How to evaluate Hua Chenyu?

I recently went to Paris and saw Van Gogh's paintings. I feel the same way every time I see them. Although his photos are so dazzling and gorgeous, I still feel sorry for them. I don't like to describe him with this style and that painting. In fact, it can be seen with the naked eye. Every stroke and every color has his naked struggling soul, his life and blood, his fiery feelings, his wonderful world and the real world. He didn't fail, and so did his painting. Are all treasures of the world. But as soon as he was born, people in the French town of arles couldn't stand him, saying that he was crazy, and finally sent him to an insane asylum, and he died not long after. Today, I listened to a new song, Hua Chenyu's, called "The Madhouse", and I was dumbfounded.

A pure artist is usually regarded as a madman because what they think and do is not understood by ordinary people. They are in this secular world, but their spirit is elsewhere. The purpose of their life is nothing more than to express what they think, to show the ultimate world, and to exhaust their lives and emotions without asking for anything in return. Mu Xin once said that art has no sympathy for the object. How well he spoke, we can see a completely different world through them and benefit a lot, but they sacrificed their lives for it.

Hua Chenyu is pure and a real artist, which is rare in China today. He just creates art through music. Maybe many people in China don't know the benefits, and they can't tolerate him like the people in that French town. This is my worry after listening to "The Madhouse".

The most important feature of post-modern art is to break and deconstruct various rules and boundaries of the world and art. Artists can play with anything, and the key is what you say. Last year, Hua Chenyu gave birth to "Coming" and "Bullfighting", and I heard some clues. Later, I wrote Sheng Xi for a dance of Shenwei. This year, The Tree of God, The Madhouse, Seven Personality, I really want to love this world have all come out. He is very spiritual and sacred, which is hard to find. No one in China can write such music.

A true artist has two main characteristics. First of all, they are born. They are people who understand God among human beings. They are gifted, others can't do it. I don't like being called a genius. He's not. He's a genius, a real genius! Second, they are in complete control of the media and have profound self-cultivation. They can play anywhere they want. I don't care what art history and art criticism say. In the final analysis, artists are creators and people who break the tradition, and theorists are just interpreters. Their explanations are often far-fetched, and real artists will not care. Hua Chenyu has both. Not that you have a good artistic accomplishment. You know this genre and that genre. If you can play any musical instrument, you can write good songs. If you don't have talent and creativity, you can't make a good work anyway. You are a scholar at best. Tell a joke, there is a work written by a so-called palace figure in China, which uses many notes with pound symbols to express the extraordinary music. The whole work sounds not only inferior, but also completely out of tune. A friend who sang a drama came over and sang once and shouted, "He's crazy! There must be something wrong with his ears! Is he crazy? Write like this! There must be something wrong with his ears! " The whole song came out and went to six countries. He was in so much pain that we couldn't stand laughing.

Hua Chenyu's art, from the musical language, that is, his musicality, to what he wants to express, as well as the depth of his thoughts and thinking, is beyond the reach of all the music works I have heard in China now. Please forgive me for not listening to it all. He plays art. Last year, I said he played pop music and rock. In fact, his early "cancer" has been a pure pioneer. He just didn't post much to us. This year, he released more. Too pure, too naked, too dangerous, the world will not tolerate. Van Gogh is an example. Fortunately, Hua Chenyu has many fans who grew up with him. He is much luckier than Van Gogh.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of musical aesthetics. For example, western classical music and songs from rotten streets in Teresa Teng are well-known and have beautiful melodies, but there is still a competition between personality and aesthetics here. As an art, it is undeniable that it is a higher level of aesthetics, which expresses artists' deep and thorough understanding and thinking about gods, the world, mankind and life, and is their insight. They use the media in their hands, which can be musical instruments (including human voices) or any material things, such as oil paints and canvases, to make works. In order to refine their thoughts, they do not hesitate to strive for perfection in life. This kind of work far exceeds the pleasure of the senses. It touches the soul, pulls people into a mysterious real world, a place different from this secular world, and makes people experience what they have experienced and feel what they feel.

When I heard Hua Chenyu's new song "Coming" last year, my first reaction was that he was going in the direction of tracing the source. At the same time, I think this is inevitable, and I am a little worried that his future things will not be "human". A pure artist is the same as a philosopher, because in the end, their ultimate objects are God and the universe, as well as the whole world and mankind. They are thinking about the most essential problems in the world. Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, once asked, "Who am I? Where did it come from? Where to go? " Gauguin painted directly with this problem. Hua Chenyu's "Coming" and this year's "Holy Tree" describe the origin of our Chinese civilization and the relationship between people living in the Yellow River valley in ancient times and God (heaven) and nature. Simple and natural, very close, "arrival" in it, they accept the gifts of nature and heaven, prolong their lives, and its melody is so beautiful, a little sad and fascinating. The "Holy Tree" also said that it was not easy for this nation to come down for thousands of years. Our philosopher Laozi said, "Heaven and earth are heartless, and everything is a grass dog", and he saw through the hopeless fate of people in this world. Trees are symbols of God and nature, and they are the foundation and shelter of people's lives. I heard his struggle with darkness, disaster, destruction, fear and hopeless fate, which was very gratifying. He has always had a soul that doesn't want to be swallowed up by darkness. It seems that last year's worries were unnecessary.

The melody of these two songs is unique to China, with five tones. For thousands of years, we in China have been singing like this. Although we have never heard our ancestors sing, who has heard the real ancient sound since childhood? No, concerts convey emotions, pictures and even people's spiritual temperament. Unfortunately, these have not been handed down, and Hua Chenyu has given an imaginable space and picture. His music has a sense of picture. When listening to "arrival", he felt that his ancestors were in the wilderness and had pictures of their lives. Heaven and man are one, and the soft wind blows on your face.

Our ancient Chinese characters are exquisite, regular, legal and rhythmic, and they are all one word. In fact, it talks about the inner truth of a thing, and its own laws are not transferred by human will. The key is that people must abide by this law before they can do it themselves. In the myths and legends of China, it was a demigod named Fuxi who discovered the relationship between various voices. He summed up the melody and invented China's first musical instrument, the lyre, and China had music. God discovered melody and taught it to people. People can skillfully use it and write extraordinary music. Isn't such a person enlightened by God? At the age of 24, Hua Chenyu could write such beautiful melodies as A Gift from quasimodo and Julu. It was an apocalypse, and I had nothing to say. The true beauty is "returning to the original", which is the highest aesthetic of China people since ancient times. This year's new song is "Dialogue among Fans", which is as simple as tears. Only purity can be true and deeply rooted in people's hearts. No artificial rules are needed. At this time, heaven is natural, and it is natural to carve. I believe that's what he meant. Few people can do this, so I never like people talking nonsense about Van Gogh's paintings, saying that he is doing this and that. In fact, he is nothing, he is born in heaven.

The madhouse, Seven Personality and I really want to love this world are the ultimate works. While observing himself, he also observed all sentient beings, made the deepest thinking on human nature and life, and had a profound insight into the bloody cruelty of the present world and the nothingness and despair of fate. After listening to this, I only feel sad, because he is also a human being. In fact, my first reaction is to hope that he will love someone quickly and live a secular life, not like Van Gogh. He who sees through does not have much choice, or chooses to give up. That's how the Buddha teaches people, or they are extremely painful and crazy. But the real artist is the one who sees the truth and the gods. They are pure and true, and they don't deceive themselves. But how can a soul suffer from the hopeless pain of blood and tears every day? You heard his struggle and struggle, as well as his pain and his cry for help. Oh, my God, stop it. Deceive yourself and wait. This is my contradiction, such as seeing Van Gogh's paintings. I want his pure and true art, but I don't want him to suffer. Mastering one's own destiny and fighting against darkness are the themes that often appear in his works. He has been fighting. For myself, for mankind, what I hear is a strong desire to survive and persistence in despair. His pain is as shocking as his stubbornness.

The music of these new works is extreme, with the sadistic tone of "madhouse" and pure China rap, which is contained in the melody and is very unique. In fact, I really don't like China's rap that completely imitates hip-hop, which is an African-American accent. We China people don't talk like this since ancient times, which sounds wrong. Hua Chenyu's rap never had a black accent. There is no denying the way black people speak. This is not you. The word "seven-fold personality" is clear and round, but it is different. Rap occupies half of the world's pop music. I don't know what China really looks like, but I hope that China's rap is the way we speak in China, and it is the accent of China, not the accent of other races. In fact, rap has existed in China since ancient times, such as Pingtan, Yin Qing, Sichuan and so on, and it is still related to pop music. Any art contains elements of science and technology, and artists will do whatever it takes to achieve the desired effect. Hua Chenyu mentioned extremes many times, not without reason. If you have ever sung a song, you must have this experience. Many of them are awkward to sing, and the words don't match the singing. Hua Chenyu's lyricists should be changed and rewritten, and the words must be to his liking and melody. The harmony and orchestration he wants are special. Only in this way can we hear works of art ... Besides, he has rich artistic accomplishment. Look at the styles and styles he dabbled in, he has no trace. Listen and you will know his basic skills. The key is that the construction of music is full of whimsy and inspiration. Adapting other people's things, let yourself thoroughly remould oneself, completely become his things, completely recreate. "One Drunk", "Skateboarding Shoes" and "Contra" ... too many, all good.

I've been talking about his art and music creation, but I haven't mentioned one of the most important things, his singing skills, the expression of his vocal strength and his excellent singing skills. How lucky Hua Chenyu is that God familiarized him with the truth and melody and gave him two invincible vocal muscles in his throat. He can not only write with his brain, but also sing with his voice. His chest is enormous (his friend's language). He seems to be born to sing. He can sing more than three octaves, especially the high notes are pleasing to the ear and the timbre is perfect. Apart from his good background, he is skilled and very professional. He has extreme requirements for the timbre of his works, and sound is only a part of his works, a vocal instrument. He wrote a song with different timbres. He plays with music and his own voice. His voice is in the chest, throat and stomach for a while, and in the head, nose and throat for a while. He can imitate the sound, imitate the sound of musical instruments. This time, there is a musical instrument called Yan in Seven Personality and New World, which is amazing! His ethereal treble can fly directly over the head and diffuse in the air; Deep bass will also rush out of your throat and vibrate in your eardrum for a long time. Third, he feels so good that his sense of music is natural. He is integrated with the sound and only serves music. He can be extreme and natural in control and expression, not promiscuous, and has a good impression on overseas Chinese, without any falsehood. False emotion is a taboo in singing, which is related to the singer's aesthetics. A person thinks that the emotion he joins is beautiful and lyrical, but he never wants to expose his aesthetic defects. There are many fake things, which are unnatural to install. As I said before, carving them naturally is beautiful. So how can we not fake, pretend and exert ourselves? This is a person's lifelong homework, lifelong cultivation, culture, aesthetics, spirit and character cultivation. Listen to his explanation. Every song he sings, even other people's songs, has nothing extra. Delicate, rich in layers, directly hitting people's hearts. Emotion and voice are properly controlled, but they have extreme tension and explosiveness. This is art. His singing style is changeable. I told him in an article that he is androgynous and very dazzling and unique. Every time I hear him sing Eternal Life, I think, D? n？ Have they heard of it? It's really unusual. His voice sings different wildness and enchanting. Greek mythology and our China mythology are both stories about singers. It is an extraordinary gift for God to sing, not to mention us mortals. Isn't it enlightened to be able to sing and write to professionals like Hua Chenyu?

Hua Chenyu may know that people understand and appreciate his art, and he feels gratified. After all, Van Gogh was not born when he was born, but he was lucky and belonged to his audience. He is an outstanding artist now. His concert alone is like a music festival. Haikou was occupied by his fans two days ago, and his songs were everywhere in street restaurants. Last year, he held two shows in the Bird's Nest. Some people said that he was not popular? No circle? Last week, I heard him sing in a restaurant in downtown new york. His art as a minority is staggering. I only hope that he will always have such strong creativity and new works, and that his life can be as free as he wishes!