"Tomboy" Ella Chen Jiahua, how have these years used music to complete the transformation step by step

[Author/Music Critic: Qingyanling]

On March 12, the women's group talent show " youth with you 2" was launched. Ella Chen Jiahua acted as a mentor and sang "How Old Are You" live, which aroused strong resonance from the audience. Unlike most of the instructors and contestants on this stage who choose to sing and dance, Ella quietly sang a new song of her 2019, used music to communicate with all dream girls, and expressed her understanding of feelings and life.

Now that we see Ella, we can still easily think of the SHE that has been popular for many years. This girl who was once called a "tomboy" in the women’s group, later made a film by herself, and now she is also a mentor to the women’s group. Over the years, it can be said that it is a good interpretation of the progression of being an idol.

may talk about Ella and SHE. Some fans still have their impression of them in the "Super Star" period. With this golden tune, the three girls at that time seemed to have become a household name from the popular youth girl group overnight. The popular music troupe is unparalleled in popularity.

To this day, "Super Star" still has a lot of traffic on music websites, and it is also a must-see for KTV. It is precisely because the classic level of this song is too explosive, that SHE and Ella have been "set" in their music resumes for a long time. What I want to share with you today is more than 10 years after "Super Star". Ella Chen Jiahua.

Of course, we must first affirm this 2003 song. It made Ella, who was acting as an idol drama and a girl group at the time, gained a lot of popularity. From the album cover of "Super Star", it can be seen that S.H.E's early division of labor has always been very clear. Ella takes a neutral wind, hebe is a little cold and sweet, and Selina is responsible for sweetness. Among them, Ella's neutrality was also shown in many idol dramas that were popular at the time.

From "Rose of Love" to "The Destiny" and then to "Teenage Girls", Ella, who often shows people with short hair, has become a recognized "tomboy" in the entertainment circle.

Later, until 2012, when Ella announced her wedding, many fans suddenly discovered that the "tomboy" Ella, who played the main bass in S.H.E, had such a "female" side. Ella put on a wedding dress, became what thousands of female fans want to be: independent career, honest personality, family and beauty. After playing

, ​​Ella really rarely dressed as a "tomboy". In the later albums of S.H.E, she also kept long hair and became a gentle and pleasant wife.

In August 2018, which coincided with the 17th anniversary of S.H.E, the three also released a new single "Seventeen" for all fans. The song sings "Let's walk together to eternity, and please accompany us to witness", this song touched thousands of fans, and it was nominated for two awards of the Golden Melody Award that year. It took a few years to release a new song together. , But the strength of the SHE Tian Group can still play.

It is worth mentioning that one year before the song "Seventeen" was released, Ella gave birth to her son Jinbao and became the first mother in S.H.E. This also explains why there are fewer S.H.E fits in recent years, and Ella's busy family must be one of the reasons.

Ella, who will turn 39 in June of this year, has gradually transformed from a "tomboy" into a woman of the age who has succeeded in her career and family in the past 20 years. But many fans who really like her know that apart from "Super Star" and "Seventeen", apart from S.H.E, and apart from the identity of a mother, she is still an excellent talent in terms of Ella's music.

In 2015, there are few new S.H.E members who have released their own solo albums one after another. Ella is no exception. In this year, she handed over her first solo album "Why Not". At that time, I hadn’t bought a physical record for many years.I bought the "Why Not" collection, it is one of my most circulated records in recent years.

For the majority of fans, this album is indeed very popular. For example, Xiami Music and Douban Music, album ratings on these two platforms are mostly accurate and objective. At present, the 2015 "Why Not" album has a stable rating, Xiami 9.1 points, Douban 8 points, a perfect score of 10, this album's word-of-mouth performance on these two websites is obviously very good.

compare it to make it easier for everyone to understand this rating. A few months before Ella launched "Why Not", Jolin Tsai released the classic album "Bah", Jay Chou and also released "Oh, that's good". These two albums are also well received. Their ratings are Jolin Tsai's "Bah" Xiami 9.2 points, Douban 8.1 points, Jay Chou "Oh, that's good" Xiami points 9.1, Douban 7.1 points. As you can see, the scores of these three albums are very close.

Of course, there is no very authoritative scoring platform in the Chinese market. Xiami and Douban can only be used as a reference (QQ Music and Kugou Music do not have an album scoring function), so in view of the situation that some listeners do not agree with this score, of course It is also understandable. I just want to say that on the same platform, the audience who participated in the scoring of these three albums are basically the same. Therefore, if many listeners at that time were obsessed with the two albums of Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou, then this is Ella’s Zhang should not be missed.

Ella, with her first solo album, in addition to gaining a high reputation, the most important thing is that, for her, she used many songs in the album to express her love, hatred, emotions, emotions and sorrows, and most importantly Values, love concept, etc.-Ella puts her own story, heart, understanding of life, and the world on the album "Why Not".

Let me give an example. The first track in

"Why Not" is called "Why Not", and it was also the title song of this album at that time. The song lasted for more than 6 minutes and began with harsh thunder, after which Ella said in a low voice: Hey, how are you tonight? It rained heavily on my side at night... It seemed to create a scene of a woman's broken thoughts, but the subsequent explosion has already laid the groundwork. With a slightly weird background music, Ella began to tell some scenes and stories in her life: it was funny to see a sentence by chance that day, so it is said that women are as elusive as the weather, and men are like the weather The report is just as unreliable... The song is about to pass halfway, and the audience may still be quite puzzled. What is the singer trying to express? The explosion of emotions immediately detonated, and Ella began to cry: Oh my god, but is it just two souls in love? Is it that great? Is it so difficult? Have? really? Was it going to collapse that day? Digging cow ~ so tired!

We are beginning to understand the emotional expression of singers: happiness is a matter for two people. Who really understands right and wrong? Even if there is no result, what is wrong, this is our choice... The longer the introduction, the longer the song will be. The greater the degree of acceptance, Ella used this very individual song to show her ability to control music, and also just to show her understanding of the topic of "love", to all the men and women who fall in love and face entanglements. We have a lesson vividly. The same goes for other songs in "Why Not"

. Each capital has a different feeling, which explains the different moods of the singers. Therefore, this "Why Not" by Ella is really 2015, and even today, it is a classic that is worthy of collection and recycling by the Philharmonic.

Through this album, many listeners can put aside the image of "Tomboy" Ella in an instant. As long as we listen to it, we can immediately jump out of the "Super Star" mentioned at the beginning of the article Ella, because she passed " The metamorphosis and transformation of "Why Not" is really amazing! After

released this album, Ella has been busy with family and children for a while. Now she has appeared in the audience's eyes again in the past two years, with more variety shows, such as " Create 101", "Masked Singer", and "Youth with You 2" mentioned at the beginning of the article. In these programs,Ella still uses deliberate and individual music works to meet with music fans. Although the external image has changed tremendously over the years, her original intention of music has never changed.

It seems that in a blink of an eye, Ella will be 39 years old soon, maybe no longer a girl, maybe the classic memory that belongs to SHE will gradually end, but I am still sure that the future of these girls, whether it is music, film, television, variety shows, will remain the same The possibilities are endless.

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