What should a performer do when he/she is on the stage? Sing like hell broke loose? Sing till the last energy that he/she had? Well, maybe. In a certain extent that shows showmanship, without constraints on stage. But let's fall back a little on studio recording. Personally the above descriptions will work very well for live performances (and immediately caught others' attention), but comes to studio recording, well it is another thing. As for 'durability' in such performances, I will be wow in the first round, but soon get tired over the exaggeration in performance (if it kepts repeating the same mould).
To me, music is not just showing how good you are but to be able to connect, is a tough thing to understand/intrepret by singers, especially good songs are hard to come by. Even the best singers if don't have good songs to complement with, will be hard to reach out to more people.
Recently I attended one of the live performances by Wei Lian, and heard his second new song, titled 孤单好吗?. At first when I heard was just alright, but the more times I heard, (after I formatted into mp3) slowly his flavour stood out. I did commented that some parts of the lyrics were not as good as expected(a bit more 诗情画意 would be perfect), but certain parts of the songs were subtly good. The first four verses, the 'di da di da la' interlude singing and last part when he sang '像个小孩他并不听话', are the climatic parts to his songs, and if the studio recording is as good/耐听- no worries that this song will be loved by people.
NTU Red Cross Charity Show - Gu Dan Hao Ma
Kris Allen - Ain't No Sunshine
The similarity between Wei Lian and Kris is they are blackhorses. Yes, Wei Lian has a good voice, but the truly awesome performances of his came much later in the show, that pushes his popularity even higher to eventual champion. (e.g "我的生活在哪里", "走出黑暗的世界吧! 朋友!", "HEAVEN KNOWS", "我真的受伤了") Just like Kris. At first, I see Kris as just a charming boy-next-doy. But this song show a more emotional and rawness of him. He's there to perform not to compete, which makes him more attractive and the judges agreed in the sense they never compared him to others and said his confidence level came across very well. Let's hope he will be able to proceed on till at least top 5. (I just feel that Adam will be overall champion since he's of a total different league, the rest is just to 陪跑)
Another singer/song I would like to introduce is 陳綺貞 - 魚. The whole song didn't mentioned about fish related stuff, but rather depict how fish can 自由自在 in the marine world, drawing a parallel to human world. She is a good composer who writes songs that reflect not just love but life as well.
收放自如 type of singing is what will capture my attention. Able to play music instruments while singing at ease is even more desirable, add points to the singer of being more a musician than a performer. Eventually when I buy an album is to listen not to see (I don't think anyone will keep seeing how good the photos are in an album, but definitely good songs will be on the repeat mode in their player).
So looking forward to Wei Lian's performances in CSS night! All the best! :D
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