The Chinese music scene at the end of 2000 was more dynamic than ever.
After Mok Wenwei's "Fruits of Midsummer" was released on June 1, just as the title of the song says, a bright midsummer began, and then this golden era will continue until ten years later.
Mayday released "Tenderness" on July 7, and the song stayed in the top ten of major charts for more than two months after its release.
"Love Because of Love" released by Ah Feng on July 12 further cemented his title as Little King.
But that's all A Feng did, because the real king was born three days after him, and that was Jaylen, who debuted on July 15th, but no one paid attention to him at this time.
On August 2nd, Liang Jingru’s "Six-Eyed Flying Fish" was finally released. With this song, it would be no problem for this Malaysian Chinese female singer to retire on the spot.
On August 9th, Ren Xianqi, Aniu, and Guangliang's "Blowing Waves" was released. With the help of a large number of fans of Brother Xiaoqi, the song reached the top of the charts within a week as soon as it was released.
The current king is working hard, and the older generation is not willing to be left alone. On August 12th, the older generation super king Wang Jie finally released his last masterpiece, "Sad 1999".
On the same day, mainland queen Yehenala also performed "Betrayal", which was considered a win for mainland musicians.
After Yehenala sounded the attack horn for mainland singers, others soon followed.
On September 1st, mainland singer group Yu Quan released "Cold to the End", making Yu Quan officially become a first-line singer.
However, if compared in the same direction, they are still under a lot of pressure, because on the same day, Wanwan music poet You Hongming performed "Xiasha", which shocked the major charts again.
But then, a bigger shock soon came.
On October 1st, Queen Wang Fei finally released a song after her divorce. The song "Laughing and Forgetting" sang "a love letter forgotten with laughter", so needless to say, the list has been lost.
As a result, Huang Pinyuan's "Waves" released on October 11th hardly caused much waves.
However, for Huang Pinyuan, or for all Chinese singers, the most difficult time has just arrived!
Because on October 13th, all major radio stations in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Neon Korea, Southeast Asia and even Europe and the United States are shouting:
"After a year and a half, that man is back!!!"
At 8 o'clock in the morning, long queues were already forming outside major audio and video stores in the mainland.
The King of Pop, the first Chinese-speaking person, the light of the Chinese, the light of Asia, European and American pop supernova, Olympic champion, the man who defeated the old Americans, Yangshi promotes new songs...
The combination of various factors has caused unprecedented attention to "DNA3".
By this time, Jiang Yan's new songs are not actually that high in terms of quality.
Because even if he doesn't write songs, it won't affect his popularity at all.
In addition, fans buy Jiang Yan's album not just to listen to the music.
After all, this is Jiang Yan, and the economic benefits of fans have begun to take up a proportion. To put it in a bit of exaggeration, even if Jiang Yan’s songs are hard to listen to, many people are willing to spend big money to pay for them. Eh~ It’s such a familiar situation...
But fortunately, although the number of songs in Jiang Yan's new album is half less than before, the quality is still guaranteed.
At half past eight, new items go on sale.
Immediately, A Qiang, a music critic from the Mainland, got the new goods and couldn't wait to go back to Kaifeng.
More than ten minutes later, the disc of "DNA3" was put into the high-end player, and the music critic also took the lyrics list and began to enjoy it quietly.
"DNA3" only has 9 songs. Excluding "Yellow Race", a song from this year's Spring Festival Gala, there are only 8 songs left.
The first song "Chasing Dreams", this song was already shown on Yangshi the day before yesterday. In Aqiang's opinion, it is a very interesting rock song.
The melody and rhythm are pretty good, mainly because of the singing method, the broken-note singing method can actually have such an effect, which makes Aqiang feel that Jiang Yan really likes to play with all kinds of flowers, and he is very good at it.
In addition, in addition to the song itself, the MV for "Chasing Dreams" is also eye-catching. Jiang Yan continued the story-based MV telling mode. This was done with a lot of money and is full of sincerity.
The MV is not like sports and basketball as the theme of Yangshi, but focuses on the group of volunteer teachers.
For more than ten years, the volunteer teacher has inspired batch after batch of children in the mountains to pursue their dreams.
This made Aqiang feel very emotional. He was not a kid from the mountains, but he was pretty much the same, so he just focused on this. He felt that this album was already successful, because indeed very few pop singers would pay attention to this.
After the song ended, Ah Qiang calmed down and continued to the next song.
"Old Street", this is also a song that Yangshi has played, so I won't go into details about it. After Yangshi released it the day before yesterday, many music critics wrote comments yesterday, so just enjoy it.
After "Old Street" ended, a tense, cold and extremely ear-catching prelude soon began.
Then, Jiang Yan changed from the unrestrained and lyrical singing style of the first two songs, and suddenly became depressive and mysterious.
"Absolutely perfect hands
No sweating or trembling
"
The melody continued, and Aqiang looked at the playlist: "Killer".
It's a very unique name. Looking at the music video, it's a shooting technique with cold tones and large shadows. Jiang Yan can be seen looming in the darkness.
This fits the identity of the "killer" very well, very cool!
Then, in the middle of the song, there was a burst of sudden yet perfect guzheng, and a sense of chilling came over me.
ox!
Aqiang couldn't think of any adjectives for a while, so he could only listen to it a few times later.
At the same time, Aqiang also felt that if he didn't know Jiang Yan well enough, he would definitely feel that this song and the previous one were not written by the same person.
But this is also the joy of being Jiang Yan’s fan and music critic.
A musician can support music critics of different styles and attract different fans. This is his ability.
Maybe one day Jiang Yan's style will be fixed, and maybe this charm will disappear.
With this in mind, Aqiang continued to the next song.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Then at the beginning, there is the sound of guitar and crickets.
It's very quiet and comfortable. Looking at the title of the song, "The Fragrance of Rice", wow, is this a country theme?
Soon, the song sounded:
"If you have too many complaints about the world
If you fall, you won’t dare to move forward.
Why do people have to be so fragile and corrupt?
"
Wow, look, it’s a different style again, and what should I say about the style this time? With the addition of rap, it seems that Jiang Yan is doing something new again.
In the relaxed rhythm of "Daoxiang", Aqiang swayed gently. He liked this feeling so much.
However, as the lyrics progressed to "Go home, return to the original beauty", Aqiang felt a subtle touch.
This was the case with the previous film "Chasing Dreams", and the same is true with "Daoxiang".
While Aqiang was trying to figure out Jiang Yan's use, he also began to think: Should I go back and take a look...
The charm of a good song is like this, it can make people feel a lot after listening to it.
As for the song style, pop music is actually not as direct to the soul as rock and roll, but if you really want to say it, ballads can sometimes make people divorce more.
The next song in Jiang Yan's new album is like this.
"I know those summers
Just like youth, you can’t come back
instead of dreams
It can only be done reluctantly
"
The song "Anhe Bridge" caused countless drivers and passengers in Beijing who were listening to the car radio to fall into silence.
"Anhe Bridge" is a ballad, without gorgeous arrangements or ups and downs of rhythm, it just unfolds to the public quietly like telling a story.
And this kind of song doesn’t need such complicated modifications.
"Those summers, like youth, can never come back."
Just this one lyric can break the defenses of countless adults.
And when the morinouqin played in the middle, the more sensitive literary and artistic young people were already in tears.
Many people complained at this time.
Jiang Yan is really capable of causing trouble.
The last song was the relaxing and warm "Daoxiang", now this song... I won't talk about it anymore, let me wipe my tears first...
But before the tears were wiped away, the next song became another extreme.
"I can change the world
change yourself
change diaphragm
Change stinginess
Keep working hard
never give up
Only then can we change the world
EON changes itself
"
Ahong's "Change Yourself" sings across the land of China with its distinctive rhythm.
It caused a group of young people who were still in emo just now to shut down their computers on the spot.
However, the fans who had not heard the previous song were extremely excited at the moment.
And just when they were thinking whether this style still existed.
The next song, the style changed again.
Dramatic Chinese style?
Music critics have already settled down and won’t talk about style or anything like that. Just let them play and just enjoy it quietly.
The national style this time is called "Exploring the Window", which is a chorus.
Jiang Yan sang it together with Li Zi, who had just debuted and gained popularity.
"She sang about meeting an old friend in a foreign land
Every step and every word is lovesickness
The people in the audience have the correct title on the gold list
I never recognized my old acquaintance on stage
"
As the first part of the song is sung.
The biggest reaction was from some older generation artists who were well versed in opera. They didn’t want to comment on the style, lyrics or other trivial matters at the moment.
They just want to know when Jiang Yan will start singing!
With such good qualifications, if you go to play pop music, movies, or basketball, why don't you sing a good show?!
There are also many music critics who are also very helpless.
Music critics no longer know what to say at this moment.
After all, Jiang Yan's style has changed so much that he can play tricks on everything.
Rock, pop, folk music, Chinese style, in addition, he can also handle European and American pop music styles.
An album with such a torn style is something Jiang Yan can play.
If it had been anyone else, it would have been hung on the wall tomorrow.
But if I say one thing, if I don’t look at the style of the entire album, these songs are indeed very good.
This extremely genius approach cannot be learned by others.
Looking at the entire Chinese music scene, who can be like him, who can keep up with his rhythm?
At this moment, everyone is mourning for those singers who have strong teams.
Being alone and defeating everything, this feeling of invincibility is really despairing.
But as soon as this thought arose, the next song made many people think.
"End of the World", this is the song that Jay originally wanted to give to Wu Zongxian last year, but now Jiang Yan has accepted it.
But in the eyes of music critics, it's different.
Who wrote the lyrics and composed the music, Jay?
Jiang Yan actually sang someone else's song, and it was that young man's song?
Music critics were a little surprised. After all, this was Jiang Yan's first song written by someone else.
Listening to the song again, the song is really good.
Many people are thinking that maybe Jiang Yan wants to praise Jay Chou.
And the effect is pretty good, at least many people like it.
But at the same time, there are also many sensitive music critics who are wondering, does Jiang Yan have other intentions?
No matter what they think, the album ends here.
Generally speaking, although "DNA3" has few songs, only nine, including old songs and other people's songs, it is in line with what Jiang Yan said before, "I can still make Chinese songs, but not too many. After all,
We need to take care of the European and American aspects.”
But it is undeniable that the quality of this album is indeed good, and both "Daoxiang" and "Killer" have the potential to hit the annual championship.
And this is also true, "Daoxiang" was the champion in 2008.
Therefore, the sales of this album are not a problem at all. At this time, many people have already re-adjusted their players and started to continue the tearing journey. Those who have not bought it have not lost interest.
Music critics know that since its release, the future charts will be violently shaken.
However, the intensity of this shock is far inferior to the effect of "Joey2" in Europe and the United States at this moment.
(This is it for now, I will make up for it at noon tomorrow. Also, the extras are going very quickly. I will join a very fun crew tomorrow)