Fang Yi: "The reason why the work "The Return of the Great Sage" is successful, I think, is largely due to the interlude. Let me talk about my humble opinion on this song!
The first half of the lyrics, from "Moon Splashes on the Starry River" to "Heartbroken", expresses intentions and creates a monologue. It has a certain sense of imagery but does not expand too much. The melody is smooth and more pop-lyric, but the emotional foreshadowing is a bit unclear.
At the beginning of the second half, some so-called "unpronounceable" words are used. In fact, it is slowly leading the style to the ancient style, adding Zen, and the characteristics of text and white emerge, to "being angry and sad is a human being and a ghost." In this paragraph, the foreshadowing is basically completed, with the addition of the sentence "There is a demonic debt in the heart", which is highly consistent with the image and concept of the title "Wukong", making people look forward to the following lyrics.
So far, this song is already a very popular work, but its excellence lies in not stopping there, but taking an amazing step towards more subtle musicality.
The mood reaches its next high point. The lyrics "What's the use and "so what"" are full of self-questioning and rebuttal. The two "stills" are overflowing with a sense of confusion and chaos. The soundtrack of this section is complex but harmonious to the ears, whether it is folk instruments or rock music. , and the harmony part are all highly consistent with the singer. In the end, "The golden hoop is in front of the head and I want to stop talking" is full of helplessness, but it is still at the level of "cannot understand".
Then he entered a short musical solo, continued to brew his emotions, and started singing two lines of "I want". The soundtrack started and stopped suddenly, and the singer shouted wildly, full of "unable to understand" and "seeing nothing empty", and could only use destruction to destroy It’s great to let everything out and soothe the helplessness of pain and loneliness.
But it’s not over yet. The song reaches its highest note, “Treading on the sky and running wild and unruly,” which forms a completely opposite intention to the previous sentence, “The golden hoop holds my head before I can say goodbye.” At the same time, they each echo the previous sentence, “There is no shore to turn around,” and “Life or death has nothing to do with it.” The emotion reaches the highest point (popularity and musicality are also taken into account), which is enough to shake the whole audience.
Adding the concluding sentence "It is impossible to escape after all" echoes the demonic debt in the heart, and the pain of "not being able to realize the emptiness" is overwhelming, reaching the critical state of renunciation of "not realizing the emptiness but not being empty". I think the character creation is basically completed at this time. This is clearly the great sage Qi Tian in Qin Hao's "The Legend of Wukong"!
Entering the last sentence: "Ashes to ashes", since "cannot escape" and "cannot seek", we simply renounce everything, destroy everything, ashes to ashes or even burn together, but in the end we still cannot get rid of the demonic debt in our hearts, so the last word is very weak. The falsetto, which has the power to destroy everything, and the fragile and helpless inner image of a baby coexist at the same time. The contradiction is unified, which makes people sigh. "
Fang Yi, a famous music critic in China, has been exposed to various forms of music since childhood. When commenting on music, he will point out his own opinions to the point, no matter who sings the song.
As soon as his long Weibo music review was posted, it was immediately liked and sought after by many Weibo users. It was only then that the anti-fans and trolls stopped. However, it was only thanks to their stupidity that they attracted the attention of so many professionals. More than one record company had even drafted a contract overnight, making sure to sign Qin Hao.
In the CCTV building, at the Spring Festival Gala live broadcast, the chief director Han Yong had arranged everything, then picked up his mobile phone and didn't even pay attention to the singer's performance on the stage. However, when he just opened Weibo, he saw that the entire Weibo homepage had been flooded with Qin Hao's "The Return of the Great Sage".
Seeing the rave reviews on Weibo, Han Yong couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, secretly thinking that this year's Spring Festival Gala would finally stop being full of curses. However, when he saw the Weibo post by Fang Yi, a famous Chinese song critic, he couldn't help but feel shocked.
At this time, a young assistant from the director team quickly walked up to Han Yong and whispered: "Director Han, it's time to select alternative singers. However, these alternative singers have been prepared in advance. Do you still need to wait for Teacher Qin Hao for the song?"
Han Yong sighed slightly at this time, glanced at her, and said, "What do you mean?"
"A good song cannot be completed overnight. I feel that in such a short period of time, no matter how talented he is, he may not be able to create a good song. Even if he can really create it, But if you really let the backup singers get familiar with the song, it may not be better than them singing the song they prepared themselves!”
"You know nothing! But... you reminded me!"
At this time, Han Yong stood up from his seat and walked quickly towards Qin Hao's lounge.
When Han Yong walked into Qin Hao's lounge, he noticed that the lounge was already overcrowded. In addition to Xia Qing, there were many stars who had also performed songs on the Spring Festival Gala stage, including the former Liang Zhen, who met Qin Hao once at the Feng Yin Huafu Annual Meeting, and Jiang Yingxue, who had interacted with Qin Hao on Weibo.
They were all chatting politely with Qin Hao at this time, but everyone's eyes were bright, and they looked at Qin Hao without concealing the desire in their hearts. It was obvious that they were drunkards and not interested in drinking.
When these celebrities saw Han Yong walking in, they all stood up from their seats and nodded to greet him. Han Yong also waved his hand and said with a smile: "Are you all there? I came here to have a word with Teacher Qin Hao..."
Before, maybe Han Yong called Qin Hao teacher just to be polite. But now, his voice as "teacher" comes from the bottom of his heart. Although he didn't act as directly as those celebrities, his words were somewhat polite.
Qin Hao suddenly stood up at this time, picked up a piece of paper and put it in Han Yong's hand, and said: "Isn't Director Han getting impatient? This is the music score I wrote. Take it back and let the band teachers It’ll be nice to get familiar with it…”
Han Yong took the piece of paper, but without even looking at it, he put it on the table and said, "Don't worry, I'm not here for this song, but I have something to discuss with Teacher Qin Hao." —”
Suddenly hearing this, all the celebrities present opened their mouths and looked at Han Yong in astonishment. This song is about to be performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage, and the singer performing it is not even familiar with the lyrics. As the chief director of the Spring Festival Gala, why the hell did you say there was no rush
The celebrities at the scene all felt like they were in trouble.
At the same time, Han Yong's words also aroused the curiosity of everyone present. What on earth was he going to say to Qin Hao that allowed him to put such an important matter aside