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Chapter 736: "Hush"

"I express my feelings with my throat

"You use your body to perform other people's style

"You made it seem like we were made for each other~
"You love me so much that I am crazy, happy, desperate, annoyed, obedient, and have no end..."

Sun Yanzi, who was humming unsmoothly and mumbling the lyrics intermittently, didn't know why he suddenly felt guilty as if he had been caught red-handed.

In order to shoot "24K Magic", Zhou Yi directly called the Victoria's Secret supermodel group to help with the shooting. At the welcome dinner, she went to ask for advice from one of the models who seemed to have maintained the best figure.

Therefore, when she saw the lyrics of this song, the first thing that came to her mind was what she had done at that time.

"Then why did you immediately paint your plain face with all kinds of colors?

"Then why did you become a model..."

She didn't know why, but after reading it, she felt as if Zhou Yi was pointing a finger at her - telling her that there was no need to become a model for her.

Just like what Zhou Yi wrote at the beginning of the song: He just happened to enter this circle called entertainment, just writing songs and singing songs. She has no need to transform herself into a model full of other people's styles for the sake of "inferiority" or "pride" to match the title of Gemini Star.

Sun Yanzi will always be Sun Yanzi. The Sun Yanzi who remains true to himself is the Sun Yanzi that Zhou Yi recognizes and is familiar with.

Combining his own experience, Sun Yanzi felt that Zhou Yi was encouraging him to stay true to himself; but if you look at the lyrics alone, the lyrics are a separate story -

Even if you read these three songs together with the next two songs, the artistic conception they present has another meaning.

It's not that she over-interpreted it, it's simply because Zhou Yi didn't even act and just put the titles of the first three songs in her face - "Singer and Model", "Model", and "Best Singer".

When these three songs were put together with such straightforward titles, it was hard for her not to make associations between them.

But the album title that Zhou Yi wrote at the very beginning is called "Hush".

It's very strange - the theme is love, but the album is called "Hush".

Zhou Yi even casually drew a simple sketch: a human face outlined with simple lines and an index finger in front of the lips. Combined with the album title, it seems to be telling people to shut up.

In other words, it seems to have a provocative meaning.

Of course, the biggest reason why Sun Yanzi felt guilty was that she felt that Zhou Yi should not know about her seeking advice from the supermodel, so she was not sure whether she was being too sentimental.

What if she was overthinking it?

"No, why are there only three songs? Where are the rest?" He wanted to take a look at Sun Yanzi's song below, but he didn't find it, so he immediately looked up at him -

Zhou Yi pretended to be innocent and spread his hands: "You haven't given me your song yet, how can I continue writing?"

Sun Yanzi: "..."

It seems to make some sense.

Sun Yanzi's eyes blinked into oO awkwardly for a moment, and he put his hands behind his back, raised his head and said with a grin, "I thought you would restart the album's hidden song sequence and put my song in it."

"This is the first time someone else has written lyrics for my album. Is it inappropriate to put it in a hidden song?"

Zhou Yi chuckled, then lowered his eyes and glanced at the copy of "She Said" in his hand under Sun Yanzi's suddenly nervous expression - it was indeed the "She Said" he remembered.

This is Sun Yanzi's representative work of lyric writing, and it also gave her fans the confidence to feel superior and step on other singers in the subsequent melee for the status of female singers in the music scene.

After all, the female singers who were qualified to compete for the title of the new generation of queens at the beginning of the century were all bad at composing. In comparison, Sun Yanzi's song "She Said" was able to make fans proud in the story of quarreling.

Don’t worry about this or that, I just want to ask you whether “She Said” is a very popular song and whether it can be called a representative work.

"Hey, I like to hear that."

Hearing what he said, Sun Yanzi's eyes curved into beautiful crescents, as if he had figured out some good omen, and grinned foolishly, "Now I really took your first time."

Ever since Zhou Yi made his debut, his albums - whether Chinese albums, EPs or English albums, not only in the mixed editing column, but even in the lyrics and music column, there has always been only his name on it.

This song "She Said" can be said to be the first to break the "self-hegemony" in Zhou Yi's album.

"You're quite proud."

"That is."

Sun Yanzi proudly shook his head, looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, put one hand on his waist, raised his left hand to touch his bangs, and then pursed his lips and blew -

When she turned her head to stare at the man, her hair was messed up by her own wind, and her crescent-shaped eyes were filled with an unconcealable smile: "I am such a genius!"

"You're already panting after I complimented you."

"It's the real deal, okay."

Sun Yanzi put his hands behind his back and raised his chin high, almost looking down at people with his nose up. The arc of his mouth was so wide that a Himalaya could fit in it.

Zhou Yi, sitting in the chair, tilted his head slightly, bent his little finger and ring finger on his right hand, and placed them on the side of his cheek together with his extended thumb, index finger and middle finger, smiling.

"But, you've already decided on the title of your album, does my song fit in?"

"It's covered."

"Why are you so confident? Did you see my draft???"

“Oh, I haven’t seen it, but your agent has discussed the song you want to write with Lao Qian.”

The scapegoat Qian Jiang made a grand appearance, his broad-shouldered and strong body once again shouldering a burden that he shouldn't have to bear - the value of Warner's weightlifting championship was clearly revealed.

"That's not right. Isn't your theme love? Why is the album title... so weird?" Sun Yanzi pointed at the album title with his little finger and poked his head out curiously.

"Well..."

Zhou Yi said with a smile.

In fact, he was also struggling with what name to give his fifth Chinese album at the beginning. The Yijing trilogy had already ended perfectly, and it would be a bit superfluous to give it a name like traditional culture.

There is no need to continue with a concept that has already ended.

Therefore, with this in mind, after thinking again and again, he finally decided to set the theme on the most common "love" - ​​but this "love" is not just love in the traditional sense.

First song on side A: "Singer and Model".

This is the starting point of the entire album. The story told throughout the lyrics is actually very simple: a boy and a girl were a happy couple before entering the entertainment industry, but after entering the entertainment industry, the relationship changed.

The boy who just wanted to write and sing songs became a hot and dazzling star in the entertainment industry. In order to keep up with the pace of love and make herself and her boyfriend look like a perfect match, the girl started as a model.

After that, the entertainment industry changed the girl and made her forget her original intention. The lyrics "Immediately painted your plain face with a variety of colors" symbolizes the rotten love in the circle.

On the surface it sounds like the song is lamenting the passing of a love, but Zhou Yi changed its positioning - he used this song as his own inner analysis and monologue.

Zhou Yi, who was originally just an ordinary person, entered the circle called entertainment by accident. The degenerate "female model" symbolizes the so-called decadent love that he has witnessed in the entertainment circle along the way.

Zhou Yi's many rumored girlfriends have always been criticized. Even his die-hard fans can only use the excuse that he is a talented and romantic man.

But at the beginning of this album, Zhou Yi criticized all the "decadent love" he had experienced in the entertainment industry over the years in the MV of the first song under the sun - without any excuses.

There may be artists in this entertainment industry who just "purely" want to sing, but there is also no shortage of degenerate "female models".

It is about himself and the deterioration and chaos that Zhou Yi witnessed after entering the entertainment industry. This led to the second song on Side A: "Model", the song that won Li Ronghao the Golden Melody Award.

Zhou Yi, who just wanted to sing, gradually lost himself in the life of the entertainment industry after entering it. The rising popularity, dazzling light, countless people's attention and endless love made him feel like a model in a window - letting people (companies) dress him up.

In this situation, he felt as if he was also going to degenerate, becoming that degenerate model, a puppet of fame, fortune, life, and the entertainment industry, unable to refuse anyone's arms.

In fact, not only him, but also the staff around him and the general public have become puppets of their own circles. Everyone is an exclusive model placed in the window of his own heart, accepting the judgment and dressing of others, the people around him, and the public.

Zhou Yi in the MV seems to have pulled his soul out of his body, watching coldly as all living beings, including "himself", become models in a window.

In just a moment, he seemed to wake up a little, as if he realized that he seemed to have lost something.

Therefore, it is natural to introduce the third song on Side A: "Best Singer", Xu Song's representative work of self-analysis and self-reconciliation in his later years.

Zhou Yi, the model in the window, is struggling to return to the stage and rediscover his original goal of entering the circle: just wanting to write and sing songs.

He wanted to become the singer who used to freely use ink in music. He understood why he became like this. At the same time, he learned to reconcile himself with the decadent circle and the attention of the flash lights.

Derived from lyrics such as "You are singing my creation on the stage", "Zhou Yi" and Zhou Yi work together to dissect themselves and reconcile with this world full of temptations and spotlights.

No matter how the outside world judges him, he believes that he is the best singer and is no longer obsessed with asking others to put new beautiful clothes on himself as a model.

The first three songs use love in the entertainment industry as a starting point to criticize oneself and dissect the chaos in the entertainment industry - criticism and self-criticism form a closed loop.

The fourth song on side A: "She Said", lyrics by Sun Yanzi.

From here, the album enters reality——

Zhou Yi's past debauchery in the circle is in stark contrast to Sun Yanzi's silent waiting for him as a Warner Gemini.

Under Zhou Yi's silent observation, Sun Yanzi expressed his own emotions through "she said". Sun Yanzi was talking (she said), Zhou Yi was singing (he sang), and between her she said and his singing, the emotional world of the two people was infinitely shortened.

This is not only a love song between a man and a woman, but also a story about listening and confessing.

Sun Yanzi confided in Zhou Yi by writing songs for him, saying "there is nothing wrong with our love" and "I am just afraid of waking up";
Zhou Yi is listening.

The fifth song on side A came into being: "He Doesn't Understand", one of Zhang Jie's representative works.

Zhou Yi, who listened to "She Said", did not understand, but just pretended not to understand. Or, "He Doesn't Understand" is his response to Sun Yanzi's confession.

"He doesn't understand your heart and pretends to be calm. He doesn't understand love and treats it as a game."
"He doesn't know how to express his love. All he can do is sigh and say sorry."

I don’t understand and I don’t want to understand love, I just treat it as a game.

But people always have to learn to grow.

So, the sixth song on side A: "Love Transfer", one of Chen Yixun's representative works.

"After wandering around so many shop windows and staying in so many hotels, I will feel that separation is not unfair.

"Should feelings be viewed or treasured, so that every day is unforgettable..."

No matter how many double beds Zhou Yi has wandered across, all he has done is to transfer the warmth of one person to the chest of another.

When Zhou Yi looked back after awakening, the woman he loved was gone.

The seventh song on side A: "Nocturne".

In order to remember the lost lover, Chopin's nocturne is played to commemorate the dead love.

Time waits for no one, nor does it give you any time to regret. Remember to cherish the people around you.

Here, Side A ends.

Starting with love, the final perspective is Zhou Yi's self in the entertainment industry. On the A side, Zhou Yi directly faced all the controversies in his relationship, and also tore off the fig leaf of the chaos in this aspect in the entertainment industry.

On the B side, Zhou Yi did not switch to a new concept like in previous albums, but still used the "love" element -

First song on side B: "Hair Like Snow".

The shuttle and changes of time and space between ancient and modern times, Zhou Yi, who commemorates the dead love, seems to have traveled through time and space, witnessed the changes of love scene after scene, and was inspired.

The sad imagery is consistent with the last song on Side A, "Nocturne".

But Zhou Yi didn't want this to happen.

He is not a man who will be bound by love, and he will never be discouraged.

The second song on side B: "Change Yourself", one of Wang Lihong's representative works.

Zhou Yi, who has gone through controversies and accusations, never consumes himself. Caring for oneself is also a form of love.

The music style also changed from here on -

The third song on side B: "Love Song", one of Fang Datong's representative works.

This is a song where Zhou Yi really changed himself.

The criticism, self-criticism and sad atmosphere at the beginning of the album were all swept away, echoing "Change Yourself", so a "love song" was written that is completely different from the previous songs, especially completely different from the sad "Nocturne".

The fourth song on side B: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", one of tank's representative works.

Both write about love from a love perspective and have ancient times as the background, but "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Hair Like Snow" are completely different.

The fifth song on side B: "General's Order", one of Wu Kequn's representative works.

It's still love, but it's not romance this time.

Zhou Yi makes no secret of his deep love for this land. This song is his response to the criticism of his previous album "Gui Zang" by the public intellectuals of the Gu Mu School.

The sixth song on side B: "Our Song", one of Wang Lihong's representative works.

It’s still love, but this one is for all the fans out there – no matter where they are, they are always in my heart.

The Dharma King is great, no need to say more.

The seventh song on side B: "Everyone Will", one of Fang Datong's representative works.

Finally, a song that highlights the theme of the album——

Love is a quilt for two people, and a bottle of water for each person;
Love is sending a hundred roses, and also making the barren land bloom;

Love is to move people to tears, and to stop creating sadness;
Love is helping good friends out of trouble, and spending money on strangers;
Love the sweat that I put in, love the rose of the little prince, love the brothers and sisters on the journey, love all the green mountains and clear waters——

Everyone loves the land under their feet and loves this world.

The entire album starts with love, continues along the way, and also ends with love - all kinds of love, along with reality, run through the album, colorfully.

The reason why it is named "Hush" is because this is an album in which Zhou Yi purely expresses his personal emotions and opinions. It is also his response to the controversies in his past - whether it is the controversy about his fickleness or the controversy about his past albums.

So this time: "Shh", be quiet and listen to me sing.

The album cover shows Zhou Yi with his index finger raised to his lips, making a gesture of silence.

(End of this chapter)