Xiahou Yaoyao's song "By the Butterfly Spring" blew a pool of spring water, and the wrinkled spring water caused an uproar again.

Xiahou Yaoyao is still insisting on her song from material to creation to singing, taking the route of folk songs, and she is also stepping on the road of folk songs as always.

However, for most fans, there is too much content in this song "By the Butterfly Spring" to say that Xiahou Yaoyao is gradually moving away on the road of folk songs, and even has gone on the road to a complete transformation to pop music.

So, is this "Butterfly Springside" a folk song, or Xiahou Yaoyao's promotion for the transformation of pop music, all the controversy is also a long-planned hype, making her transformation more smooth?

So, in order to understand this problem, we have to start with the characteristics of folk songs.

What exactly is a folk song? First of all, we need to understand the three characteristics of folk songs.

First, it has the most direct and close connection with the people's social life

The author of the folk song is the masses of the people. It is created by them in the long-term practice of labor and life, in order to express their own lives, express their feelings, and express their will and wishes. In the past, working people were deprived of the right to master culture, and they were illiterate and did not know how to score, but they made up and sang their own songs by word of mouth to meet the needs of life. or poured out the sorrow and sorrow of the people at the bottom who have been oppressed by fraud; or expresses the girl's longing for her lover and her longing for a happy life; or it shows the heroism of the laborers in the struggle against nature; Or sing about the innocent character of children when they play. Therefore, in essence, the thoughts and feelings of the people expressed in folk songs are the most real and deepest.

Second, folk songs were gradually formed and developed through extensive mass improvisation and oral singing. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people, and the creation process, singing process, and circulation process of folk songs are one. Improvisation in the process of singing, singing and circulation in the process of compilation, of course, the creation and development process of traditional folk songs is slow and spontaneous.

Third. The musical form is concise, unpretentious, approachable, vivid and flexible.

In particular, the musical form of folk songs is short and concise. Most of them take the musical section as the basic structural unit, and the structural form of the sectional song composed of the repetition of a single section accounts for a large proportion of the folk songs, and the musical materials and expression techniques of the folk songs are very economical and refined. Most of the tones of folk songs have a strong local flavor and local color, it is closely combined with dialect pronunciation, the musical performance is very life-like, the form is flexible and vivid, and there is no fixed rhythm. Good at change. Have a strong ability to adapt to a variety of different contents, lyrics, singing occasions and conditions.

Moreover, from the perspective of the subject matter, folk songs can be roughly divided into: trumpets, mountain songs, minor tunes, dance songs, custom and ritual songs, etc. In the new folk songs produced in the past half century, two new genre elements have appeared: marches and carols. Judging from the style and color, there are 56 ethnic groups in our country. The folk songs of all ethnic groups enrich the treasure house of the motherland's music culture with their own unique style characteristics. Some ethnic groups with a large number of people and a wide area of residence, such as Han, Tibetan, Mongolian, Kazakh, Uygur, Zhuang, etc., can also be subdivided according to different local characteristics.

At this point, Xiahou Yaoyao did a really good job at the beginning of the inheritance of traditional Chinese folk songs, and even created a precedent for contemporary folk songs. It is more national, and it appropriately reflects the beautiful love of a pair of young men and women of the Bai nationality.

However, if the next song "Butterfly Spring" is also a folk song, then I dare not agree. Because in addition to the elements of folk songs that can still be included in the lyrics, from the perspective of the style and the structure of the whole song, I can't compare this song with folk songs in the traditional sense. It can't correspond to Xiahou Yaoyao's previous folk songs, so I personally think it's not a folk song. If you insist on relying on folk songs, at best it can only be regarded as a popular modern folk song, because folk songs are traditional music with local and national colors, and the word folk song has a full modern meaning and popular meaning! Therefore, no matter how Xiahou Yaoyao dresses it up as a folk song, it is also a pop song in its bones! And for Xiahou Yaoyao, there is nothing wrong with the transformation or something, after all, this "Butterfly Springside" is indeed an upper-class work, if she can frankly say that this "Butterfly Springside" is her transformation work, then I think every fan will also raise their hands in favor.

The only thing I can't stand is that Xiahou Yaoyao is still always tough, and she opened her eyes and said that she is still writing folk songs, but, is this kind of argument interesting? In addition, I would like to say that even if you are reluctant to give up the title of queen of folk songs, doing so is a sign of eyeball-eyed hype, in fact, with your current reputation and past achievements, there is no need to use this kind of cheap hype......

- "On Xiahou Yaoyao's Butterfly Spring"

This is the most famous article that evaluated Xiahou Yaoyao's "Butterfly Springside" at that time, not to mention how much professionalism there is, just say that at the end of the article, Xiahou Yaoyao is about to transform into pop music, which suddenly caused an uproar, and until now it is considered to be the most powerful evidence that Xiahou Yaoyao is going to develop into pop music!

It's impossible for Xiahou Yaoyao to even come out to clarify herself, don't you see that the words are interlocking, as long as you come out to clarify, you will say that you are hype, so no matter what era of the world you are in, as a public figure, you are in a situation where you can't explain reasonably. Say you are, you are, don't you be, the so-called crowd is nothing more than that.

However, even if it is unreasonable, Xiahou Yaoyao still refutes it after some arguments, there is no way, who made her song sound really pop, and she is still wearing the hat of a folk song queen, and she can't do it without arguing for herself.

No matter what others say, one of the presuppositions about pop music in my mind is that folk songs are the popular music of the past, and popular songs are today's folk songs. In particular, musicologists who study pop music abroad have a famous view of "imitation theory", which can be said to break the essence of pop music: pop music is essentially an imitation of traditional folk songs, so from the historical perspective of the development of pop music, pop music itself also originated from folk songs. The essence of today's pop music is still folk songs—folk songs of the industrial age, folk songs of the city.

The above short paragraph is Xiahou Yaoyao's defense to herself. In her opinion, since pop music is today's folk songs, why can't she write a popular "Butterfly Spring" with a strong sense of pop? However, then the harsh facts immediately told her that as a pop singer, it is harmless to occasionally sing a folk song, after all, everyone knows that pop is the mainstream, and he can't lean on niche folk songs, and he sings it, at most it is a kind of self-show, showing his musical diversity.

But it's not good for a folk song queen like Xiahou Yaoyao, after all, pop music is a big trend. Once you sing a pop song, then it proves that you are moving closer to the general trend, just like those well-known folk singers on the earth, for example, Zhang Ye suddenly sang a pop song, and like Xiahou Yaoyao, it is also popular in half the sky, do you think it will also cause an uproar?

Therefore, Xiahou Yaoyao's defense was invalid, and even later there were even more good people who made a big fuss about her argument, saying, "What is the meaning of foreign musicologists who have broken the essence of pop music is the imitation of traditional folk songs?" Since you're so out of the woods. So why are you still staying at home, just go to a foreign country to find your so-called folk song road! ”

And then ...... No then

Because, in Xiahou Changying's mouth, although he blames his granddaughter for not singing good domestic folk songs. Instead, I went to Ireland to study what so-called Irish folk songs were! But people who know that period of history know, just like Li Youyang now that he thinks about it, he also knows that Xiahou Yaoyao took the initiative to study what Irish folk songs, and it was really because of anger that she ran out! And for several years. Not to mention pop songs, even a new folk song has not been released again, as if it has been content with the status quo. And I want to be forgotten until the IMCS league comes now......

It's just that Li Youyang wanted to think about it at this time, but suddenly found a topic that was not very good for him.

Because-

It looks like my brother is going to make a topic again!

Li Youyang took the newspaper that Dong Xueqin rushed over, and finally showed a helpless wry smile, because he found out that he was one of Xiahou Yaoyao's fans, and even when he was in Cannes, he publicly sang Xiahou Yaoyao's folk songs in many places, especially the second song "Butterfly Spring"! Even a lot of times I want to sing a song myself, if it weren't for Li Yiyi's desperate objection, saying that this is not a song sung by a boy, and it must be very funny after a boy sings it, Li Youyang may have really howled like this before!

I sang the ballad my mother sang

Peonies are embroidered on gold plaques

I hummed the tune my dad had hummed

Cattle and sheep grazing on the green grassland.

That feeling, don't even think about it!

Just like now, a very beautiful voice also interjected, it was Li Yiyi's: "Haha! Xiahou Yaoyao is back! My brother is her biggest fan! ”

Then, I heard Dong Xueqin's surprised voice again: "Is it!" That would be incredible! Yaoyao and I are good friends, when the time comes, Li Youyang, I will introduce you to you! Ha ha! It's fun to think about! Now the world-class singer Li Youyang in the Chinese music scene is actually a fan of the former queen of folk songs! At the same time, he is also a closed disciple of the grandfather of the queen of folk songs, and this relationship is too complicated! Ha ha! It must be explosive news! Li Yuyang, let me ask you, how do you feel when you see your former idol close in front of you! Isn't there a thrill of a dream coming true?"

“。”

I don't know if there is the pleasure of a dream come true Li Youyang, he just knows that the thing that can make Dong Xueqin, the goddess of ice and snow, who has always been cold, also burn the fire of gossip, must be a big explosive topic!

Fortunately, someone came again at this time, it was Qin Taosheng.

"Li Youyang! What song do you sing tomorrow, the organizer will tell you to report it too. ”

Qin Taosheng interrupted this topic in time, and finally put everything back on track for the provincial finals of tomorrow's Warm Spring Children's Choir. (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you for the great reward of "Fushun GS", and if you don't understand the cause and effect of this chapter, you can refer to Chapter 165 "The Successor of the Mantle"