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Chapter 302: The Divine Comedy
"This song, When You're Old, is a song full of affection and warmth. I can feel that this song delicately depicts the accumulation of years and the passage of time. It is a work full of warmth. It can really touch people's hearts."

"Zhang Wei, your love songs have always moved me and touched me deeply, but I didn't expect that your folk songs can still move me and move me."

"Your songs are always full of delicate emotions and sincere expressions. Very good, you are really great!"

The judges gave their comments in turn.

According to the rules of the competition, in this round of PK, the judges will choose a contestant with relatively poor performance to compete in the final PK with the person with the lowest number of off-site SMS votes, while the others will directly advance to the top 6.

Several judges spoke highly of Zhang Wei, so it was obviously impossible for them to choose Zhang Wei to enter the final PK.

As for the SMS voting by the audience outside the venue, Zhang Wei was not afraid at all. Even if he did not get the highest number of votes, he certainly would not get the lowest number of votes. Original hits still have a lot of 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, ready to announce the results.

"Our SMS voting window has closed, and we will announce the results of the SMS voting by the audience outside the stadium next. But before announcing the results of the SMS voting, we have another thing to announce."

The host paused, as if to deliberately keep the audience in suspense, and then continued, "This is a very regrettable thing. The song "When You're Old" sung by contestant No. 13 Zhang Wei in this round of PK does not fit the theme of this competition and is judged to be a foul. Zhang Wei's PK in this round is invalid and he will directly enter the final PK!"

"Foul?" The audience was in an uproar.

"Isn't the theme of today's competition to be grateful to parents? That song "When You're Old" fits the theme very well!"

"Zhang Wei's song is obviously written for his mother! Is there any foul in it?"

At this time, another host said: "Contestant No. 13 Zhang Wei, the song you just sang, "When You Are Old", is based on the poem "When You Are Old" by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, which is a love poem written by William Butler Yeats to a female friend.

The theme of our competition today is to be grateful to parents. The lyrics adapted from love poems obviously violate the theme of our competition today. Therefore, in order to ensure the fairness of the competition, after the notary public has conducted a fair judgment, the program team has decided to invalidate Zhang Wei's PK in this round and he will directly enter the final PK! "

The audience who did not know the truth all showed expressions of sudden enlightenment. It turned out that this was the reason why Zhang Wei committed a foul.

However, those who had some knowledge of music all frowned. They obviously did not buy the organizer's explanation.

Even if the lyrics are adapted from poetry, the content of the lyrics should be decided by the creator of the lyrics, rather than what the original lyrics are written.

In other words, since the lyricist has re-created the lyrics, he has given the lyrics new connotations while creating them. These are two different works, and you cannot use the original framework to define the new work.

What's more, adapting lyrics from poetry and songs is very common in the music industry, and there are many classics, so there is a precedent to follow.

For example, Mao Ning has a classic old song called "The Sound of Waves Remains the Same", which is about "Can this old ticket board your passenger ship?" Later, Zhao Benshan changed it to "Can I board your broken ship" in a skit.

This song is clearly a love song, and the lyrics of "The Sound of Waves Remains the Same" are derived from "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge" by the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji.

The moon is setting, the crows are crying, and the sky is full of frost. The maples on the river bank and the fishing lights are facing me. The bell of Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City reaches the passenger ship at midnight. I learned this in compulsory education.

Can you say that because the lyrics of "The Sound of Waves Remains the Same" come from "A Night Mooring at Maple Bridge", "The Sound of Waves Remains the Same" is a lyrical song describing the night scene of Jiangnan in late autumn?
Obviously not! Even a fool can tell that, since we have to buy tickets to board the ship, "The Sound of Waves Remains Still" must be a love song.

Now the program group uses the same reason to say that Zhang Wei violated the rules, which is obviously unreasonable. Even if your original poem is a love poem, can't I adapt it into a song of gratitude to parents?
Cao Zhi's "Seven-Step Poem" is about cooking beans and burning bean pods. I adapted it into a recipe for making pea cakes. High-end pea cakes must be cooked with clean peas, is that not possible?
Therefore, the program team's reason is just to fool laymen. In the eyes of insiders, it is completely untenable.

But in order to eliminate Zhang Wei, the program planner didn't care about so much. Having an excuse is always better than having no excuse.

Besides, Zhang Wei has only entered the final PK and has not been eliminated yet, so he still has one life left. If Zhang Wei is really eliminated in the end, it is also because he lost in SMS voting, which is the choice of the audience, and has nothing to do with the program team.

The program planner was betting on the phrase "once, twice, but not three times". He believed that it would be impossible for Zhang Wei to come up with a third hit song with the theme of "Gratitude to Parents".

"It's really hard to write a song with this theme. It's only the second song, but he's already borrowed from foreign poetry. This is a sign of running out of ideas. I don't believe your third song will be a hit!"

Thinking of this, the planner looked at one of the screens proudly, and the picture captured on this screen was exactly Zhang Wei on the stage.

At this time, Zhang Wei seemed very calm, as if he was not affected at all by being called for a foul.

"It was my carelessness. I always thought that this song "When You're Old" was written for my mother, but I forgot that the lyrics were adapted. This time I was careless and the organizer caught a loophole!"

Zhang Wei sighed slightly, 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 Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a leader of the Irish Renaissance and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was very influential in Europe in the early th century.

The poem "When You Are Old" is one of his representative works. In early 1889, the -year-old Yeats met the actress Maud Gonne for the first time, and then fell in love with her at first sight and began to pursue her madly.

Unfortunately, the goddess rejected Yeats' pursuit and married an Irish officer.

In the following decades, Yeats did not give up. He waited until the goddess' husband died and she became a widow, then proposed to her again. But he was rejected again. In the end, the goddess was too lazy to even pay attention to him anymore.

To put it simply, Yeats was a bootlicker all his life and could never get the goddess he wanted.

This poem was born in this context, so it is indeed a love poem.

Several years later, Zhao Zhao, a musician who moved to Beijing, read this poem by chance. He suddenly thought of his mother, and then he wrote a song inspired by it, which is "When You Are Old".

Therefore, the original intention of the song's author was indeed to write it for his mother, expressing his longing for her.

In the 2015 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Karen Mok sang this song, and in the BJ show at that time, a photo of an elderly couple appeared, and the audience naturally thought of their own parents. After all, it was the Spring Festival Gala, and the main theme was a wandering son returning home and family reunion. When a photo of an elderly couple appeared, normal people would think of their parents. Even if you are a dog-licker, you will not think of the goddess you didn't chase.

So this song also became a song dedicated to parents and became very popular.

At that time, no one would investigate that the poem from which the song originated was actually about an Irish dog proposing to his goddess.

Zhang Wei naturally put this song on stage as a song of gratitude to his parents.

However, I didn't expect that there was a planner behind the scenes who didn't understand music but had good literary literacy. He had read this poem by Yeats, so after seeing the lyrics, he felt very familiar with it. Then he checked it online and found that the source of the song was indeed Yeats's "When You Are Old".

Yeats's "When You Are Old" is a love poem, which also gave the planners a reasonable excuse to engage in shady dealings.

Zhang Wei was actually very clear that the organizer was deliberately looking for a loophole to target him, so he did not make any excuses, because he knew that making excuses would be futile.

On this stage, the right to speak is still in the hands of the organizers. Even the notary invited from the notary office stands on the side of the program team. My own explanation is completely useless.

Instead of wasting time on explanations, it is better to adjust your mindset and sing the last song well.

What's more, Zhang Wei is absolutely confident about the last song.

Zhang Wei’s last song is a masterpiece.

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On the judges' panel, several judges looked a little unnatural.

This excuse of foul by the organizer may be used to fool laymen who don't understand music, but in the eyes of professional musicians, it is too clumsy!
This is an original song, but the content of the song is not decided by the author, but by your program team?
I wrote the song myself, but I can't decide the meaning of the song. Isn't this too much of an insult?

If the industry adopts this standard in the future, wouldn’t that interfere with the creation of musicians? This would affect the interests of all musicians, including the judges sitting on the scene.

However, this was a live broadcast after all, and the judges couldn't get angry with the production team on the spot, so everyone could only sit there with gloomy faces, and their resentment could be felt from a distance.

The planner behind the scenes obviously didn't realize this. He was still hoping that in the final ultimate PK, he would be able to eliminate Zhang Wei.

However, the final PK was decided by off-site text message voting. Under this rule, Zhang Wei has never lost.

"Come on, beat Zhang Wei!" The planner couldn't help but cheer for Zhang Wei's opponent.

This time, Zhang Wei's opponent is the big brother Ji Jie, who is also a contestant with both singing skills and popularity. He chose the classic "Lubinhua".

"The stars in the sky are silent, and my sister on the ground misses her mother... Every night I think of my mother's words, and my tears sparkle like lupines."

His voice is high-pitched and magnetic, rich and penetrating. His singing style and timbre are indeed very suitable for an emotional song like "Lu Bing Hua".

In this kind of PK where losing means being eliminated, he also activated all his potential and performed the song "Lubinghua" to the fullest. Both his singing and stage performance were perfect.

Before the final PK began, the votes were reset to zero, but after he finished singing "Lubinghua", the number of SMS votes quickly exceeded 200,000.

The planner clenched his fists excitedly when he saw the data: "That's 200,000 votes! Good job! Keep it up, the final number of votes will definitely exceed 400,000, and we'll have a chance to beat 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 couldn't help but feel anxious. The opponent's performance just now was really good, perfect. If it was in the previous round, such a performance would be enough to advance directly.

Zhang Wei was just called for a foul, which must have affected his performance. With this kind of growth and decline, his promotion is in jeopardy.

Zhang Wei walked onto the stage, still holding the guitar, intending to play and sing by himself.

He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, immersed himself in the singing, then moved his fingers and began to play.

"The old tree in front of the door has new buds, and the dead tree in the yard has bloomed again. I have lived for half my life and have said many things, which are hidden in my white hair.

The little feet and chubby little mouth in my memory, I gave him my love for the rest of my life, just for that one call of “Mom and Dad.”

After singing two lines of lyrics, a vivid picture appeared in the audience's minds.

With the arrival of spring, an old tree in front of a simple courtyard has once again sprouted tender green buds. The bushes in the courtyard that originally seemed withered have also miraculously bloomed with gorgeous flowers. Together, they witness the passage of time and the tenacity of life.

In this quiet courtyard, the white-haired parents sat quietly, their eyes flashing with deep nostalgia for the past years. Their thoughts drifted back to the time when their children were little, when their tender little feet ran happily in the yard, and their chubby little mouths always had an innocent smile.

Today, the children have grown up, but the warmth and love in the hearts of the parents have never changed. They have devoted their lives silently, without asking for anything in return, just to hear the kind "Mom and Dad" from their children.

"Where has the time gone? I've grown old before I could fully enjoy my youth. I've spent my whole life raising children, and now my mind is filled with their cries and laughs.

Where has the time gone? My eyes are blurry before I can even take a good look at you. After spending half a lifetime on daily necessities, in the blink of an eye, you only have wrinkles all over your face..."

It is the most plain and simple lyrics, and also the most heart-touching twist.

The scene that was just established, which was talking about the old tree in front of the door and the dead tree in the yard, instantly turned into the attachment and exchange with the parents. This transformation came too fast and too suddenly. Many viewers couldn't catch it at all. The sentence "Where has the time gone" directly melted their hearts.

Faced with his opponent's outstanding performance and the situation that he would be eliminated if he lost, Zhang Wei finally used his last life and played the top song from the 2014 CCTV Spring Festival Gala:
Where has the time gone!
(End of this chapter)