How to Evaluate Tayu Lo's Song "What Is It"

In the selection of "Top 100 Albums in Taiwan Province Province", 99 albums are among them. These albums have been used by fans of singers to make much ado about nothing, which embodies the love of idols and the hatred of idol competitors. In this list, the only album that survived was Tayu Lo's Even That One, which was in the hottest position. Today, this album seems to have become a symbol in the history of China pop music, and its cultural brilliance even overshadows its musical quality, so that many young people who have never heard of this album will regard this album as a "Bible" record because of the worship of relatives and friends and the convincing worship of idols. There is no objection to the Bible unless you are Satan.

There are many comments on Straight Night, including song-by-song analysis, romanticism, version comparison and cultural balance. The more times you perform, the heavier its culture will be, and sometimes the music itself will fade.

It can be said that the emergence of "Yee Yee" has no less influence on Chinese music than Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman in the vernacular movement, and in the history of Chinese pop music so far, the only thing that can be compared with "Yee Yee" is probably the first album "Rock on the New Long March" by mainland rock singer Cui Jian.

Musically speaking, it is obviously divided into two parts: one is folk songs and the other is rock. Although the proportion of the latter is not large, there are only two songs "Lugang Town" and "What's More", but only one song "Lugang Town" makes Tayu Lo a well-deserved originator of China's critical rock. Just the phrase "Taipei is not my home" tells us that when agricultural civilization is in transition to industrial civilization, countless people's recollection of the former and denial of the latter are better than thousands of words of condemnation and sighs. On the one hand, it adopted a brisk rhythm, on the other hand, it walked out of Kong's family. With the five-character format in classical Chinese and the use of a large number of function words, the stereotyped scholar effect like Kong Yiji is created, while criticizing dogmatism and respecting teachers and cultural ignorance is more comic. Therefore, the more comic the effect, the more profound the works that criticize the theme. From these two works, it is enough to show that Bob Dylan didn't accept this unknown disciple for nothing.

Folk songs such as Love Song 1980, Childhood and Time Story can be regarded as an echo of the modern folk movement in Taiwan Province Province at the same time. Although Tayu Lo has always held different attitudes towards this folk song tide, and even mocked some folk singers who only knew about love affairs in What is it, in fact, Tayu Lo, which is in the same historical period and region, is also hard to avoid the influence of folk songs. Childhood, which spread to the mainland in the name of campus songs in the future and became popular in Cheng Fangyuan, is full of campus songs; Although the sentimentality in The Story of Time is full of artistic flavor because of Tayu Lo's poetic writing skills, it is still the most common theme in campus songs to recall the passing of youth. The romantic style of writing also influenced the representative figure Gao of campus folk songs in mainland China in the future, and its most classic "You at the same table" even inherited the less commonly used 6/8 beat. Relatively speaking, "Love Song 1980" dedicated to Zhang Aijia has a little hippie spirit and a little rock detail, which really distinguishes Tayu Lo from many contemporary folk singers.

Another keynote of folk songs is homesickness. To this end, Tayu Lo also changed Zheng Chouyu's poems and made mistakes in creation, which directly contributed music to the four rhymes of "Homesickness" by Taiwanese poet Yu Guangzhong (the copyright fee has not been paid so far). However, compared with the previous generation of immigrant parents, Tayu Lo, a group of immigrant descendants who never set foot on the land of China at that time, expressed this homesickness not so much as a literary worship similar to classical literary works, but rather a literary worship full of artistic association effects such as fantasy and romance. This can also be verified by Tayu Lo's own lyrics "Into the Wine". The Yellow River has also become a strange flowing water. It is this strange word that makes Tayu Lo more open-minded than his parents, and sends out the Li Bai-style free and easy voice of "Don't mention the right and wrong of that world (Taiwan's first CD was wrongly printed as the most), and there will be wine tomorrow"

Compared with four years later, Jonathan Lee and Pan Yueyun went to Los Angeles to record the album "Old Love and New Love", which was the first time that Taiwan Province pop music was recorded in the United States. Although Tayu Lo didn't record in the most advanced USA, he also sent the master tape to Japan and invited famous musicians from Osaka, namely Lu Kang Town, Love Song 1980 and Childhood. At the same time, Yamazaki handed over three works: Dance of Youth, Blind Deafness and Scarecrow, but for various reasons, these three songs didn't appear in Tayu Lo's second album Future Master until more than a year later. As Tayu Lo explained in his later album "Home" that "there is only one best guitarist and only one arranger in Taipei", the reason why he cooperated with Yamazaki at that time was somewhat in line with international standards. I just don't know who he said was the best guitarist and arranger in Taipei. According to my reasoning, the guitarist may refer to You Yan Zheng, who often cooperated with Tayu Lo in his early days. It is not clear whether the arranger refers to Chen Zhiyuan or others.