The voice of doubt mainly comes from two aspects.
First of all, the quality of Jay Chou's new album is not flattering.
The album is called Greatest Works, but it seems to have nothing to do with the word "great" except that the first song is called Greatest Works.
And the song style is very similar to the mixed version of Jay Chou's old songs, which makes people laugh. "Isn't this really released after Jay Chou picked up a USB flash drive from under the bed and wrapped it at will?"
Followed by the songs included in the new album, five of the twelve songs are old songs.
This makes the expectant fans who have been playing Jay Chou's old songs for six years call out "cheated".
Public opinion continued to ferment, and some people rushed to overseas social platforms to scold Jay Chou and threatened to scold Jay Chou for quitting.
Jay Chou deleted the news overnight and started the review mechanism of comments, leaving only those likes such as "yyds" in the comment area.
Even so, the comments on Tucao's new album Ugly still rushed to the top of the hot search list, and the comments were selected as "One Leaf Blinds".
In everyone's eyes, "bad" will eventually pay the price, and Jay Chou was finally rejected this time.
This "disgust" even drew Jay Chou's response.
He said in the live broadcast: Many people like old songs because they have a sense of time and charm, and this sense of time is irreplaceable. So all the songs I write now are written for children, but no matter new songs or old songs, as long as I write them, they are all good songs.
0 1 Zhou Lang is exhausted and enduring.
There is no doubt that the chain reaction of Jay Chou's release of his new album is "Zhou Lang is exhausted".
This scene is also familiar. After all, every time Jay Chou published a new book over the years, everyone's reactions were surprisingly similar.
He must have entered an "infinite loop".
The starting point of the cycle comes from the constant voices of fans, constantly calling for Jay Chou to release a new album, and then Jay Chou released and planned a new song or album, and then the fans reveled, "Jay Chou came back" and "finally there was a new song to listen to".
This kind of comment overflowed all platforms, and then Jay Chou published a new book, which was finally ridiculed by everyone. People shook their heads and sighed that "Zhou Lang was exhausted".
It's endless, and everyone enjoys it. ......
Just how many times can the times and the market give Jay Chou the chance to "run out of talent"?
In the Millennium, Jay Chou was born in the Chinese music scene. At that time, the audience was the backbone of die-hard fans in Jay Chou today.
Most of them were born in the 1980s and 1990s. When they were in their teens and twenties, the coolness of Jay Chou's songs opened their imagination of the modern world, and also satisfied the rebellious spirit of children of this age.
There is also the Chinese style music he initiated, which perfectly combined the western romance with China's introversion and opened a new world of China songs.
So today, 20 years later, when this group of people grew up to be the leading force of media and discourse, Jay Chou constantly showed himself as the "king of music".
After all, in the minds of this group of people, Jay Chou's songs accompanied their most wanton youth. Whenever the melody rings, the most leisurely and soft memories in my heart will always come quietly.
It is precisely because of this that "the depth of love is the responsibility."
So fans always look forward to Jay Chou's new work, but they are always disappointed. The phrase "Zhou Lang is at the end of his rope" is full of people's memories of Jay Chou's talent and today's disappointment with Jay Chou's works.
Time waits for no man, Jay Chou will get old, and so will the fans in Jay Chou.
20 18 "Waiting for you to finish class" is a passable work with a general melody, but Jay Chou, who is nearly forty years old, is still writing "Waiting for you to finish class", which makes people feel that the pattern of Jay Chou has really regressed.
What is even more embarrassing is that this song has almost become one of the best songs in Jay Chou's new album after being included in "The Greatest Works".
In the same year's "Don't Love Me, Forget It", the lyrics of Tu are really spicy, which makes people can't help but ridicule that Jay Chou is competing with online celebrity singers for the market.
Say Don't Cry 20 19 Despite Fang Gang's lyrics and A Xin's help in May, the quality is still average.
In contrast, Mojito in 2020 is Jay Chou's most "surprising" sincere work in recent years, but it is nothing compared with his early works.
This time, the new album "The Greatest Work" is once again in controversy. Some netizens even found that the new album can be obtained overseas for free, which makes fans who obviously have app members need to spend 30 yuan to buy an audio source and call it "Jay Chou Cutting Leeks".
Similar voicing and controversial voices are flooding the Internet, but at least it shows that Jay Chou has a controversial fever.
Imagine that if Jay Chou continues to treat music in a bad way, then next time he may not be lamenting that "there are no talents in Zhou Lang", but a neglected market.
Jay Chou's era will eventually pass.
The golden age in my memory is the peak of music that I can't go back to.
Once upon a time, Jay Chou opened a new era and a new chapter in Chinese music.
From the birth of Jay, to the blockbuster of Fan Texi, to the myth created by Ye Huimei.
Jay Chou created a new trend of Chinese pop music with changeable style and thought-provoking content. At one time, the word Jay Chou almost became synonymous with music quality.
He sang his extreme opposition to domestic violence with "Dad, I am back"; Shanghai 1943 tells the story of Lao Shang Hai.
In the Name of Father, with retro piano music and suona, the strange music style completely broke away from the shackles of traditional pop music and became Jay Chou's first masterpiece.
Not to mention the highly popular national music, compendium of materia medica, nunchakus, straight answer boxing and dragon boxing. He combines tradition and modernity perfectly to create classical and romantic pop music without losing the sense of modernity.
It's just that the myth has not been continued. After Jay Chou became popular and was completely accepted by the public, he gradually became comfortable with the status quo.
With the 20 10 album "Through the Times" as the dividing line, Jay Chou will never return on the road of "smashing".
There is no denying that Cross-Times is ambitious. As can be seen from the title of the album, Jay Chou will once again create a new era of pop music.
But the quality of Time Travel didn't keep up with his ambition.
At that time, some people's comments on him hit home.
"Jay Chou opened the first few years of China hip-hop and R&'s debut; The era of B school relied on the great wisdom of collecting money, and now it relies more on the cleverness of different music forms. "
If Time Travel only lacks some stunning and fluent works, then the following two albums, Exclamation Point and opus 12, are the iconic albums of Jay Chou's Bad.
In the current online buzzwords, you can clearly tell me that you want to lie flat, but you have to write some albums to disgust me, and then let me savor it carefully and come to the conclusion: Yes, I just screwed up!
Ouyang Xiu once put forward the view that "poverty leads to change", which is a classic literary theory, meaning that the turmoil of the times and the frustration of poets are the necessary conditions for producing great works.
In recent years, Jay Chou has been immersed in the myth bubble created by himself, enjoying the nourishment of love and family. For him, music art is no longer the first pursuit, so his spirit and characteristics are gone, but he has become more cordial and peaceful.
The chaotic melody and gold-plated electronic sound in the exclamation point.
The work 12 is nothing new, even rough.
"The Greatest Works" adopts ppt-style arrangement, which combines many artists and artistic terms technically.
Jay Chou's songs have sung about the times, the society, his profound thinking and his unique pursuit.
So there was "my love for you is buried deep in the Mesopotamian plain".
There is the grandeur of "burning candlelight in a bad night, breaking the breath of war, lamentation spreading thousands of miles, famine in my hometown"
There is also the affection and delicacy of "the little yellow flower of the story, which floated from the year of birth, and the swing of childhood has been swaying with memory until now".
Today, Jay Chou is obsessed with the love songs and mysterious "brother's taste" confession on the rotten streets in the market.
Lyrics such as "If you still want to rely on your brother's chest muscles" have become the source of inspiration for netizens' leisure teasing and secondary creation.
All this, Jay Chou's new album suffered a lot of ridicule, but it got a clue.
In 2003, Jay Chou, sturm und drang, has gradually learned to join the WTO.
Jay Chou once wrote this sentence on the inside page of his first album "Jay".
"I hope I can admire myself after hearing my own songs", which is very arrogant and Jay Chou.
In an exclusive interview with Jay Chou on 20 17, he said frankly: "Sometimes listening to his old songs in the car is really surprising. How could I write such a good song at that time! "
In fact, Jay Chou himself once admitted that the songs he wrote now were not as good as before.
He said in the same interview, "I used to write songs really hard. I wrote them day and night. I don't care what the market likes or what others are singing. I only write what I like. But now that I have been in the business for a long time, I am a little slack, and then I will pay attention to the wind direction of the market. "
Jay Chou, who just debuted, was unknown. He always smiles when he recalls that time on many occasions.
"At that time, I just wanted to make music, write songs for many singers and give things to others. It doesn't matter if I don't pay. Sing, but no one sings my songs. "
Jay Chou was very stubborn at that time. He can stay in the recording studio all night to write songs, and he doesn't care about the wind direction of the market for what he likes.
Musician Yang Junrong admired him very much and strongly recommended him to debut. Then his first new album, Jay Chou, was released, and Jay Chou became an instant hit.
Popularity is often mixed. On the one hand, he is seen by more people, and with more right to speak, he can create more freely. On the other hand, it also means that he needs to take into account the needs of more people.
In today's market environment, music is not only a singer's self-expression, but also a compromise after the accurate calculation of big data.
Jay Chou, who has been in the entertainment circle for many years, clearly understands this.
In 2007, Jay Chou left his old club to start a business and founded Jewel, which also means that his responsibilities are getting bigger and bigger.
As a result, self-expression is less and less, and the market wants more and more content.
Of course, it is not that it is not good to cater to the market, but that the market is mainly guided by monetary interests. What he needs is to reconcile the tastes of most people.
At this time, the talents and pursuits of individual pioneers need to be erased and replaced by those called "saliva".
Jay Chou wedding 20 14. Since then, his creative career has entered a new era.
After marriage, Jay Chou seems to have returned to her family, and her creative ambition is not so great.
It won't be like when I was 20 years old. Because of a promise from Wu Zongxian, I wrote nearly 50 songs in ten days. Nor will it maintain the rhythm of a high-quality album every year as it did when it first debuted.
Because of this, fans joked that "the biggest enemy of Chinese music is Hannah Quinlivan".
As a result, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for Jay Chou to appear in the music world. We only know that he may have put on weight recently, or he has taken his children shopping again. ......
He was a teenager when he came back, but this time he is not as good as before.
The wheel of the times is rolling forward. Digital albums and divine comedy have subverted the traditional music ecology. However, no matter how the external environment changes, Jay Chou always seems to be at the center of the market. After all, no one can overthrow Jay Chou except himself.
The spread of songs has undergone several media changes, and the emergence of the Internet and music apps in the past decade has undoubtedly accelerated the spread of music and updated the distribution and creation mode of music.
Once a song needed to be polished for several years, and an album needed professionals to enter the market.
In the network era, the logic and mode of music production have undergone fundamental changes.
In the contemporary music creation ecology, a new song will be produced every half minute. They are low-cost, and they are produced as quickly as an assembly line and enter the market.
The digital age makes the standards and rules of music gradually clear, but people's aesthetics and judgments are increasingly blurred. As long as it is lively and fashionable, it can attract most of the traffic.
Throughout last year's popular songs, short video songs such as Treading Mountains and Rivers, Sea of Clouds, Bai Yueguang and Zhu Shazhi are impressively listed.
The noisy market environment and the increasingly impetuous music scene make Jay Chou look precious.
In the face of the changes in the ecological environment of the music scene and the new generation of children who have grown up under the influence of short videos, it is obviously not enough for Jay Chou to maintain its appeal in the music scene only by relying on his feelings and living on his laurels, so keeping up with the times and releasing a new album is the only way out.
To put it bluntly, the new album is not only a weapon to consolidate old fans, but also a way to inject fresh blood into the fan base.
If it is successful, Jay Chou can successfully absorb the generation of 10 into his fan territory and become the new generation of memories of youth, so Jay Chou can still enjoy his bonus in the future of 10 or 15.
Judging from the current situation, the release of Jay Chou's new album obviously failed to achieve the expected effect, or had a negative impact.
The album songs are filled with previous songs, and the quality of other songs is not satisfactory.
"Pink Ocean" begins with a "Chicken" and is full of pink bubbles, which makes people wonder whether this song was written by a man in his forties.
There are obviously several voices in Missing Fireworks that can't keep up with the demand of high notes.
"Beauty as Frost" is a well-performed Chinese style music, with no bright spots and even a little taste of online songs.
Reflection has a feeling of deja vu, not as good as The Mermaid. ......
In short, the quality of the new album is really not as good as before
Of course, today, Jay Chou's position in the pop music circle has been unshakable. In this era of fast consumption of short videos, Jay Chou's old songs remind the public of the time when the God of Pop Music fought around the Millennium.
Jay Chou's songs are still the spiritual sustenance of a group of people in this era when everyone is shouting "Return or Youth".
The glory is still there, and the memories are still there. No one knows whether Jay Chou can make great achievements in the future, but what is certain is that he didn't do it this time.
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