Chapter 325: "Dongfeng Po" - The pinnacle of Chinese style
"Wuhu, there's a good show to watch!"
“I wonder how this song ‘Dong Feng Po’ compares to Zhang Yuanzhou’s ‘Xi Feng Po’? I’m really looking forward to it!”
"Come on Fengqi Wutong, hold on to the first row!"
Feeling the enthusiastic applause from the fans below the stage, Lin Zhixing and Song Ge, dressed in Chinese style, waved and walked to the center of the stage and stood under the spotlight.
Judges' seat.
"This name is quite interesting!"
Li Zonghua really likes Lin Zhixing’s traditional Chinese style songs. He found the lyrics of the song on the table and was full of expectations for the song.
Zhang Yuanzhou, who was watching the live broadcast, looked at Lin Zhixing on the screen, who was full of confidence in every move he made. He suppressed his anger and listened carefully.
It remains to be seen whether he can beat himself in this selection of songs of the same type.
If today's "Dong Feng Po" is better than the "Xi Feng Po" he created with all his efforts, he is willing to post on Weibo to publicly acknowledge Lin Zhixing's excellence.
Hua Futing, who was in the audience, looked at the two people standing confidently and calmly in the center of the stage. He was so nervous that beads of sweat appeared on his forehead when he thought that they would ask him to go on stage to challenge after they finished singing.
"Car accident scene, car accident scene, you must go to the car accident scene!"
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【bite!】
[System missions are unlocked at medium difficulty. If you successfully stay in the first row of seats, you will be rewarded with a random song from Earth! ]
The system prompt sound suddenly sounded.
Lin Zhixing, who had gathered his emotions, opened his eyes at the right time and nodded to the stage music teacher.
As the play button is pressed, notes flow out of the speaker.
It starts with the piano and the strong rhythm of electronic music slowly draws the audience into it.
"Wow, R&B?"
Tao Ji in the audience was stunned when he heard the tune. He never expected that Lin Zhixing would combine Chinese style with R&B.
As far as he could remember, there seemed to be no example of a music composer successfully combining these two elements.
"Is this a declaration of war against me?"
"A R&B competition is starting from this?"
The song "Dong Feng Po" was really great back then. It was the first song that combined Chinese melody with the classic Western R&B rhythm. In that era when Western music was popular, it was no exaggeration to say that it was wild and imaginative.
After this song, the term "Chinese style" was finally coined in the Chinese music scene, and a wave of Chinese style songs was set off. As singers competed, popular Chinese style works were born one after another, constantly refreshing the audience's understanding of pop music.
Jay Chou took advantage of the situation and pushed a Chinese-style song in almost every album that followed, hoping to continue to lead the industry standards.
When Wang Leehom gave a speech at Oxford University, he listed "Dong Feng Po" as one of the top ten classics of Chinese music in the past 30 years.
Netizens call "Dong Feng Po" the prelude and peak of "Chinese style".
By singing this song on this stage, Lin Zhixing has absolute confidence in keeping his front-row seat.
As the audience expected, he slowly raised the microphone and began to sing.
"A lonely lamp stands at the window"
"I'm behind the door pretending you're still here"
“Revisiting an old place feels even lonelier when the moon is full”
"The candlelight awake at midnight cannot bear to criticize me"
The deep and magnetic voice tells the story, and pictures are constructed in the minds of the listeners, who unknowingly enter into the mood created by the song.
“Not bad!”
Li Zonghua listened to the song and read the lyrics, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
"Yi Lan" is used to describe a lamp. It is obviously a lamp, but it is written as a lamp of sorrow. The emotions of the person under the lamp are reflected on the lamp, making the abstract sorrow come to life. It is wonderful!
"The candlelight that keeps me awake at midnight cannot bear to blame me" is also well written.
It is also like reflecting human emotions on candlelight. The one who is sober is because it is very sad to revisit the old place, and the sadness is so strong that even the candlelight cannot blame it!
In just four lines, the character's state and feelings are fully described. It's simply excellent! ...
"A pot of wandering is hard to swallow"
"After you left, the wine warmed the memories and made me thin"
"Water flows eastward, how can time be stolen?"
"The flowers bloom and mature once, but I missed it"
Song Ge raised the microphone and sang. She did not deliberately sing about longing and sorrow, but when the song sounded, the audience would have such a feeling.
Close your eyes, the scenes created in the song seem familiar, as if they were your experiences in your previous life. The emotions evoked by long-lost love and the fact that everything has changed hits the listeners' souls directly.
“This is the real Chinese style music!”
While Li Zonghua admired it, he sighed in his heart.
There are many "Chinese style" songs on the music market now. The lyrics are full of the underworld and worldly affairs. They forcibly pursue gorgeous rhetoric and pile up some ancient words to make them Chinese style.
He believes that a qualified Chinese-style song must meet the "three ancients and three new" elements, namely ancient poetry, ancient culture, ancient melodies, new singing methods, new arrangements, and new concepts.
Lin Zhixing's "Chinese style" songs perfectly meet these six points.
The natural beauty is not artificial, not whining, not mysterious, not flashy, and the melody seems simple but is actually quite exquisite. It does not use the popular shell to fit the ancient style of words, nor does it deliberately make the ancient music embarrassing. It retains the ancient charm without deviating from the aesthetic taste of modern people, and it is just right.
Before even hearing the chorus of the song, Li Zonghua thought that Lin Zhixing's "Dong Feng Po" was far superior to Zhang Yuanzhou's "Xi Feng Po" which had been eliminated.
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When the chorus of the song came, Lin Zhixing and Song Ge turned to each other and performed it affectionately.
"Who is playing the song Dong Feng Po on the Pipa?"
"Years peel off the wall and reveal my childhood"
“I still remember that year when we were still very young”
"But now the sound of the piano is faint, you have not heard my waiting"
The song starts with piano, turns to pipa, and then transitions to erhu. With the two people's unique singing style, the piano and human voices blend naturally. The feeling of singing is neither sad nor happy, and it slowly pours out a sense of loneliness. The audience who listen attentively cannot help but empathize.
“What a good word!”
Li Zonghua was so excited when he heard this that he secretly applauded in his heart.
Lin Zhixing's lyrics once again amazed him.
"Time" cannot be touched, but old walls can be touched. An average lyricist would stop writing when he writes "Time peels off the wall."
But Lin Zhixing, a master lyricist, wrote that after the wall peeled off, through the cracks in the wall, he actually saw his childhood self! He connected space and time, and also echoed why the first half of the lyrics is called "Years Peeling Off". It's really a talent!
A top-notch piece of music must have excellent melody, artistic conception, and style, and be integrated into a perfect masterpiece. This song "Dong Feng Po" has reached an extremely high level in terms of artistic conception, melody, and style.
Li Zonghua came to participate in this year's Spring Festival Music Gala. After listening to so many original songs, he would like to call this song "Dong Feng Po" the best original song!
"Dong Feng Po" is called the current "Chinese style" song in the Chinese music scene and a graduation-level work.
In this track, they can dominate and no one can catch up with them.
This line of lyrics, which Li Zonghua praised highly, also became a popular joke at the time.
Sun Wukong was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain. When Bodhi Patriarch thought of the innocent look of Sun Wukong when he was a child and became his disciple, he couldn't help feeling sad. He squatted in the corner and picked at the wall in depression.
The disciple asked, "Master, why are you picking at the wall?" Patriarch Bodhi sighed and chanted, "Time is peeling off the wall and I see the little stone monkey..."
The other side.
Luo Desheng, who was sitting next to Li Zonghua at this moment, frowned.
He was worried about his apprentice Hua Futing.
If the apprentice is challenged by them tonight, he will most likely be eliminated.
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Auditorium.
Xiao Lin, who is watching the game tonight, just broke up with his girlfriend not long ago. Not having enough love, he has been trying to win back his ex-girlfriend. He just edited a long essay and prepared to send it to her to ask for a reconciliation.
After listening to the song "Dong Feng Po", he suddenly felt relieved. Not only did he delete the edited essay, he also deleted his ex-girlfriend's WeChat.
The reason for relief is simple.
When he heard this song, he thought of his ex-girlfriend, and as he listened, he suddenly realized that she was not worthy of this song.
Off screen.
In a high-end apartment.
"You win, I am completely convinced! You are the epitome of Chinese style!"
After Zhang Yuanzhou lost to Lin Zhixing, he has been analyzing his Chinese-style songs recently, trying to find out the reason why he lost to him.
After listening to the song "Dong Feng Po", he completely understood Lin Zhixing's creative approach.
The reason why his songs give people a sense of grandeur and magnificence is that the orchestration generally takes the four major instruments of pop songs as the basic framework, and uses national instruments to add the finishing touches in the details.
At the climax of the song, string music is used to raise the mood, and combined with the lyrics, there is a sense of desolation under the dome that stretches for eternity.
The poetic lyrics of this song, combined with the gentle and graceful melody, plus the fusion of Chinese style elements, are a masterpiece! It is simply not comparable to my own song "West Wind Break".
If Zhang Yuanzhou had known the song "Dong Feng Po" many years ago, he would have crumpled up his own lyrics paper for "Xi Feng Po" and thrown it into the trash can.
Seeing through Lin Zhixing's style, he smiled bitterly twice.
So what if you know the structure of his songs?
Even if I try my best, I will never be able to reach such a height.
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Player seats.
The beads of sweat on Hua Futing's forehead slid down his temples and gathered on his double chin.
The pressure came from all directions, filling every corner of his body and making it hard for him to breathe.
Not only did they not appear at the scene of the traffic accident, but they pushed the atmosphere to a climax.
"Will there be a miracle? Will tonight be my last performance on this stage?"
The other side.
"You guys are really powerful!"
This was the first time that Tao Ji heard Feng Qi Wu Tong sing an R&B song. Although it was not a pure R&B song, it also combined Chinese style.
But from the songs, we can tell that their R&B singing is definitely not bad.
“It’s horrible!”
Tao Ji's Adam's apple rolled. It seems that he will have a tough battle in the future! After recording this episode, he must work hard. It would be terrible if he was stripped of the title like Zhang Yuanzhou.
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Gorgeous center stage.
"Who is playing the song Dong Feng Po on the Pipa?"
"The maple leaves color the story, and I see through the ending"
"I will lead you along the ancient path outside the fence"
"In these wild and overgrown years, even breakups are silent."
Finally, with the graceful and beautiful harmony of Lin Zhixing and Song Ge, they ended the performance perfectly.
The audience was so moved by the song that they applauded loudly and the comment section was filled with rave reviews.
"The beautiful sadness and strange words are really amazing!"
"This is amazing! The lyrics, composition, arrangement, soundtrack, rhythm, environment creation, and emotional mobilization are all impeccable!"
"The erhu brought out my soul. It was like watching a conversation across time and space. It was so exciting!"
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The host Wang Bing returned to the stage and introduced, "Okay, now please invite the five judges to give scores to the Fengqi Wutong group!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, especially Hua Futing, who was so nervous that the shirt under his suit was soaked with sweat.
"excellent!"
Zhang A-mei held up the "A rating" scoreboard and gave a thumbs up, praising: "I think so far, you are the first singers who have integrated Western music and Chinese music into one, and have formed their own style, mature and successful!"
Zhang Wuying also raised the "A rating" scoreboard, "Borrowing classical instruments and ancient tunes and incorporating Western R&B styles to form a natural melody that is amazing!"
"Just now I heard the audience discussing which song is better, "Dong Feng Po" or "Qing Hua Ci"? I personally think that tonight's "Dong Feng Po" is better than your previous "Qing Hua Ci"!"
After giving the film an "A rating", Li Zonghua expressed his opinion, "Blue and White Porcelain" is a bit petty bourgeois, using porcelain to recall stories, with only the love between young people, and no sense of the grandeur of the country."
"This song 'Dong Feng Po' not only depicts the love between a son and a daughter, but also the emotional turmoil between them against the backdrop of history. It also has a sense of drifting with the times, like the feeling of Gone with the Wind in the movie. It has a majestic atmosphere that pushes the course of history forward. It is quite excellent."
As soon as he finished speaking, the audience applauded in approval.
“Dong Feng Po is invincible in the world among Chinese styles!”
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After Wu Boqiang also gave Feng Qi Wu Tong an "A rating", the camera turned to Luo Desheng who was sitting in the C position.
He slowly raised the "B rating" comment and said, "Like the judges just said, the song is pretty good, but I think there are some flaws in the performance."
He did not point out where the specific flaws were, but just made perfunctory comments.
Center stage.
Lin Zhixing listened to Luo Desheng's comments without any emotion. He had already guessed that he would help his apprentice and target him in the scoring.
Four out of five judges gave themselves an "A rating", meaning they had successfully retained their position.
【bite!】
[The medium difficulty system task has been completed. Congratulations to the host for obtaining the song "Sunny Day"! ]
The system prompt sounded suddenly, and all the memories about the song were retrieved.
Jay Chou once asked Ai, "Which is my most popular song?"
“It may vary from person to person, but based on downloads and plays, your most popular song dates back 20 years to ‘Sunny Day’ from your fourth album ‘Ye Hui Mei’ in 2003.”
In Lin Zhixing's opinion, Jay Chou's strongest album is "Ye Huimei", which is far better than the album "Fantasy".
There is the most powerful dark-style song, "In the Name of the Father", which is praised by netizens as the strongest rap, there is the systematic Chinese-style song "Dongfeng Po", and there is the popular Zhou-style love song "Sunny Day".
Not only did it undoubtedly win the Best Album Award at the 15th Golden Melody Awards, but it also marked the beginning of Jay Chou's musical and mental maturity, and it was an album that truly established his status as the king of the music industry.
Lin Zhixing, who won the song "Sunny Day", smiled till his ears.
(End of this chapter)
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