"The lyrics of the first three songs are full of dark elements, and in terms of arrangement, they are also very different from the previous music of Black Hole, and they are extremely noisy. ”

"You can understand it as an innovation, or you can also understand it as confusion. ”

"The starting point of the black hole was too high, the first album quickly became popular, the second album became a hot band in China, opened up overseas markets, and the first album topped the Billboard chart, and there are few bands in the world that can do it. ”

"But maybe they're demanding too much of themselves, they're a little too eager to change. ”

"Hard rock and metal are two completely new fields that have been reclaimed by the black hole, and these two fields have great potential and can feed a lot of people if they are cultivated deeply. ”

"As a pioneer and guide, Black Hole wants to try and innovate these two styles, which is of course normal and what they should do. ”

"It's just that they're taking a big step. Hard shake and metal, to put it bluntly, is a kind of music with a faster rhythm and heavier instrumental music and singing, and listeners who are used to listening to psychedelic and pop and even folk songs will naturally have a strong interest and freshness in this kind of music, but after listening to it too much, it is easy to get bored. ”

"Everyone likes the sense of excitement, but not everyone likes the excitement, and most people still prefer more comfortable and mild music. I think Black Hole's six songs on the A side this time are doing a good job, and both metal love songs and folk metal are very successful attempts. I would venture to guess that in this new album, the most downloaded singles should be two metal love songs, followed by those two folk metals. ”

"These songs on the B side, especially the last four, have taken the extremes to the extreme, from the lyrics to the instrumental music, to the singing, the black hole is presented in the most extreme way. They've succeeded with faster, heavier music, and they're trying to take it a step further with the heaviest, fastest music.

"It's too noisy, it's too noisy, I, as an old fan of Black Hole, and a professional music critic, can't accept such noise, let alone those ordinary fans?"

"I understand their dissatisfaction and skepticism, and the Black Hole Band did try the wrong direction this time. Black hole, black hole, there are so many directions that can be excavated and developed, why did you choose such an extreme route? I think that no matter how innovative and breakthrough the music style is, it still has to be good as the premise, right? ”

"If I could encounter a black hole, I would definitely advise them to focus on metal love songs and folk metal directions! ”

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Cao Wu pursed his lips, exited the page, and slipped his phone back into his pocket.

This kind of music criticism has been common in the past few days, he has read several articles, this one is quite mild, at least he can see the good places, and some excited music critics are eager to cut off the rest of the songs, leaving only those four to criticize the black hole.

Cao Wu had expected such a situation, and since the end of "Singer", the black hole has determined its position in the domestic rock circle. It's cold in the heights, the gun shoots the first bird, and being held up to such a height means that everyone will be staring at it, and if you miss the pool, you will face a violent storm.

In fact, just posting music comments on the Internet and criticizing two sentences is already very face-saving, and in Cao Wu's imagination, the situation he faces is much more exaggerated than this!

Cao Wu remembered that a little black fat man said that there is no art form in this world that can be accepted and liked by everyone, and he deeply believes it.

It's not that what the public likes is low-level, and it's not that the niche likes it's high-level.

The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, and people are composed of comfort zones, and stepping out of the comfort zone will of course feel uncomfortable.

Cao Wu had anticipated these doubts for a long time, and knew that such extreme music was not acceptable to most people.

However, curiosity is the driving force for human progress, and music will always develop in different directions.

Moreover, these critics had no idea what the album was about.

The reason why Cao Wu named this album "rock?and?metal" is actually to make a detailed division of the content of hard rock and metal music, and provide several different development directions.

He always considered himself a farmer with seeds, and in addition to cultivating the fields, sowing seeds was his most important job and mission.

But he doesn't explain anything, everything has its reason for existence, maybe death metal is not what most people like, but there are always some people who will love it as their life.

This thing is not explained clearly, and there is no need to argue about the superiority, people will always be divided into different circles because of various differences and similarities, some musicians serve one circle, and black holes serve many circles.

Of course, not all critics are against death metal, and a significant number of critics have also expressed their approval of the style, and even praised the innovative spirit of Black Hole.

Song Ju, the editor of Audiovisual World and one of the most senior music critics in the circle, wrote in a column for Audiovisual World:

Excellent musicians will not just hide in their comfort zone, they will always be responsible and the most demanding people who can lead the trend.

Death is an ominous element in our culture, and people tend to keep it secret, and our country has always lacked death-related education.

Fear comes from the unknown, and the fear of death is actually due to a lack of knowledge of it. If you can't learn to face death, it's hard to face life.

We have always been singing about life, singing about beauty, but death is as real as life, blindfolded, Tarzan is still there, ignoring the problem, does not mean that the problem will no longer exist.

The Black Hole Band tried to make sense, and I'm glad they have such awareness and responsibility.

The discussion of death metal even overshadowed the international charity concert a month later, and there were different opinions on the Internet, each expressing their own opinions, and no one could convince anyone.

For the first time, fans of the Black Hole band also have a subtle distinction.

Everyone's music tastes are different, some people like light, some people like heavy mouths, and it is rare that people with different tastes can find a home here in the black hole.

The disputed media and music critics couldn't get an idea, so they turned their attention abroad, curious about how well the Black Hole album would be accepted in overseas markets.

The Black Hole band did not respond to this topic in any way, nor did they carry out any publicity at home and abroad, but quietly ran to Kenya in the eastern part of the Philippines.