"The sparrow outside the window/talking on the telephone pole..."
When the familiar prelude sounded, we seemed to have returned to the afternoon when we were blowing fans and gnawing watermelons. Maybe you can't help but sing down. The feeling of summer".
But what is it like in summer? In other words, when we listen to a song related to summer, what exactly are we listening to?
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After removing the expired and repeated entries, we finally got 251 songs related to summer , and 13 million comments posted by netizens.
What are you singing about "Song of Summer"? The overall tone is happy
"Summer Wind" composed by Jay Chou has been sung frequently in recent years. The voice of the singer is different, and the laziness in the tune has not changed. The whispering melody surrounds the ears, just like the summer monsoon visiting on time, and "wind" is one of the most common images in summer songs, , every time you open two songs, one may be singing the wind. . Is
the wind or the heart? In summer songs, love is the untouchable theme , as many as 210 songs mentioned love, and relative hatred only appeared in 11 songs.
When romantic lyricists begin to describe summer, they are all warm colors. It seems that all the beautiful words in the world can be put in the same paragraph as summer.
Although there are occasional loneliness and misses, just like the sudden rainstorm in the summer afternoon, happy mood is still the main line in summer songs. The lyrics are obviously biased towards the positive emotional color of , which is almost half of the songs. Less than 10% are laughing and crying.
This is not only reflected in the lyrics, but also very similar in terms of arrangement and production. "The New York Times" has analyzed the characteristics of summer hot lists. Take the 10 hottest songs of " Billboard " in the summer of 2010 as an example. Their volume, vitality value and rhythm are all above the average level, compared with the original sound. Musical instruments, I prefer electric guitar , synthesizer , and the similarity is very high .
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The report also pointed out that summer songs seem to be more and more homogeneous . In the last century, they have their own advantages, but in the 2010s they became almost the same, as if they seized the market's preferred traffic. password.
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click on "Summer Songs", but I listen to myselfMemories of
The tone of "Summer Song" is positive and sunny, but must the people who listen to the song be very happy? French literature critic Roland Barthes once said, "The author is dead" and the reader's interpretation of the text plays a decisive role. In fact, changing reading to listening to music is almost the same. When the creator of
writes the summer song, he looks more towards the future, but the listener is more or less trapped in the memories of the past-in the wonderful comment area of each song, "youth" remembers "" Later, time-related words such as ""at the time" appeared repeatedly, with laughter and tears, separation and reunion.
And when people look back on their youth that has been blown by the wind, of course people who spent the summer together are indispensable in their memory. They may be friends and family around them, or they may be secretive, using only girls or boys to refer to " Summer Riddle".
Back to that question, when we listen to summer songs, what are we listening to? used to listen more to the song itself . The reason for the single cycle may be that the song is moving, the singing is cool, and even the lyrics are well written. The composition can be used for reference. But now, may be listening to my own heart knots and memories .
Among the most resonant comments in the playlist, someone listed the summer debris scattered in youth, the sun, the white shirt, the cleaning, the class teacher hiding in the back door... The scene may be simple, but it is already the most beautiful story. .
With the passage of time, the perception of the same song has also changed. Sixiang collected 248 songs when they first hit the shelves and 100 recent reviews, and found that only 37 recent reviews were more positive, and there were as many as 204 more negative reviews than before.
Take "Except for Spring Love and Cherry Blossoms" as an example. When the song was first released, most of the comments were on the song itself, such as "coming" and "good". Recent comments are full of listeners' own stories, lingering and small. Sweet songs can't help but become bitter.
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may be like "Wulin Biography" said, "A life is short, like a white horse passing a gap, fleeting; but this mood is very long, like mountains and rivers, endless", a song Memories brought up by simple songs may be overwhelming, The single you have cycled in the summer of a certain year, if you hear it on any day of the rest of your life, it is the feeling of summer .
Which summer song is exclusively for you?
