Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 835 Who came from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but was confined to employment, housing and debt

Amid the anticipation of the fans, Bian Lang took off the G-Force guitar on his shoulder and sat down on the high stool brought by the staff. Then Strauss handed him a mandolin.

When seeing this instrument, the fans in the audience could basically confirm that this was still a folk rock song by the Rolling Stones.

Although some fans were a little emotional and felt that what the Rolling Stones did was a bit unpleasant to them, they came here tonight just to have fun to the end, but when they think about it, apart from the Rolling Stones, they probably can't have this kind of experience at any other band's live performance. When they think about it, they feel that the Rolling Stones are actually pretty awesome in this regard.

If I change to another band, I might not be able to play punk or heavy metal well!
At the same time, Dayong also replaced his drumsticks with drum brushes. Tao Xingyue, Liu Jiayun and Lunzi, two musicians who had little presence in previous performances, also walked to their own microphone stands.

Tao Xingyue and Liu Jiayun did not change their electric pianos, but still used the old pianos they were used to. Lun Zi took a flute from the armory.

Foreign music fans don't find it strange to see a full-lineup rock band like this, but it is very rare for it to happen to a Chinese band.

To borrow a phrase from an extreme fan of the Harbor Blues, "The country has been founded for so many years, and you've only been playing rock for a few years. Do you understand rock?" Of course, the fans present would not have such an idea.

After everything was ready, Bian Lang nodded to Strauss. After the blond teacher Shi understood, he lowered his head and plucked the strings.

After the chords, the vibrato brought out by the shaker reverberated in the dome of the Roundhouse, ethereal and clear without a trace of impurities. After four bars of empty beats, Dayong used a drum brush to move back and forth between the hi-hat and the snare drum to create a gap.

Bian Lang's singing voice followed closely behind, and together with the sound of the guitar that sounded again, it reached the ears of the fans:

"Slip out, the back door of the bank...

Tear open the night... curtain and the silent plain
Beyond, off-season forests and electricity
Pulling our dark hearts
At the end of the wish, a season

Disband, clear...morning and dusk
In the last season of wish

Remember I once had a sharp blade on my body..."

The Rolling Stones premiered Wan Qing's song overseas, and this new song was the world premiere. Looking at the English translation below the Chinese lyrics, the foreign students present felt sorry for the foreign fans.

Because they feel that the artistic conception conveyed by the lyrics cannot be fully understood through translation.

At this moment, the spotlight on the stage, which had originally focused only on Bian Lang, Strauss and Dayong, was added with another one. As Tao Xingyue and Liu Jiayun were illuminated, the plaintive sounds of the cellos and violins and Bian Lang's singing came together:
“Who comes from mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but is confined to day and night...kitchen and love..."

In the plain and sad atmosphere created by the violin, Thor, the guitarist, closed his eyes and thought to himself: "With such arrangement ability, no wonder Wave can handle any style of music!"

Ye Tao was thinking about the lyrics that just flashed across the screen, and he kept repeating in his mind: "Who came from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but was confined to the kitchen and love day and night..."

A female international student next to him also sighed: "I know all these words, but I don't know how to put them together to form a sentence like this!"

"Who says it's not true? We were all born under the red flag, received nine years of compulsory education, and studied the same Chinese textbooks. But some people's writing can make you yearn for mountains and seas, but people like me can only write short essays that are not as good as AI!"

Ye Tao's self-deprecation expressed the thoughts of countless Chinese music fans...

After two bars of violin solo, Bian Lang started to play the mandolin, which made a brisk sound like the tinkling of bells. Against the background of the soothing violin sound, the mandolin sound was like sugar dropped into warm water, which gently dissipated the depression in the listener's heart.

Regarding Wan Qing's songs, fans of Original Earth have roughly two common understandings. The first is to listen to them when feeling down, and immersing oneself in Wan Qing's music can relieve the mood a lot.

The second is that people feel that listening to Wan Qing will not make them feel much better. Many people listen to Wan Qing just to feel uncomfortable.

When I was on the original Earth, Bian Lang remembered someone sharing a story about this song.

"Annual Comedy Competition 2", watching a comedy variety show actually made people's nose sore, the reason was that I heard Wan Qing's "Heart-wrenching Jokes and Long Daydreams" in the work "Resurrection Legion", and the story itself is about several people working together to heal a friend who is troubled by depression.

When Wan Qing's song started, several comments mentioned the name of the song. I went back to the music platform and looked at the comment section of the song "Heart-wrenching Joke and Long Daydream", and saw that many people were inspired to listen to this song because of the show.

Maybe they were not originally fans of rock music or music, but the messages conveyed by excellent music are never differentiated by circles or audiences. When the music starts, everyone can hear and feel it.

Just like the foreign music fans in the audience now, 99% of them don’t understand Chinese, but just by listening to the music, it seems that they can understand what emotions this song wants to express.

Whether sad or happy, it's all about love!
While playing the mandolin, Bian Lang also thought of a joke.

That was a fan of the band Yuanqiudi and also his long-time friend. Once, after drinking too much, he asked to listen to this song in the bar.

After Bian Lang finished singing a paragraph, the guy sobered up instantly and pulled Bian Lang aside to ask, "Did you sing the wrong lyrics?"

Bian Lang was not drunk. He used his phone to help him with the lyrics. After reading the lyrics, the friend stared at his phone for a long time and kept muttering: "I have been listening to a pirated song for so many years!"

Later, under Bian Lang's questioning, this friend told the truth. He only listened to the song and never read the lyrics. He always thought the last chorus was: "Who came from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but was confined by employment, housing and debt..."

After listening to this, Bian Lang was silent for a long time. In a sense, there was nothing wrong with this interpretation.

After all, who among those who listen to Wan Qing has not been "given by nature the treetops, the breeze, the rainstorm on the shoulders, and then formed into a balanced, loyal, and restless body..."

When he came back to his senses, the interlude had ended. Bian Lang sang with his balanced body instinctively:
"I have come to the frontier of my...

I saw my father, sitting on the clouds smoking

He said, son... go and make peace with yesterday

Just like we used to...
In a way that is infinitely applicable to the future...
Replacement Body...Inner Star River
In a way that is infinitely applicable to the future...
Love to gather...and disperse
Who comes from... mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but is confined to day and night, kitchen and love..."

Although foreign fans still couldn't understand the lyrics and the atmosphere was not as enthusiastic as before, the fans' enthusiasm did not diminish at all. Some people took out their mobile phones, turned on the flash, and waved them around, casting the most envious eyes at the Chinese fans who sang along.

But few people at the scene could have heard that the last line of Bian Lang’s song was: “But constrained by employment, housing and debt…”

An administrator of the Roundhouse standing at the exit began to mutter to himself as he watched the scene: "Is this really a Chinese band performing? This is unbelievable. Has a Chinese band ever performed here before?"

Another older manager simply shook his head and said, “As for rock bands, they were the first!”

"Oh, what a special band, and their violinist is amazing too!"

As long as they are a manager at Roundhouse and have been working for a long time, their appreciation ability is really not inferior to those professional music critics. Just like those guitar quality inspectors in China, they can play the most complicated chords with the most fluent techniques, and then say that they can't play guitar!

But just as she finished speaking, another spotlight appeared on the stage, and Wheels holding the flute finally appeared.

The flute solo, accompanied by a simple jazz drum, exudes a temperament that should not belong to these two instruments. After being accustomed to the normality of Western instruments playing Western modes, it is time to appreciate Western instruments playing the Chinese pentatonic mode.

Both in terms of sensory perception and cognition, it was completely new to many foreign music fans at the scene.

Music fans can probably hear some differences, but they don’t know exactly what the differences are or why!
The more professional ones began to ask: "Why can the violin produce the effect of a horse-head fiddle? Why can the flute produce the effect of a reed pipe?"

This included Thor, and he threw the question directly to Silva because he simply ignored the possibility that Regman knew the answer.

Silva wasn't quite sure either, but she still gave a way to find the answer: "Go ask Olaf, he should know best."

After hearing this answer, Regman said directly: "Why not just ask Bian Lang directly? Wouldn't that be clearer?"

Silva smiled and said, "But we may not understand Bian Lang's explanation!"

In fact, this is not the case. According to the unwritten rules in the music industry, those big guys who make analysis videos must know the work better than the original author.

Moreover, this regulation has been personally certified by countless bigwigs.

For example, a folk musician who doesn’t know how to read music and a world-class guitarist who doesn’t know how to read music! When they saw their work analyzed into a half-hour theoretical video, they were all surprised and only commented: “I wrote it because it sounded good…”

“Who comes from mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but is confined to day and night...kitchen and love..."

Accompanied by the alternating music of the violin and violin, Bian Lang played a brisk tune on the mandolin again, waiting for the sound of the flute to enter. The picture formed in people's minds was like...

Peter Pan has entered into China's ink-and-wash landscape. Although some unreasonable situations have occurred, they will not make people feel disgusted!
When the high-distortion electric guitar finally came in, all the peace and tranquility that had been there before seemed to be broken at that moment...

Just like the last lyrics: "Just in a moment... Just in a moment... Hold my conflicted hands tightly..."

This line of lyrics, which does not appear in many live versions, is the second fatal empathy point for many music fans!

“I want to participate in the grand narrative of the world, but I can’t even complete my own small narrative. The world didn’t give me the opportunity to daydream, but played a heart-wrenching joke on me…”

This is a fan's understanding of the song, combined with his own story:
During the summer vacation, I was preparing for exams in a cramped rental house. I would turn up the volume on my phone when I took a shower at night. I was most touched when I heard these words.

If I have to use one word to describe 2020, I can only use "magical realism", because there has never been a period of time that makes people unable to believe it even after experiencing it.

The global pandemic, the indomitable medical workers, the deceased Black Mamba, the retired mad dog...

Even if these things happened in different years, this year will be remembered by those who care about them.

In such a world, I was just in a small room, thinking that everything seemed to be related to me - I spoke up for Dr. Wen Liang and worried about unwise rumors.

However, it seems that everything has nothing to do with me. I am still just shouting silently across the electronic screen, powerless and pretentious. The reality before me is the roar of trains that harass me day and night, the family quagmire that makes me fall into it, and the so-called "life nodes".

Whenever he thinks of the words he has read, Bian Lang thinks: "In fact, many people have the talent to control words. How lucky we are that rock musicians can be the pioneers who can give everyone some inspiration!"

As for the understanding of another fatal empathy point, it is even more varied: "The sound of violin and flute runs through the whole song, which is like the profound thoughts and jumping soul of the young man confined to the kitchen and love..."

This is the state that fans of Wan Qing’s music will suddenly experience at some point in their lives!
Although you may not have these feelings when you first listen to it, and just think it sounds good, there will definitely be a special moment when you suddenly understand the meaning of a song, or give an interpretation that applies to you!

And these sudden bursts of inspiration may be the shining moments that those brainless fans of popular singers will never experience in their lifetime!

A music fan once said, "A speck of dust from the times becomes a mountain on anyone." It is not easy to move the mountain of the times, but it is undoubtedly more difficult to wipe off every speck of dust on the shoulders of countless people.

A thousand kinds of desolation, this is the dream.

After traveling thousands of miles, this is my home.

Others say that the heartbreaking joke is that adults are tired mechanical creatures who allow children to steal their parts and time. Unfortunately, it was not until much later that I realized that I hated the children themselves, but that I could easily empathize with the feeling of having another shingle on my back when I felt powerless in the face of life.

The long daydream is that ordinary families have no power to respond to the tide of the times, so they turn their heads and frown at the controllers of power. But they still yearn to become a speck of dust recognized by the times.

The final answer may be the same as the lyrics that Bian Lang’s friend misheard for many years: “Who came from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but was confined by employment, housing and debt…”

(End of this chapter)