Life can’t give up hope.
But you can let go of hope and forget.
Hua Chenyu, a music thinker, hopes to forget Hope in his fifth album.
Hope is born in the sun, and hope is forgotten.
Music is the best switch between fantasy and reality.
On December 20th, 2022, Hua Chenyu and well-known producer Zheng Nan jointly released the fifth Qvanxian Zhang album Hope, which was officially launched on Netease Cloud Music. In this era when short videos are popular, Hua Chenyu is still making albums to convey his musical ideas. It has been more than two years since the last album "NEW WORLD" was released, but the Chinese name of the album is "I hope to forget". [Forgetting] means forgetting, not expecting, which makes people quite curious about what concept the album wants to express.
Usually, if you hear the word Hope, most people’s reaction may be a dream, but in the process of growing up, we will find that "hope" is actually very contradictory. In the process of chasing dreams, when the desire becomes strong, it is easier to get lost in the process. Especially when returning to the real world, when the pressure of life becomes greater, it makes the emotions in my heart swell. Some people like drinking and want to anesthetize themselves with alcohol, hoping to forget their stress and troubles for the time being; And some people try to move forward with hope, or they may encounter setbacks in reality, and there will be thoughts of escaping and forgetting. In our daily life, we often try our best to escape and make progress at the same time. This kind of hope and hope exist at the same time, just like looking at ourselves in the mirror, which is a reflection of our inner emotions. In this age of reality and virtuality, which is becoming more and more blurred, hope or hope? It depends on how you choose …
Dialectical thinking, putting yourself in your own dawning doctrine
In this new album, Hua Chenyu put forward a philosophical name "Hope to Forget". Looking back at world history, music and philosophy are indeed closely related. Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, once mentioned in an ideal country that music has a direct influence on the soul. "What matters in philosophy is the process of thinking, not the answers. The original meaning of philosophy is "love and wisdom", which is the combination of two ancient Greek words "philia" and "sophia". This philosophical spirit often appears in the music composed by Huahua in recent years. Just like his "I really want to love this world", it is not to describe what depression looks like, but to make everyone think about how to look at the world positively through this song and care about friends with similar symptoms around them; Or the new song "Flowers in a Small Town" in the new album, which describes the loss of loved ones, but uses poetic style to construct a unique music space with images such as mountains, rivers and birds, so that listeners can engage in self-speculation. Listening to Hua Chenyu’s songs, the process is more important to him than the result. He didn’t want to give the audience any answers, because there are no standard answers to many important issues in life. "What is a successful life? "and" what is happiness? No one can provide standard answers to these classic philosophical questions, and only everyone can grow and feel it himself.
Hua Chenyu’s new album Hope may be a virtual switch. When you turn on this switch, you can temporarily forget the disturbing real world. Just like Flying Mode is dedicated to the working people who live under pressure every day. When you go out every day to fight for your dreams and occasionally need to fly yourself and escape from pressure, you can put on headphones and temporarily forget the negative emotions in real life. Even if there are only a few songs, it is enough for the audience to recharge. Or "Let’s Go and Watch the Sunrise", which is a new song written by Hua Chenyu after changing his lifestyle in the past two years. Maybe he will meet some bad things and people in his life. I hope everyone will find a beautiful heart, just like the black nightclub in the past, the dawn will come tomorrow, and life can’t give up hope, but he can let go of "hope to forget".
The leader of rock hopes and forgetfulness in philosophy department
During the planning of this new album, Hua Chenyu also mentioned the Nobel Prize in Literature winner-Babu Dylan, a rock poet who has been singing for more than 60 years and continues to write in his 80s. Looking at the history of modern music, he was regarded as a master of the rebellious spirit of rock in the 1960s, and never deliberately pleased the audience. Some people say that his works are timeless, but not timeless. When young people grow up with the changes of the times, social atmosphere and living habits are constantly changing. Babylon still sings eternal themes in his own way, such as love, faith, humanity, years and so on. Many rock singers make people feel that their works have philosophical thinking, which is why Huahua hopes that her works will be left to the audience in the future, not just pop songs that are forgotten after listening, but works that can make people think.
Unreal and realistic, optimistic and pessimistic Byakki Smoker
Since the impressive shaved head at the end of 2019, Hua Chenyu began to grow her hair deliberately, hoping to have a chance to be a classic rock singer with long hair and unruly style. This new album, he not only realized this wish, but also presented a rare rock prince style with a sense of comics, and once again, he took the ultra-short hair style as the cover of the digital album. Because there is another concept that I want to express in this album "I Forget Hope", that is, "Illusion and Reality": "Hope is illusory, and forgetting is realistic". Liu Zongyuan, a well-known fashion photographer, cooperated with Huahua for the first time, and made a 3D mask for him, which turned him into a futuristic person with illusory feeling, and also conformed to the "forgetting" aesthetic of the universe that he wanted to express in his new album. Just as he explained in the trailer of this new album: "Hope is spring flowers", "Hope is opening a door", "Hope is closing a window" and "I hope to forget …" Through this new album, you can hear more about Hua Chenyu’s philosophy of forgetting.