Chapter 415 From Tonight
The applause was like thunder, resounding throughout the No. 1 studio hall.
The song "Once Upon a Time" may not be the kind of song that will be evaluated as pleasant to sing in the eyes of the general public, and it will not become a popular on-demand song in KTV. It is already doomed that it will not be that kind of extremely popular work.
However, for music, the so-called degree of popularity is only a measure of its universal value, especially its popularity and commerciality. As opposed to the degree of popularity, there is another concept called degree of popularity—— There are some works, due to various reasons, such as the singer is not popular, such as the style of niche and alternative, etc., it has not become a hit song to some extent, but there are always some people who have heard it and like it very much Yes, so those who like it will be very happy to promote and publicize it to their friends around them.
Because these songs are often sung into people's hearts.
What falls in the ears and hums in the mouth will eventually fade away and go away with the passage of time, but what is sung into the heart will become more and more shining with the passage of time.
As a result, the former was eliminated, but the latter gradually settled down and became a classic in the minds of a generation.
"Once Upon a Time You" belongs to the latter.
It is not that there is no gene to become popular, and it is not that it cannot be popular, because in essence, it should be regarded as a folk rock song, and folk songs are a kind of music that belongs to China alone, and it is also a great love of the Chinese people, so , In fact, this song has a kind of temperament that pleases the people of the country, but...it is too simple and plain.
But the situation and the situation are not the same.
If this song is sung by another person, even if he sings better than Li Qian, the fate of this song is very likely to rise little by little in dormancy, from a relatively young age. More word-of-mouth began to accumulate, and gradually spread the influence, taking a typical path of niche works becoming classics.
But now, the person who sang this song is Li Qian, and the stage where it meets the audience for the first time is the Spring Festival Gala.
The person is popular enough, the attention is high enough, the song is good enough, the popularity is excellent, the popularity of singing is also of a certain level, the stage is big enough, and the audience is large enough.
If three out of ten listeners think such a work is good, and only one person will fall in love with it as soon as they hear it, then now, through the Spring Festival Gala, through Li Qian's singing, now , this song was pushed to one billion viewers at once!
Don't say one out of ten, even if only one percent of the audience will like this song after listening to it, it is enough to make this song an absolute hit in the coming year!
And now, apparently, it has conquered and won its fair share of fan love!
The applause didn't stop.
The Spring Festival Gala needs applause, but due to the length of the program, the arrangement is very tight and coherent. Therefore, no matter how enthusiastic the applause is, it must not last for too long. The director team has told me many times about this in advance.
So, amidst the applause, Li Qian nodded his head slowly, "Thank you, thank you, thank you all!"
At this time, the rest of the band also bowed to thank the audience.
After the applause finally subsided, Li Qian said again: "Then, the next song, "Flying Higher", is for everyone. I wish you all the best in the new year."
Li Qian's voice fell, and soon, music began to sound.
At this moment, no matter whether it is the live audience in the No. 1 studio hall of Huaxia TV Station, or the audience in front of the TV sets of thousands of households, whether they like it or not, they quickly withdraw their attention and turn their attention to that stage again. And that quiet face on the stage.
Fly Higher - Does the name sound like an inspirational song?
It seems that more or less people feel that it will be a bit out of touch with rock and roll, but who knows? After the release of the last album, everyone began to understand. Looking back on the albums that Li Qian made in recent years, everyone became even more clear: Li Qian has never been a genre author or singer. The surface is very diverse, and there are many styles that he is good at.
Therefore, no matter what style of new work he will come up with, everyone will not be so surprised.
Just like the song "Once Upon a Time", for fans who are familiar with Li Qian and the Four Great Beauties, they will tell you that this song and this style are the best in all the previous works of the leader. Nothing that has ever appeared before, obviously, this is something new!
The prelude is a bit long.
The sound of the trumpet was low, as if it was brewing and accumulating something.
Li Qian held the microphone stand with one hand, looked straight ahead with a serious face.
In the beginning, the Spring Festival Gala program group of Huaxia TV set aside eight minutes of performance time for the four beauties bands, and also allowed a one-minute fluctuation, leaving them to flexibly control according to the length of the song. The conditions can be regarded as quite loose , in the Spring Festival Gala, it is a rare treatment.
But later, Li Qian and Cao Zhan discussed re-adjusting the arrangements for the two songs and suppressing the duration of the two songs. After rehearsing several times in the company, everyone was not satisfied, so Li Qian approached the director The group, I hope to add a little more time, and give the director's group a walk through both the full version and the castrated version.
To be honest, regardless of who is the director, this is a big problem.
Before a song or a piece of work is inspected by the market, even an experienced veteran cannot be completely sure of its future. For a stage like the Spring Festival Gala, it can give the Four Great Beauties eight bands at once. Minutes, the performance time of the two songs is already under a lot of pressure. Both songs are new songs, works that have never been released on the market, and have no public reputation at all, which makes this pressure even more numerous. times, and now, if the time is extended, it will even exceed ten minutes...
You must know that the period when the Four Great Beauties are on stage is the finale stage of the whole party. If you give this a few more minutes, it means that other programs must be cut. With an ideal attraction and ratings, the success of this show will be marked with a huge discount!
For the program group, this is really too risky.
However, Li Qian insisted.
In the end, after repeated discussions on the director's team, they finally decided resolutely to take a section from a folk art show, and leave the three minutes of stage time saved to the four beauties bands.
Therefore, both songs were able to be moved to the stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the state of the recording studio.
"Once Upon a Time", it lasts about four minutes and twenty seconds.
And "Flying Higher" is even more as long as six and a half minutes!
This means that at such a high-standard and high-standard gala, the four beauties alone won eleven minutes of performance time!
But only in this way can the foreshadowing, progression, climax and reverberation of a song form a complete succession and transformation, and the power contained in the song can be truly interpreted and vented.
Rock also pays attention to brilliance and climax, and they are also very important, but rock is never presented with a few highly sung B-segments. Compared with POP pop songs, it pays more attention to songs The overall sense formed by the unique structure - only when there is a mat, the taste can come out!
However, even in rock works, the prelude of this song is relatively long. The prelude alone is more than 50 seconds long. The time allocation has always been extremely tight, and the Spring Festival Gala is almost counted in seconds. In terms of performance, this is already equivalent to the total length of performances that an ordinary singer can get!
However, such a long prelude is not for nothing.
The low-pitched trumpet is always ups and downs in the dark pressure.
Even if you are not a professional, you can still feel the dark and oppressive atmosphere. It seems that at this moment, the top of your head is covered with dark clouds, and the black clouds are overwhelming the city.
The sound of the trumpet gradually faded, and on the TV screen, Li Qian let go of the microphone and hugged the guitar tightly.
When the sound of the trumpet gradually faded away, he finally opened his voice——
"Life is like a great river,
Sometimes quiet, sometimes crazy,
Reality is like a shackle,
Bind me, unable to break free. "
The guitar follows at a leisurely pace throughout, and then, as the A1 section ends, the drums start to join in. The rhythm of the whole song gradually changed from that dark and low atmosphere to a kind of entanglement.
When people raised their heads, they seemed to be able to vaguely see that behind the dark clouds, the sun didn't seem to be really far away, but was blocked by the dark clouds——
"This enigmatic life is sharp as a knife,
Injured me again and again,
I know the kind of happiness I want,
In that higher sky. "
The sound of the drum caught the breath, and then, even louder than the last sentence, Li Qian's voice was very unrestrained——
"I want to fly higher, fly higher!"
At that moment, it seemed that there was lightning tearing apart the dark night and the dense dark clouds overhead, and there seemed to be a ray of sunlight that suddenly penetrated the clouds below and sprinkled the world!
At this moment, when you look up, your eyes are full of golden light!
At this moment, as far as your eye can see, everything is bright, and everything is shining!
In the auditorium and the audience in front of the TV, I don’t know how many people subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva at this moment, and their breathing became rapid-the previous two minutes of dark pressure, at this moment, finally Ushered in a violent catharsis!
At this moment, Li Qian's voice seemed to have golden light!
"Dance like the wind, break free from your arms!
I want to fly higher, fly higher!
The wings rolled up the storm, and the heart roared!
Fly higher……"
After singing the last line, Li Qian's voice came back again, calm and deep.
The drums are still there, the guitar is unhurried, and the bass is faintly present.
"Always flying, always looking,
But I can't find it.
If you really want it, it's a liberation,
Cut first, this web of temptation.
I want a life more brilliant,
The sky I want is bluer,
I know the kind of happiness I want,
In that higher sky. "
At this moment, the camera swept across the auditorium, just in time to capture dozens of people standing up suddenly at the same time!
That arm, raise it high!
That fist, hold it tightly!
But at this moment, everyone has no intention to wonder how such a live and "unruly" scene will appear on such a serious program as the Spring Festival Gala, because at this moment, in front of countless TVs, there are thousands of Thousands of people subconsciously clenched their fists following the rhythm and Li Qian's singing!
"I want to fly higher, fly higher!
Dance like the wind, break free from your arms!
I want to fly higher, fly higher!
The wings rolled up the storm, and the heart roared!
..."
At this moment, the sun is shining above the head, and the wilderness is boundless under the feet.
At this moment, I don't know how many people can clearly feel that everything they can perceive is slowly but constantly rising!
Under the clear sky, if you are willing to open your arms, you can have everything!
At this moment, confidence and desire are growing crazily, barbaric and brutal!
At this moment, you finally begin to believe that as long as you are willing to run towards your ideal, then you will be omnipotent!
The mood is passionate, the feelings are stirring!
Everything, the past, present, future, and even my entire life began to shine brightly!
"I want to fly higher, fly higher!
Dance like the wind, break free from your arms!
I want to fly higher, fly higher!
The wings rolled up the storm, and the heart roared!
..."
again and again.
The loudest and most powerful part of Li Qian's voice brought this climax to a very high level, full of an indescribable sense of tearing!
I don't know how many people have heard the scalp tingling!
The drums were clanging.
Cao Zhan stood next to Li Qian again, his movements were exaggerated and he looked crazy.
Although this is not a bass solo, the bass and drums have completely overwhelmed the guitar. Of course, all of this is to set off the voice that utters the strongest voice of the whole life.
I want to fly higher!
Rock music in China started in the 1970s, flourished in the 1980s, and declined in the 1990s.
In the 1970s, it was still a grassroots culture in China, and it was a niche thing for a small number of people. Even in the whole of China, only a limited number of people knew that there was such a genre of music as rock music in the world. Therefore, the Spring Festival Gala has no place for it.
In the 1980s, it was popular all over the country. The Flying Band was even the top-selling music force in China, surpassing folk songs, folk songs, and sweet songs. But at that time, rock and roll could only survive in the cassettes of young people. At that time, the entire In the value system of society, it is difficult to be elegant.
Therefore, the Spring Festival Gala continued to look down on it.
However, in the 1990s, as young fans gradually grew up, the whole society’s understanding of rock music gradually became normal, and they were willing to give it positive evaluation and recognition, but rock music no longer had its own representative power, so that Even if the Spring Festival Gala opened the door to it, it couldn't produce a qualified band or a large-scale work of sufficient standard.
Therefore, the Spring Festival Gala and rock and roll continue to be insulated.
Finally, as of today, Li Qian and the Four Great Beauties represented rock and roll for the first time, on the highest and biggest stage in China—the Spring Festival Gala!
This is the first time that rock music, a relatively small genre of music, has stood at the focus of the attention of all audiences, representing all rock music, and accepting the scrutiny, pickiness and observation of every audience.
What Li Qian has in his hands is a rock music work that he thinks is better than "Flying Higher", but from the very beginning, when he decided to accept the invitation of the Spring Festival Gala to be on stage and started recording the second album of the Four Great Beauties, He had already made up his mind - it represented the first time that rock music, which has grown savagely in China for more than 20 years, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala to be reviewed by a billion viewers. What he wanted to sing was "Flying Higher" "!
It cannot be said that it has nothing to do with the hope of becoming popular, but when Li Qian chose this song, he really did not include these things. He just wanted to present the most positive and positive part of rock music to the audience. audiences across the country.
Yes, rock music has the din of heavy metal, the hoarse shout, even the tyranny of exasperation, and the gloom of ashes, but it also has the bright sunshine that inspires people!
Life is like a big river, sometimes calm and sometimes crazy.
Such a simple and straightforward lyrics, to be honest, just talking about literary talent, it is by no means a good quality, but it is such a candid attitude that makes the whole song full of an indescribable sense of perception.
In this regard, "Flying Higher", which belongs to the category of pop rock, and "Once Upon a Time", which is closer to folk rock, have seemingly different emotional tones, but are actually connected by flesh and blood.
That is, every listener can find that living self in the song!
What they tell, miss, and look forward to are all emotions that are universal.
Therefore, "Once Upon a Time You" is so touching and sentimental, while "Flying Higher" is so exciting and high-spirited!
"Fly higher,
Fly higher,
Fly higher,
..."
In these shouts, after the whole song went through such a long, almost exhausting burst, it finally came to the end amidst the stirring emotions of all the listeners.
When the last note fell, there was thunderous applause.
The five people on the stage put away their instruments, and Liao Liao also put down his drumsticks and stood up. Then, the five people walked to the center of the stage, shoulder to shoulder, arm to arm, and bowed to the audience in unison.
The applause at the scene suddenly became more and more enthusiastic.
The whistle sounded again.
Many people got up from their seats and stood up.
At this moment, even many people who didn't have a good impression of rock music and were a little disgusted with the "turmoil" on the scene since the Four Great Beauties took the stage subconsciously stood up.
Thus, for the first time in the history of the Spring Festival Gala, nearly 80% of the audience stood and applauded.
Yes, among them, many of them have basically never heard of rock and roll before, and many of them, not only have never heard of rock and roll, they even resist and dislike this kind of music in their hearts. What's more, In many people's minds, rock music is simply equated with "men with long hair", "nonsense", "a bunch of hooligans", "smoking, drinking, fighting, taking drugs and playing with little girls".
However, I have to say that the four beauties band, which represents the music category of rock music, appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for the first time, and the two works they brought really made them have an inherent impression of rock music. Suddenly there was a huge change.
The beauty contained in the mediocrity of "Once Upon a Time You" and the exciting spiritual power of pursuing better in "Flying Higher" made them suddenly feel that rock music, or it can be said, is the four beauties bands , and their rock music, it turns out that it can also give people such a beautiful feeling, and it can also bring such positive emotions to people!
Just for this, just for the vague memory and slight sentimentality of that moment just now, just for the trembling and numbness of the scalp when I heard "I want to fly higher", there are many people who were originally interested in rock and roll. The ignorant or even disgusted audience stood up willingly at this moment and gave themselves the warmest applause.
Because, no matter how harshly you look at it, you have to admit that this kind of music, no matter what kind of music it is, is good music!
And at this moment, in thousands of households across the country, in front of thousands of televisions, listening to the thunderous applause and whistles coming from the TV, watching the camera lens passing by the captured The auditorium, where everyone stood up, and countless families suddenly became lively.
Some people are still reminiscing, still sighing, still immersed in the turbulent emotions just now and cannot extricate themselves, and because of this, their faces turn red and mutter to themselves; Shouting something to the people around him; someone couldn't help but ask, is this the Four Great Beauties? Is this Li Qian? Did you just see the title of the song? Was the song just now called "I Want to Fly Higher"?
Others grabbed their father's or mother's arm and shook desperately, "Dad, Mom, I like these two songs so much, I want to buy this album..."
On the TV, the five members of the Four Great Beauties crossed their shoulders, bowed deeply for the second time, then took two steps back, and turned to walk towards the end of the stage.
At this time, the applause is still going on, the crowd has not yet sat down, but the host has already stepped onto the stage, hoping to use a louder voice to attract the attention of the audience, "Thank you, thank you to the four beauties, thank you for all of us What a wonderful performance! Then the following..."
Outside the TV, I don't know how many people could not help but sigh at this moment.
Some people said it at the time, but some people just couldn't help but muttered in their hearts, "Why are there only two songs!"
The camera followed the backs of the five people until they finally walked off the stage and disappeared where the lights couldn't reach.
However, although their performance is over, the performance that has been completed has not disappeared.
That performance doesn't even exist in the camera. To some extent, they ended, but at the moment of the end, the real barbaric growth began.
Because since then, they have entered the hearts of many people.
From tonight, rock music has entered the hall of elegance.
From tonight, rock music, in everyone's heart, will no longer be a kind of music that means depravity.
Since tonight, the names of the four beauties bands have remained in the hearts of hundreds of millions of viewers.
Since tonight, "Once Upon a Time in You" has become the favorite of a generation.
Since tonight, "Flying Higher" has become the strongest inspirational voice in China.
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