My wife is in my arms

Chapter 1599 Online Part 4

Hey, good morning!

Professor Robert smiled and greeted the students in the audience.

Good morning, Professor Robert.

Many students immediately responded.

After greeting everyone, Professor Robert didn't begin his lecture. Instead, he looked at the students and asked in a relaxed tone, "Did you watch 'Voices from Abroad' last night?"

"I've seen it"

"Very exciting"

Taylor is still breathtakingly beautiful.

A blond man replied in an exaggerated tone, while his eyes revealed his infatuation with Taylor.

When it comes to idol worship, both domestically and internationally, it's quite exaggerated. Taylor's appearance, in particular, does fit Western aesthetics. She has a typical heart-shaped face, with well-defined cheekbones and brow bones. The key features are her gray-blue pupils and her distinctive heart-shaped mouth.

Coupled with those tall, slender legs, they are the dream that foreign teenagers are crazy about. Even the large frame that Zhang You finds a bit scary is a symbol of beauty in the eyes of foreign teenagers.

An Asian girl sitting in the back seemed to sense what Professor Robert was about to say.

In this regard.

Her heart was filled with joy and pride.

Because whenever she talked about celebrities with her local classmates, the local students only knew about "kung fu" but didn't know the names of any singers from her country, and sometimes even said that their country didn't have any international singers.

Although there was no element of mockery involved, it certainly didn't sound very pleasant.

This time it's different. Superstar Zhang You has expanded his career overseas. Heaven knows how excited she was last night when she saw Zhang You take first place on the first episode of "Voices Abroad".

Even though she liked Taylor, it was just an appreciation for the singer, unlike her feelings for Zhang You, which stemmed from a deep-seated excitement.

Subconsciously, she turned her head to look in one direction. After learning that "Voices Abroad" had announced the list of contestants, she had talked to Marilyn about Zhang You, but the foreigner looked at Zhang You with disdain. She wondered what kind of expression Marilyn had when she saw her favorite Taylor and Mars being overshadowed by Zhang You last night.

It must be very exciting.

Just as she expected, after the students in the class had expressed their ideas, Professor Robert smiled and said "OK". Then Professor Robert opened his notebook and linked it to the electronic screen.

soon.

A simple melody filled the classroom.

Even though many students had already heard the song while watching "Voices Abroad" last night, they were still moved by the universal sentiment it evoked when they heard it again now. This made the classroom quiet, with only the sound of "500 Miles" playing.

The girl from the East listened attentively. Last night, when she heard this song, she thought of her maternal and paternal grandparents. Originally, she wanted to study music in China, as her college entrance examination score was just enough to get into the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. However, her parents felt that since she wanted to study music, it would be better for her to study abroad.

She thought about it and then came.

After leaving her familiar environment, she went through a considerable period of adjustment. Occasionally, she would miss the breakfast stall about 300 meters away from her neighborhood, where two large, heated buckets were set up, one containing soy milk and the other containing spicy hot pot, as well as freshly fried dough sticks and crispy cakes coated with honey and baked in an oven.

Every time she eats this crispy biscuit, she thinks about whether it's the same kind that Wu Dalang used to sell. Those days were simple, but heartwarming. Unlike many people, she is not attached to Western culture. She likes China, but since she has come abroad, she will stay here obediently until she graduates and returns to China to develop her career.

Having been here for quite some time, she rarely thinks about the streets and familiar people back home, but hearing Zhang You sing "500 Miles" still brings a lump to her throat.

She felt that Zhang You might have created this song because he was homesick.

While browsing short videos abroad, she would occasionally come across news about the Chinese entertainment industry. She knew that superstar Zhang Youte loved fishing and was now working abroad, so she must be missing the reservoirs back home.

The moment the thought crossed her mind, the girl laughed at herself.

Regardless, Zhang You's performance last night certainly made these people from the East proud. Zhang You let the locals know that their country not only has "kung fu" but also music.

soon.

The song "500 Miles" had finished playing. Professor Robert adjusted his glasses and smiled, saying, "Today's lesson is about analyzing the structure of this song, starting with the lyrics. For example, 'a hundred miles'—it's repeated."

talking.

Professor Robert marked it on the blackboard, and then he continued, "Away from, repeated multiple times, this a way sung repeatedly—these three verses are meant to reinforce the sense of distance, unfamiliarity, and helplessness, like…"

Robert hesitated slightly before speaking, "Like footsteps advancing step by step, emotions accumulating in a cycle, which makes the lyrics not only extremely poetic but also leave a lingering aftertaste."

The girl watched Professor Robert's explanation intently.

When she listened to it last night, she thought that Zhang You's "Five Hundred Miles" was the best country folk song she had ever heard, but she didn't expect that there were so many intricacies in the lyrics.

“A metaphorical example is ‘five hundred miles,’ which is not just a geographical distance, but also a symbol of an emotional chasm, a physical separation, and the hopelessness of returning home. Its function is to transform abstract homesickness and desolation into a measurable and weighty scale…”

Seeing that many of her classmates had already started taking notes, the girl immediately started doing so as well. If it weren't for Professor Robert's explanation, no one would have imagined that the song "500 Miles" contained so much content.

Professor Robert on the podium did not stop.

He pointed to a lyric again and said, "The progression of numbers simulates the process of growing further away from home, allowing the feeling of longing to rise with the numbers, and the rhythm and emotions to be pushed to their peak in sync..."

The more the girl remembered, the more shocked she became.

She seriously doubted whether Zhang You had thought of this when he wrote the song, because she had also watched the video of the last Golden Melody Awards ceremony abroad.

At that time, Zhang You seemed to have completed the composition of "Understanding" in just a few minutes. She really couldn't believe that Zhang You could think of so much in such a short time.

The lyrics of the song "500 Miles" actually contain six rhetorical devices: repetition, metaphor, gradation, metonymy, apostrophe, and contrast.

After thinking for a moment, the girl realized that Zhang You might not have thought of it, but Professor Robert had. It was just like a text in China, where one tree is a jujube tree and the other is also a jujube tree. According to the Chinese teacher, this seemingly simple repetition actually contains multiple profound meanings, creating a lonely and monotonous atmosphere through "expectation, discovery, and loss".

If there is an opportunity.

The girl plans to see if she can sign with EE-Media after graduating and returning to China. If she does, she wants to ask superstar Zhang You: "What were you thinking when you wrote '500 Miles'?!"

(End of this chapter)