Lyrics time for sleepless nights

I wonder if it is because of the age of anxiety that I have often suffered from insomnia recently. Strangely, I often want to read more books and watch more movies on weekdays, but I feel like I don't want to see anything when I have insomnia. I closed my eyes, and the long night that I couldn't sleep seemed particularly long. Have a lot of "extra" time, but it is painful.

I have to listen to music. People become sensitive in the middle of the night, and many songs sound the same color as during the day. Listening to music during the daycares about the melody, while in the dead of night pays more attention to the lyrics. I like the good sister band's "you fly to the other side of the city". After listening to this song for several years, late at night, I noticed a dialogue at the beginning of the song, a voice that was a little low, a little gentle, and a little elegant: "you fly to the other side of the city, you fly so far, over the gray horizon, over the day and night." After checking, the owner of this voice is Yao Qian.

Yao Qian, a deja vu name. Taking a closer look at his list of works, I found that it is not as simple as "deja vu". It is more appropriate to say "grow up with me". Yao Qian, a songwriter, and producer of Chinese pop songs have won the Hong Kong Academy Award for best original film song and Taiwan Golden Horse Award for best film interlude. Lyrics include Faye Wong's "I do", Tsai Jianya's "Stranger", "No doubt", Coco Lee's "Di Da Di", Liu Ruoying's "so you are here", Karen Mok's Radio Love Song "Love", Qu Wanting's "Love Courage", Wang Xinling's "Heaven of Love", Xiao Yaxuan's "most familiar Stranger", Xin Xiaoqi's "Taste", Xu Huaiyu's "Crystal". There is also the song "Lu Binghua" which I want to cry every time I listen to it since I was a child.

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only then did I know that so many of my favorite lyrics were written by the same person. This kind of surprise, like the joy of suddenly digging up a treasure, wakes up with hindsight. Therefore, when I saw that Douban time launched the "Yao Qian ci Writing course", he did not hesitate to go underground. I am unexpectedly unwilling to listen to Douban time during the day, but choose to leave it for one sleepless night after another.

Yao Qian first reads the lyrics of each song, then listens to the songs without lyrics, and finally listens to the teacher Yao Qian's Taiwanese accent, analyzes the composition of those who are familiar with the lyrics, and introduces the gossip and background of his creation. Yao Qian's voice coincided with the quiet summer night, so the restless night of insomnia suddenly became gentle and full.

then I know that "I Love Shagar" is work with songs before lyrics. After getting the lyrics, Jiang Meiqi was told by Yao Qian "do you know Shakal?" And secretly crying-she was not familiar with Chagall at that time and was worried that she could not perform the song well. Later, Yao Qian gave Jiang Meiqi a Xia Karl painting for this purpose, and then there was a perfect interpretation of this song. After listening to this story, my impression of Jiang Meiqi changed. It turns out that there is so much serious support behind a song, far from being as simple as the libretto.

then I learned that the new song "ordinary Mail" by the good Sister band comes first with words and then songs, and this word comes from Yao Qian's feelings about daily life. When writing a letter became a memorable thing, Yao Qian found the possibility of turning the letter into lyrics. With my eyes closed, I listened to Yao Qian talk about his loneliness and thinking when writing lyrics, and listened to Qin Hao about his experience of composing music for these "unconventional" lyrics with Zhang Xiaohou. It seems that I experienced the birth of the song bit by bit, and when I listened to it again, I felt that the whole song was much kinder.

then know the era background of Chinese pop music when Li Zongsheng's "the Spirit of Life" was born, know the relationship between the rhyme ups and downs of the lyrics and the word structure needed for the melody, and know-how such a song, which never mentioned the word "love" from beginning to end, expresses sincere, vague but strong feelings between the lines, and how to use reduplicated sentences in vernacular lyrics with unique splendor.

then I know that the lyrics of Xiao Yaxuan's Weather outside the window come from Taipei's summer weather, and even the album will be released in summer is taken into account when writing lyrics. Understand why Tagore's verses are used in the lyrics, understand how to interpret sadness by describing struggle and helplessness, and how to use melodic structure to break down the story.

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in addition to explaining the lyrics, Yao Qian also recommends some extended reading. He talked about the love and homesickness of the painter Chakar, the characteristics of the school of obscure poetry, and read "Autumn" by the German poet Rilke. What I heard was not only a lesson in writing words but also the precipitation of Yao Qian's taste over the years. Finally, I know that such an excellent lyricist, what he reads, sees, and thinks on weekdays, he is so far away from me and so close. Like a teacher, but also like an old friend, drive away the anxiety and irritability caused by insomnia, and take me into the parallel time related to the lyrics.

I still hate insomnia, but I am no longer afraid of insomnia.