Chapter 52: Strange and Strange!
After buying the CD and hurriedly returning home, Sima Duoduo didn't even have the patience to listen to it from the beginning, and after the CD started playing, she quickly switched and switched, until she cut to that one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
When I opened the lyric book, I figured it out this time, and it was called "Indian Old Turtledove".
From the beginning of the song, the arrangement of this song is full of evil - all kinds of strange sounds, even if I hear it for the second time, I still hear Sima Duoduo directly blindfolded.
However, what's even weirder is the lyrics -
"How can there be loaches in the desert?
After saying that, a seagull flew by,
The wind of the Grand Canyon whistles,
Who said no.
There's a hot, dazed rattlesnake,
Lying powerlessly in the dry river,
Swampy while waiting for the rainy season to come.
The gray wolf gnaws on the bones of the sambar,
The vultures hovered and stared at the carrion,
Two hostile bison on the steppe,
Duel in the distance.
In an abandoned termite mound,
There stood an old turtle dove that was faint and hungry,
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Sima Duoduo listened, watched, listened and watched again.
Continue to be circled.
You say it's wild, of course it's okay, but ......
Well, first of all, it's a rap, and this one is right, it's a rap.
In other words, Li Qian's first solo album is simply getting bigger and bigger the more he plays, and he even raps!
This is recognized as one of the most niche music genres in China!
Sima Duoduo has always admitted that she is not the kind of closed, traditional musician, even before joining the Wuxing Wusu group, she has also heard a lot of foreign music of various genres, r&br, rap, are no strangers, after starting her career as a singer, she is even more diligent in learning, and she has more and more contact with various foreign music, and her understanding is getting deeper and deeper.
Even in recent years, with the increasing prosperity of the record market, and with the increasing frequency of domestic and foreign communication, there have been several hip-hop rap singers in China, and Sima Duoduo has also listened to their albums, two of them have eaten together and met at events, but even so, Sima Duoduo still insists that what they are doing is not successful.
Or it can be said that in Sima Duoduo's subconscious, the type of music is naturally with its own cultural genes, such as in China, there are folk songs, dramas and other music categories that are not found in any other country and cultural environment, and in the United States, where the special cultural intersection of various ethnic groups, there will be blues, rap, r&b, and the countryside. Don't you see, Li Qian made an international album for Liao Liao, mainly R&B and American-style country, and did not sing the style of Liao Liao when he was in China?
This is like how many ancient cities in Europe have narrow streets, so small cars like the Beetle sell very well, but when this kind of car is sold to the United States, which has a vast area and open roads, few people admit it, and Americans love pickup trucks with high horsepower and large displacement! And pickup trucks, Europeans don't like this kind of thing!
Therefore, if you have to move the rap that belongs to the United States to China, it is not feasible in the first place!
Secondly, Li Qian's arrangement...... It's even more chaotic and radical than many popular rap albums in the United States!
Again, he this lyrics......
Well, if you put aside the fact that this is a rap song, put aside the cultural genetic disagreement, and even if you put aside the fact that it is the lyrics of a song, just looking at the manuscript, Sima Duoduo has to admit in his heart that even if it is a poem, it is really enough personality!
Don't talk about music, don't discuss arrangement, just discuss this lyrics, this kind of hip-hop style is a style that the domestic cultural circle will reject from the bones!
It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it's just out of place!
Speaking of which, if you have known each other for several years, even if you don't talk about Li Qian's achievement of the Five Elements and Wusu's kindness, just talking about friendship, I am good friends with Xie Bing, Wang Jingxue, Sun Ruoxuan, and Li Qian.
Perhaps because of her own independent personality, it was difficult for her to convince herself to call Li Qian, a big boy who was obviously a few years younger than herself, "brother", but the feelings in her heart were no worse than Xie Bing and the others.
So, if it's just the previous songs, now that she hears this song, and listens to it several times, the more she listens to it, the more she feels out of place, she subconsciously wants to take out her mobile phone and call Li Qian, but she quickly thought that the albums have already been released, what's the use of calling?
Still, she couldn't help but worry about him.
After listening to this weird avant-garde rap "Indian Old Turtledove" six or seven times, she sighed helplessly and persuaded herself to calm down first and continue listening.
And the next song is called "Castle William".
Well, that's another rap.
With the rhythm, Sima Duoduo subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to cover his forehead.
It's really a big game now!
Although Li Qian's articulation skills are still quite good, even if it is rap, if you calm down and listen, especially when you read the lyrics once, most of the words can be clearly distinguished, but rap is rap, maybe in the United States, it is a kind of music category that young people like to see, but in China, rap itself represents the avant-garde and represents radicalism!
What's more, as far as what I hear so far, Li Qian's two raps from words to songs, even if they are put in the United States, they can be regarded as the kind that is outlierous!
But...... It's a similar situation again, if you look at the song aside, the lyrics of this "William Castle" are full of personality -
Wilhelm II, the owner of the castle, with a beard on his face,
Habitual to start snoring after sucking blood,
The housekeeper is a pig who speaks French and behaves elegantly,
Before sucking blood, the Gospel of John will be recited as a retention,
Princess Catherine with blue eyes,
Eat male rats with AB blood type.
I have to admit that even if Li Qian's album and this song fail, this lyric is enough to become a cult classic to some extent!
It's just that no matter how powerful the cult is, it's still the way of the cult after all!
Seriously play from the beginning, listen to it well, Sima Duoduo has to admit that this rap, in fact, is quite good, in addition to being a rap in Chinese, it will make Sima Duoduo feel an indescribable sense of weirdness and strangeness, just as far as the song itself is concerned, it should still be above the level.
Considering Li Qian's outstanding control and creative ability in all music genres that Li Qian has always shown, Sima Duoduo is not surprised that he can write such a rap work.
It's just that...... It's a bit too adventurous!
Looking at the lyric book, the next song is called "Childhood". But judging by the name, it seems that it should be a little normal?
When "Castle William" was finished, she did not choose to go backwards again, but waited with anticrity for this next song to be a little more "normal".
Sure enough, the next song is in the style of a ballad!
Sima Duoduo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.
It's okay, it's okay!
Come to think of it, as a gold medal producer in the domestic music scene in recent years, and even known as the "leader", Li Qian should have the clearest understanding of the current situation of the domestic music scene, and he is also one of the few people who has the most accurate grasp of the taste of fans, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most powerful.
So, although the first few songs are really too risky, after all, there is a "First Time" in front of it, which is a very heart-warming love song, plus this fresh and interesting "Childhood" is a folk song of drought and flood protection, plus Li Qian's own appeal, maybe this album will not sell too badly?
Especially...... After listening to it less than halfway, Sima Duoduo keenly discovered that this song "Childhood" is really fantastic! From the fresh arrangement to the lyrics that are enough to evoke many people's childhood memories, this song is simply a nirvana for domestic fans!
Listening to this, Sima Duoduo had to sigh: This is where Li Qian's strength lies! It is also where he dares to take such a risk!
No matter what style it is, as long as he wants to do it, he can always do it well enough!
So, if you take out a few songs and take a risk with a few songs on an album, it's no problem at all -- who has the certainty of this if you change someone else? Who has the ability?
After listening to "Childhood", Sima Duoduo was determined.
At this time, I unconsciously recalled the two raps just now that made me bear Li Qian's heart - from an objective point of view, most of the raps made by domestic singers are blunt, either copying and copying the American style, or they are very shriveled and pale, but Li Qian's two raps, not to mention anything else, in the context of Chinese, do not even feel the slightest disobedience?
Well, when I'm done listening to the whole album later, I'll have to go back and listen to those two songs again!
Because, its style and lyrics are really weird enough, and at the same time very interesting!
Maybe...... Maybe Li Qian can really do domestic rap?
Thinking of this, Sima Duoduo subconsciously shook his head: How is that possible!
is still the same sentence, the cultural atmosphere is different, the context is different, and there is no soil for survival in China, a niche music genre like rap!
Even Li Qian can't force fans to stuff things that everyone doesn't like, right?
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The next one, well, this time it is also very safe, "You at the Same Table", full of folk style, from the lyrics to the song, once again made Sima Duoduo sigh about Li Qian's abundant creative talent!
Good song, definitely good song!
And as soon as it enters the ear, it feels very intimate, and even Sima Duoduo feels that if his feelings are right, like "Childhood", like "You at the Same Table", it simply naturally has a kind of eternal feeling!
Hearing this song, Sima Duoduo's original worry in his heart was not to say that he had gone away, at least most of it!
Then, "Lights on the Stars" is actually an inspirational work, and looking at the meaning of the lyrics, it also brings some small criticism of the current society - with Sima Duoduo's current little creative experience, and the same not too accurate grasp of the market, the song of this way, as long as the melody is good enough and the lyrics have some deep meaning, it must be quite safe!
That's it!
With so many songs, this album is still reliable!
Let's just say, he's Li Qian!
With his creative talent, with the precise grasp of the market that he has shown in recent years, how could he have missed?
With so many songs, this album can be regarded as an insurance!
Continue to listen to it, well, this "Kiss Goodbye" is also very good!
It's another good enough love song, but unlike the song "The First Time" I heard standing on the street just now, that song has a faint warm taste, and this song has a deeper flavor and is more intriguing!
Good work!
The singing is good enough!
Listening to it, sighing with emotion, Sima Duoduo couldn't help but think of the words of Sister Zhen Zhen on the phone just now, perhaps, should he really go to him to ask for a song?
Although he rejected his invitation at the beginning, he finally chose to come to Sony and chose to fly solo, but the friendship back then has always been there, shouldn't he not even give a song?
And with one of his songs as the main song, I don't have to work hard to create, and the main idea of the new album, and even the future sales, will have a certain guarantee...... It's a thing that is full of benefits.
It's just that in that way, it should more or less make the "heroic" when he chose to fly solo seem to be discounted?
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Before you know it, it's the last song.
It's called "Dark Incense".
When the prelude started, Sima Duoduo didn't pay much attention to it, but when the first song sounded, she couldn't help but be shocked - is Li Qian's singing skills already so powerful?
As far as people in the music world are concerned, Sima Duoduo is already one of the early ones who knew Li Qian, and she still clearly remembers that when she did "Sister and Sister Stand Up", Li Qian, who was still in his third year of high school, wanted to rap skills, in fact, he could only be regarded as average, and he was more able to use his voice, but he was not outstanding.
Later, when he did "The Boy on the Other Side", his singing skills were already quite impressive, but they were not top-notch, until just now, listening to the song "Kiss Goodbye", Sima Duoduo had vaguely felt Li Qian's progress in singing skills in recent years, but now, as soon as this "Dark Fragrance" came out, it was just the first sentence, but it had already made Sima Duoduo feel very clearly: He has really improved again!
This is a slow song, the lyrics are subtle and deep, with an inexhaustible charm, such a song, of course, is a good song, from the words to the song, impeccable, but ordinary singers to sing, it is easier to sing it kitsch, and this song is sung by Li Qian, deep and tactful, even the outbreak of the C section, with endless aftersound!
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After listening to the whole album, Sima Duoduo was stunned.
I couldn't speak for a long time, and I didn't know what to say.
From radical rap rap, to this kind of accumulated superb singing skills, from the most cult lyrics, to pure classical composition and extremely poetic lyrics......
This is Li Qian's first solo album!
She had no choice but to turn around and listen to it all over again!
And just as she was repeatedly tasting this album with a variety of genres over and over again, at this moment all over the country, with the full listing of "The First Experience of Love" across the country, countless fans who got the new album for the first time are also feasting their ears.
Of course, there are mixed reviews.
For those good works that are already within the aesthetic range of most people, of course, everyone will listen to them as soon as they hear them, but for those works that Sima Duoduo thinks are "too risky", even the most hardcore fans have different feelings.
At this time, in the girls' dormitory of a higher vocational and technical school in Chang'an Prefecture, Yang Jinye, who was called down from the rooftop, was listening to this "First Experience of Love" with several good sisters in the same dormitory.
Some people love "Jiangnan" a lot, and after listening to this first song, they can't wait to go back and listen to it again, and some people especially like "The First Time", and they are intoxicated by the soft and heart-warming singing, but it is the next few songs, which are considered by Sima Duoduo to have their own "classic" characteristics, in contrast, they did not make these girls love it at the first time.
Compared with this, among many male fans, "The First Experience of Love", a song that Sima Duoduo thinks is "simple and even a little naïve", but it made those boys' eyes light up for the first time, and many people only listened to it once, and subconsciously put its good-sounding ranking on top of "Jiangnan"!
It's just that, at first hearing, the two works such as "Indian Old Turtledove" and "Fort William" are more or less weird, and even feel a little out of harmony in terms of consistent listening habits.
There are only so few fans who are fascinated by Li Qian's rap works after hearing these two songs, and they are so excited that they can't help themselves!
And it's quite strange that when Sima Duoduo listened to this album several times in a row, eventually, she actually started to loop back and forth these two raps that she initially thought were "too risky"!
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Unconsciously, even the time for lunch had passed, but Sima Duoduo didn't feel hungry, and he was already fascinated by it.
Suddenly, the phone rang, startling her.
When the phone picked up, it was Sister Zhen Zhen again.
"Hey, baby, did you buy the album?...... Oh, how does it feel to be listening?"
"Feeling...... I can't say it either, although I think his two raps are quite interesting now, but I still think he's a bit risky......! Sales should be fine, right?"
"Well, a lot of people in the company just listened to it, and a few of us even touched it, and everyone didn't understand what Li Qian was trying to do! Listening to his other songs, his level was still as high as ever, especially "Dark Fragrance", which was absolutely impossible for ordinary people to write or sing so well! Plus a few love songs and several ballads were very good, even the song "Jiangnan" , everyone thinks it's good, but there are a few of them, which are the two raps you said, and his album title, which is the title song, which makes people a little confused. You have a lot of contact with him, what do you think? Does it mean that Li Qian judged that this road will soon become popular in China? Rap? Or is it the kind of "The First Experience of Love"?"
Sima Duoduo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he couldn't help asking: "Eh, Sister Zhen, are you ...... Study his album?"
Zhen Zhen said "um", then sighed again, and said with a smile: "I have to study! You are a singer, of course, you are idle, but I don't know how tired we producers are." In recent years, the wind direction of the music world has not been very stable, everyone is not very sure, and there is no Li Qian to show the way, so of course we must listen more, hold more meetings, and analyze more!
Speaking of this, she smiled "hehe" and said: "Not only us, if I guess correctly, hey, in fact, I don't have to guess, this is almost a certain thing! Now, other record companies, large and small, must either be listening to Li Qian's album, or are holding a meeting to discuss this album!"
Speaking of this, she sighed with a smile and continued: "No way, Li Qian has the right pulse, in the past few years, every album released by Minghu Culture is something that everyone must study, not to mention that this time is Li Qian's first album in person?"
As Zhen Zhen spoke, Sima Duoduo felt that his brain was stuck for a while.
But think about it again, the name of ...... "leader" is not for nothing, since his debut, Li Qian has almost become a successful representative in the music world, and now his first album is on the market, in the eyes of many people, this is likely to represent Li Qian's judgment on the next development direction of the music industry!
At this time, not only should you study, but the more thoroughly you should study, the better!
And then, get ready...... Follow the trend!
In the music world, you say that Li Xinru and Huang Yuqing are all famous singers of this level, big coffee level, to talk to other singers, of course, they will be ridiculed, and even they themselves are disdainful, not to mention them, even Sima Duoduo will feel disdainful, but if the person who follows and imitates is Li Qian, then it is another matter!
Follow his wind, no shame!
However, after hesitating for a moment, Sima Duoduo still said sincerely: "I have listened to this album several times, and the overall is of course very good, as always, at the level of Li Qian, but ...... Even the songs you just mentioned, I have a similar opinion to yours, and I'm a little unsure. ”
After a pause, she deliberately emphasized: "Actually, after all, we are professionally engaged in this, and the range of listening to songs is much wider than that of ordinary fans, so after listening to it a few times, I really began to slowly like his two raps, but I think it is estimated that ordinary fans are still not easy to accept this style." After all, this is China, and we don't have a natural soil for rapping!"
On the other end of the phone, Zhen Zhen said "um", seemed to think for a moment, and then said: "Yes, this is probably the opinion of a few of us, I called just now, and wanted to ask Li Qian in person, but unfortunately it was not he who answered the phone, it is said that he recorded people in the recording studio, so he called Lao He again, Lao He was there...... Hehe, she is full of confidence in Li Qian, alas, in this way, you are so familiar with Wang Jingxue and Xie Bing, find time to make an appointment to have a meal together, inquire about what they say, and strive to get a little bit of Li Qian's true thoughts from them, okay?"
Sima Duoduo hesitated for a moment, but was still embarrassed to refuse directly, so he said: "Well, then I'll ask them to go shopping together another day! ”
"Cheng!" Zhen Zhen replied, and then couldn't help but admonish, "Also, the thing I told you just now, don't take it seriously, let alone lose face!
When Sima Duoduo agreed, she hung up the phone.
Putting down the phone, Sima Duoduo was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the CD player again, grabbed the CD box and the lyrics book on the coffee table in front of him again, looked at it, and couldn't help muttering, "This lyrics are really ......"
Shaking her head with a wry smile, she picked up the remote control and pressed the play button.
"A fat witch who can't ride a broom,
Recite mantras in Latin...... Lala-woo......
The black cat she raised laughed like crying, lalala, la, la, la, la,
Use a crystal ball to divinate someone.
She said the angle of the sun shining into the church at three o'clock in the afternoon,
can know if you were a werewolf or a bat in your previous life,
Wilhelm II, the owner of the castle, with a full beard,
It is customary to start snoring after sucking blood
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It's strange, after listening to it a few more times, I slowly feel that the sense of disobedience of singing rap in Chinese has disappeared, and I don't know if this song combines the rhythm of Chinese with rap music better, or because I have listened to a lot of European and American rap before, so I am more familiar with rap music?
Moreover, listening to it, I actually felt that this song was still ...... Sounds good, right?
This is really strange and weird!
Chinese rap!
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There is almost no decent publicity, and "The First Experience of Love" is so bland but the much-anticipated launch.
On such a day, I don't know how many people across the country are holding their own CD players and cassette players and listening to them like fascinated, and at the same time, one after another music critics, musicians, and freelance writers, after listening to the new album n times in a row, and receiving many calls urging and requesting manuscripts, either turned on the computer, or took out the manuscript paper, took a deep breath, and began to write hard!
It is foreseeable that in the next period of time, it will be difficult for the domestic music scene to calm down!
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