Chapter 302 The Divine Comedy comes out
“This song "When You Get Old" is a song full of affection and warmth. I can feel that this song very delicately depicts the precipitation of time and the change of time. "Flow" is a work full of warmth. It can touch people's hearts. "
"Zhang Wei, your love songs have always touched me and moved me deeply, but I didn't expect your folk songs. , can still move me, can still move me."
"Your songs are always full of delicate emotions and sincere expressions. You are really great!"
The judges made their evaluations in turn.
According to the rules of the competition, in this round of PK, the jury will select a player with poor performance to compete with the person with the lowest number of off-site SMS votes for the final PK, while the others will directly advance to the top six.
Several judges spoke highly of Zhang Wei, and it was obviously impossible to choose Zhang Wei to enter the final PK.
As for the audience outside the venue voting by text message, Zhang Wei was not timid at all. Even if he doesn't have the highest number of votes, he certainly won't have the lowest number of votes. Original golden songs are still a bonus in the eyes of the audience.
The situation for Zhang Wei to advance directly is already very good.
The host walked onto the stage and was ready to announce the results.
"Our SMS voting window has been closed, and the results of the SMS voting by the audience outside the venue will be announced next. But before announcing the SMS voting results, we have one more thing to announce."
The host paused. He paused, as if he was trying to put it off, and then continued: "This is a very regrettable thing. The song "When You Are Old" sung by contestant No. 13 Zhang Wei in this round of PK is not in line with the song. The theme of this game was judged to be a foul. Zhang Wei’s PK in this round is invalid and will directly enter the final PK!”
“Foul?” The audience was in an uproar.
“Isn’t the theme of today’s competition about gratitude to parents? The song “When You Get Old” fits the theme very well!”
“Zhang Wei’s song is obviously written for his mother. Yes! Is there any foul? ”
At this time, another host said: "Contestant No. 13 Zhang Wei, the song "When You Are Old" just sung, the lyrics are based on the poem "When You Are Old" by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. 》, and this poem is a love poem written by William Butler Yeats to a female friend.
The theme of our competition today is gratitude to parents, adapted from a love poem. The lyrics obviously go against the theme of our competition today, so in order to ensure the fairness of the competition, after being impartial by the notary, the program team decided to determine that Zhang Wei’s PK in this round is invalid and will directly enter the final PK.”
Unknown! The viewers who came to the truth all showed expressions of realization. It turned out that this was the reason why Zhang Wei committed a foul.
However, those who had a little knowledge of music frowned. They obviously didn't buy the organizer's explanation.
Even if the lyrics are adapted from poetry, the content of the lyrics should be expressed by the creator of the lyrics, rather than what the original lyrics said.
In other words, since the lyricist has re-created the lyrics, he has given the lyrics new connotations while creating them. These are already two different works. You cannot use the original framework to define the new work.
What's more, adapting lyrics from poems and songs is also very common in the music circle, and many classics have been produced, so there is precedent to follow.
For example, Mao Ning has a classic old song called "The Sound of the Waves Are Still", which is about "Can this old ticket get on your passenger ship?" Later, it was changed to "Can I board your broken ship" in the sketch by Zhao Benshan.
This song is clearly a love song, and the lyrics of "The Sound of the Waves Are Still" are derived from "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge" by Zhang Ji, a poet from the Tang Dynasty.
The moon sets, crows cry and frost fills the sky, Jiangfeng fishing fire faces melancholy, Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou City, the midnight bell rings to the passenger ship. Have studied in compulsory education.
Can you say that because the lyrics of "The Sound of the Waves Still Sound" come from "Night Mooring on the Maple Bridge", "The Sound of the Waves Still Sounds" is a lyrical song describing the late autumn night sceneries of Jiangnan?
Obviously not! Even a fool can tell that you have to buy a ticket to get on the boat. "The Sound of the Waves Still Sound" must be a love song.
Now the program team uses the same reason to say that Zhang Wei committed a foul, which is obviously unreasonable. Even if your original poem is a love poem, can't I adapt it into a song to express gratitude to my parents?
Cao Zhi's "Seven-step Poetry", boiling beans and burning bean sprouts, I adapted it into a recipe for making pea cakes. High-end pea cakes must be cooked with clean peas, isn't it?
So the program team’s reason is just to fool laymen. In the eyes of insiders, it is simply untenable.
But in order to eliminate Zhang Wei, the program planners did not care so much. It is better to have an excuse than no excuse.
Besides, Zhang Wei has only entered the final PK, has not been eliminated, and still has one last life. If Zhang Wei is really eliminated in the end, it will be because he fell behind in the SMS voting. It is the audience's choice and has nothing to do with the program team.
The program planner was betting on the phrase "one more time, two more, no more three". He believed that Zhang Wei would not be able to come up with a third golden song with the theme of "Thanks to Parents".
"Songs with this theme are indeed difficult to write. It was only the second song just now, and he has already begun to borrow foreign poetry. This is a sign that Guizhou Donkey's skills are exhausted. I don't believe your third song The song will be a golden song!”
Thinking of this, the planner looked at one of the screens proudly, and the picture captured by this screen was none other than Zhang Wei on the stage.
At this time, Zhang Wei seemed very calm, as if he was not affected by the foul at all.
"I was also careless. I always thought that this song "When You Get Old" was a song for my mother, but I forgot that the lyrics were adapted. This time I was careless. The organizer caught a loophole!"
Zhang Wei sighed slightly, and then quickly calmed down.
The lyrics of the song "When You Are Old" are indeed adapted from the love poem of the same name by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
The Irish poet William Butler Yeats was the leader of the Irish Renaissance and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He was very influential in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.
The poem "When You Get Old" is one of his masterpieces. In early 1889, the 23-year-old Yeats met the actress Maud Gonne for the first time, and then fell in love with her at first sight and began a crazy pursuit of her.
It is a pity that the concubine has no intention of being in love with him. The goddess rejected Yeats's pursuit and married an Irish officer.
In the following decades, Yeats did not give up. He waited until the goddess's husband passed away and became a widow. Then he proposed marriage and was rejected again. In the end, the goddess didn't even bother to talk to him anymore. .
To put it simply, Yeats has been a licker all his life, asking for and getting nothing from the goddess.
This poem was born under this background, so it is indeed a love poem.
A few years later, Zhao Zhao, a musician from Beipiao, accidentally read this poem. He suddenly thought of his mother, and then he was inspired to write a song, which is "When You Get Old" .
So the original author's original intention of writing the song was indeed to write to his mother, expressing his longing for her.
In the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Karen Mok sang a cover of this song, and in the program BJ at that time, photos of the bald couple appeared, and the audience naturally thought of their parents. After all, it was the Spring Festival Gala. The main theme was a wanderer returning home and family reunion. There were photos of elderly couples, and normal people would think of their parents. Even if you lick the dog yourself, you won't think of the goddess you haven't chased.
So this song also became a song for parents and became very popular.
At this time, no one would examine the origin of the song. The poem was actually an Irish licker wooing his goddess.
Zhang Wei also naturally regarded this song as a song to express gratitude to his parents and put it on the stage.
Unexpectedly, there was a planner in the background who didn’t understand music but had good literary literacy. He had read this poem by Yeats, so when he saw the lyrics, he felt they were very familiar, so he went to look it up online. , I discovered that the source of this song is really "When You Are Old" by Yeats.
Yeats's "When You Are Old" is a love poem, which also gave the planner a reasonable excuse to engage in shady activities.
Zhang Wei actually knew very well that the organizer deliberately found a loophole to target himself. So he didn't defend himself, because he knew that the defense was invalid.
On this stage, the right to speak is still in the hands of the organizer. Even the notary invited from the notary office is on the side of the program team, and his own defense is useless.
Instead of spending time defending, it is better to adjust your mentality quickly and sing the last song well.
What's more, Zhang Wei has absolute confidence in the last song.
Zhang Wei’s last song is a work of divine comedy level.
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At the judges' table, the expressions of several judges were a little unnatural.
The organizer’s excuse is okay to fool laymen who don’t understand music, but in the eyes of professional musicians, it is really clumsy!
This is an original song, but it turns out that the content of the song is not decided by the author, but by your program team?
I write my own songs, but I still can’t decide the meaning of the songs. Isn’t this too bullying?
If the industry adopts this as the standard in the future, wouldn’t it be interfering with the creation of musicians? This touched the interests of all musicians, including the judges sitting at the scene.
However, this is a live broadcast after all, and it is not easy for the judges to fall out with the show crew on the spot, so everyone can only sit there with gloomy faces, and the resentment can be felt from a distance.
The planner behind the scenes obviously did not realize this. He was still looking forward to the final PK to eliminate Zhang Wei.
It’s just that the final PK was decided by off-site SMS voting. Under this rule, Zhang Wei has never lost.
"Come on, do it with Zhang Wei!" The planner couldn't help but start cheering for Zhang Wei's opponent.
This time, Zhang Wei’s opponent is Big Brother Ji Jie, who is also a contestant with both singing skills and popularity. He chose the classic "Lu Binghua".
"The stars in the sky don't speak, but the sister on the ground misses her mother... Every night I think of my mother's words, and Lu Binghua sheds tears."
His voice is high-pitched and magnetic, rich and penetrating. Type of force. His singing style and timbre characteristics are indeed very suitable for an emotional song like "Lu Binghua".
In this kind of PK, where losing will lead to elimination, he also activated his full potential and performed the song "Lu Binghua" vividly. Whether it is singing or stage performance, he can be called Perfect.
Before the final PK started, the number of votes was cleared. After he finished singing "Lu Binghua", the number of SMS votes quickly exceeded 200,000.
Seeing such data, the planner clenched his fists excitedly: "That's 200,000 votes! Good job! Keep it up, when the final number of votes will definitely exceed 400,000 votes, there is a chance to kill him Zhang Wei! ”
Ji Jie walked off the stage and it was Zhang Wei's turn to sing.
At this time, whether at the scene or in front of the TV, the audience who supported Zhang Wei could not help but feel anxious. The opponent's performance just now was really good and perfect. If it were placed in the previous round, this performance would be enough to advance directly.
Zhang Wei has just been sentenced for a foul, so he must have been affected, and it may affect his performance. With one thing going down and the other going up, promotion is worrying.
Zhang Wei walked onto the stage, still holding the guitar, intending to play and sing by himself.
He took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, put his whole body into the singing state, then shook his fingers and started playing.
"The old tree in front of the door sprouts new buds, and the dead trees in the yard bloom again. There are many words that have been half-lived, hidden in the head of white hair.
The little feet in the memory, the chubby little mouth, love all my life Leave it to him, just for the words "Mom and Dad."
After singing the two lyrics, a vivid picture appeared in the minds of the audience.
Spring arrives, and in front of a simple courtyard, a vicissitudes of old tree once again blooms with tender green shoots. The shrubs in the courtyard that originally seemed withered, miraculously bloomed. Gorgeous flowers, they jointly witness the flow of time and the tenacity of life.
In this quiet courtyard, the white-haired parents sat quietly, their eyes shining with deep nostalgia for the past years. Their thoughts drifted back to their children's childhood. At that time, the children's immature little feet ran happily in the yard, and their chubby little mouths always had an innocent smile.
Now, the children have grown up, but the warmth and love in the parents' hearts have never changed. They have devoted their lives silently without asking for anything in return, just to hear the kind words of "Mom and Dad" from their children.
“Where has the time gone? I am old before I can fully feel my youth. I have had children and raised daughters for a lifetime, and all my thoughts are filled with children crying and laughing.
Where has the time gone? If you don't take a good look at your eyes, your eyes will be blurry. You will spend half a lifetime on daily necessities, and in a blink of an eye, all you will be left with is wrinkles on your face..."
It is the most unpretentious lyrics, and the most direct twist to the heart.
The old tree in front of the door and the dead wood in the courtyard were mentioned earlier. The newly established scene instantly transformed into attachment and exchange for parents. This change came so fast and suddenly that many viewers did not even realize it. They couldn't catch it. The phrase "Where has the time gone?" directly melted their hearts.
Faced with the outstanding performance of his opponents and the situation where he would be eliminated if he lost, Zhang Wei finally made a big move at this last moment. He came up with the top divine song of the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala:
Where has the time gone!
(End of this chapter)