Section 44: The Voice of the Times

"Maybe one day I'll perch on a branch and become the target of hunters,"

"I flew on the blue and found myself,"

"No one to rely on,"

……

Shen Huan chose the song for his second stage performance and finally chose "I Am a Little Bird".

This is a classic song created by Li Mousheng, a big brother in the Chinese music scene in another world, sung by Zhao in 90, which directly brought Zhao's singing career to the peak of this life. In the following decades, countless singers covered it, and this song became a well-known vocal work in the three regions of the Taiwan Strait, almost as long as it was sung by everyone, but Shen Huan did not use the arrangement of Zhao's original version here.

He used the "new arrangement" he made with the "help" of Xia Shiqiu. But what Xia Shiqiu didn't know was that, just like Zhou Yi, he was also deceived by Shen Huan's superb acting skills and the use of psychological knowledge.

The arrangements that Xia Shiqiu thought he contributed were completely completed under Shen Huan's guidance, and here Shen Huan covertly used survivor bias: Xia Shiqiu actually put forward many opinions throughout the arrangement process, but under Shen Huan's covert guidance and comparison, either Zhou Yi came forward, or Xia Shiqiu himself came forward, or the finished effect of the orchestra was displayed, so that Xia Shiqiu eliminated all the arrangement opinions that did not meet Shen Huan's wishes, and in the end only those that were left were those that Shen Huan needed.

But those were indeed proposed by Xia Shiqiu, so he naturally thought that it was his self-help idea.

Seeing only the results of screening without realizing the process of screening is a typical survivorship bias. The final result is that the arrangement is indeed completed by Xia Shiqiu, Zhou Yi and Shen Huan, but in the case of mental calculation or unintentional, the final product is what Shen Huan has already imagined, that is, the version he is singing now.

This version is the version sung by the legendary Chinese rock singer Luo Mou in another world on a music program, Shen Huan thinks it is very good, majestic, very in line with the requirements of live singing, and it is interlocking with his entire plan, so he finally adopted this version of the arrangement.

And under such an arrangement, as soon as his singing voice, which is no longer young and has a sense of sedimentation of years, comes out, it immediately pulls the audience into his musical world.

In Villa No. 16 of the Chaohe Yanjing Compound in distant Yanjing, the woman was staring at the screen, her eyes flickering.

If she had doubts before, now she really believes that these songs were written by him.

"Maybe one day I will perch on a branch, but I will become the target of a hunter", this sentence clearly refers to him and her, talking about the current situation.

Her instincts weren't wrong, and the guy realized something.

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"I can't sleep in the dead of night,"

"I doubt it's just me tomorrow that hasn't gotten better,"

"What does the future hold?"

"Who will know?"

"Is happiness just a legend,"

"I'll never find it,"

……

The audience had fallen silent and listened quietly.

Every time I listen to Shen Huan sing, it's like listening to a story, and this time is no exception.

What Shen Huan is singing is his story, his life, the kind of helplessness and temptation that everyone can hear clearly, but what Shen Huan is singing is also their life, their story, this strong emotional resonance, is even stronger than the last song "Dream Chasing Pure Heart"!

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The success of "I Am a Little Bird", in addition to the high quality of the musical work itself, the age of the song's release is also an important factor in the song's becoming a classic.

At the end of the twentieth century, China was a turbulent era: formal reform and opening up, the economy began to take off, the integration of capitalism and communism, some unspeakable events, still some unspeakable events, or some unspeakable events, a certain country in the Middle East whose overall military strength surpassed China at that time was completely defeated by the Western coalition led by the United States at the cost of less than 350 people, which caused a huge shock to Chinese society, the reform of the state ownership system, the death of the chief designer, the return of Xiangjiang, the super-large flood, Macao's Return to the ......

From the economy to politics, from social daily life to the field of culture and thought, this is an unprecedented turbulent era.

Living in such an era, in the face of such an era, every individual will involuntarily feel how small they are, and the stronger their sense of insignificance, the easier it is to resonate with the emotions in the song "I Am a Little Bird", which is why this song became popular all over the country as soon as it was launched, and it has endured for more than ten years and has been continuously covered.

Although there are subtle differences in some specific things and events in this world, the overall trend is still highly synchronized with the other world, and the major events that have happened in the other world have also happened in most of this world, so the people present have just come from that turbulent era.

They have seen with their own eyes how the world around them is changing, and they have experienced first-hand how small they are in such an era.

In such a big era, they can't control their own fate at all, and they can only roll forward with the huge waves of the times, floating wherever they go, so as soon as Shen Huan's outpouring singing voice with a great sense of space sounded, as soon as a few sentences passed, it pierced into their hearts, causing a strong resonance in their hearts, and making their emotions fall into it deeply.

……

"I'm a little bird,"

"I want to fly, I want to fly, but I can't fly high!"

……

Together, as soon as the high notes arrived, everyone was shocked, and goosebumps couldn't help it.

"It's ...... Innocent voice!?"

There was a singer in the large lounge who suddenly spoke, it was the new female singer Cui Yue this time, who was looking at the TV screen hanging on the wall of the lounge with an incredulous expression.

"Yes. ”

Someone answered her, it was summer and autumn.

He also came here after his session, and at the moment he was standing and looking at the TV screen, with a solemn expression on his face, but admiration in his eyes.

Different genres have different opinions on what a "true voice" is, and there is no unified opinion in the vocal music world, but Xia Shiqiu knows what it means to know the innocent voice as recognized by a singer like Cui Yue, so he answered.

Shen Huan has been rehearsing in this way during rehearsals in the past few days, the effect is good, and Xia Shiqiu's listening sense is also very amazing and shocking, but from the singer's point of view, Xia Shiqiu does not agree with his approach, because although his talent is amazing, if he really sings like this, it is simply at the cost of burning his life as a singer.

If you keep singing like this, it won't take a year or even a few months, and Shen Huan's voice will be wasted. Even if it is sung more than a dozen times this week, it is likely to cause indelible damage to Shen Huan's voice, so Xia Shiqiu suggested that he mix in a little more, and his hearing may decrease, but it can play a good role in protecting his voice, but Shen Huan did not accept it.

"As a singer, I have to give my all to respect the stage and the audience. ”

This is the answer Shen Huan gave him.

After hearing this answer, Xia Shiqiu did not speak for a long time.

He thought he was a musical maniac, but he knew then that the real musical maniac was the person in front of him, and the madness he once claimed to be nothing in front of this truly pure musician.

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The audience at the scene and in front of the TV didn't pay attention to so much, they only knew that Shen Huan's song had a strong resonance with them, and the chorus directly detonated their emotions!

When a large number of people were laid off across the country overnight, they once watched in a daze as the former iron rice bowl was shattered like this, and they wanted to resist and appeal for their power, but they had no way to call the sky, and in the end they could only hold their heads together and cry until dawn.

Hundreds of thousands of people have had to leave their homes for the sake of the world-renowned dam project, either by boat or by car, and looking back, it is as if the flood has submerged their ancestral graves, ancestral houses, and their hometown, which is full of memories of their childhood and youth. They don't want to go, but they don't have the power to choose, and the only thing they can do is to leave their last tears on the land before leaving.

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Countless people who have come from that era have unconsciously clenched their fists,

These are countless birds that can't fly high in this era.

The man on stage was no longer singing his story.

This is the voice of the times.