to change his ideas, and the arrangement was more like a tool person.
Jay Chou has a fascination with some tone, harmony, etc., which leads to the current situation. If Jay Chou had more cooperation with others, he would be able to achieve greater success.
Of course, may come from a non-musical desire to control. You see, the group of friends around Jay Chou are all supported by him, and they revolve around him all day long, which is almost equivalent to his "private property". But the status of several arrangement masters is far higher than that of those around Jay Chou, and it is impossible for him to be a young follower.
In short, Jay Chou played the role himself, and he also brought a group of people around him to play the role, which eventually led to the new album and this MV's appearance in this way. It is really indescribable that the former king of heaven is now, but now it is so bad.
Some people may say that, but it is mainly a question of attitude. There are actually many old musicians who have released new albums in the past two years, including Daolang , Xu Song , Wang Feng , Deng Ziqi , and even Xue Zhiqian . Jay Chou is definitely much richer than these musicians, and the audience is looking forward to him.
Results, other veteran musicians are still very serious. Jay Chou's new album includes the MV of "The Beauty Like Frost", arrangement, production, ornament, and the MV shooting can be seen very perfunctory at a glance. This is a matter of attitude.
is bad, will Jiang Lang be able to spend all his talents or seek fame? Jay Chou should also step down from the "altar".
Finally, Jay Chou's former glory needs to be described. At the beginning, it could be said that Jay Chou reversed the trend of Hong Kong and Taiwan covering Japan and South Korea. It just so happened that he was at that time, but he couldn't do anything about Chinese pop music when it declined later.
He can only set an end for everyone, but he still plays a role in the framework of business and popularity.
Speaking of the general environment, it involves the relationship between the mainland music environment, because the center of the Chinese music scene is in the mainland. From the perspective of market, population, and economy, there is no possibility of reversal in Hong Kong and Taiwan. After all, the scale is here.
Finally, for Jay Chou’s current evaluation, I feel that the domestic Internet is more like the zzzq of the Chinese pop music industry to him. On the one hand, because the music scene in the past decade has been awkward, all kinds of clowns have been jumping around, and how many albums have been sold by fans, everyone is very popular.
On the other hand, Jay Chou is also the musical sustenance of the early 1990s and 2000s. Young people in every era have different musical sustenance. If even such a flag is over for them, it really means that this era is over. So the closer the dusk, the more fanatical and loyal it becomes.
No matter how brilliant Jay Chou was, the album "The Greatest Work" really didn't work. As a result, a group of people just didn't want to admit it and used their past feelings to block the gun.
Now the music scene is a big hit, but there are not many good songs. Nowadays, many people talk big without listening to a few songs. Good albums are everywhere. They just don’t have the patience to look for them, just thinking about the people who write good songs and the band themselves are so popular.
This makes Jay Chou play like this and there are still a large number of viewers who buy it. Speaking of which, is the decline of the Chinese music scene considered Jay Chou’s current share?
