On the simple Poetry of lyrics
If you want to define simple poetry, it is probably this kind of taste, emotional place does not correct knead, sad place does not die, simple but not vulgar, poetic but does not pretend to force, so but also does not lose.
the graduation trip was to go to Dunhuang and Qinghai Lake with a group of high school classmates. I happened to pick up a guitar while staying in a hotel, so I played and sang Luo Dayou's "Maxim of Love". After listening to his friend Zhang smack his lips and then sigh, you see, the lyrics used to be written like poems, but now the poems are all like lyrics.
Zhang was a famous talented woman in high school. She was good at writing ancient poems, reading through Song ci, raising her eyebrows, raising her eyebrows, bowing her head, Wang Zengqi, and hiding "hazy moon clouds coming and going" in her ears. "were to come back to test Acacia" lives in the nail cover. We all think that although she looks like Guo Degang on the outside, there is always a Lin Daiyu in her heart. Here is a special recording of Zhang's graceful love poem, we can take advantage of it:
Yuanqin's old lovesickness, but I can't bear to listen to it for years after that.
wandering is difficult to find a place to come from, but when we meet, we stay in the ghosts.
time looks forward to the shadow in front of the window, and the sun and moon gradually moisten the stars.
I am destined to return the tears of Dendrobium candidum and sprinkle them on the long Pavilion in this life.
since Zhang is so literate, I very much believe in her pertinent judgment on the misplaced relationship between lyrics and poems. Lyrics occupy multiple positions in a song, which is a topic that I have been thinking about for a long time, and the reality is complicated. If a song's rhythm and melody arrangement have a hard voice, the lyrics may not be able to reach the ear; at the same time, some words are so beautifully written that people can firmly remember the song, or even give birth to a generation of golden songs; of course, there are some songs, but the other songs are all right, but the words are so bad that people can't like them.
the earliest impression and concept of the lyrics began with Fang Wenshan. Jay Chou was most popular when my contemporaries were enlightened to listen to music, and Fang's chic lyrics pried open the hearts of many young girls. I still remember being deeply impressed by Fang's profound knowledge of history and geography when I first heard "whose past are the priests, temples, battles, bows, and arrows," and "yearning stretches like the Tigris River" at the age of cardamom. So later I read a poem written by Fang and found that this person had a strange grasp of the broken sentences, which read a bit like three and a half sentences, such as:
on the day you were sure you left
I opened the dictionary & nbsp; began to find out what is & nbsp; boredom
on page 237 & the side of nbsp; Jack & nbsp; Nine painting
I only found two words & nbsp; Fresh
another example:
I use the first person to copy the past love and hate
in our script
I cry in the second person
and my favorite humane separation
I use the third person to describe the youth who turned around
because I read out the sense of joy. Later, "Qi Li Xiang" came out and publicized that it was a song written like a poem. I don't know what other people think, but I don't feel like it. Looking back, Fang's lyrics are mainly characterized by a large number of symbolic words, like stacking artistic conception, such as Prague in northern Europe, the death battlefield of ninja castles, dancing in the spring and autumn, and the chrysanthemum stage thousands of miles away. the dazzling sense of a foreign land is a dazzling-a move that works for teenagers. But in the final analysis, it is not simple.
later, I noticed a pair of Hong Kong pop songwriters, Lin Xi and Huang Weiwen. Both of them are very high-yielding, among which Lin Xi is relatively more well-known because of the integrity of both countries and Guangdong, and the stable level. Lin's ci writing has a broad threshold and a solid background, and the rarest thing is the sense of "tailor-made" for the singer's style-what is written to Leslie Cheung has to be sung by Zhang Guorong, such as "chasing" and "dreaming about the Inland River." the other people who wrote to Faye Wong could not sing either, such as "fleeting years" and "opening to the Riverside", and so on and so on. Huang Weiwen's style is tricky and strange, both strange and unique. Although the writing is not as exquisite as Lin's, and his play is not as good or bad, he is good at drilling into unknown gaps in emotions and emotions, often with unconventional metaphors. There are too many examples, as evidenced by many of Eason Chan's well-known songs, such as "grandiose", "Best bad friend", "ambush on all sides", "when the grapes are ripe" and so on. However, Lin's lyrics are exquisite, Huang's lyrics are beautiful, and they are still some distance from reality.
as for the lyrics of Taiwan's native music, we need to start from the era of folk songs. In the middle and late 1970s, one of the great innovations of Yang Xian, the representative of the modern Chinese folk song movement, was to sing the poem directly on the music, which was known as "the wedding of poetry and song". For example, he borrowed Yu Guangzhong's "homesickness" and "homesickness four rhymes". As positioning is a song sung by intellectuals to intellectuals, so spring snow, the most elegant, but also failed to become popular, relatively short-lived. Almost at the same time, the Tamkang-Xia Chao route was carried out vigorously with the left-wing social movement, including many original boutiques, such as Li Shuangze's "Beauty Island" and "Young China". I have a strong preference for "Pacific Wind" by Hu Dev (Hu's identity is more complicated, so let him be included in this route for the time being). For example:
Naked naked, born cloak, the vitality of oil
Who doesn’t want to look better in her favorite white semi formal dresses? Our newest arrivals are waiting for you!
has blown through the cheeks of many people. Just blowing by
the wind in the Pacific has been blowing
the earliest sense of the world
because of the political nature of the movement, the songs in the Tamkang-"Summer Chao" route have a relatively obvious nationalist orientation, including various reflections on Taiwan society. In the 1980s, campus folk songs dominated the world, coupled with the prevalence of singing competitions and the rise of the record industry, although the lyrics were fresh or heroic, they could not help but have them. More market-oriented, typing is also more serious. Fortunately, there are still some refined songs, singers, and creators who have stayed in Taiwan's music history, one of which is, of course, Li Tsung-sheng.
Li Zongsheng's lyrics belong to a simple and casual style, sometimes quite delicate and subtle, highly summarizing all kinds of chaotic emotions in the emotional process, condensing and accuracy at the same time, so the songs written to female singers are particularly successful. On this point, Chen Shu-Hua's "waking up time", Zhang Aijia's "the Price of Love", Xin Xiaoqi's "understanding", Karen Mok's "cloudy Day", and Lin Yilan's chorus "when Love is a thing of the past", you can feel it deeply. At the same time, he is also good at expressing playful helplessness, which is generally written for middle-aged and old men, including himself, from "Loneliness" and "ecstasy" in his 30s to "songs for himself" and "Hills" in his uncle's age. You can feel it as soon as you listen to it. However, although Li's lyrics are simple and frank, they are not poetic enough. If you want to give an example, then pick the "mortal Song":
you and I are both mortals, born in the world
, living in the world
all the time
since
is not an immortal, there are inevitably miscellaneous thoughts
morality
put in the middle
how many men, in one anger, the beauty
how many forest birds have been composed of flying swallow
how many forest birds have been composed of flying swallow To whom to complain
the campus of the mainland in the 1990s also rolled up the atmosphere of campus folk songs. At that time, everyone on the campus was very literary and artistic, and everyone recited poems, listened to songs, and played the guitar, so the poems with a strong youthful flavor walked into a section of fresh music one after another. Gao Xiaosong is one of the best among them. "Model Love Letters" and "Love the Wind and Dust" have made generations of college students feel excited and feel lost, crushing their handkerchiefs and wearing bald cushions. Zhang Huisheng adapted Haizi's September, which was later recorded by Zhou Yunpeng in his album, in which the desolate and broad artistic conception is another representative of the ethos of that era. It is worth mentioning that in recent years, Zhou Yunpeng's "cattle and Sheep Down from the Mountain" composed ancient poems, especially Guan Shanyue and du Fu's three chapters. Because Zhou has a career in writing poetry, the quality of the lyrics has always been good. For example, "Love that can not speak" and "the breath of Silence as enigma", the words alone are not bad poems. Some of the lyrics of folk singers and rock bands in the new century are also exquisite. Take Baishui, a folk singer in southern Sichuan, as an example, the song is called "South of the South", which has a lot of flavors:
under the shade of green, on the night sea, the border town is sprinkled with moonlight
small boats shake, children make trouble, poets sing
several times Rain Water, how many dreams, how much mourning, how many whispers
by the sea, by the West Lake, by the bridge. South or South-South
South, where is the return time /return?
others, such as Liu er, Li Zhi, Ma Tiao, Hang Tian, Wan Qing, Shengshou, and so on, have also come up with some good words. But sometimes it is hard to avoid affectation or moaning without illness, which is also a loss of simplicity.
it is very subjective to talk about whether the lyrics are simple or whether they are poems. If you want me to say, it must be Luo Dayou who can best bear the four words of simple poetry. Roche has a large number of excellent works with very different styles, in addition to several works of social criticism and political satire (such as "Deer Port Town", "the same", "Comrade Love", "the impression of my hometown", "phenomenon 72 changes", "Orphan of Asia", "the Master of the Future", there are a large number of simple and beautiful love songs and love songs. Roche has also borrowed off-the-shelf poems by others to sing Zheng Chouyu's "mistakes", Yu Guangzhong's "homesickness four Rhymes" and Xu Zhimo's translated "songs". It can better reflect its ingenious balance between elegance and popularity: there are not only lively "boat song" and "journey", but also affectionate "whether" and "little sister". There are not only the magnificent "Dongfeng" and "about to drink", but also the lost "Shepherd Boy" and "Love Song 1990"; both the tranquil and gentle "Pearl of the Orient" and "my hand passing through your black hair". There is also bitter hatred of "Red Dust" and "Wild Lily also has Spring". Roche's most commendable place is the direct combination of moderate literary flavor and moderate frankness. On the one hand, he uses words and phrases neatly, and on the other hand, he is sincere and never tickles. If you give an example, you need to go back to the "Maxim of Love" at the beginning of this article:
I have paid my heart to you, I have left my sadness to myself
I have paid my youth to you, my years to myself
I have paid my life to you, I have left my loneliness to myself
I have paid you my spring, and I have left winter to myself
Love is something that no one can understand. Love is an eternal melody
Love is a process of laughter and tears. Love used to be me and you
I paid you spring, and I left winter to myself
I left your back to myself, but I gave myself
not a word I don't know, and not a strange word. It sounds nostalgic, even a little old-fashioned, but simple and touching. If you want to define simple poetry, it is probably this kind of taste, the emotional place does not correct knead, the sad place does not die, simple but not vulgar, poetic but does not pretend to force, so but also does not lose.