Appreciation of Lyrics of Joker Xue's "Animal World"

On March 29, Xue Zhiqian released the second single of the new album "Animal World", plus the first song "Noble", the changes in singing and music are also confirmed. Xue Baobao plans to make a big splash in his new album. Judging from Joker Xue's seriousness and devotion to music, there really shouldn't be a comedy voiceover here. We should examine and evaluate his new songs with a serious eye.

Animal World

Joker Xue

Poke here and there

Animals do not necessarily need fangs

To show love The method is polite or I don't care

To swallow the lover in one gulp

And to appear gentle and elegant

The mantis shows off the old scars in grievance

I was startled during courtship

Because I was afraid of hanging upside down

I gave up my tail when I was desperate

If I couldn’t assimilate it, I would parasitize it.

The worst is to rot together

Trying to evolve and laugh at the animal world is too fake

The ancestors have worn off their claws

There must be more to love and kill each other A good way

Compare who can kneel down first

No longer evolve. In the animal world, everyone is too stupid

Show love to the point of exaggeration

Once you get it, you should throw it away

There is no time to paint over human nature

Therefore, people always suffer from loneliness and widowhood

The elk originally made an appointment under the tree

We agreed to wander around the world together

We tied the bell and were still struggling in that direction

If there was a jackal, he put on the wedding dress bravely

His companion laughed at him for reading Fairy tale

Stop evolving and don’t make the animal world too fake

We should show our claws

Fall in love and kill each other, stop thinking of better ways

< p> The survival of the fittest licks its scars

Pretending to evolve and desperately trying to be different from animals

Playing to be noble and elegant

Under people's rotten desires

It’s too late to wipe out the animal nature

Forget it, too lazy to struggle

Humans use sand to create the Tower of Babel in their dreams

No matter the cost for greed

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Driving an expensive Trojan horse

Laying nests one upon another

In the end, I was naked

Don’t be afraid that we are all alone

< p> When he published this song on Weibo, the number of retweets and likes was astonishing.

Whether it is "Noble" or "Animal World", the biggest difference between Xue Zhiqian's two new songs this time is that in terms of melody and arrangement, they no longer follow the standard configuration of mainstream pop music, but have In order to further enhance the elegant characteristics, this "elegant" characteristic is also achieved by using many classical music elements, including the strings of "Noble" and the piano accompaniment of "Animal World". In addition, this change is not just a change in arrangement, it can be said that the selection of the songs themselves also has a certain degree of classical and artistic changes. In short, it is an upgraded system compared to the previous Joker Xue.

Guess who is singing in "Animal World"?

Let's talk about the intuitive singing first.

Listening to "Animal World" for the first time, from the intro to the beginning of the vocals, many veterans of the music industry will probably have a lingering demon in their minds. That is, "Animal World" may be Eason Chan's new song, because even if this style is not unique to Eason Chan, at least it is something he has played over and over again, and it is almost branded.

In fact, when Xue Zhiqian sang this song "Animal World", whether he was conscious of it or not, at least in terms of effect, whether it was articulation or processing, there was indeed a feeling of being possessed by Eason Chan. Especially the Eason-style Mandarin pronunciation and the thicker falling voice are all similar.

But intentionally or unintentionally, this song "Animal World" has become the song with Xue Zhiqian's deepest bass, especially the transition from "I don't care about it" to "I want to be a lover" in the main song. Duan itself is obviously not within Joker Xue's controllable vocal range, but this time he at least made a good connection.

On the other hand, this time Joker Xue has no flaws in his handling of the cadence of the song. Although I am still three or four Eason Chans away from the most intangible freedom, I really can't ask for too much.

What kind of song is "Animal World"?

The reason why "Animal World" gives people the feeling of being possessed by Eason Chan is first of all due to the music composition and The use of arrangement techniques. Among Eason Chan's historical team, Chen Huiyang is good at creating this kind of classical pop sketches, and has collaborated with Eason Chan on many works such as "The King of Karaoke", "Shall We Talk" and "Lonely Tango", so this kind of This type of work has gradually become Chen Huiyang's label in the Chinese music scene. So much so that when Eason Chan sang a similar song "Tango for Three" later, many people still thought it was Chen Huiyang's work.

However, "Animal World" is not the work of Chen Huiyang, but the creation of another mainland singer-songwriter Guo Ding. Although the identity of the singer-songwriter is not known to more people, Guo Ding's solo album "Wei Wei" and "Aircraft Execution Cycle" just released last year have always been considered by many fans to be masterpieces in the Chinese music scene. However, Due to various reasons, it failed to spread on a wider scale. But in addition, Guo Ding has created a large number of works for singers such as Liu Xijun, Zhou Bichang, Zhang Zhicheng and Ye Yiqian. He and Joker Xue also have a close relationship. The previous "Have You or Not", "Fashion Season" and "Children" were all works by Guo Ding.

Guo Ding’s "Animal World" created for Joker Xue this time adopts a sonata-like musical form. The main song is almost run on a piano. After that, in addition to the introduction of strings, there are also Presto or variation forms are used to enhance the layering of the work, making it simple but not simple.

However, although the melody of the entire song is very artistic, Guo Ding’s cleverness lies in the creation of the chorus, which still retains the texture and smoothness that a pop song should have, and also makes Xue Zhiqian can finally concentrate on this part and push out the climax of the work.

Joker Xue is a studious lyricist

What Joker is most proud of about the new song is that perhaps the lyrics of "Animal World" were both written by him and written by him. He wrote it!

The title of the song "Animal World" first reminds people of the song "Wild Animals" written by Huang Weiwen for Li Ronghao. Both of them actually write about desire, but The latter focuses on love in the end, while "Animal World" finally talks about human nature in a twisted view of love.

To say that Xue Zhiqian’s lyrics can be said to be a microcosm of Xue Zhiqian’s career as a singer, he has been working hard and learning. If you don't believe it, look at Joker Xue's creations when he first debuted and compare them with the song "Animal World", and you will find that the previous Joker was probably a fake Joker, not the same person at all.

But in fact, although Xue Zhiqian's song is an upright original work, it still seems a bit jerky from a creative perspective. The first one is that the rhyme is used rather hard. The whole song uses the rhyme "a". If we use the two great writers from Hong Kong, or Yao Ruolong, Shi Rencheng and other Taiwanese poets as the standard, we will find that Xue Zhiqian's rhyme is, It's really too thorough, so there are some phonological changes missing.

As for the combination of words, Xue Zhiqian was obviously influenced by two great works in Hong Kong. He used rhymes and endings to combine words, and used magical cross-border phrases such as a jackal putting on a wedding dress to create an astonishing Visual contrast effect. Of course, compared to the creations of everyone in the word circle, Xue Zhiqian's expression in this song "Animal World" still lacks a little cleverness and aura. It is also his rhyme that is very hard and hard, but it seems harder. , so that when it comes to criticizing human nature, the firepower is somewhat lost.

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