This song tells the story of a man and a woman’s dark wedding day. The man and the woman grew up together as their childhood sweethearts and made a marriage contract. The man went to Beijing to take the exam and promised to come back and marry the woman after he became successful. But the woman was defiled by Li Ergou from the same village and committed suicide with hatred. After the man became an official and returned to his hometown, he insisted on marrying the woman.
The starting point is around the word "contradiction". The "contradictory" national musical instruments and electronic synthesizers; the "contradictory" pentatonic scale and piano off-key; the "contradictory" realistic character description and the violation of the traditional "facial makeup" character definition.
The song creation background of "囍":
The popular music style collides with the realistic expression techniques in the lyrics, and folk music such as suona, erhu, and pipa are integrated, supplemented by Shanghainese dialect , drama, monologue. Ge Dongqi breaks the usual style pattern and has various elements, bringing a refreshing feeling to the audience.
The song uses a realistic expression technique, which is neither lyrical nor emotional. It only explains a "happy event" from an objective and specific perspective. The "official", "bride" and "Wang Ergou" in the song are like the "contradictory" fusion of various elements in the music style. This is also a story full of "contradictions".