Introducing "Xiao Mei", some of the lyrics of beyond's songs were written by him

Introduction to BEYOND lyricist Xiaomei

Xiaomei

Lyricist: Xiaomei

Worked on BEYOND's "Really Love You" Lyricist won the Hong Kong Top 10 Chinese Golden Melody Award in 1991

Real name: Liang Meiwei

Era: 1980s

Xiao Mei is a person who is good at creating extraordinary in the ordinary. poet.

Originally, as a lyricist, Xiaomei tends to reuse certain specific images. The descriptions in her lyrics are sometimes very bland, and her understanding of life and emotions is not deep enough. However, she can often add one or two magical words to ordinary lyrics, making the songs become famous songs that are passed down for a while. In addition, she has also been willing to innovate in recent years, sometimes giving people unexpected surprises in terms of subject matter and style.

Xiao Mei's famous work was "A Few Winds and Rains" written for Luo Wen in 1986. This song set off a craze for autobiographical lyrics. The lyricist succeeded in using "wind and rain" as the keynote of the lyrics, which provided an appropriate atmosphere for a typical self-encouragement work. The wind and rain in the poem are not only the central image, but also a metaphor for the unsatisfactory life, making the scenes match each other, and finally conveying the message of self-encouragement in an implicit way. Among them, "swearing and getting tired" and "having tasted the coronation of the rain and the breeze" are some of the fresher words and phrases, adding a touch of vitality to the lyrics. This smooth and smooth lyrics can be said to stand out due to the right time and place. Later, "Silent Gratitude" written for Alan Tam no longer relied on ups and downs as embellishments, but looked back at the past at night as the basic atmosphere of the lyrics, making it more profound.

In terms of love lyrics, Xiaomei's early "Piling Up Emotions" has a feminine flavor that is rare in the works of male poets. What is outstanding about this poem is the metaphor the poet makes around "accumulation", which visualizes the accumulation of the poet's emotional troubles. And "Having Never Been Deeply Loved Is Already Heartless" further accumulates and displays the tenderness of "Stacked Emotions" in front of the audience.

"Rain", "night" and "dream" are Xiaomei's commonly used themes. ＜Rainy Day＞ Use the image of rain to highlight the feeling that things are different and people are different ("On a rainy night, my beloved parted"), it also transforms into rain that "blocks the road", "crys" and even washes away memories, achieving the effect of blending scenes. . The "night" in "It's night, okay?" also plays the role of deepening the context of the word. "Micro Dream" uses "dream" throughout the entire poem, starting from "dream after dream", to "lying in a dream" to "dream in my arms" to "dream is no longer a dream", allowing the dream and the lyrics to deepen simultaneously. , making the feelings in the words more profound. In "Dreamless Poetry", "dream" is cleverly turned into an adjective, concisely and comprehensively turning the old poems into an empty appearance of sorrow.

It is a pity that Xiaomei sometimes overuses these images of rain, night and dreams. When the accumulation of emotions is not enough and becomes a pile-up, it becomes a song without rain, an empty and superficial "dreamless". word".

Among Xiaomei’s love poems, the most outstanding ones are those that surround the words with a certain atmosphere and bring out the emotions in the words. ＜Drunk by the Sunset＞ By describing the "romantic" and "indulgent" nature of the sunset, it brings out both romantic and uneasy feelings, allowing the image to be used in different dimensions.

Passionate emotional confessions are not Xiaomei’s strong point. "The Days We Walked Together" is one of the more touching poems. Among them, "There is you and me, there is love, there is life (heaven), there is death (sea), there is righteousness (earth)". It can be said that it is a magical stroke that revives the original meaning of the whole article. Less prominent emotional descriptions.

The poet also has many non-love poetry works. The themes mainly revolve around the boredom of life and people's helplessness when facing reality. This type of lyrics can be said to be an extension of his love songs, which often start with the silent recollection of the person in the lyrics, and then gradually bring out the absurdity of reality. In the song "Boring Time", the person in the poem is shocked to realize the loneliness of life only when he is bored. Only then can he paradoxically withdraw from reality and reflect on the boredom of life. Unfortunately, in the end, people still cannot get rid of the shackles of life. They become accustomed to it and even lose the ability to "cry". "Six-Day Warrior" is based on the theme of taking off the mask one day out of the week, which in disguise exposes the hypocrisy and boredom in daily life for the other six days. "A man has nothing to ask for" is a representative work among this type of lyrics, which brings out the truth that "a man has nothing to ask for" is the true freedom; while "Songs in the Heart" and "Green Years" express the poet's open-minded attitude towards life. One chapter tells that only by turning yesterday's sincerity into a song that is always new in the heart can we face the changes in life.

Among Xiaomei's other non-love poems, "Really Love You" written for Beyond is one of the more popular. Its success lies in the mixture of maternal love and the autobiographical/inspirational writing style that she is best at, infiltrating the struggle of Beyond into the simple theme of maternal love, and adding brilliance to the otherwise ordinary lyrics. In terms of novel subject matter and fluent writing, "Cher" not only writes a simple character sketch (the ship owner's ruthlessness), but also brings out the loyalty and unwavering loyalty of the pet Cher. This is a rare subject in the world of popular poetry. It also shows that Xiaomei has a very keen eye for observing life stories and can transform them into fresh and delightful works of poetry.

The period when she became Aaron Kwok's manager and established "Xiao Mei Studio" can be said to be Xiao Mei's second spring in the world of poetry.

"You Are My Everything" "Spring Sleep" and "The Reverend "Love Is Total Devotion"" are both experiments in writing old themes in new forms. The former uses Tang poems as lyrics, changing from "I can't sleep in spring" to "I can't sleep because of you"; the originally ordinary content of the lyrics has become impressive because of this "text within text" technique. The latter's lyrics are written in epistolary style, which is also very creative.

is also the lyricist’s innovative work in recent years. The poem tells that everyone has lost themselves and uses "amnesia" to cover up the emptiness in their hearts; it also uses the hot political topic "memorandum of understanding" as the basic structure of the poem, using the irony of "amnesia" as a "memo" . "The Frog Story (Part 1)" reverses the fable of the short-sighted "frog" who sits in a well and looks at the sky. It contrasts the innocence of the frog with the contradictions and changes in the world, which is also refreshing.

Looking to the future, if this innovative attitude can be sustained, Xiaomei may be able to achieve new breakthroughs in her career as a poet and reach a higher level in the popular poetry world.

Aaron Kwok’s number one behind-the-scenes hero: Xiao Mei

Xiao Mei’s original name is Liang Meiwei. She created quite a lot when she first debuted and is a poet as famous as Lin Xi. Later, she worked as a TV director. It was not until she met Aaron Kwok, who returned to Hong Kong from Taiwan, and established Xiaomei Studio that her career took off for the second time. Before meeting Aaron Kwok, she helped Luo Wen, Leslie Cheung, Beyond, Wang Jie, Hacken Lee, Huang Kaiqin, etc. write many widely circulated songs, but from then on her name was only connected with Aaron Kwok's. Even writing lyrics has become tailor-made by Aaron Kwok. Xiaomei's influence on Aaron Kwok goes beyond that. To this day, it can be said that without Xiaomei, there would be no Aaron Kwok today.