The concept of the album "Eighteen Martial Arts" was inspired by the big movie event of Ang Lee and Jackie Chan in Wang Leehom in 20 10, which was written, directed and performed by him.
In the first film "Love in Camouflage", he played a big star who ran away from home, met a girl who was studying China music on the invisible campus, and made a humorous "Love in Camouflage".
In the past year, Wang Leehom has been fighting between film and album production. Wang Leehom, who devoted himself to all the production details with extraordinary concentration and physical strength, released a brand-new album with the new song Eighteen Martial Arts as its title. Inspired by Ang Lee and Jackie Chan, two directors who deeply influenced him. Because Wang Leehom, as the first director, learned a lot from filming, he deeply felt that two famous directors, Ang Lee and Jackie Chan, had high directing skills, and thought that they were versatile people with eighteen martial arts, and representatives of eighteen martial arts combined them together. Wang Leehom thinks that to be an absolutely respectable and good director, it is really necessary to have eighteen martial arts skills. He works hard and hopes to reach that level one day.
Singing Chinked-out with Eighteen Martial Arts
In this album of eighteen martial arts, Wang Leehom pushed [Chinked-out] to a higher level. Besides combining Beijing Opera with Chinese musical instruments, he will present the beauty and omnipotence of China music more completely this time! He presented the song as a performance compiled by the national music symphony orchestra, which perfectly interpreted the hip-hop style; Wang Leehom is like a baton, stirring the pop music scene. Under his masterful hand, the Chinese music symphony has become the ultimate display of eighteen martial arts in pop music. Wang Leehom specially invited the Central Broadcasting National Orchestra, which has a glorious history of nearly 60 years, to perform all the songs related to national music in this album. All members of the orchestra are from famous conservatories in the Mainland. The Central Broadcasting National Orchestra has enjoyed an international reputation in the world for many years. This time, Leehom invited them to get married. This album is quite touching and admirable. Together with these masters of Chinese classical music who play an important role in the national music field, he can pass on the ancient music of China to the younger generation and impress him deeply. These masters were deeply impressed by Wang Leehom's ability to innovate China ancient music into a new generation of popularity. I heard that "pop music" can also have such a profound connotation, and hip-hop abroad can also sing picturesque songs, so that every master who participates in the performance is deeply grateful that you have come. This cross-border cooperation is very pleasant for both sides. I believe that when you listen to this album, you will fully feel this surprise and touch.
Wang Leehom, in particular, started as a dragon dancer, subverting the folk custom of dragon and lion dancing in China. What he wants to convey is that with the arrival of the China era, China music and western music played symphonically, which surprised not only the West, but also our East!
After the noise, I began to yearn for seven things: simple and sweet love, true happiness and rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
Every bit of rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea is a musical event of Wang Leehom 20 10, and it is a return to the ordinary, simple and happy heart.
The first single? Rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea? With the theme of seven things that the ancients said to open the door in the morning-rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, an indispensable cooking seasoning in life, and a trivial matter, it is also the most real existence of love after a vigorous and noisy life; Wang Leehom used simple and warm melody, guitar and erhu arrangement to flavor, and created a song with a little sentimental and antique charm; See meaning in simplicity, and taste happiness in the ordinary. He wants to tell everyone through this song that he, like everyone else, is trying to live, to find his own happiness and to be a dream catcher ... There may be tears and obstacles in the process, but he always believes that everyone will find his place in the end.
He wants to share his inner understanding of life through this song "Seize the moment and cherish each other". He deeply feels that for some people, meeting the right person and living an ordinary life together may be simple and plain, but it is the most rare happiness.
So he believes that happiness is in his own hands and will never be far away.
He wants to tell people who are struggling in this world to pursue distant places; Taste every touch, every affection, every friendship, every love, every harvest, every warm heart, every beautiful scene in life ... This is happiness. Happiness is not a goal, nor a comparison or transformation, but a feeling of the moment, a process of experiencing life. Happiness is blessed by misfortune, and perception is free from people's hearts. Happiness is hidden in every drop of your daily rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, waiting for your heart to savor it.
Bidai Syulan wrote lyrics and sang seven simple things about love. The ordinary hidden taste brewed by rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea is happiness.
With the concept of Wang Leehom, Bideshilan filled it into the song "Chai Mi You Yan Jiang Vinegar Tea". She used a unique and delicate tone, with a little fairy-tale innocence, to describe the promises made when she was a childhood friend. When she grows up, the most important person is still waiting in the dim light, and the blue plane turns into a red answering machine, giving up wandering all her life, sharing the truth with each other and enjoying simple happiness in ordinary life. Light warm colors, Wang Leehom's words are written everywhere.
Wang Leehom pointed out in his first film "Love in disguise" that big stars long for ordinary love. In reality, people are eager to return to simplicity. Wang Leehom and Biddy Shilan cooperate to find the most valuable companionship and happiness in this era of information explosion and Internet anxiety, and tell people that happiness is in their own hands and never far away.
Song Xiaoqing, the heroine of Wang Leehom's first film "Love in disguise", has a sincere and affectionate crush on something you don't know.
You never know who is in love with you. You never know who your true love is. You never know that the big star you admire is around you. You never know … There are many things you don't know in the world …
The lyrics of this piano monologue "What You Don't Know" is the main theme of love in the movie "Love in disguise". Wang Leehom's lyrics are profound and sincere, and every note hits people's hearts directly; Beautiful and affectionate melody and simple lyrics make people fall into the whirlpool of love. They are suspicious, helpless, anxious, and hesitant. Because of love, they wait in the background without complaining. For love, they do a lot of "things you don't know". In the movie "Love in disguise", it is a song written by the heroine Song Xiaoqing (Liu Yifei) for a boy who has a secret crush, but the other party can't understand it. On the contrary, Adebayor (Wang Leehom), who has been silently accompanying the heroine, cannot see the past. He thinks the boy is too incomprehensible. He couldn't wait to sing to help the heroine express her feelings, but unexpectedly touched the heroine. Love is always unpredictable. The lyrics say, "You don't know why I left you. I insist on not making you cry/you don't know why I am hovering in the sky that you can't see. " In love, there are always things that the other person doesn't know. Love in your own way. Maybe the other person will never feel his love, but still love in his own way ... maybe this is true love. The album also includes a special edition of Song Xiaoqing's lyrics sung by Wang Leehom, and Wang Leehom wants you to hear the movie at the same time.
This song fully shows the love relationship in the movie "Love in disguise". The heroine has a crush on the senior, but the senior doesn't love her. The hero doesn't know that he is in love with the heroine. You love me and I love him … looking for a relationship; Finally, as we often say,
"The crowd found him thousands of Baidu suddenly looking back at the man is a dim light ..."
This song constantly shuttles through the love segments of the movie, cleverly pointing out the love theme in the movie, perhaps hidden in ambiguous ignorance, which is the most beautiful bitterness of love.
In addition to love that is always incomprehensible, when we cling to our own ideas, there may be many silent things around us that you don't know. In addition to love, the concept of "things you don't know" extends to the backbone of this story in the movie. In the movie "Love in Camouflage", Wang Leehom plays the big star Du and sneaks into the campus pretending to be Ade, surrounded by fans and classmates of the big star Du. However, he never noticed that the big star was around them. Adebayor always hears people around him talk about this big star realistically, and he has mixed feelings. He lives in the unreality of real life, shuttling between things he knows but doesn't know ...; Did it take you as long as he did to discover many things you didn't know before?
Boya's unique string means that the idiom "a bosom friend is hard to find" means that Chinked-out finds a bosom friend. Jiannan Zhou, the guzheng master of the Twelve Music Halls, helped out, and the lingering sound traveled through ancient and modern times.
Perfect bosom friend A Xin wrote lyrics to write the most perfect words in Leehom's heart.
A Xin of Mayday Band composed this fast-paced song "The Farewell of Boya". The creation started because Wang Leehom wanted to find a famous musician in ancient China, and later found the story of Boya in the Spring and Autumn Period. Boya's most famous encounter was with Zhong Ziqi's bosom friend. Boya decided to break the string because his bosom friend died in the early stage, and it is hard to find a bosom friend, which means "to break the string", which is the origin of the idiom "a bosom friend is hard to find" At that time, Leehom felt the same way and wrote this song, but he was distressed by the lyrics after writing it. Later, Wang Leehom thought of A Xin who helped him write the story of Peony Pavilion. He deeply felt that he was absolutely the best person for such a subject. No one can write these ancient touching stories more vividly than him, so he immediately handed this song to A Xin on May Day and explained his creative ideas, hoping that A Xin could help him write the lyrics. A Xin really lived up to expectations, and once again let Wang Leehom marvel at his talent! The cooperation between the two can also be called a confidant encounter!
In order to fully convey the artistic conception of this song, Wang Leehom put a lot of guzheng into the arrangement to express the ancient artistic conception, while Wang Leehom told the whole story with western-style hip-hop rhythm and storytelling, which instantly took you into the liberal arts state of mind and made you and I feel that some things are the same after centuries, that is, "bosom friends are hard to find"; In order to make the voice of the guzheng more beautiful, Wang Leehom specially invited Jiannan Zhou, a guzheng master who is a member of the 12 women's group, to play this song. With her wonderful guzheng, it really makes this song more vivid through ancient and modern times.
In the movie Love in Camouflage, the hero and heroine are played by Leehom, who meet and feel "bosom friends". Therefore, when shooting a movie, Wang Leehom also integrated this story into the plot of the movie, so he specially set the song "The Immortal of Boya" as the concept theme song of the movie, as the best annotation of their meeting before they fell in love!
Note: Boya is good at drumming, while Zhong Ziqi is good at listening. Boya played the lute and aimed at the mountains. Zhong Ziqi said, "Good! If you are like Mount Tai. " Determined to run water, Zhong Ziqi said, "Good! The ocean is like a river. " Boya Reid, Zhong Ziqi will win.
Boya swam in the shadow of Mount Tai, only to be caught in a rainstorm and stopped under a rock. Sorrow is the auxiliary of the piano and drum: at first, it is the exercise of rain, which makes the mountain collapse. Every time a song is played, Zhong Ziqi needs to be poor for its benefit. Boya gave up the piano and sighed, "Good! Very good! Listen to your husband's ambition. Imagine my heart, why should I escape? "
When I died in childhood, Boya said, there is no confidant in the world, but I will never drum again.
Wang Leehom New Cross-border Play Dongfeng, perform the western hip-hop symphony Eighteen Martial Arts, sing Chinked-out, and listen to China music to sing hip-hop.
This song "Eighteen Martial Arts", which gives full play to the "Chinked-out" style, is Wang Leehom's continuous efforts to combine pop music with Chinese musical instruments and carry forward China's traditional music; He thinks there are really many good things in China's music. After using the elements of Peking Opera, guzheng, pipa, erhu, gong and cymbal, he wanted to present the beauty and omnipotence of China music more completely this time. He played western hip-hop pop music with a whole group of China Music Symphony Orchestra composed of 50 people! He hopes that more young people can learn from foreigners. China's tradition is profound, neither ancient nor out of date. In this song, Wang Leehom wants you to hear that you can still play the melody of fresh western pop songs without any western musical instruments, and teach you to clap your hands, so that your body can't help following the rhythm and completely break your impression of the engraving of the national music symphony. Only Wang Leehom can do it. He teaches you to listen to eighteen martial arts in China traditional music!
Wang Leehom had the same idea in his first film, Love in disguise. The story is that a pop singer disguised himself as a national music department of a university in pursuit of sound, but was unexpectedly attracted by the beauty of national music; Therefore, with his popularity and influence in pop music, the charm of Chinese music is no longer hidden in the tradition, and he is left out in the corner of high attention. In the movie, the pop singer mistakenly stood on the performance stage of the National Music Symphony Orchestra, but unexpectedly innovated and combined the wonderful performance of pop music, which moved the audience. People who are used to listening to pop music once again accept the beauty of national music! Therefore, Wang Leehom also hopes to conquer the ears of every Chinese and foreign audience with this "eighteen martial arts"!
The movie "Love in disguise" and the song "You love me" sung by Du.
If Things You Don't Know is the theme song of the heroine Song Xiaoqing in the movie Love in disguise, then the song Du U loves me is the song of the hero Du. In the movie "Love in disguise", this song appeared in the concert of the big star Du. In order to truly show that the hero in the movie is the most popular pop singer in Asia, Wang Leehom specially held a "Du Concert".
The concert was filmed in Hongkou Gymnasium, and the popularity of the whole concert was no less than that of Wang Leehom's previous solo concert. The whole concert kicked off with a deep bass and loud drums. The fans gathered in Shanghai came from all over Asia, such as Japan, South Korea, Hongkong and mainland China. They were all excited that this might be the only chance to make a movie with their idols, and they called Wang Leehom's name "Du" in unison. Wang Leehom incarnated as the Monkey King, and danced China hip-hop with six dancers. Peking Opera actor and b-boy of street dance appeared on the same stage. In the interlude, Du Hanming's performance also incorporates difficult movements such as kung fu and dance, which not only shows the traditional simplicity and vitality, but also shows rich music, dazzling dance, shining scenery and gorgeous costumes. Wang Leehom released his passion for the big screen.
Wang Leehom's singer status is the first guarantee to control the biggest scene of the film. This scene is also the first time that Wang Leehom tried singing and dancing on the screen. Although facing the same familiar venues and fans as in the past, Wang Leehom is not only the protagonist of the concert, but also the director and star of the movie "Love in disguise". It is this change of identity that shows us his persistence and innovation in singing and dancing. Although he sprained his old foot in a jump, he still insisted on jumping up and down in pursuit of the best stage effect. Wang Leehom said,' Perhaps the closest part between Du and me is music, dance and movements, which will be very different, so it is for this reason that we can recall our differences. I hope you can go to the cinema to experience my understanding, design and performance of this role, because some things are unique to Du, and you may not have seen them from Wang Leehom. "This special concert with actors, crews and fans made Wang Leehom feel a lot. He clearly remembers every scene he experienced on the stage. This time it's really different. He is busier than any of my previous concerts. It took us two whole days to finish the play, and we devoted our efforts to all the staff and many fans of "Changing Love". "
"Love in disguise" Wang Leehom gives full play to her greatest advantage. The ever-changing music creation runs through the whole drama album, including different arrangements and new interpretations of Eighteen Martial Arts and Love in disguise.
Of course, the first film that Wang Leehom made for the first time was also based on what he was good at. The romantic comedy with strong musical color naturally cannot be separated from this new album "Eighteen Martial Arts". There are many creations in this new album in the movie, but all of them are short clips and simple melodies. In order to let fans hear these music more completely, they also have a feeling different from movie music. In particular, Wang Leehom re-arranged some of the songs into a completely different style from the music presented in the film, and included them in new albums, including Beauty and Tianya Haijiao. These two songs are presented from the perspective and mood of the leading actor Du in the movie, but in Wang Leehom's new album Eighteen Martial Arts, they are based on Wang Leehom's musical attitude. There are great differences between them. Wang Leehom hopes you can see Wang Leehom and Du and Ade when you go to the cinema.
Lonely people's songs, busy cities, dreamless world, lonely nights, everyone needs company.
This song was written and composed by Wang Leehom. This is a very lonely song, which reflects the deep heart of everyone who lives in a busy city.
It was Wang Leehom who saw the inner feelings of many busy people living in the city. He said that he often saw some people who were busy but had no goals. He always sees some people hugging each other every day without a sincere heart. He seems to see their inner loneliness, and their hearts need companionship. In order to cover up this loneliness, they always seem to live too fast and love too luxuriously ... Finally, as written in his song, I gradually lost my consciousness as a kind of self-escape. I need a dream, a direction, tears and a person to light up the dark sky.
Need someone to accompany you, and a few words will use up all the voices of lonely people.
Singing can heal wounds, music can calm wars and connect the world with love. Wang Leehom, a child of Roman Catholic school in China, continues to spread love and create a new creation of her own.
Wang Leehom, who has always spared no effort to do public welfare, went to Lion Mountain with World Vision Taiwan Province Branch in May 2009 to care for poor children. At that time, he brought many small musical instruments, became a music teacher to teach singing, and gathered all the children together to form a band. He said, "Music is the easiest medium to integrate people you don't know." To Wang Leehom's surprise, these children, who have never been exposed to these instruments, can naturally show incredible musical talent and sense of rhythm after his simple demonstration, which not only impressed Wang Leehom deeply, but also added a lot of inspiration to his music creation.
After the civil war of 1 1, Lion Mountain became very backward, but what moved Wang Leehom was that today, seven years after the end of the civil war, in the planning area helped by World Vision, people not only did not hate each other, but also worked together to rebuild their communities and lives. Their resilience in the face of disasters gave Wang Leehom hope. He said, "They are facing a very special situation."
After leaving Lion Mountain, what has been hovering in Wang Leehom's mind is the picture and feeling of getting along with the children; What he can't get over for a long time is that when he visited the diamond mine in Lion Mountain, he personally realized the cruel fact of "blood diamond". Every child has a sad story. The local poor children are waiting for a miracle by the river to collect their tuition fees ... A pair of big eyes full of longing makes Wang Leehom reluctant.
After returning to Taiwan Province Province, he composed the song "One of Our Own" and incorporated the chorus of children recorded by Lion Rock and Roman Catholic School in China into this song. He wants to convey the idea of "One World" and tell everyone that on earth, we should treat each other like our own, love each other and cherish our blessings. Happy, we should always remember that there are many hungry children in the distance waiting for warm hands to save them, waiting for them to be loved and cared for. Besides caring for them personally, Wang Leehom wants to use music to convey more love and connect the world with love.