Chapter 823: Dong Chou's Music Ranking (6)
The MV for "Stranded" tells the following story:
The main character, Applejack, encounters a red light on her bicycle on her way to work, and her wallet falls out when she pulls something out of her pocket, and carefully picks up the wallet with Xiaoying's photo in it, moving slowly with guilt. Recalls that three years ago, Applejack was working as a cleaner in a hospital, and met the inpatient Xiaoying in her spare time, and the two had a good impression of each other.
Jun who hasn't seen her in a few years shows up at the hospital, passing by Applejack who is working and glancing at each other, Applejack recognizes her as Jun, and Jun sees that this person seems familiar. At this time, it turns out that Applejack used to be a black-society-member, and Applejack yearns for a plain and comfortable life, so he dissociates himself from the eldest brother, who remembers the old love in the past, but just beats Applejack violently, and Xiaojun's efforts to discourage him are to no avail, and since this incident, Applejack has lived a dull life incognito. Applejack feels uneasy when she accompanies Xiaoying, probably because she knew what will happen, and sure enough, Junjun only needs to look at the hospital to inquire about Applejack's whereabouts.
Applejack spends time with Xiaoying on her vacation day, and she can see that she is very happy, but suddenly Xiaoying's condition deteriorates again, and Applejack sends Xiaoying back to the hospital in a panic, and God still favors the lovers, Xiaoying sees the morning light of the next day, and Ajie stays in the operating room for a day and night. When the first rays of sunlight come into view, Xiaoying and Applejack hug affectionately, envying others. Applejack falls asleep on the couch next to her bed, when she gets up and goes out. Jun finally finds Applejack, and because Applejack hasn't contacted him for a few years, he gets irritable, and throws himself into Applejack's arms with affection after smashing it all the time. She needed the warmth on her shoulders so much, and Applejack soothed Jun. Xiao Ying pushed open the door with two ice creams in her left and right hands, and when she saw such a shocked scene, her expression changed from happy to sluggish, and she couldn't believe her eyes when she fell from the top to the bottom. Turn and leave. Applejack realizes why Xiaoying is not in the hospital room, so she goes out to look for it and runs down the long hallway, but Xiaoying squats in the corner and convulses and cries.
Hearing that Dangdang's train was passing, he put away his wallet pitifully after the red light, and when he raised his head, he saw Xiaoying opposite, and silently thought in his heart: This is the first time we have met in three years......
After watching this MV, Du Xinghe immediately released the next song to Fang Yajun. "Excuses", which ranked 33rd in his heart-
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Flipping through our photos~
Missing looming~
Last winter~
We laughed sweetly~
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Look at your crying face~
Say goodbye to me~
It's too late to hear~
You've come a long way~
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Maybe you've given up on me~
Maybe it's hard to turn back~
I know I missed it~
Please give me one more reason~
Say you don't love me~
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Even if I don't understand~
Can you forgive me~
Please don't take the breakup as your request~
I know that insisting on leaving is an excuse for you to get hurt~
Please turn back~
I will accompany you until the end~
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Even if there is no result~
I can also withstand it~
I know your pain~
It's a promise I gave~
You said you gave me pampering~
Silence is because of tolerance~
If you want to go~
Please remember me~
If it's sad ~
Please forget me~
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"Excuse" is a typical Zhou-style love song of Jay Chou's album "Qili Xiang", which continues the characteristics of Zhou's songs and is one of the representative works of Zhou-style love songs. "Excuses" is similar to "Quiet" and "Sorry", just as quiet, well-behaved, and good-sounding, and this kind of song will only find the feeling after listening to it a few more times. The song "Excuses" expresses a mood of hoping to redeem love.
In the first part of the main song, the piano accompaniment is the main part, alternating between true and false voices, warm and restrained. Halfway through the main song, the piano stops. With the entry of the orchestra and organ, the mournful and quiet mood begins to slowly move and accumulate along with the melody. As the chorus melody enters. The accumulated emotions are stimulated at once. The overall emotion of the second stanza is stronger than that of the first stanza, and the emotion of the chorus part is also more intense. At the end of the piece, the whole mood slowly shrinks with the end of the melody, and when the orchestral accompaniment stops, the phrase "If you are sad, please forget me" is set off by the melodious organ. The helplessness of love is irretrievable, and the deep love for the beloved is meaningful and touching.
The melody and emotion of the whole song are relaxed, and the whole uses a gradual interpretation method to express the retention of love and the pain in the heart to the fullest. When composure turns into bitter sentimentality. Jay Chou interprets this song with his characteristic "Zhou's" method.
After letting go of two heart-wrenching love songs, Du Xinghe advanced the ranking to No. 32 and released an early Jay Chou classic - "Shanghai-Hai 1943"!
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The yellowed couplets are still on the wall~
I can vaguely see a few words, years and years of peace~
In my hometown rice tank that I haven't been back to~
Grandpa writes a full ~
Golden kudzu crawls all over the carved doors and windows~
The setting sun is obliquely reflected on the mottled brick wall~
The house covered with beech planks is still pervasive~
Grandma's bean paste that was brewed back then~
I started imagining the black and white photo~
What my father and mother looked like back then~
The girl who speaks Wu Nong's soft language~
Walk slowly across the Bund~
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The old time that disappeared 1943~
On the way to memory, time becomes better and slower~
The old neighborhood alley~
It belongs to that era~
The faint sadness of the white walls and black tiles~
The old time that disappeared 1943~
The clip I looked back at was a little windy and frosty~
Old turntable old suitcase~
In an iron box full of postcards~
There is a hidden rose petal~
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Golden kudzu crawls all over the carved doors and windows~
The setting sun is obliquely reflected on the mottled brick wall~
The house covered with beech planks is still pervasive~
Grandma's bean paste that was brewed back then~
I started imagining the black and white photo~
What my father and mother looked like back then~
The girl who speaks Wu Nong's soft language~
Walk slowly across the Bund~
……
The old time that disappeared 1943~
On the way to memory, time becomes better and slower~
The old neighborhood alley~
It belongs to the white of that era~
The faint sadness of the black tiles of the wall~
The old time that disappeared 1943~
The clip I looked back at was a little windy and frosty~
Old turntable old suitcase~
In an iron box full of postcards~
There is a hidden rose petal~
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The background of the creation of this song is very special, Fang Yajun is not a person from Du Xinghe's time and space, so naturally he didn't understand what the old era of 1943 was like.
There is a reason why Fang Wenshan chose the year of 1943 as the time and space background of the lyrics and stories. In 1943, there were many veterans in the village. After these veterans fled to Taiwan due to the war, they were separated from their parents for decades, until they finally returned to the mainland when they were allowed to visit relatives, but their parents may have long been gone. When I returned to my hometown, I could only rely on the yellowed old photos. Look at the radiant faces of your parents when they were in love, the time they were active in Shanghai, or look at the old walls and tiles of the home to find lost memories. Fang Wenshan was inspired by the influence of those old uncles in the military village, and experienced the infinite loneliness and emotion in their hearts.
Shanghai-Hai-Wai-Bund is Shanghai's most famous urban landmark and tourist asset, known to the general public, as Shanghai-Hai-Wai-Tan is the area of today's Zhong-Shan-Dongyi Road, from Yan-Andong Road in the south, to Waibaidu Bridge on the Suzhou-Zhou River in the north, to the Huang-Pu-River in the east, and to the west is the most important financial center in China at that time, in the late 1840s. Britain, France and other powers leased this place to the Qing court as a treaty port, and the Bund Concession is known as the magnificent building of the "International Architecture Exhibition Group", symbolizing the tragic history of China's invasion in modern times.
These historical buildings that have witnessed a certain period of time and space in Shanghai are even more precious when compared to the new glass curtain buildings that are everywhere in Shanghai today. Because they concretely represent a certain period of Shanghai's history, just like a certain stage of a person's growth, it is a part of people's memory that cannot be extracted.
At that time, Wang Jingwei, the government representing China's government, negotiated with Japan. All the concessions in Shanghai were recovered, and the Shanghai-Shanghai concession, which lasted for nearly 100 years (1845-1943), came to an end. Due to the special background of the times. During the period of 1943, the Shanghai Concession was home to many different forces, including Judah-Tai-merchants, Manchu-Zhou-relics, Japanese-Ben-Lang-people, India-Degree-Patrol-Arrest, Kuomintang-Party-Special Service, Communist-Industrial-Party members, the British and French ruling stratum in the concession area, the Qing-Gang-Hongmen and other non-governmental gangs, as well as Liyuan operas and peddlers' pawns.
At that time, the Shanghai-Shanghai Concession could be described as a three-religion and nine-class land, and there was no second time in Chinese history that such different races and forces were gathered in such a small area.
Although dragons and snakes are mixed, Fang Wenshan does not mention war in the lyrics of this song. There is no smell of gunpowder smoke and scene descriptions of displacement, some are just flashbacks about memories, and even a little warm, such as "The yellowed Spring Festival couplets are still left on the wall, and a few words can be vaguely seen that the year is safe." In my hometown, where I never went back, my grandfather wrote a full one in block letters. "Fang Wenshan's main description is not the protagonist's personal experience, but a love story about the previous generation, when Shanghai was a concession land, protected by the leased countries, so it was free from the poison of war." I began to imagine what my father and mother looked like back then, and the girl who spoke Wu Nong's soft language slowly walked across the Bund. The protagonist of the story walks all the way through the places where his parents walked back then, and the artistic conception is far-reaching.
The arrangement of "Shanghai 1943" is also very good, different from other styles of hip-hop alternatives, this song with a strong Chinese style has a simple melody, a gentle rhythm, and a calm tone. This song not only broke through Jay Chou's previous production level, but also made the creation more mature. Jay Chou vividly integrates his peculiar fantasy and personal characteristics into the song.
Fang Yajun passed the song guò, as well as the MV, and felt a lot of things that I didn't understand. She didn't understand how China could be so weak in the world created by the Zhang family......
Du Xinghe then released Fang Yajun's No. 31 work - "The Seventh Chapter of the Night"!
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1983 Alley ~December Sunny ~
The seventh chapter of the night~
The typewriter continues to push that next line that is close to the truth~
The fog of heather pipes~
Drift to the withered tree~
Cry to me silently~
The circular plaza next to Baker Street~
Armor knight on the arm ~
The coat of arms of the iris is ~faintly shiny~
The sound of unmanned carriages~
A late-night visit~
Evil in Victoria's moonlight bloody opening~
Disappearing pistol~
Charred cane~
Melted wax figures~
Who is not present~
The illusion of the symbol on the jewelry box~
Contradictions lead to the dead alleys he piled up~
The evidence is perfectly buried~
The corners of the mouth that mocked Sue-G-Lan - the police field went on~
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Female voice: If evil ~ is a gorgeous and cruel movement ~
(Then justice ~ is a deep and helpless melancholy ~)
Female voice: Its finale ~ I will write it by hand ~ (Then I'll light up ~ a glimmer in the ashes~)
Female voice: The light of the morning light ~ the last line of sadness in the air ~ (Then the night rain ~ will wash the dark walls ~)
Female voice: Black ink ~ dyed with serenity ~
(The closing lights are turned off ~ the red curtain is down ~)
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The truth can only be worn to ~
Soil without footprints~
Abrupt subtle floral fragrance~
Deliberately conspicuous clothing~
Everyone lies with a mask for different reasons~
There is only one name for motivation, and that is called **~
Fafadefadefafa~
Dedefafadefafa~
Over the swamp of humanity~
Who can really not get dirty~
We can forget to forgive~
But the truth must be known~
The iron bed that has been moved~
The last piece of the picture was finally put together~
I heard footsteps in anticipation of the moccasin heel~
He pushed open the door ~ the evening breeze shook the kerosene lamp for a while~
The typewriter stopped at the name of the murderer and I turned around ~
The night sky at Westminster Abbey began to boil~
Bloom gorgeous death on the chest ~
I savor this last sweet truth~
Smile to recall that justice is just a quiet serving~
Violin in Thames~
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Female voice: If evil ~ is a gorgeous and cruel movement ~
(I hear footsteps ~expected moccasin heel~)
(He pushed open the door and shook the kerosene lamp in the evening breeze for a while~)
Female voice: Its finale ~ I will write it by hand ~ (The typewriter stopped at the name of the murderer and I turned around ~)
(The night sky at Westminster Abbey begins to boil~)
Female voice: Black ink ~ dyed with serenity ~
If evil~ is a gorgeous and cruel movement~
Then its finale ~ I will write it by hand ~ The light of the morning and evening ~ the last line of sorrow is dried ~ The black ink ~ dyes the serenity ~
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"The Seventh Chapter of the Night" is a song included in Jay Chou's September 5, 2006 album "Still Fantaixi", and the lyrics are still Huang Junlang. It is a suspenseful metaphor for the story of Detective Sherlock Holmes in 1983. The sound of a typewriter hurried to unveil the prelude. There are clues hidden in Sherlock Holmes's diary, classical music and electronic music are fused with each other, and Jay Chou's self-talking rap incarnates Sherlock Holmes to lead the audience to find the truth about the murder.
In order to write this detective-themed song, it is said that Huang Junlang spent 3 or 4,000 yuan to buy many props: heather pipes, canes, top hats, pistols, and cloaks; I fantasize that it was Sherlock Holmes who wrote the lyrics to this theme. His musical imagination in Jay Chou followed the light of the fleur-de-lis badge and ran wildly on Baker Street, Westminster Abbey, and the banks of the River Thames.
Jay Chou's deliberately lowered hard voice singing style is matched with a quiet soprano. hinting at the calmness of the detective and the madness of the murderer, the music ends with Jay Chou singing in falsetto, presenting a difficult movie soundtrack pattern in pop music.
The MV of this song is about a suspenseful Blue Rose murder case, with Jay Chou himself playing the detective, Nanquan's mother's Yu Hao playing the detective's little assistant, and Warhead playing the suspect. The story depicts a murder in a park near London, and the only clues left at the scene are a blue rose in the mouth of the deceased and a suspicious young man who has escaped. The detective and the little assistant started to check from the blue rose, and visited the flower shop and the old man's house. I even went to the library to look for a number of jù, and finally found the café where the suspect worked. During the chase, the suspect was wounded and fled; The two had no choice but to go back to the café and ask for the address of the suspect's residence, and find out the truth step by step.
At the beginning of the MV, the director designed a movie title, photos of the murder scene, character introduction, and special effects subtitles; The soundtrack of the film and the version of the song included in the album are different. Jay Chou wrote a soundtrack that fits the situation for the layout of the plot.
Fang Yajun looked at such a MV. Listen to this dark style of music and be conquered once again! She had never been exposed to music like this before.
The lyrics of this song are worth analyzing.
01 - 1983 alley, sunny in December ~
It is said that 1983 was the year when Jay Chou began to practice
02 - Chapter 7 of the night, the typewriter continues to push the next line that is close to the truth~
Typewriter: The mutilated "e" and "r" on the note typed by Sherlock Holmes Guò typewriter in The Identity Case deduce that Wendy Bank is Angel;
03 - The fog of the heather pipe~
Heather pipe: Holmes' favorite is his favorite gadget, which he carries with him; Sherlock Holmes said in the "Masked Man" case. "Pipes are very important sometimes. Aside from a watch and shoelaces, there is nothing like a pipe that expresses one's personality like a pipe. ”
04 - Drift to the withered tree and cry to me silently~
Withered Tree: An old elm tree in Musgrave's Manor that was destroyed by lightning in the Musgrave Rites case. Sherlock Holmes found the crown left by Charles I;
05 - The circular plaza next to Baker Street~
Baker Street: From 1881 to 1904, Holmes and Watson rented an apartment at 221 Baker Street;
Rotundas: Trafalgar Square, Stapleton (Roger?) in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Baskerville) got on the No. 2704 coachman here John? the carriage of Kredon;
06 - Armor knight on the arm~
Knight in Armor: Introduction to "Three Men with the Same Surname", June 1902. Sherlock Holmes rejected the knighthood of knighthood;
07 - Iris badge ~ slightly bright ~
Coat of arms of the irises: The iris (golden lily, i.e. veiner irise) is considered a sacred relic bestowed by the angels of God on the kings of France. The French royal family is symbolized by the fleur-de-lis coat of arms; Sherlock Holmes is 1/4 French, and his grandmother was the sister of the French artist Gilnet (The Greek Translator);
08 - The sound of unmanned carriages~
Unmanned Carriage: In "The Lone Cyclist", Holmes and Watson discover Violet in the countryside on the border of Surrey? Smith's empty carriage, concluding that Smith had suffered misfortune; In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes follows the carriage of the suspect, Mrs. Soyle, only to find that it is empty. The suspect had jumped out of the car and slipped away;
09 - A late-night visit~
Late-night visit: Kate in the case of "Man with crooked lips"? Whitney visits Watson late at night and asks him to go to the Great Smoke House to find her husband, who has been missing for two days; In "The Five Orange Kernels", John? Oppenshaw met Sherlock Holmes in the rain late at night;
10 - Evil in the moonlight of Victoria~
Victoria: Conan? In the Preface to The Last Greetings, Doyle states: "Sherlock Holmes began his detective career in the middle of the late Victorian dynasty, during the short period of Edward. ”
11 - The opening of the blood color~
Scarlet Opening: The first case that Sherlock Holmes and Watson handled together was The Study on Scarlett. Literally translated as dark red (blood-colored) research, when Sherlock Holmes and Watson met for the first time, Sherlock Holmes was doing blood-colored protein precipitation;
12 - Disappearing pistol~
Disappearing pistols: One of Gibson's two pistols in "The Mystery of Thor's Bridge" disappeared;
13 - charred cane~
Blackened cane: Sherlock Holmes hits the pavement with a cane in "The Ginger Society"; In Gloria Scott, Old Trevor uses a lead-filled cane; In The Greek Translator, Melas is coerced by Latimer with a lead-filled cane;
14 - Melting wax figure ~ who is not present ~ In "The Empty House" and "The Case with the Crown Jewels", Holmes uses wax figures to lure enemies; "Who is not present" refers to the wax figure in the house, while Holmes waits for his prey in the empty house opposite the house; In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes sends someone to investigate whether Barrymore, the housekeeper of the estate, is in the manor, in order to rule out the possibility that he came to London to follow Sir Henry;
15 - The illusion of the symbol on the jewelry box~
On the jewelry box: the large Agra treasures from the Four Signatures are housed in a heavy iron box;
The illusion of symbols: The perpetrator of "The Dancing Villain" uses graffiti in the form of a villain to convey information;
16 - Contradictions lead to the dead alleys he has piled up~
In The Architect of Norwood, Holmes discovers that the second-floor corridor is six feet shorter than the first-floor corridor, thus discovering a perfect chamber built by the architect Odeke at the end of the corridor...... (To be continued......)