Taiwanese lyricist Lin Qiuli died at the age of 62 years. Earlier this year, the news said that he got his eldest son donated his liver and was admitted to the ICU after completing the liver replacement surgery. His wife, Xiong Meiling, , hoped to get everyone's prayer power on social media. All kinds of efforts and reluctance were still put into a sad end.
2006, Beijing, Lin Qiuli
Lin Qiuli is a veteran Taiwanese lyricist. His songs include "Crying Sand", " Listening to the Sea HTML ", " Cut Love ", " Thank you for your love ", " Jiangnan ", " Cao Cao ", "dark"... This list of lyrics works is very long, enough to ensure that Chinese people aged between 20 and 70 have heard at least one or two of them. Lin also served as the chairman of Haidie Music , and is the driving force of popular singers such as Chen Jieyi, JJ Lin , Adu , etc. Because he did not show up frequently in his early years and his name was fascinating, Lin Qiuli often received letters from fans during the communications era and was deemed to be a female poet, and his words were often full of imagination.
In fact, he is a middle-aged man with long gray shawl hair. Xiong Meiling, the composer who often appears side by side with his name, is his wife. The two had a huge family gap before getting married (the rich woman and the man fell into a family) because of music. In the widely circulated love stories, the notes they left behind, the scenes of the woman flying abroad and returning, the thorough heart-to-heart talk, and the time she lingers in the folk song restaurant, all have the characteristics of a typical literary youth of that era.
The two often join forces after getting married. Except for the first song "Sky of the Seagull", the other songs are first composed of Xiong Meiling's songs, and then Lin Qiuli fills in the lyrics. Lin Qiuli described Xiong Meiling as "a very gentle person. You know she is angry, know she is uncomfortable, and you can still feel her tenderness." "Jiangnan" comes from the scenery and writes about the gentleness of a woman in Jiangnan that he imagines.
Xiong Meiling is Lin Qiuli's first girlfriend, and she has the only heart she has won, and will never be separated from her old age. To put it more stingy, he wrote so many love songs, and there was the shadow of the same person in it; "Every lyrics are love letters I wrote to you." This ability to discover infinite in a person can only be possessed by a few lucky people. Once possessed, this power is often very powerful.
Lin Qiuli is different from the literati-type Chinese lyricist. In 2015, he published a book called "Steal Your Mood and Write Love Songs", a very relaxed (simple) small book. He chose some of his lyrics to tell stories, just like chatting with acquaintances. It’s not entirely his fault. It’s always boring to let the lyrics talk about the story behind the lyrics. What's the difference between writing in the bathroom, writing on the toilet, and writing on the beach? Written by any scene, mood, story or sentence, it seems like it is just a slap in his writing. The book lacks the deep meaning that readers desire. Everything can be achieved simply in one go. Life is as free as a sharp turn, and it can always turn bad luck into good luck. Lin Qiuli's collection of essays is as grassroots as his lyrics. It is straightforward, affectionate, bold and simple, with a bit of artificial literary accent and elegant humor in the old world. It is true and false, and it is not true or false.
As a professional lyricist and a senior pop music practitioner, Lin Qiuli also knows how to put his mood in a poem. But he tried it casually, and in terms of changes in psychological activities or writing skills, he was definitely not as good as the two Weiwens or the elder brothers, , Li Zongsheng, .
But Lin Qiuli has his own poetry, and he doesn't want to be another so-and-so. In terms of lyrics, what is closer to him is the Wu Bai , Zhang Zhenyue , and the origin of Taiwanese pop songs behind them. If this sect writes love songs, it must be the strongest. "The Most Fear of You Sleeping with Others" (1996), "Knocking My Heart" (1987), " Says Love Me Anytime You Want " (1988), "I'm the Stupidest in Your Eyes" (1994), "If You Say No, Don't Love" (1994)... The songs filled in by Lin Qiuli are so fierce that there are a lot of names. They are rich in the atmosphere of the times, connecting the imagination space, and are songs played in the billiard room filled with cigarettes and the cold ice room in old Taiwanese movies. There are good men and women in it, soaking in the vulgar love songs from teenagers to young people, and then from young people to middle age, from black and white to high-definition and colorful modernity.Another feature of writing songs on
is that if you can think of a metaphor with a flash of inspiration, you must not waste it and use it hard. For example, love that can be cut into pieces, love that hurts people like sand and passionate sea. The love songs Lin wrote for Adu were very exaggerated, just like the shoddy and bitter songs that are now made. But sometimes there is a great elegance hidden in the vulgarity. Even the metaphor that can be used as the title of "Dark" was given up, leaving only the whole article describing the feeling of breaking up when closing your eyes and turning it over. The difference between the external world and the spiritual world is as simple as closing your eyes. Thinking about it seems to have the meaning of philosophical thoughts again.
Lin Qiuli should be a person who believes in intuition more than thinking, intelligence and logic. "Round circles and round circles" describes the rain in Jiangnan. He is very proud of this strange but very appropriate description. "Using conspiracy, open conspiracy, secret snatch," it made no sense. Later, he explained that it was the word "touch" that I thought of when playing mahjong. Isn't it because the poet just wanted to rhyme at that time? Later, I found out that I was caught and asked endlessly, so I had an idea of this reasonable explanation. If so, it's a witty patch.
I would like to add here that the lyrics are not necessarily bound by grammar because they are equipped with music. Sometimes a poet is crazy and writes words that are not familiar with the literature and science at the first moment. Please don’t blame him/her for being arbitrary. Just ask, can you get some feelings when listening to music? If so, the lyrics and songwriters will complete the task. The intention is beyond words, this is a miracle that music can give.
There are some simpler and quieter songs, which are not as simple as Lin Qiuli, and I also like them very much. The couple wrote "Let the Love Aside" and "Tango in Bitter Wine" for the early 1990s. They were lonely and drank wine, sighing that there was yesterday and no tomorrow, and there was love in their hearts but no one loved them. Minnan is more elegant than Modern Chinese . There is a sentence in "Tango of Bitter Wine": "With a full drink of sincerity, you can treat it as if you don't see it." The listeners who do not understand Minnan dialect also feel lush. Coupled with Jiang Hui's singing, this is the cool comfort that everyone hopes to get in the Dark Cabaret.
There is another song. He wrote " Walking to New York " (2005) for the lyrics of Tao Jingying , which was newly added to Haidie , which was very unique and very 21st century. At that time, the bitter songs with too much force were not very popular. It would be inconsistent for female singers, especially those who debuted as an independent female singer like Tao Jingying, to let her sing " too wronged ". Moreover, with Tao Jingying's sharp personality, she is far from the image of being injured and endured. Lin Qiuli wrote this song in tailor-made for her. The lyrics are shallow and transparent. It describes a woman who usually walks too quickly and decides to "walk to New York and see everything I have overlooked along the way." There is not much emotional venting, only a firm understanding of one's own determination and a sense of freedom that is rustling with the wind.
Time has passed, and the lyricist who has only loved one person but stole a lot of stories has gradually become more able to understand people's hearts, understand people's desires, and write their desires into songs with more concise brushstrokes than when they were young. What Lin Qiuli has never changed is an expression of not caring about his life and not being stingy about his feelings. The first song contains "Only One Glass of Wine", which runs through his career. Perhaps because of drinking too much liquid and emotional wine, Lin Qiuli eventually died of cirrhosis liver cancer.
"My life has been full of climaxes and thrillingness. Looking back, it is really thrilling. I don't need to envy other people's stories. My stories are not inferior at all."
- Lin Qiuli
