Listening to Chen Shuai's almost completely restored singing voice, Xiao Qian couldn't help but fall into a trance.
Why does it sound so good?
Why is it so touching?
It is obviously a song that I am familiar with and no longer familiar to me. Why do I feel this way?
"Don't Be Afraid of Me Being Sad" is definitely not a novel song. Even in his previous life when he was reborn, it was an old song.
I don’t know why, but listening to such old songs makes people feel so comfortable.
This is a very strange feeling.
Not only Xiao Qian had it, but many people in previous lives had it.
Many people have said this: the old songs from back then were really good.
When I read it again many years later, I felt such emotions one after another.
Then this phenomenon has to be worth exploring.
Why do you think old songs sound better?
I believe that many people in previous lives had similar feelings to Xiao Qian, that is, good songs are hard to find.
Why this happens, no one can tell.
It's always a sigh, or a complaint that there is no one in the music industry.
But the problem is that in the music industry, new people debut every year and bring new works, but there are no works that can touch people's hearts.
At some point in his previous life, Xiao Qian attributed this phenomenon to the fact that the domestic entertainment industry was too impetuous, allowing many low-level people to fill it, making up the numbers, which made it difficult to find good songs.
But now that he had time to think, he discovered that his understanding seemed to be completely wrong.
If you go back to the first decade of the 21st century and look outside the domestic entertainment industry and look around the world, you will be surprised to find that the phenomenon of good songs being hard to find is not limited to the domestic entertainment industry.
It is a common phenomenon across the world.
That would be even more strange. Are there no good musicians in the world?
Where does the problem occur?
Not to mention China, let’s take Europe and the United States, where the entertainment industry is the most developed.
After Adele and Bruno Mars, good songs are hard to find. Billboard has not found a single song with deep influence since 2015.
Back in Asia, the same is true for South Korea, which has the most influential pop music.
There used to be many popular classic masterpieces, but after this point in 2015, we can no longer find such works.
Some people may take BTS as an example, but if you study it carefully, you will find that BTS’s red color is very strange.
At that time, BTS was almost considered a legend in the K-pop music industry, and was highly sought after by countless people inside and outside the industry.
But the strange thing is that they are just legends.
Everyone says BTS is great and treats them like idols, but they never see the end.
If you say they are not popular, that is nonsense. Their popularity is real.
Although they are popular, you will find that there are not many ways to understand and get close to them.
And a more interesting phenomenon is that BTS seems to have gained more momentum overseas than at home. You can see them touring around the world, appearing in various talk shows, and they are very popular.
But in South Korea, it is difficult to find traces of them.
To put it bluntly, their red color does not give people a real feeling.
Their music is completely different from traditional kpop music.
The originator of this phenomenon is not BTS, but EXO.
It is since EXO that many idol groups in Korea have given people a feeling of floating in the clouds. They are popular again, but they seem to be thousands of miles away from others.
Whether it’s EXO, Twice, Blackpink, or BTS, their popularity always seems to be covered with something. And the influence of their masterpieces is far from comparable to that of their predecessors.
In the Korean music scene after 2015, there is absolutely no work that can be called a divine song. There are many good songs that give people the impression that they are, well... nice, but nothing more.
Unlike that era, "one more time", "gee", "sorry sorry", "like being shot", "Abracadabra"...
These songs, just looking at them, make people tremble all over.
So what is the reason why such works no longer appear?
Looking back to China, the situation is also the same.
Xiao Qian couldn't help but wonder why pop music all over the world has fallen into a low ebb and is no longer as prosperous as it once was.
Where did the problem occur?
That situation, for some reason, reminded him of the embarrassment faced by literati after the Tang and Song dynasties who had no idea how to write poems.
It's like the predecessors have exhausted all the good music, leaving those who came after them with no songs to compose.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qian couldn't help but feel scared.
I'm still young, and I still plan to become rich and wealthy by relying on pop music. By then, I won't have any songs to write, right?
Taking advantage of Chen Shuai's break in recording songs, Xiao Qian suddenly had time to close her eyes and meditate, thinking a lot. Of course, most of them were memories.
It’s not about recalling classic masterpieces from past lives, but about songs from the decline of pop music.
He was not in the entertainment industry, and he had no musical talent in his previous life. Not to mention, when he recalled it like this, he... didn't recall a few works.
But this is enough.
Just the limited number of works he recalled gave him a feeling.
Those songs...are really tasteless!
Frankly speaking, there were not many popular songs that Xiao Qian knew and could remember after 2015. After delving into his memories, he finally found one.
Either he wanted to hear that song, or he heard it accidentally and was shocked and frightened, and he never forgot it.
That song has a long history. It is a song, dance, and rap album.
With nothing to do, Xiao Qian used the things at hand to restore the song.
He first stripped down the songs, ignoring the lyrics and focusing only on the melody.
Don't say it, it's not bad. Although it can't be said to be perfect, it has some tricks, and at least it's not that unpleasant.
In this case, the problem almost lies with the lyrics.
He pulled out the lyrics again, glanced at them, and the corners of his mouth began to twitch.
Really, if you hide the score and take out the lyrics separately, many people will probably be confused.
This is...lyrics?
Leaving aside the beautiful diction and profound artistic conception, the lyrics of a song don’t even need to rhyme. I’m just asking you, are you afraid?
oh this mortal body
Reshape a new me after being doomed to destruction
When the scars are sutured with stitches and threads
All the answers will be cut off...
Let’s not talk about it later, let’s just explore the first four lines of lyrics. Who can tell him how these four words, shell, me, trace, and bottom, form the rhyme part of a song?
Not to mention, that word is pronounced qiao, not husk.
If you understand this fact, people who understand it will definitely have black lines in their heads. How does "qiao" rhyme with me?
This is no longer a matter of common sense about music, it has reached the level of illiteracy.
horrible……
Xiao Qian had some vague insights after seeing the writing.
Making music requires some culture.
Looking back at history, you will find that the traces music has left in the long history are not melodies, but words.
Chu Ci, Han Fu, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan opera, Ming and Qing operas, and even today's popular music, all have been passed down and remembered by the world because of their beautiful words.
Anyone who knows something about history knows that both Tang poetry and Song lyrics were actually sung. It’s just that the history is long and the singing method has been lost.
Then something strange happened.
It stands to reason that as a musical work, if the melody and singing method are lost, wouldn't it mean that it has lost its soul?
Unfortunately this is not the case.
To this day, people learn Han Fu, Tang poetry, Song lyrics, etc., even if there is no melody and singing method, just words, they are still fascinating.
This is enough to show that whether a musical work is good or not, the melody is of course important, but the more essential part is actually the lyrics.
How is it? Isn’t it surprising? Very pleasantly surprised?
In fact, it is not difficult to figure this out.
Just take Zhou Tianwang, the last leader of Chinese music in his previous life, as an example.
Are the songs produced by this Zhou Tianwang any good?
Of course it's good.
But everyone knows that without the humble Mr. Fang writing lyrics for him, how could his songs be so good?
He himself is not even good at singing, and unclear enunciation is not something worth showing off.
In other words, without lyrics, what are you asking fans to sing along to?
Hum the melody?
Xiao Qian couldn't help but tremble when she thought of that scene.
Forget it, now that I've figured it out, I'd better read more.
He happily copied "Historical Records" and read it with gusto.
Music production is also a matter for cultural people.
The fundamental reason why there are fewer and fewer good songs is the inclusion of all kinds of cats and dogs.
