According to Ye Liyi, the original singer of the song, Gu Jiahui and Huang Zhan are both inspired musicians who don't hand in their homework until the end.

When she recorded "Shanghai Tang", she had already come to the recording studio, and the song had not yet been written. Finally, before entering the recording studio, Gu Jiahui wrote the tune, and then immediately faxed the tune to Huang Zhan. Huang Zhan wrote the lyrics within 20 minutes of dinner.

How did Huang Zhan get the inspiration for these 20 minutes?

According to rumors, in fact, he had been pondering earlier, but he didn't think about it to be satisfied, when he went to the bathroom to flush the toilet after dinner, he saw the white splash of the flush toilet, and suddenly got the inspiration for the first lyrics "Waves, waves".

Later, after all the songs were recorded, Huang Zhan found that the original lyrics were flawed, and there was a problem with the first sentence of "Waves Run, Waves", where are the waves in the Huangpu River in Shanghai, and he also laughed at the time that this song would definitely give Shanghainese people a joke after it came out.

As a result, it has become a classic, and "Waves Run, Waves" highlights the turmoil and impermanence of that era.

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The same song, live stage and record recording, there is a big difference.

What needs to be paid attention to on the scene is an audio-visual comprehensive effect, which should be more open and more infectious, so important live singing, singers will generally "add equipment".

Like Qi Hua's "Mariana" just now, more than a dozen actors from the National Ballet of China were invited to perform a song of the deep sea with expressions. And her opponent, Yang Wenle, even dispatched an eight-sided Beijing rhyme drum, plus a mid-bass choir, to accentuate his gorgeous high notes.

Deng Zheng discovered during the second stage of recording that everyone was adding musical instruments. Plus choir, plus dancers. and even foreign aid singers...... Wonderful is wonderful, and the sound effects are almost to the extreme. But it seems that the expansion of vision is not enough.

For example, in the 2600-meter studio hall of Donghai TV Station, this set of video equipment that tops the major TV stations in the country, in addition to playing subtitles and fluttering snowflakes, few people think of other uses.

So this time, he persuaded Cooper not to engage in those who didn't, and only hired three sand painters except for equipping Tan Wei with a regular symphony orchestra.

All three sand painters are young. It is not very famous, but it is the only trio among many sand painters, known for its speed, richness, and tacit cooperation, which is hard to find by Phantom Ping to meet Deng Zheng's "perverted requirements".

on stage. The lights are slightly dim.

Dressed in a long Chinese dress, the elegant Tan Wei appeared on the stage. With a classical and graceful temperament, she only needs to stop there, and people can't help but be quiet.

The music begins, "Ascend Den Deng". "Dengdenden", two impassioned preludes, suddenly, like lightning piercing the sky. It's like a wave surging back and forth, which makes everyone present shake their spirits, okay. The atmosphere is surging!

Next, the symphony orchestra's solo violin plays first. A short melody is slow and melancholy, followed by strings and saxophone. Energetic, intense, slightly cheerful, and then, with the addition of the piano and the saxophone alone, between joy and sorrow, it turns into a peaceful and mature mood.

From beginning to end, no other soundtrack was used, just like the original TV series, there was no other interlude soundtrack, and it was all a variation of the original song "Waves Running, Waves" from beginning to end.

This also reflects from the side that the song "Shanghai Tang" is indeed a rare masterpiece. Because a melody can have multiple variations, and it is quite harmonious, it can fit in with different plots at different stages, which is very rare.

As far as Deng Zheng knows, the last film and television drama in which various variations of a tune ran through from beginning to end was the famous "Titanic".

Throughout the movie, no matter what the scene is, you will find that the main theme is still the melody of "myheartwillgoon". It's just a matter of using different instruments, vocals, or variations.

This kind of music is rare and it is the ultimate inspiration for composers.

This melody is not long, sad but not depressing, moving enough, during this period, the three sand painters have already begun to operate quickly, on the large screen of the stage, in the rapid movement of the sand, an image like an oil painting appears—under the gloomy night sky of old Shanghai, the protagonist with a blurred face, dressed in black, holding a gun.

At this moment, the interlude melody paused-

"The waves are running, the waves are flowing, and the surging rivers will never end. ”

Tan Wei opened her voice and directly used passionate electronic music to create a tense and strong atmosphere.

In the original song, there are three notes after the two sentences "Waves, Waves", which are similar to the sound of bullets, which makes people's hearts beat faster and their blood stirring. It not only corresponds to the main theme, but also plays an emphatic role.

But Deng Zheng did even more, he directly found the onomatopoeia of the movie, and replaced these three notes with three real gunshots, so the effect was more than ten times stronger, and at the same time as the gunshots rang out, the three sand painters kept stopping, and the sand passed and changed, and the man in black on the screen fired three bullets into the sky, and the sharp sound tore through the silence of the darkness......

Subsequently, the sand was overturned, and the picture turned, with the lyrics, it became a wave that turned back and forth, rising and falling, symbolizing the protagonist who just shot the gun, just like the merry characters in the turbulent era, with ups and downs in his life, and ups and downs......

The first sentence of this opening voice took Su Shi's trend of "going to the east of the great river, and the waves are sweeping away the romantic characters through the ages", splitting his head and covering his face, and it became an impact!

"Holy!"

"Mud Horse!"

"I'm going to die!"

Everyone present was shocked by the comprehensive audio-visual effect of this moment of opening their voices, and their scalps were numb, goosebumps were rubbing, many people subconsciously burst into foul language, and there were also people who secreted too much adrenal hormones, and their urge to urinate came up!

In short, at this moment, many people's waists are stiff, the whole person is tense, and the body is unnaturally leaning forward!

"It's exhausted, and the things of the world are mixed up with a surging trend. ”

At the beginning of this sentence, the melody changes to a long and gentle string music, like a person sighing about the disturbances of the world.

"Is it joy, is it sorrow, and I can't tell the difference between laughter and sorrow in the waves. Success, failure, the waves can't see clearly. ”

Joy and sorrow, success and failure are the ups and downs of life. However, there are so many ups and downs that when I look back, I can't tell whether they are happy or worried. Perhaps the joy that I thought in the past was indeed the foreshadowing of sorrow. Who will be able to see through then?

The essence of life may be like this, no matter how many emotions there are, it is nothing more than four words, joy, anger and sorrow. No matter how many experiences there are, it is nothing more than four words, joys and sorrows. And grief is often the end of the day......

The TV series "Shanghai Tang" not only depicts the love story of Xu Wenqiang and Feng Chengcheng, but also the social picture of Shanghai in the twenties and thirties of the nineteenth century.

The agitation of various trends of thought, the grievances and hatreds of various gangs, the contradictions and struggles of various strata, etc., all make this drama have a height that contemporaneous TV dramas do not have in concept.

The heroes and heroines in the play have experienced a thousand intersections, but they have to walk on a track that deviates from each other.

Xu Wenqiang went from having nothing to soaring in Shanghai, and then from soaring to the streets of corpses, this mode of leaving, returning, and leaving again is also the life model of many people......

The story is very complex and long, and in just a few minutes, no matter how good the sand painter is, it is naturally impossible to fully interpret it, especially if you have to keep up with the rhythm of the song and match the lyrics...... Not even a trio.

But the main vein of the story can still be grasped, especially the best point is that the sand is wiped on the screen, constantly increasing and decreasing, the sense of passage of time, the sense of change in space, is very obvious, the kind of vicissitudes that can be directly presented to the audience, the impermanence of the world seems to be innate, the vicissitudes of life, very impactful!

"I love you, I hate you, ask you if you know, like a big river that doesn't take it, turns a thousand bends, turns a thousand beaches, and never settles the fighting. ”

The climax of the whole song sounds.

Love and hate are the extremes of two emotions. However, in this story, the interweaving of love and hate is so natural and gripping. It is concentrated in Feng Chengcheng's complex emotions towards Xu Wenqiang.

Feng Chengcheng loved Xu Wenqiang deeply, but in the deceitful and treacherous society of Shanghai at that time, she had no other choice, Xu Wenqiang's enemy was her father, and in the game of love and affection, she could only stand in the opposite camp with Xu Wenqiang.

At that time, under the agitation of various currents of thought, she also tried to rebel against this society, but in the end she failed.

From a romantic and innocent, ignorant girl to the end of this situation...... Feng Chengcheng's transformation is deplorable, and her gloomy departure is also embarrassing.

"There are joys and sorrows, even if you can't tell the difference between laughter and sorrow. I still want to turn over, hundreds of thousands of waves, and I will rise and fall enough in my heart. ”

Entering the end of the song, there is a feeling of relief and sadness.

In the screen, in the sand painting, the figures of the hero and heroine began to fade, and in the end, they became the sunset, falling straight into the horizon, and becoming the constantly churning waves in the dark and silent night......

All the grievances and hatreds that happened in Shanghai Beach were like a dream, turning into light smoke and drifting into the distance.

"Husband, I feel very uncomfortable, excited, and sad, I am both moved and relieved, and I really want to cry!"

"Me too! I never thought that listening to a song live could be like watching an epic movie. The whole person is trapped in it, and he can't get out at all. ”

"This song is so powerful, it's so powerful! Tan Wei sings well, and the songwriter is also great, I heard that this Deng Zheng is Jin Liang who wrote "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"? Really, so talented?"

"yes. That's why I have to take a leave of absence to bring you over to record the scene. But this kind of thing, it's good not to be weird, after all, Da Jin Liang! Alas, he's going to start playing hooligan again! I feel sorry for other people!"

"But his next opponent is the famous Su Wei, Su Wei among the Su family brothers?"

"Childish. Some call themselves gods, some call themselves gods, and some are more than ?!" (To be continued.) )