As mentioned above, for the earliest completed "Nocturne", Jay Chou poured into the overall concept and vision of the next album, and what kind of romantic classical factors did Jay Chou, who incarnated as a music poet, implement in this song? Start with the arrangement and the song. "Nocturne" had a few seconds of noise at the beginning, and the first time I listened to it, I thought it was a problem with the radio, and then several versions were like this, only to know that it was the song itself, and then I saw the MV of Nocturne on the Internet, and I fully understood that this noise was just the sound of snowflakes playing on TV at the beginning of the MV. This murmur has slowly become the hallmark of "Nocturne", and every time I hear this murmur on various occasions, I know that it is "Nocturne", and I slowly lose the abruptness I had at the beginning.

Next, the chorus melody of the classical guitar is very touching as soon as it appears, mixed with a very slight piano tone, followed by a very low drum beat, and the rap humming begins, this rap is the most difficult for Jay Chou to sing, the first is the tongue twist of the lyrics, the second is that the rhythm is more difficult to grasp, when humming in the A section, the arrangement is always a few chord loops of the classical guitar, and the focus is still on the low drum beat.

Listen to the most pleasing words from this paragraph:

"Ah~Dark clouds are beginning to obscure~

The night is not clean~

In the park ~Echo of the funeral~

Flying in the sky~

Send your ~white roses~

Wither in a pure black environment~

The crow is eerily quiet on the branches~

Listen quietly ~ my black coat ~

I want to warm you ~ the memories that are getting cold day by day ~

Walked ~ walked through the life ~ ah

Fog fills the surroundings~

Ah, I'm in an empty cemetery~

I still love you when I'm old~"

The first few are Shaded, Clean, Echo, Flying, Rose, Withering, Quiet, Overcoat, Memories, Life, Mist, Graveyard, Love You. Completely rhymed, with a low drum beat, all in one go. The sense of rhythm is explosive. In the middle, there are three still words "listen quietly", and the melody is intriguing. After "Love You" is sung, the strings are raised, and the climax of the whole song may also be the first part to be sung:

"Play Chopard's nocturne for you~

In memory of my dead love~

The sound of the night wind~

Heartbreak sounds good~

The hand is very light on the keyboard~

I'm very careful with the thoughts I give~

The place where you are buried is called Nether~

Play Chopard's nocturne for you~

In memory of my dead love~

And I'll be incognito for you~

Playing the piano in the moonlight~

Sensing your heartbeat~

It's still so warm and close~

I miss your bright red lip print~"

The drum beat table of this section is still the focus. The string part is still the guitar, hear it here. The interlude came in, it was the solo of the guitar, and the name "Nocturne" was taken from the title song of the piano piece, why the piano was masked, and why the classical guitar became the main instrument. It should have something to do with the arranger.

The arranger of this song. Michael Lin has always been good at digging out the sense of rhythm, such as red imitation, such as the same Zhang's hair like snow, such as going back to the past, Michael Lin has always been a master who likes to use guitar and heavy drums to create a sense of rhythm, and use rhythm to set off the melody. The mournful sound of the classical guitar unexpectedly fits the dark temperament of the song, and the low drum beat will also play a good supporting role in the rhythm of the song, making the whole piece of "Nocturne" more than just a solitary melody. This makes the high-tide part more comfortable and inviting, not only thanks to the melody, but also to the arrangement. The piano, on the other hand, is often suitable for melody-heavy love songs, such as excuses, love cliffs, quiet, and so on.

Another special feature of this song is that after the B section of the second section is finished, the initial A section is repeated again. The final repetition is to create a sense of unfinished work, giving the listener a sense of unfinished business.

Also, let's talk about the lyrics and video of the song. The story and MV ideas of this song are all from Jay Chou's hand, so the words and pictures can basically be said together, in order to match the temperament of the whole song, Fang Wenshan used darker words and phrases to create a good atmosphere of death, such as bloodthirsty, carrion, vulture, dark clouds, funeral, white rose, crow, cold, life, cemetery, fog, death, netherworld, and so on.

Among them, the line in the lyrics "Play Chopin's nocturne for you to commemorate my dead love" has become a classic. MV Jay Chou went to New York for filming. The snow and cemetery add a bleak artistic conception to the song.

So to sum up, "Nocturne" is a small-key love song with a strong classical temperament, retro, gorgeous, a fusion of classical guitar and rap, and a beautiful melody!

This song is in this position if anyone is not convinced. That's because you've mispositioned the song, and if it's just a minor-tone love song, then this song deserves the name of the Divine Comedy.

is the same as "Qili Xiang", this song has been broadcast since it came out. Just a year later, the song is already a bit boring, and that's the power of time. However, many years have passed, occasionally listening to the "Nocturne" from the headphones at night, the original emotion was slowly recovered, recalling the season of late autumn and early winter, recalling the scene of listening to "Nocturne" on campus after every evening self-study, this is still the power of time, this song is naturally suitable for night, put on headphones, slowly in the night, listen to nocturne, drink tea, Du Xinghe is extremely comfortable.

After this "Nocturne", it will be the top ten songs.

The top 10 songs are almost all indisputably super classics.

Du Xinghe first released Fang Yajun the 10th ranked "Death of the Stopping War" in his heart!

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Light ~ light as paper ~ light ~ scattered everywhere ~

Light ~ in the applause gradually died down he hurried ~ He's singing ~unbearable wounds~

The script is on stage ~ the last show ~ ……

And the whole village is in the seats~

Quietly watch how time abandons this theater~

The war stained his tears~Who is noisily eating sugar in the wind~

The dust of the lens at the beginning of this story has already obscured the sun~

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Fear is engraved on the children's faces~

The wheat field has fallen in the direction of the chariot passing~

The shape of the dandelion is drifting away ~ it flies desperately ~ She only sings this song that stops the war~

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Candlelight burns in the evil night ~ the sky breaks and the war is chaotic ~

The song of mourning spreads thousands of miles ~ the famine in the hometown ~

Naivety on this road ~stumbling~

He was cut by miscanthus grass~

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Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Do you wake up with bread and breakfast ~ and then drink a bowl of thick soup ~ The farmers burned the land and the villages, and finally picked up the guns~

But he slowly got used to giving up resistance~

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Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Whether there is a swing in the yard to swing ~ There is sugar in the pocket ~

The light of the bayonet is polished by hatred in the distance savage~

And he smiled and didn't know how to panic~

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Fear is engraved on the children's faces~

The wheat field has fallen in the direction of the chariot passing~

The shape of the dandelion is drifting away, and it flies desperately~

She only sings this song that stops the war~

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Candlelight burns in the evil night ~ the sky breaks and the war is chaotic ~

Hometown Ping Famine ~ Mourning Song Spread Thousands of Miles ~

Naivety on this road ~stumbling~

He was cut by miscanthus grass~

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Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Do you wake up with bread and breakfast ~ and then drink a bowl of thick soup ~ The farmers burned the land and the villages, and finally picked up the guns~

But he slowly got used to giving up resistance~

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Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Whether there is a swing in the yard to swing ~ There is sugar in the pocket ~

The light of the bayonet is polished by hatred in the distance savage~

And he smiled and didn't know how to panic~

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Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Do you wake up with bread and breakfast~ (naïve on this road~)

Drink another bowl of thick soup~ (stumbling ~ he was cut by miscanthus grass~)

The farmers burned the land and the villages, and finally picked up the guns~

But he slowly got used to it~ (naïve on this road~)

Gave up resistance ~ (stumbled ~)

He was cut by miscanthus grass~

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This song "Death of Stopping the War" is from Jay Chou's 2004 album "Qili Xiang"

is different from Jay Chou's previous style, the piano accompaniment of this song has a sassy autumn breeze, which is very consistent with the cold picture in the MV.

Many people comment that it is the sister chapter of "The Last Battle", which is not so much a sister, but actually more like a continuation of "In the Name of the Father".

This song lacks the domineering in "In the Name of the Father", but adds more sentimentality and contemplation.

Jay Chou's pronunciation in the song is even more unclear. Deliberately flattened all the tongue curls, but the effect was just right.

The melody uses a Russian style that Jay Chou has never tried, which is a bit bleak, but the melody is the most gorgeous and impressive of all his songs, and the piano has a bit of Bach's equal rhythm. With the lyrics with just the right rhyme, it makes a deep impression.

In addition, there is no passion or criticism in the lyrics, but there is a thought-provoking shock, and the whole song expresses Jay Chou's disgust with war and sympathy for those who were devastated in the war.

In all of Jay Chou's songs, there is a concept type that has endured, and that is humanistic care. For example, "Terraces", "Dad, I'm Back", "Rice Fragrance", "The World is Dawning". "Coward", "Listen to Mother", "Three Years and Two Classes", "Snail", "Grandma", "Death to Stop the War". Some are warm and inspirational, and some are concerned about family affection. What I like more is the combination of cool and human. This is unique to Jay Chou's inspirational spirit.

Before 05, Jay Chou was not pretending to be cool, he was simply a cool endorsement. is a cool temperament to the depths of the soul, whether it is "Terraces" that focuses on the natural environment, or "Dad, I'm Back" which reflects domestic violence, or "Coward", which accuses drugs and dangers, Jay Chou uses a cool attitude and even a dark perspective. has brought the charm of the song itself to the extreme, and the best of these is "The Death of the Stop".

The song "Death to Stop War" Jay Chou hopes to convey to the world is love and peace, and the theme is anti-war. This is a very interesting theme in itself, but it is easy to fall into clichés, but why are Jay Chou and Fang Wenshan a ghost partner. Let's see how these two made this theme to the extreme in this song.

Just like in "Coward", Fang Wenshan hopes to see the big from the small, in "Coward", the feelings of a drug addict are used to express the theme, and the same is true of "The Death of the War", Fang Wenshan did not clearly tell the big truth, but just told the story of a singing artist, the story takes place in a war-torn city in Russia. Vladivostok. In the social environment of the time, the singer expresses his views on the war and his sympathy for the plight of women and children during the war.

Fang Wenshan Qiao

Miao used the singing of a fake artist to reflect his position, and I have to say that he is clever.

Let's take a look at the lyrics.

"Light ~ light as paper ~

Light ~ scattered places ~ Light ~ in the applause gradually died down it hurried ~"

At the beginning of the story, the scene is just described, and the sunlight is scattered all over the scene.

"She's singing ~unbearable wounds~

The script is on stage ~ the last show ~ And the people of the whole village are in their seats~

Quietly watch ~ how time abandons this theater ~

The war stained ~ her tears ~ who is in the wind ~ noisy for sugar ~

At the beginning of this story, the dust of the mirror lens has already blocked the sun~"

The shot at the beginning of this story. It's the dust in the sky that obscures the sun, and the sunlight scatters the dust all over the ground, and the singers are doing their final performances on stage. Here comes the question! Where exactly is the reality of the scene? Where are the lyrics of the singers? Seeing this, Fang Wenshan's ghost intentions can't help but make us have the urge to worship.

Continue to look at the two sentences: "The war is dirty~ Her tears ~ Who is in the wind ~ Eating sugar noisily ~" These two sentences are interspersed, what is the scene outside the stage? Or the singer's lyrics? It can be interpreted as two explanations. Continue to look below.

"Fear is engraved on the children's faces~

The wheat field has fallen in the direction of the chariot passing~

The shape of the dandelion ~is drifting~

It flies in despair~

She only sings ~ just wants ~ this song to stop the war ~"

There are still two explanations here, one is that outside the stage, the children's eyes are shocking at the fear of war, and the wheat fields are still being flattened by passing chariots. The wind whistled along with the dust, bringing up the dandelions in the field and flying away in despair. Another situation, this can also be regarded as the singer in Fang Wenshan's lyrics singing the lyrics, and the lyrics still depict the first situation, the singer only sings and thinks only about the death of the war.

"Candlelight burns in the evil night ~ the sky breaks and the war is raging ~

The song of mourning spreads thousands of miles ~ Hometown famine ~"

What is the singer singing? These lines are the clear lyrics, this song called "The Death of the War".

"Innocent on this road ~ stumbled ~ she was cut by miscanthus ~ Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Do you wake up with bread for breakfast ~ and then drink a bowl of hot soup ~

The farmer burned down the land and the village~finally picked up the gun~

But she slowly got used to giving up resistance~

Hope in the eyes of children ~what shape is it~

Whether there is a swing in the yard to swing ~ There is sugar in the pocket ~

The light of the bayonet is polished by hatred ~ savage in the distance ~

And she smiled and didn't know how to panic~"

It can still be interpreted in two directions, perhaps because of the flames of war sung by the singer. Or this is the real story that is happening under the stage, Fang Wenshan is really a ghost. The passages of fiction and reality, just like the layers in Inception, Fang Wenshan borrowed the singer's performance, and the singer sang Fang Wenshan's lyrics, but the two have the same name "The Death of the War".

With this excellent performance, this song was also shortlisted for the Golden Melody Award for Best Lyrics. Meantime. The music video for this song was shortlisted for Best Music Video.

Speaking of MV, Du Xinghe personally thinks that the biggest taboo of MV is to tell a story, a micro-film also takes more than 10 minutes, and it is difficult to tell a story in only about 4 minutes, even if it is quite successful. It is not necessarily a story imagined by the listener, Jay Chou has this problem, after all, he is not professional. Fortunately, there was a professional MV director before this, Kwong Sheng. The director directed two very pleasing songs on the album "Seven Miles of Fragrance". One is "The Death of the War", and the other is "Seven Miles of Incense". MVs have never been suitable for filming clips, not for storytelling, and most MVs that tell stories will end in failure. Even if you want to tell a story, you must not tell it clearly, the more fragmented the better, the more the listener's imagination can be exerted, the same song, 100 listeners will have 100 stories, you only tell a story well, the other 99 listeners will dislike you. So don't talk about it at all, just express the fragment. Du Xinghe likes the MV of "Stopping the War", and the close-up of the children's confused eyes and faces everywhere in it is enough to make people moved, which is the best interpretation of the fear of war.

The following is the most brilliant part of this song, the arrangement and music are all from Jay Chou himself. This also includes piano playing, harmony writing, and harmony.

Let's talk about the most intuitive feeling of listening to this song for the first time, Jay Chou's pronunciation was deliberately changed. Many monophonic third tones are changed to flat tones, or almost all pronunciations are deliberately flattened to the first tone. For example: paper, a show, a theater. There is an illusion of a deliberate flush pitch throughout. In addition, the pronunciation of many words in this song is very strange, such as the warped tongue sound is changed to a flat tongue sound. Paper, becomes zizang, wounds, becomes sang, field, becomes cang. To talk about these changes, we have to start with the initial arrangement. Jay Chou set the tone for this song from the beginning, and the piano melody at the beginning was destined to be low-key and sad, and the song was almost flattened from beginning to end. This is a very strange feeling that is difficult to describe in words, for example, this song has a melody, and the melody has ups and downs, but Jay Chou deliberately flattened his tongue and flattened almost every note under the accompaniment of the piano and drums.

Many people always like to change Jay Chou's arrangements and arrangements, which are basically death. In the early days, Jay Chou would never finish a piece at random, and almost every piece was well thought out. It's like "Death to Stop the War". From the lyrics, music, arrangement, singing, and pronunciation, Jay Chou has the overall situation, and a Russian-style R&B rebellion theme work is simply unbelievable.

And the piano arrangement at the beginning of this song is melodic and repeats almost all the time, which is not monotonous, this is Jay Chou's cleverness. War is not complicated at all, only life and death, just like this repetitive melody, deep and low-key. Sadness.

The piano arrangement of this song has a total of 3 melodies, the A section is one melody, the B section is another, and the interlude is another, each of which almost renders the atmosphere. In particular, the piano melody from 3 minutes 30 seconds to 3 minutes 55 seconds is simply beautiful. The mode of repeating the double cut between the lead singer's harmonies starting at 3 minutes and 55 seconds is the harmony method that Jay Chou is good at, and this form is exerted to the extreme in "In the Name of the Father".

I have to say that the cosplay of Jay Chou's military uniform in the MV of this song is also cool. The innocent eyes and face of the little Russian girl in the MV will make people extremely moved.

To sum up, this song, like all epitaphs or eulogies, "The Death of Stopping the War", a memorial to all those who died in the war, has a touching and sad temperament. As a mourning song, Jay Chou injected an inexplicable and profound temperament into it, there is no ghost crying wolf, no enlightenment, no moving the world, only sadness, endless sadness. In the face of war, there is no right or wrong, no future, no warmth, and even no humanity, some are only the opposite of human nature, or many years later, we can still remember in "Saving Private Ryan", at the broken bridge of Remel, Captain Miller told Private Ryan before his death: "Dont-let-me-down.James, earn-this, earn-it!" ”

Against war, humanity has a long way to go.

After a heavy baptism, Du Xinghe released the ninth-ranked song in his mind to Fang Yajun - "Quiet"!

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Only the piano was left to talk to me for a day~

Sleeping cello ~ quiet old old ~ ……

I think you've expressed xiàn's ~very clear~

I know and I know ~ you are not reluctant ~

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You said you would be sad too, I don't believe it~

Holding you with me~It was only once~

I hope he really loves you more than I do~

I'm going to force myself to leave~

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How embarrassing you want me to say ~ I don't want to be separated at all ~

Why do you want me to bring it with a smile~

I don't have this talent~Tolerate you and accept him~

Don't worry too much ~ I'll always have a good time ~ ……

You've been far away~I'll walk away slowly~

Why am I accommodating you even when we are separated~

I really don't have the talent~ It's not so fast to be quiet~

I will learn to give up on you~ because I love you too much~

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Only the piano was left to talk to me for a day~

Sleeping cello ~ quiet old old ~ ……

I think you've expressed xiàn's ~very clear~

I know and I know ~ you are not reluctant ~

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You said you would be sad too, I don't believe it~

Holding you with me~It was only once~

I hope he really loves you more than I do

I'm going to force myself to leave~

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How embarrassing you want me to say ~ I don't want to be separated at all ~

Why do you want me to bring it with a smile~

I don't have this talent~Tolerate you and accept him~

Don't worry too much ~ I'll always have a good time ~ ……

You've been far away~I'll walk away slowly~

Why am I accommodating you even when we are separated~

I really don't have the talent~ It's not so fast to be quiet~

I will learn to give up on you~ because I love you too much~

…… (To be continued......)