:30 on July 14th, the new album of Jay Chou " The Greatest Work " was released online in advance, quickly triggering heated discussions across the Internet.
Jay Chou's "The Greatest Work" was originally scheduled to be released at 0:00 on July 15, but on the evening of the 14th, Jay Chou's company, Jewell Music , issued an announcement, saying that due to time errors in the international platform New Zealand , the new album audio file was exposed in advance. In order to protect the rights and interests of all pre-order digital album fans, the company coordinated the digital platform to launch all songs 2 and a half hours in advance.
Although this wave of operations caused dissatisfaction among fans, it did not affect the sales of the album. As of 11:11 am on the 15th, Jay Chou's new digital album had sold more than 4.11 million copies.
Netizens have different reviews of Jay Chou’s new album, some praises and some jokes, and remarks about “repeat the past” and “gone talent” are not uncommon. In the industry's view, as a professional musician, Jay Chou's creations are professional, professional, and also spiritual. Others such as inspiration, creativity, and spirit are unattainable. In this sense, Jay Chou's album is successful.
Chinese style song is the most popular, the biggest change is Jaylen Married
The whole album has 12 songs, 6 new songs, and Fang Wenshan has 5 songs written by lyrics. After the new song was launched, it quickly dominated the list, and the Chinese-style songs "Beauty Like Frost", "Still Wandering" and "Pink Ocean" sparked heated discussion. Some netizens think that these three songs in the new song are above Jay Chou's level, especially "The Beauty Like the Shuang", which is very different from Jay Chou's previous Chinese-style songs. The reason is that "Jay Chou is married". "The previous Chinese-style style contains some sadness and melancholy, and this song is a very light and free Chinese style. It is indeed Jay Chou after marriage."
"A song "The Beauty Like the Shuang", the familiar Jay Chou is back. It is a Chinese-style song that people will like when they hear it. It conveys Chinese style and intriguing and implicit tenderness. Let me say here that in 2023, Jay Chou is still awesome, and the peak of Chinese music scene !"
Some netizens also believe that it is difficult to compare with Jay Chou's previous Chinese-style works such as " Blue and White Porcelain " and " Shit as Snow ". "I'm a little disappointed." Some netizens even think that although the song is very Jay Chou, his voice is difficult to compare with before. "The high notes have disappeared, wuwu." "The voice has regressed too much, which is my only regret. The songs are great."
Of course, the sound of Jay Chou "Jiang Lang's Talents" is still endless. Some netizens think: "It's not that I have ended my talents but that my youth is no longer." "Why don't you feel Jay Chou's current state of mind? I feel that he should write this at his age, rather than "Blue and White Porcelain" and ". Lanting Preface . I feel that this is very consistent with my age. After being sentimental, I have become more indifferent and sad without being hurt. "
" Although the high notes are not that high, Jaylen is still breaking through himself with a changeable falsetto. You don't have to feel sad anymore. He will leave moving notes in your life in various ways." After the
album was launched, the second MV, which mainly features "Still Wandering", was also launched at 0:00 on the 15th. Fang Wenshan wrote the lyrics, with wandering as the theme, writing four years full of retro feelings. The MV is full of the sentimentality of retro movies, but Jay Chou wore a little yellow hat and supported the entire MV alone, which also made netizens hotly discuss that Jay Chou no longer had a heroine in the MV after marriage. "It's not that Kun Ling sister-in-law doesn't let her go, right?" "The heroine is gone, passers-by are gone, and brothers are gone." "This scene just came out and I thought Jay was going to play a construction worker with a yellow hat."
Industry: Physiological laws cannot be ignored. Jay Chou is a popular singer
well-known music critic Love Land people commented on Jay Chou's "The Greatest Work" and said that the favorites in the whole album are "Still Wandering", "Beauty Like Frost", "Mojito" and "Reflection". "For those who are familiar with Jay Chou, the harmonic system of these songs is really very Jay Chou, but the most important thing for professional musicians is to constantly create smooth melodies in the harmony system that he is good at.When talking about professionalism, don’t mention too much inspiration, creativity, or spirit, these are unattainable. "
Aidi people believe that it is understandable to look forward to Jay Chou's new album from the perspective of breakthrough, innovation, subversion, etc., but we must also admit that the reality is that Jay Chou can no longer continue to promote Chinese pop music from the perspective of transformative music trends. For example, you cannot expect that the current Luo Dayou and Bob Dylan can also lead the music trend.
Aidi people believe that the changes in Jay Chou's creation also have factors such as excessive comfort in life, many social activities, and complicated interests and hobbies. "But the physiological laws of human beings and the creation laws of art are there, and the principles are similar. "
Aidi people believe that everyone's excessive attention to Jay Chou is because Jay Chou has created countless glory in the Chinese music scene. "In addition to Jay Chou, there are too few Jay Chou in the Chinese music scene, and they are both personal and universal in the creation. "The current situation of Chinese pop music is that many singers have personality and no melody; attitude and no melody; traffic and no melody; concept and no melody.
He believes that Jay Chou now has different missions from Jay Chou back then. He used to be the embodiment of the pioneer of music trends. Now he balances his creation and emphasizes a certain universality in communication. This universality is suitable for more people to listen to, without understanding melody or long-term pursuit. Now many Jay Chou’s works can be directly entered without conditions. In other words, Jay Chou is a popular singer, a popular singer who can keep pop songs popular and maintain decent levels of arrangement and production.
text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Shou Penghuan
edited by Qiao Ying
