1603 Singing
It's weird, it's really weird, and every bit of tonight's concert is so weird that the rest of the fans and the audience can't react.
What the hell is going on?
The whole audience sang in chorus, this is a common concert bridge, but the whole audience played collectively, what is going on? Why are all the Don Quixote now raising their hands high and starting to beat the rhythm as part of the Blue Rite performance, the deafening drum rhythm makes the live performance full of an indescribable but uplifting sense of rhythm.
Why!
All this is really, really strange! They really can't understand this mode of getting along between Lan Li and Don Quixote, there is a "neurotic" temperament in every aspect, but the more crazy and outrageous and fantastic, the more the curiosity is unstoppable, and then ...... There is no then.
Before I realized it, I couldn't help but sink into it, beating the rhythm with the audience, jumping happily together, singing together, joy and happiness are so simple, and then, smiling and laughing, my eyes slowly warmed up, and the sadness and bitterness hidden behind the melody and singing gently spread on the tip of my tongue.
"Oh, Ophelia, you haunt me like a drug/addiction;
Oh, Ophelia, it's God who makes fools like me fall in love.
Oh, Ophelia, you have haunted me since the beginning of the century;
Oh, Ophelia, it's God who makes fools like me fall in love. ”
Involuntarily, the audience closed their eyes, emptied their brains, and jumped and swayed in the rhythm, the innocent and romantic Ophelia, the Ophelia who was crazy about love, the Ophelia who was a moth to the fire, and the heartbreaking and more desirable Ophelia, fell in love with a wrong person, but still had no regrets, but chose to end his life, so that this tragic mistaken love came to an end.
Behind that resolute move, there is a deep sense of loneliness and loneliness. Everyone laments Hamlet's tragedy, but who sees Ophelia's pain?
The audience danced, laughed and cried, unconsciously like a madman, completely unloaded all the burdens, completely integrated into the melody and rhythm, and the bitterness and pain in their hearts were vented in the wanton and crazy beating, only they could savor it.
"'Honey, I love you,' those were her last words. ”
Is Ophelia's ending her pain or Hamlet's regret? The pain and torment of struggling between hatred and love is still difficult to describe in words after all, and only when you really experience it can you feel the torment of gnawing at the heart and bones, and being in a dilemma.
This is precisely the reason why the album "Don Quixote" is so special and profound, different listeners can taste different flavors and gain new insights at different times and stages, but how many of those listeners who buy the album are willing to calm down and enjoy it slowly?
Until now.
From the plain as water at the beginning to the faint sadness of the immersion, to the touching of the new track, and finally to the carnival of cooperative singing, tonight's "Dream Back to Kerosene Lamp Bar" concert has finally officially announced, but the appetizer has already made the audience unable to extricate themselves from indulging in it.
Lan Li and Ed sang four songs together, two Lan Li's works, two Ed's works, especially when the two friends sang "The-A-Team" together, this is undoubtedly a classic moment worth remembering, because Ed took the initiative to step back from the position of backup singer and let Lan Lilai perform the work that made him famous in one fell swoop.
I have to admit that the same song, under Lan Li's interpretation, interprets a completely different style from Ed.
When Ed first wrote this song, it was because he accidentally saw a physical service worker displaced by /drug/product and finally frozen to death on the street, such a cruel and cold reality hit Ed's young heart fiercely, and he wrote the moving lyrics "The world is so cold that even angels can't fly".
In Ed's singing, with a touch of poetry and sadness, the small and fresh tone brought out a touch of embarrassment in the light dance.
But Lan Li's voice gave the melody a faint vicissitudes and relief. abandoning pity and sympathy, just quietly recounting the helplessness and loneliness behind those cold realities, the picture can't help but appear in my mind: is there anyone else waiting for the figure frozen to death on the street?
The song is as calm as water, but it has a thrilling power.
People once marveled at how the young Ed Sheeran could write such a lyric full of wisdom and vicissitudes, he was not yet twenty years old when he wrote the song "Top", but people were even more amazed at this time, how the equally young Lan Li Hall could interpret such a calm and atmospheric emotion, the sadness and bitterness in the understatement always lingered, and now Lan Li is only twenty-four years old.
After the four-song collaboration, Lan Li temporarily left the stage and handed over the stage to Ed.
The concert is finally officially on track, with Ed Sheeran to Blessed Son, Bon-iver to Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan to Stark Saunders...... All the singers and actors of the entire "Drunken Country Folk" crew took the stage, and six groups of performers were invited to appear and sing passionately.
The atmosphere of the audience has always remained warm and active, without the haste and cheapness of the platter concert, but there is a kind of petty bourgeoisie and coziness in the folk bar, enjoying a night of fun in a leisurely and free way, faintly revealing a music festival lively, making people completely indulge in it and wander freely.
At the end of the show, when Lan Li took the stage again, the audience realized that the three-and-a-half-hour performance was coming to an end.
Just like in the movie, Lan Li performed two tracks, "Hang Me, Oh, Hang Me" and "Wave Goodbye", as well as the song "Budapest" from the album "Don Quixote", and the three songs brought the performance to a successful conclusion, but it was clear that the enthusiasm of the audience was still not satisfied.
Encore continues.
Justin Timberlake, Kerry Mulligan and Stark Saunders took the lead, and Ed Sheeran and Marcus Mumford joined hands to sing a retro version of "Five Hundred Miles."
Different from the brisk version of the movie that fits the plot, this time they rearranged it according to their own style, interpreting the texture of the sixties, and the mellow and moving emotions really make people cry.
In addition, they performed two quintets, all of which were rehearsed for this concert, as a gift from Encore, and thanked all the fans for being there in person. It can be seen that this concert is definitely not just a formality, they all make full use of their spare time to prepare for the concert, just to be able to spend the night with the audience.
It's so encore, it can definitely be said to be full of weight!
But......
"Encore, Encore, Encore!"
After the performance, the encore sound of the audience was still in the ears, like a thunderous roar, resounding throughout the Madison Square Garden, and the momentum was still getting higher and higher, making people strongly suspect that the roof of the stadium seemed to be able to be overturned at any time, and the sound of the tsunami really made people feel the enthusiasm of the fans.
William Taylor was shouting hoarsely, with no end in sight to the endless energy, in fact, his voice had begun to be hoarse, and his limbs had begun to tremble, but he was still tirelessly cheering and shouting:
If he could, how he hoped that this party would never end, and that it would continue for a long time, so that the farewell ceremony of youth would not come, and they would be able to stay in the trap of the torrent of time, avoid the urging of time, firmly grasp the happiness and beauty, sorrow and pain of this moment, and stick to their eternity with tears in this way.
But he knew it couldn't be.
Therefore, he hopes that this farewell can be a little longer, a little longer, and he will hold on to the tail of the graduation ceremony, and finally willfully and wantonly again, like a child who refuses to grow up.
"Encore!"
William called out so forgetfully, for Lan Li, and for his youth, shouting and shouting, tears just slipped down inexplicably, hot and hot, almost scalding his cheeks, but the smile at the corner of his mouth and the light under his eyes quietly bloomed, when he was a child, he always cried and cried when he cried, but when he grew up, he laughed and cried, why is this?
It's not a goodbye, it's a different way to accompany each other.
William knew this, but he still couldn't control his emotions.
The wanton and flamboyant, crazy and exhilarating of his youth, all attached to the name "Lan Li-Hall", opened the door to a whole new world for him, and now he will finally set sail alone, even though he knows that he will not go far, but he is still reluctant.
Suddenly, William remembered Heather Cross again. The girl who left all her passion and dreams in Madison Square Garden, the girl who bloomed her youth and life, the girl who left regrets and had to stay forever in the seventeen-year-old flowering season.
The tears became more and more wanton, and the stage could hardly be seen clearly in the hazy teary eyes, but William tirelessly raised his hands and continued to shout, releasing all the last light left in his youth, and slowly, that young and childish face was fading little by little.
He's not the only one.
Hope Baez, Graham Hughes, Chanel Lawrence, Cecilia Wilton, Lauren Mesler...... All the energetic faces are shouting in unison:
"Encore, Encore, Encore!"