Beijing Evening News (Reporter Gao Qian) At 23: 00 yesterday, Jay Chou’s new song "Say Good Don’t Cry" was officially launched and instantly reached the top of major online platforms. In the WeChat circle of friends, "Say No Cry" and "swipe the screen"; On Sina Weibo’s hot search list, among the top five, the content related to Jay Chou and Say Good Don’t Cry accounted for three. Because of the large number of searches and visits, some functions of QQ music, one of the distribution platforms, are paralyzed, and "QQ music collapsed" has also become one of the hot searches.
According to preliminary statistics, during the two-day pre-sale period, the pre-sale amount of 3 yuan’s single in QQ music has exceeded 3 million yuan; Seven minutes after the launch, the sales volume of QQ music of Say No Cry exceeded 5 million yuan, reaching the certification of "Diamond Record"; Two hours later, the total data of QQ Music, Cool Dog Music and Cool Me Music showed that the sales of Say Good Don’t Cry had exceeded 10 million yuan.
It is not difficult to understand the "explosion" of "Say No Cry". Jay Chou is the most "national" singer in Chinese music today. In recent years, the speed of Jay Chou’s new work is not as fast as before. "Say Good Don’t Cry" is a somewhat "long-lost" work, more than 400 days have passed since Jay Chou’s last single "Don’t Love Me", and his latest album was released in 2016. In production, "Say Good Don’t Cry" continued the golden combination of Jay Chou’s composition and vincent fang’s lyrics, and A Xin, the lead singer of Mayday, also sang a chorus, which was the biggest surprise. In addition, the MV starring Ayaka Miyoshi and Keisuke Watanabe, a new generation of Japanese actors, is also full of topics, and the bridge of the movie "Unspeakable Secret" is implied, which has evoked memories of countless young people.
Say Good Don’t Cry has a typical style of "Zhou’s love song". The piano is the main story line of the whole work, and the strings weave lyrical scenes, creating an atmosphere of love movies. The lyrics are unfolded from the perspective of the hero and tell a story about "perfection" and "agreement". Many netizens left a message, "Say Good Don’t Cry" is delicate and touching, and it has found the shadow of Jay Chou; After many years of debut, Jay Chou, who accompanied everyone to grow up, is still the "person who knows youth best".
But this song is not one-sided praise. Since around 2010, Jay Chou’s works have been questioned by "no longer the same year", except for several songs such as "Confession Balloon" and "Waiting for You to Class", and there are few classics that have been sung for as long as before. Many netizens believe that the melody of "Say No Cry" is slightly mediocre and has insufficient flavor. The lyrics of vincent fang’s writing, which has always been regarded as never failing, have also been questioned. Although vincent fang indicated in Weibo that "the meaning of words is biased towards the narrative style", many people still feel that the lyrics of Say Good Don’t Cry have lost their sense of surprise and become somewhat "drooling".
Music critic Sanshiyi thinks that, on the whole, Say Good Don’t Cry is a work above the passing line. If the score is 5, the song can get 3.5 points. "The melody is pleasant and the arrangement is solid, but the momentum is not enough." Perhaps in everyone’s ears, "Say No Cry" is always imperfect in one way or another, but the great attention and discussion it attracts is enough to prove that Jay Chou’s position is still difficult to shake. "The so-called king does not necessarily represent his current combat effectiveness, at least it represents his far-reaching influence." Sanshiyi also believes that the sales performance of Say No Cry also reflects the evolution of copyright awareness. "When Jay Chou was worth spending money, few people really spent money on him, and they all borrowed albums or bought pirated copies to listen to it. Nowadays, fans are gradually growing up, and many people are beginning to realize that it is really necessary to pay back a song that was owed to him before. It is really necessary to sell a song that is not worth 10 million. Look at the future before you look at it. "