Wu Qingfeng stepped onto the stage of the new season of "Singer" and participated in this competition, which was not well received. As a fan, on the one hand, of course, he was afraid that he would not be able to cope with such a complicated variety show. Given the environment, if he doesn't perform well, such a gentle person will blame himself for not letting his fans see him shine. On the other hand, I really hope that he will be heard and loved by more people, even if he is a treasure that I want to keep in my own hands.
I listened to Soda Green just after they released their last album "Winter Is Not Over". They have too many songs that are hidden gems in the Chinese music scene. They are so good but not many people know them. Or just after hearing "Little Love Song", they arbitrarily label soda green as "little fresh". In fact, in terms of music style alone, Sodagreen has tried many different styles and done them well. The "Swallow's Nest" in the first issue of "Singer" must still be fresh in everyone's memory, just like a swallow can't control its own efforts. , the creator's work no longer belongs to him the moment it is completed, and every audience gives it new meaning. This is a kind of re-creation. As for his singing skills, it goes without saying. Qingfeng's unique voice and wide range, as well as his gentle and delicate emotions, all give him the talent to integrate with the songs. He is great when singing his own songs or covering them.
So the song "Unfinished" that I will be singing in this issue, in 2015, Qingfeng said that this was his personal favorite among the songs he had written so far. To be honest, this is the song that has helped me the most, so because of its special meaning to me, I want to write this text, tentatively called an "introduction", to briefly introduce this song. I hope you will all like "The Future" ", I like every Soda Green song, and I also like Wu Qingfeng.
First of all, there are the lyrics, which are only a few paragraphs:
Antonio Vivaldi, the father of the ancient concerto in the early 18th century, used music to present text and wrote the Violin Concerto of the Four Seasons . Inspired by this, Soda Green launched Project Vivaldi in 2007, and officially launched it in 2009 with "Spring Sunlight", with the theme of "One Season, One Concept", four seasons, four cities, using Four moods make four albums. From the sunshine folk songs in Taitung, to the crazy rock and roll in London, to the story poetry in Beijing, and ending with the unfinished symphony in Berlin, there are 64 songs in one song, and a lot of hard work has been put into each song. After the release of "The End of Winter", Soda Green said that he had used all his special skills and decided to take a break from the group for three years to continue recharging in order to make better music.
As the final chapter of the Vivaldi Project, "Winter is Not Ended" follows the previous three albums and also writes a main god. In the lyrics of "Unfinished", "He takes a nap and he orgies/she teaches the earth to glean/and you rely on you to stagger/support your own reincarnation", which describes the first three main gods, namely Pan, the napping shepherd god in "Sunlight", and "Fanatical". The carnival-god Dionysus in "The Story" and the gleaning god Demeter in "The Story". Different from these three, the stumbling man in "The End" is not one of the gods, but a human being, a human being who angered the gods and was punished. His name is Sisyphus (translated as Xue Sifus in Taiwan, China) .
It is recorded in "Homer's Epic" that Sisyphus is the wisest and most prudent among those who will eventually die. He is the founder and king of the city of Corinth. Zeus abducted Igina, the daughter of the river god Aesops. The river god went to Corinth to look for his daughter. In order to bring a stable water source to the city of Corinth, Sisyphus asked the river god to give him a big river that could flow all year round. He told the river god the whereabouts of his daughter. Sisyphus therefore offended Zeus, who sent the God of Death to take Sisyphus to hell. However, the God of Death was kidnapped by Sisyphus until Death was rescued by the God of War and Sisyphus was also thrown into the underworld. Before entering the underworld, Sisyphus told his wife not to bury his body. After arriving in the underworld, Sisyphus told Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, that an unburied person was not qualified to stay in the underworld, and asked for three days to return to the human world to deal with his funeral affairs. After being allowed to return to the human world, when he once again saw the face of the earth, re-experienced the caress of flowing water and sunshine, and re-touched the fiery stones and the wide sea, he never wanted to return to the gloomy underground. Gone into the world. Pluto's edicts, anger, and warnings were of no avail. He lived on the earth for many more years, facing the undulating mountains, the rushing sea and the smile of the earth. The gods then intervened, and Hermes tore him out of his joyful life and forcibly plunged him back into the underworld. Sisyphus was sentenced to Hell, where there was a steep mountain. Every day he had to push a heavy boulder to the top of the mountain, then take a step out to the edge, and then watch it roll to the bottom of the mountain. Sisyphus would repeat this meaningless action forever and without any hope. His only option was the boulder and the steep mountain—the gods considered no more severe punishment than to engage in such futile and hopeless labor.
Sisyphus is a tragic character who defied the gods and was punished. In French proverbs, the "Myth of Sisyphus" represents "the eternal hopeless and useless condition of life", but I don't Looking at Sisyphus as a tragic hero, it is more appropriate to call him an "absurd hero" to borrow Mr. Albert Camus's expression.
Compared with the gods who fought with each other because of their own selfish desires, Sisyphus was a man who knew what he was doing, and it was for this reason that he chose to rebel against the gods and was punished. Interestingly, the fate that the gods sentenced him to was a heavy boulder, but the boulder was in his own hands. Sisyphus, who chose to accept the punishment calmly, easily took over his destiny from the hands of the gods. Sisyphus Si Mo's joy lies entirely in this. His destiny belongs to him. When he contemplates his troubles, he has blocked the mouths of the gods. Mr. Camus believed that Sisyphus was happy: "I let Sisyphus stay under the mountain so that the world can always see his load! However, Sisyphus taught with the supreme loyalty of denying the gods and lifting the rock. He also judged that everything was good. He felt that this world without a savior was neither barren nor insignificant. The struggle to climb to the top of the mountain is enough to enrich one's heart."
Sisyphus is not an individual image, it represents all kinds of things. He is an ordinary person, and the punishment he receives is just like the futile and hopeless life that humans experience day after day. Everyone can see the end of this absurd life, but they don’t know what the world will be like after the end, which triggers Great fear, scrambling to make life meaningful while alive. The reason why I say Sisyphus is not a tragic hero is because his choice is not negative and sad, but has great courage. He truly loved his life, so he did not hesitate to reveal the ulterior secrets of the God King in order to be moistened by water. He was willing to humiliate Pluto in order to have life. After being judged by the gods and punished by pushing a rock up a mountain, he calmly chose to accept it. . Every step he took while pushing the boulder up the mountain belonged to him. In this repetitive and absurd labor, he felt the meaning of existence itself. This was his real life. Compared with the hypocritical gods, his soul was more precious. Much more noble!
Regarding the myth of Sisyphus, there is another version of the ending: Sisyphus gradually stopped feeling that it was punishment among the repeated punishments, and began to appreciate himself from such repeated actions. The gesture of every step when pushing the boulder and the beauty shown in every angle. When he knew how to appreciate himself in this way, the curse of the boulder suddenly disappeared, and Sisyphus returned to the world and continued to have the life he enjoyed. He finally defeated the gods.
The lyrics also mention the myth of Prometheus. He was tied to a cliff by Zeus with chains for stealing fire from heaven and spreading it to the world. During the day, he sent vultures to eat his liver, and at night he returned to the mountain. Growing up, day after day, week after week, his and Sisyphus's souls responded to each other, each enduring endless suffering, but never felt lonely at all.
It is difficult to say that such a story is a pure tragedy, because what I see in it is the great courage to face life calmly; life has added suffering and torture to me, and the more I escape, the more miserable life becomes. I feel successful; when I choose to accept it bravely, suffering is no longer suffering, but a part of my real life, and no one can judge my soul anymore. The reason why I say that this song "Unfinished" has helped me the most is because of this. I have the courage to accept all absurd worlds, and I can also face the life I don't like calmly. Every time After the pain, he can grow a new liver and continue to be eaten, and he can stand at the foot of the mountain to rest for a while and continue pushing the boulder up the mountain.
I hope you can all find the meaning of existence itself, and I hope you all like Wu Qingfeng!
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1. Recommend "The Myth of Sisyphus" and "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, a collection of essays and a novel.
2. Recommend Soda Green’s four spring, summer, autumn and winter albums and every song in every previous album. There are many unique features in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Each of the four albums is a complete story, and together they form an interconnected whole. Here are some examples to prove it:
-The four albums "Spring Sunlight", "Summer/Fever", "Autumn: Stories" and "Winter Is Not Over" respectively describe four characters from Greek mythology. The corresponding main gods are: Pan, the god of wine, Dionysus, the god of wine, Demeter, the god of grains, and Sisyphus.
-The punctuation "·" (movement symbol) of "Spring Sunlight" corresponds to the soundtrack in the album;
The "/" (poetry symbol) of "Summer/Fever" corresponds to the album English Poetry in "Autumn: Story";
The ":" (oral colon) in "Autumn: Story" corresponds to the Interlude dialogue in the album;
The "" in "Winter Is Not Over" (space) corresponds to the Silent Track in the album.
- "Every Stop" from "Spring Sunlight", "He Summered Summer" from "Summer Fever", "Little Star" from "Autumn: Stories", and "Winter" In "Must Keep Singing" in "Unfinished", *** used the same melody, "321765". Qingfeng said that the melody of this section was before the start of the "Vevadi Project", his cat accidentally sang in his A string of notes played on the piano.
-The album title of "Summer/Frenzy" comes from the sentence "Floating in the Fever" in "Sunlight" in Spring;
The album title of "Autumn: Story" comes from Summer The sentence "Childhood stories are held in sweaty dirty palms" in "Fanatical";
The album title of "Winter is Not Over" comes from "This endless story is not over yet" in "Story" in Mid-Autumn One sentence;
The album title of "Spring Daylight" comes from the sentence "Daylight and Night Cycle" in "The End" in the middle of winter
- Every song in the album "Autumn: Story" The beginning and end words of the song are very realistic. The last word of the previous song is the same as the first word of the next song. Moreover, the first and last words of each song are connected to a poem: "I spread my sorrow in my heart, you All I can see is the autumn before me.”
3. The lyrics of "Unfinished" handwritten by Qingfeng: