All ballads have stories, and so do the people who listen to them "Jim's Restaurant"

Each song by Zhao Lei is a narrated story, not delicate or artificial, and there are not too many flashy embellishments in the narrative. It just slowly exaggerates your feelings sentence by sentence. Wait until After telling a story, you will feel so lost that you can't help but repeat it over and over again. It has been three years since the first album "Zhao Xiaolei" was released in the summer of 2011 to the official release of the second album "Jim's Restaurant" yesterday. New elements are also added to the new songs, and more sounds from life are incorporated into the music. If you think about it carefully, you can better understand his living environment and mood. In addition to the sadness that has always enveloped him emotionally, he also showed some The relief and ease that hope brings. Three years of accumulation, changes in life and state of mind have worn away some of his arrogance, and added some aura to him that I can't put into words.

Zhao Lei wrote in his diary

October 2011,

Those autumn nights after that!

I always have a habit of sitting in the halal restaurant in the alley next door after coming out of the studio, ordering a few kebabs and drinking a bottle of beer. After eating, I ride a scooter alone and go home without any restraint. sleep.

Because I miss my mother so much, I always feel a terrible loneliness. Whenever it gets dark and everything becomes quiet, scenes from the past will appear before our eyes.

The desolation brought to me by the autumn night cannot be covered by any noise. Business in the restaurant is very good, and the boss, waiters, and I are all familiar with each other, just like I am familiar and sensitive to autumn. Suddenly I felt that this restaurant was like my home. It was preparing dinner for me like a family member. The ga boy waiter always smiled at me. Following this sudden strange idea, I jumped out. I sat on the chair next to me and looked at the man who was crying while holding a wine glass. I didn't know what to say to him. I could understand his sadness, but I couldn't help him. He sings a song a cappella. I gave myself a new name, which was derived from my mother's name. "Mir"! This name binds me to my mother. However, I hate this name very much. It reminds me and urges me to get out of that paradise of time. I also gave this restaurant a new name "Jimu Restaurant". Because you have to pay to eat here, "Jimu" became "Jim".

All restaurants are Jim’s Restaurants. It is another home-like environment evolved from "home", hidden in the heart. Many people sit and dine in Jim's restaurant every day, but do you miss the past like I do and miss the old friends who accompanied us through this journey?

I don’t know what my future destiny will be, but I will keep Jim’s Restaurant in my heart and keep going like my mother told me.

Zhao Lei

June 24, 2014

When I learned that Lei Zi’s second album was named “Jim’s Restaurant”, I really couldn’t I understand his intention, but the song "Jim's Restaurant" gave me the most straightforward explanation. The entire album revolves around the theme of memories and nostalgia, filled with a sense of sadness and melancholy, a helplessness of wanting to grasp something but being unable to do so, and also revealing the emotion of wanting to get out of the past and looking forward to the future. There is a "Jim's Restaurant" in everyone's heart. Lei Zi should use this song to hope that he and each of us can come out of the haze of the past and start a new life.

Zhao Lei is not popular, and God cannot tolerate it!

Jiayi Kari————March 26, 2017————Note