Chapter 290 0289: Sweeping the Hip-Hop Circle

Hip-Hop is the most popular street dance music. It originated from the street culture of the United States in the 1970s and quickly spread to the world, becoming a mainstream pop music type with international influence.

In today's pop music scene, hip-hop and rap have basically merged into one, and can be regarded as inseparable brothers.

On Earth, Jay Chou used a song "Nunchucks" at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2009 to let the people of the country know and understand that new type of music.

After that, rap and hip-hop soon became the mainstream music types in the Chinese music scene, especially popular among young people.

Blue Star is in a similar situation, except that the people and time points have changed.

As a representative of the new generation of hip-hop singers, Xu Chenyi relies on his own strength and capital operation.

At first, he also wrote hip-hop songs. After signing with Penguin Entertainment, he rarely wrote songs himself because he had a gold medalist like Fang Wushui. When he came to Huafeng Media, he had a great person like Jiang Ge, so he didn't have to write songs himself.

Although he didn't write songs anymore, his love for singing and his identity as a hip-hop singer didn't change.

Xu Chenyi has been acting for two years since he came to Huafeng Media. Even if he had songs to sing, they were pop songs instead of hip-hop songs.

Therefore, his influence and status in the hip-hop circle have been declining.

When he saw that the three songs Jiang Ge sent were hip-hop songs, his joy was beyond words, and he almost jumped up and cheered.

"Calm down, calm down!"

Xu Chenyi took a deep breath, trying to calm down his excitement.

You know, it's a different time now. After Jiang Ge won ten awards at the Golden Melody Awards and made history, the songs and scripts he wrote are hard to come by, but getting a song is a very rare thing, not to mention the songs that suit his taste, and more than three.

His heart beat for a while, and then gradually calmed down, focusing on the song information.

"In the Name of the Father"...

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"Reverse the Earth"...

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"General's Order"...

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Xu Chenyi quickly scanned several times. The lyrics of the three songs are very different. As for the melody, it is not possible to feel it from the simple score for the time being. Fortunately, the WeChat message comes with the audio of the accompaniment.

So, he opened the attachment and listened to them one by one.

The melody is super nice and the musicality is very high. That was his first impression.

Xu Chenyi's evaluation of a song is mainly divided into two aspects, namely "good listening degree" and "musicality". The former is equal to marketability, and the latter is equal to artistry.

The degree of pleasantness is determined by each person's subjective judgment based on different understandings and preferences, and there is no conclusion supported by certain music theory.

Commenting on the level of musicality does require a certain foundation in music theory. Even if you don't know how to express how to judge the level of music, you should at least say what is good about it.

To put it simply, a good song is not necessarily a song with rich musicality, and vice versa, a song with rich musicality is definitely a good song.

Xu Chenyi combined the lyrics and melody to taste the three songs repeatedly, and his facial expressions changed from surprise to great shock. The song "In the Name of the Father" is amazing.

Generally speaking, the main rap part of hip-hop songs is not without melody, and the rap out of it has rhythm, while the main rap part of that song not only has melody throughout, but also integrates polyphony and bel canto.

Especially the one and a half minute long chorus, which starts with saxophone, bass, and guitar, then slowly joins the drums, and then enters the main song, advancing layer by layer without repetition, making the whole song sound more textured.

It is certain that this song was premiered simultaneously on more than 50 radio stations in Asia that year, and a total of 800 million people listened to it, so July 16th of each year is designated as "Jay Chou Month".

"The melody of this song is as exquisite as a work of nature. What kind of hip-hop songs did he sing before!"

Xu Chenyi was excited again, and he was already lying on the sofa and dancing.

In fact, in that impetuous era, the output of singers and songs was very high, but many of them could not go out of the circle, and the popularity was very limited. It was very rare for a singer to have a song that could be recognized by everyone, which also reflected what many young singers in the Chinese music scene were eager to achieve.

He has always hoped that there would be a hip-hop song that would remind people of his name when the song title is mentioned. Now there is one, that is "In the Name of the Father".

Of course, the other two songs, "Reverse the Earth" and "General's Order", have their own characteristics and are catchy and good to listen to, but they are not as good as before.

As soon as Xu Chenyi calmed down, he shared the news with Guan Yansi: "The three songs that Mr. Jiang gave him, please sweep the hip-hop circle."

Guan Yansi was waiting in the airport waiting room. After seeing the news, she replied: "I got what I wanted. Then sing well and don't let Mr. Jiang down."

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Early the next morning.

Jiang Ge entered the office and was surprised to see Xu Chenyi inside. He asked, "Why am I here?"

Then, seeing that he had two panda eyes, he asked, "Have you been singing all morning?"

Xu Chenyi scratched his head and said, "I've been practicing since I got the song."

Jiang Ge walked to the sofa opposite him and said, "Then have a good rest. If you have anything, just tell him on WeChat. You don't have to come to the company specially."

"Thank you for your concern, Mr. Jiang. Actually, he is fine. He is in good spirits. He often plays games with Lin Yu all night during holidays." Xu Chenyi smiled and said, "After a morning of research, "Reverse Earth" and "General's Order" are basically fine, but I can't sing "In the Name of the Father" well."

He scratched his head again and said, "So, I came to ask you for advice."

Jiang Ge smiled and said, "Is that song more difficult to sing?"

Just kidding, "In the Name of the Father" is known as one of Jay Chou's three most difficult songs to sing, the other two are "Ninja" and "Sorrow of Ending the War".

Xu Chenyi smiled bitterly and said, "It's not easy to find the rhythm."

That's true.

Although the style of "In the Name of the Father" is particularly memorable and "heady", it is difficult to find the right rhythm for those rap lyrics, the pronunciation is fast, and the lyrics are dense.

There is a reason why it is difficult to sing. Jay Chou's songs are sung in a special way and with a special rhyme scheme. For example, "The End of War" has triplets, quadruplets, and three consecutive sextuples. The concept is to sing twenty words in less than three seconds.

Jiang Ge stood up and said, "Let's go to the studio and sing it for him to see where my problem lies."